Every chapter adds new questions! Aaaaaaah.
Okay, let's review. The goddess wants to help, but doing so strains the world. The Hero knows something about what's going on-possibly from his own memories in conjunction with being able to converse with the goddess. And there's a "time limit".
Looks like I'm going to have to revise my suspicion that the goddess has something to do with perpetuating their misery and/or Louisa being the goddess herself.
Besides that, miss priest...totally just attempted murder, didn't she? Louisa probably won't make a big deal of it, but that's...kind of a big deal. I can sorta get that she had an awful life growing up and Louisa was definitely presumptuous in how she told her off (which was satisfying considering the attitude she's constantly been getting), but this doesn't really excuse it. At the end of the day, nobody has the maturity to empathize with the troubles anyone else has it seems.
I expect them to eventually become good friends despite all this. Maybe mage lady to some extent too.