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Chapter 40: Who Are You Impersonating?
After finishing dinner, Yumesaki called over the cat girl from before, took out a lump of gold, and said, "Can I pay using this?"
The cat Beast Human girl took the gold and bit it. After confirming that it was valuable genuine gold, she said with a wide smile, "Of course there's no problem nya! Is the guest feeling satisfied with our service?"
"Satisfied."
"Then what about the dishes nya?"
"Decent." Yumesaki told the truth.
The cat girl's expression instantly froze for a second, then returned to the bright smile on her face.
Decent wasn't a good evaluation, because it gave an impression of being completely ordinary.
She asked curiously, "Excuse me, is there any part of our dishes that made the guest feel dissatisfied?"
Yumesaki shook his head and said, "It's not because of your reason, it's because of my reason. Lately, I've eaten quite a lot of food that belongs to a high class, so when eating this food, it's unavoidable to feel a bit..."
Reaching this point, Yumesaki held back his words, and said, "Actually, your dishes are still considered quite good."
The corners of the cat girl's eyes twitched slightly a few times. From decent to quite good, was his evaluation this ordinary?
Could this guy have deliberately come to look for trouble?
"You bastard, did you deliberately come here to look for trouble?"
Right at this moment, a cold voice rang out.
Yumesaki turned his head to look. It was a female elf, wearing a maid uniform, currently looking at him coldly.
Yumesaki knew the other party—Ryuu Lion.
Ten years ago, an eleven-year-old Ryuu had fled from the secret territory of the elf forest and come to Orario. She was saved by the Captain of the Astraea Familia, Alise Lovell, and then joined the Familia.
At the age of twelve, she ranked up to Lv.2. At the age of fourteen, she ranked up to Lv.4, being a big-name adventurer who stood on equal footing with Ais Wallenstein.
Five years ago, a sixteen-year-old Ryuu faced the Juggernaut in the Dungeon. Her Familia was completely destroyed, and during that period, she was forced to use magic to kill her good friend Alise Lovell, which caused her mental state to collapse.
Two years ago, when she was severely injured and close to death, she was helped by Syr Flova, and then hid her name and identity to work at a tavern.
In the future, she would also rank up to Lv.6 through successive increases, learning the magic Astraea Record as well as the skill Astrae Varmas, and then later transfer to the Hestia Familia.
She was also counted as one of the female protagonists in this world.
Facing the suspicion from this female elf, Yumesaki couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"I have no grudge or enmity with your tavern, why would I deliberately come to look for trouble? I was only telling the truth."
However, the female elf didn't seem to believe it, her eyes staring at Yumesaki sharply.
"Forget it, forget it."
Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit improper, the cat girl suddenly hugged the female elf and said with a wide smile, "Don't be too suspicious, Ryuu. Maybe the guest really just isn't too used to our tavern's dishes."
"It's not that I'm not used to it."
Yumesaki corrected, "I just said it, it's not your problem. It's because I've eaten a lot of high-level food lately, so my appetite has become picky. Your tavern's dishes are still considered quite good, really."
Ryuu looked at Yumesaki's face, which appeared calm, realizing that Yumesaki didn't seem to be lying, then offered a slight bow toward Yumesaki.
"My apologies, I have misunderstood."
"It's fine." Yumesaki waved his hand, "Your dishes are truly quite good, very fine. If there is a chance, I will come again."
After finishing this sentence, Yumesaki turned and left.
Then, he looked for a fairly good inn to enter and stay, passing one night after entering the world of DanMachi quietly and stably.
The next day, Yumesaki found that Esdeath and the others still hadn't returned.
They seemed to have already become addicted to killing in the Dungeon. After resting for one night on the eighteenth floor yesterday, today they headed to an even deeper floor to fight their way in there.
This made Yumesaki a bit speechless.
How should he put it? Other people's adventurers entered the Dungeon to fight monsters for the sake of leveling up.
You few people who don't possess a God's Falna, and also can't level up, why are you so enthusiastic about fighting monsters?
Just to relieve stress, and enjoy the pleasure of fighting?
Tch, incomprehensible.
Yumesaki let out a sigh, throwing those cluttered thoughts out of his head. After finishing cleaning himself up, he turned to leave the inn, continuing today's journey through Orario.
While taking the opportunity to eat one breakfast, to completely fill his own stomach.
As a result, after walking one circle, Yumesaki was surprised to find that Orario didn't have a proper breakfast shop. There were no steamed buns, and there were also no instant noodles, moreover, there was no baked flatbread plus skewers.
What existed were only sandwiches, milk, as well as grilled sausages and other things.
But considering this was another world, possessing these items was already counted as decent.
Yumesaki bought a sandwich and a hot dog to taste them.
The taste could only be said to be ordinary.
Therefore, Yumesaki returned to his own world, bought a few portions of Soup Dumplings and Steamed Dumplings, and also bought one portion of Multigrain Crepe, then returned to Orario to continue strolling casually.
Probably because he woke up too early today, there weren't too many people on top of the streets.
Even many of the shops on both sides hadn't opened their doors yet.
Right when Yumesaki was considering whether he should go back for an extra sleep, suddenly at a street corner, he actually ran into a group of adventurers.
Leading them was a red-haired Goddess.
Not Hephaestus.
Rather, it was Loki, whose body shape could be said to be completely flat, a complete extreme opposite of Hestia.
Behind Loki stood the members of her Familia—the Sword Princess Ais, as well as the Nine Hell Riveria.
"Are?"
Upon seeing Yumesaki, Loki's eyes instantly lit up. She pointed toward Yumesaki and said, "You, yes you, which God are you exactly? Why have I never seen you in the Upper World before?"
Hearing those words, the Sword Princess Ais and Riveria couldn't help but look at Yumesaki with surprise.
They hadn't expected that early in the morning, they would already be able to meet a God.
In contrast for Yumesaki, after hearing these words, he couldn't help but comment, "This sentence, I've already heard it three times."
Loki gave a short laugh, "Oh? Who were the first two people to say this sentence?"
"Hestia and Hephaestus."
"Little Shrimp and that Hephaestus?" Loki said, "You know them? No, if you knew them, they wouldn't have uttered a sentence like this either?"
"So, what is up with you? Why is it that none of us know you?"
"Could it be that you are a newly born God?"
"In the Upper World, there hasn't been a newly born God for a very long time."
Loki stared at Yumesaki full of suspicion, her gaze filled with the color of excitement.
She always felt this unfamiliar God in front of her eyes possessed a huge secret. Once this secret was made clear, maybe she would reap a massive surprise.
Yumesaki looked at Loki a few times unexpectedly, "Ah, you... you turn out to be quite sharp too, huh?"
Hearing the praise from Yumesaki, Loki proudly puffed out her chest, which possessed nothing at all, "After all, I am Loki."
Yumesaki couldn't help but comment, "There's nothing there, and try not to imitate Hestia puffing out your chest like that. That thing will only make you look increasingly pitiful, Loki."
Loki: "..."
Ah wait, are we already that close? Why did you immediately deliver a physical attack right after showing up?
She felt as if at this moment she was pierced by ten thousand arrows, her whole body turning stiff like a doll.
"Forget it, today ends here. Goodbye, Loki."
Yumesaki walked around Loki, continuing to step forward.
But right at this moment, Loki suddenly returned to her senses, immediately grabbing Yumesaki's clothes, "Don't think about running away, you bastard! Almost let you slip away just like that."
"Actually, what is your situation? Explain it honestly."
"Explain what?" Yumesaki asked back.
Loki said, "Of course your origin! You are very suspicious, you know, unfamiliar God."
She stepped closer, her eyes staring dead onto Yumesaki's face, "I, Hestia that Little Shrimp, as well as Hephaestus have never seen you in the Upper World. This is highly abnormal."
"What's abnormal about it?" Yumesaki asked back, "There are so many Gods in the Upper World, have you all seen every single one?"
"Of course."
Loki let go of Yumesaki, proudly putting her hands on her hips and saying, "Hestia, that God who likes to stay at home, let's set her aside first. I, Loki, in the Upper World am a famous God. Which God in the Upper World haven't I pranked before? So among all the Gods in the Upper World, basically I know them all."
Yumesaki was just silent and then said, "Hearing you say it like that, you seem quite proud of yourself."
"Naturally." Loki became increasingly arrogant, "After messing around with so many Gods, I still haven't been beaten to death by those Gods, but instead I've been getting better and better. Isn't this something worth being proud of?"
The Sword Princess Ais and Riveria looked at their Goddess, who was haughty with joy at this moment. For a moment, they didn't know how to comment.
However, this also made them increasingly curious. A God that even Loki didn't know—what kind of person was he exactly?
"Hearing what you said, it is indeed very much worth being proud of." Yumesaki praised, "No mistake about it as the Goddess of Mischief."
Loki looked at Yumesaki with a smile that wasn't a real smile and then said, "Therefore, I highly suspect your origin. Clearly you are a God, yet I don't know you, and furthermore you don't seem to look like a newly born God in the Upper World?"
"Hey, bastard, don't tell me you are a disguised identity of one of those old folks?"
"Zeus, Hera, or could it be which God from Evilus?"
The so-called Evilus was actually a collective term for the groups of adventurers led by evil Gods, who carried out criminal activities or seriously violated the city's ethics.
These organizations were usually considered a tumor for the Labyrinth City Orario, existing in a status opposite to the mainstream Familias that maintained order.
The most common example was the Rudra Familia.
Rudra in ancient Indian mythology was a God who possessed a dual nature of destruction and healing. His name meant fierce and cruel, considered the prototype of Shiva during the Vedic period, possessing titles such as Lord of Beasts and Mahadeva.
In the original plot, although this Familia was already wiped out at the beginning of the story.
But they had also once done several big things.
Take the Goddess Astraea, who governed justice and order; the Familia under her forces was because of being framed by the Evilus Rudra Familia, due to the event of the Juggernaut's birth on the 30th Floor in the Dungeon, which caused all the other people with the exception of Ryuu to die.
In the end, Astraea, because after being persuaded by Ryuu, subsequently left Orario.
Meanwhile Ryuu after that carried out a cruel revenge against that Familia, the members including their Captain being almost all killed.
Even Rudra was also forced to return to the Upper World.
From this it could be seen, Loki accusing Yumesaki of being a disguised identity of one of the Evilus counted as a highly serious accusation.
But Yumesaki wasn't panicked at all, rather having a face without words, "Zeus and Evilus let's set them aside, why would you think I am a disguised identity of Hera?"
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