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  Seeing my unwilling but surrendering face, Eina also returned to her role of a guild official and asked a question.

  “Exchanging gold?”

  “…Yes. At least before I met the Minotaur, I defeated some monsters.”

  “Then let’s go to the gold exchange. I’ll go with you.”

  Despite how annoyed I made her become, I still felt guilty deep inside. Although, I know that she did it for my own good as I did not understand much, but I think that it will be difficult to raise my head in front of Eina from now on.

  Afterwards, we went together to the gold exchange located inside the guild and obtained today’s rewards.

  The monsters that I primarily defeated were goblins and dryads, afterwards taking the magic stone piece from them. All together it exchanged into 1200 Varisu. It was considerably lower than an average income, but this is because I fled from Wallenstein, the time spent at the dungeon was also considerably shorter than usual.

  Ah, because of the cost of the repairs for my weapon and for the god and my own meal, even items can’t be replenished…

  “……Bell-kun”

  “Ah, yes. What is it?”

  Just when I was about to go back, Eina, who brought me to the entrance, told me to stop.

  She was hesitant, but afterwards, she seemed to have decided and began to speak.

  “About this, women will primarily think that a strong and reliable male has more charm…So, as long as you work hard, then…that…right?”

  “……”

  “……Wallenstein might also look at Bell who became stronger?”

  My actions suddenly stopped and, hearing this remark, I lifted my head and stared at Eina.

  Once I realized that she was not acting as a guild official, but rather as a friend encouraging me, I could not help but smile.

  I quickly ran away from the place and immediately turned my heard around and yelled to Eina.

  “Eina, I love you!”

  “……Eh!?”

  “Thank you!”

  Once I saw that I made Eina blush, I smiled and entered the street crowd.

  The labyrinth city Orario.

  Not only does it have an underground maze known as a dungeon, above it was a huge city.

  The city, or rather a city that flourished because of the guild that managed the dungeon, had a variety of people living here, not only humans, but also other races.

  As for me who still had little understanding of the place, the explanation for Orario can only end here. Although I am a resident here, my level of knowledge about it is still not high.

  As for the people who enter the dungeon, and continue to gain revenue from there to sustain their livelihoods, they are called adventurers. It is also my current occupation.

  I grew up in a rural village not too far away from Orario, and can be regarded as someone who knows nothing about the world and after the death of my grandfather who raised me up, I had completely lost my guardian. So I took the remaining wealth and left the village.

  Needless to say, but you should already know the reason I left was because I wished to have a fateful encounter in the dungeon.

  <——If you’re a male, you cannot not hope for a harem!>

  When I was young, my grandfather would frequently say this sentence to my ear while having a hearty laugh, till now I can still remember it clearly.

  Since I began to understand things, I had always liked the hero stories that my grandfather told me about. Repelling monsters, saving others, and also rescuing the trapped princess. At that time, I really had these ideas and wanted to become the coolest hero.

  But, at that time, my grandfather told me.

  In those hero stories, the greatest interest resides in having an encounter with cute girls.

  However, at that time, it was still too early. The little me often dreamed to become a hero and also began to produce a passion to have an encounter with the opposite gender. My grandfather had also begun to instill what exactly is a .

  As my age increased, I understood how great the existence of a hero is, and that my idea was just wishful thinking, so that dream slowly withered. What replaced it was the passion to succeed his idea, and this passion gradually increased.

  After being persuaded by my grandfather repeatedly, what became one of my favorite books was ——A book that records the heroic deeds from heroes within this labyrinth city. It is also possible that he bought this book to cultivate my passion.

  Placing myself into the gradually unfolding adventures and following the heroes……If I go to Orario, If I become an adventurer, If I enter the dungeon. Then at that time,wouldn’t I be able to become an hero, and be able to find my fateful encounter?

  At the time when I lost my only relative, I seemed to have been moved by his remaining thoughts and came to the place with a dungeon.

  At the beginning I was really still mindless, just like today and placed myself near death. I began to have an idea that my reason for coming here was really too stupid. Perhaps I am the only one who holds a playful reason to become an adventurer. Forget it, whether it is for wealth or for reputation, those people are all pursuing something, I did not feel that I was that different in nature.

  However, is definitely difficult. After nearly dying today, I deeply understand this.

  No matter if it was the dungeon or for other things, you can’t consider it that simply.

  My goal has already changed from before, it now includes the thing about Aizu Wallenstein.

  In the overcrowded streets, all kind of races are there. I was working hard to walk through the cracks between people.

  Dwarves, Gnomes, Beastmen, Hobbits……there are some normal citizens, and also people wearing gorgeous equipment. To a person who grew up in a rural village, the streets were filled with freshness and beauty. Perhaps even just this simple crowd, I would not get tired of seeing it. Even this noisiness was a wonderful feeling in my heart.

  Although my eyes were completely stuck onto the cute elves’ bodies, I still remember my destination. Going past the busy street, I entered a narrow trial and turned a few corners.

  Once the noisiness completely disappeared from behind, I walked to the end of the road.

  “……”

  I raised my head to look at the building in front.

  What was constructed in the depth of this unpopular small road was a broken down church.

  You could also see that this two-story building that used to pay respects to gods was almost completely broken. From the appearance, there are traces of broken stone everywhere. It would easily make one feel that it has gone through many years and has disappeared from the memories of the people , this type of sadness.

  At the top of the front entrance, a statue of a goddess, with a tattered body and half her face missing, was smiling down at me.

  “Okay.”

  Although there is no need to confirm, but I still turned my head and looked if anyone was around. Then I immediately drilled in from the front entrance, and entered the inside of the Church. In fact, the front entrance did not have a door.

  The inner part of the building had a degree of destruction comparable to the outside. From the gap between the broken floors, dense weeds grew. Most of the ceiling had already fallen apart, it was equivalent to having none. From the big hole in the ceiling, the warm sunlight shone right through. It shone onto the altar that had managed to maintain its original appearance.

  This could be basically called a ruined church and I used the movement I learned to pass through it. I came in front of a small room in front of the altar and went in. There is a row of shelves without any books in this dimly lit room. Behind the innermost shelf was a ……ladder extending to the bottom.

  After going down this seemly bottomless ladder, a door appeared in front of my eyes, the door was open and from the tiny window on the door, a small light leaked out.

  “Kami-sama also came back!
Ah I’m back.”

  I shouted while stepping into the door. What was in front of my eyes gave off a feeling that it was a small room in the basement. Inside there is the aura that someone lived here, but about the point for people living here, it seems like it was only one part of it.

  The person I called out to was seen once I entered the door. She was lying down on the purple sofa. With a position of lying on her back and holding a book in her hands. Once she heard my voice, she immediately stood up.

  If just by judging from the appearance it looks like a little girl… it should be considered between a little girl and a female teen. She was even shorter than me, so from other people’s perspectives, saying that she was my little sister who was almost the same age as me was not a problem.

  A smile emerged on the innocent girl’s face. With a sound “totototo” , she ran up in front of me.

  “Ahah you’ve returned. Aren’t you earlier than usual today?”

  “I nearly died in the dungeon…”

  “Hey Hey, are you alright? If you die I will be quite troubled. Perhaps it would be quite sad to say.”

  After saying this, her two small hands gently touched my hands. As if to confirm that I have not been injured.

  From her words, I could hear a hint of concern. I feel very happy about this and my face began to flush.

  “It’s not a problem. I will not let you be left on the street.”

  “Ah, you’ve said this before. If one day you decided to ride on a big boat, you must have prepared your resolve right?”

  “What kind of strange words are these…”

  The two of them laughed while conversing and entered the inside of the room.

  The inside of the room was composed of space made from a square and a rectangle. It just looks like the shape of the letter P. Near the door of the square section stood two sofas. I sat down with her.

  The girl facing me was undoubtedly a beautiful girl. Her sleek black hair just covered her ears and she tied a pony tail on both sides. What was used to tie her hair was a silver bell. A round head and a round face, it made her appearance seem quite immature. But perhaps because of this, the contrast between her face and her upper part of her clothing made her mature boobs more noticeable.

  Her round eyes revealed a blue light. That perfect body will always make people have a dreamy atmosphere.

  Although I can definitely guarantee that she would become a peerless beauty in the future, she cannot get rid of her current appearance.

  Kami-sama, just as I called her, this person is a

  A different being compared to humans, demi-humans and monsters that appear in the dungeon, she is an existence that is in a different dimension compared to us. They are different from us in how our appearance changes as our age increases. It is completely beyond our cognition, an existence that is greater than the hero that I had envisioned.

  “In that case, today you basically have no harvest?”

  “A little less than usual. Kami-sama, what about you”

  “Oho, Look at this! Tada

  “T…This is!?”

  “Because I made a lot of small contributions to the store’s revenue, so I got a lot of potato croquettes! Today’s dinner is a feast of potato croquettes. Fufu, Bell-kun, you won’t be sleeping today right?”

  “Kami-sama, you’re the best.”

  This great existence was also working in a human shop. Of course, it was to earn money and making a living for tomorrow.

  ——A long time ago, descended to our world……According to their words, it was a place called . Although there are many explanations about this out there, but based on the words of the god in front of me, it was because “Heaven was too boring, so there’s no helping it”.

  We, who are trying to ascend to heaven, generally see it as paradise. However, the gods were already tired of living an eternal life. So in order to get rid of their boredom, they went to find some fun with the culturally prosperous “children” – which means us, who lived in the Lower World.

  They are a perfect existence, so that’s why they are not perfect. For them who are bored, this world was filled with interesting things.

  As a result, the Lower World made the gods extremely excited. The satisfaction from Unpredictable events, Food, Interest and Arts, and the other many special interactions.

  They were able to smile while being satisfied.

  Although it feels like the Gods are just playing a game, but during the time, when they cannot predict the end results, they really really enjoyed it.

  The Gods have not yet lived long in the Lower World. However, it seems that many gods have decided to live here permanently.

  The Lower World residents of that time, or our ancestors, did not refuse and didn’t have any dissatisfaction. Because they obtained a from the gods, so they feel as if they had found a treasure. Although the explanation was like this, wasn’t it actually a relationship of using and being used? The current structure clearly demonstrates this relationship. They are mixed with the children and like us, they help each other daily and strive to survive.

  And saying goodbye to their boring and trapped lives, the Gods have already completely penetrated into this world.

  “Ah, come to think of it……Even though everyone say I am extremely cute as mascot character, there is still no one who wants to enter my . They all say: “I’ve never even heard of the name Hestia.” These people are all so calculating.”

  “Yes, originally, no matter which Familia gives the Grace, it is all the same……”

  The God in front of my eyes is called . Gods like her all have children bear their own title.

  To be accurate, a is a faction of the god. means , is Of course, there are people who refer to it as faction so it is called Loki’s faction and Hestia’s faction.

  From what I feel, joining a family is equivalent to becoming a family member to the god.

  Although Gods decided to live with us from the Lower World ——There was a rule that stated that Gods cannot use their almighty in the Lower World before. ——But food and living standards all require money.

  Of course, there are a few Gods that enjoy to work, but most Gods still like to simply enjoy themselves. These Gods, in order to continue their carefree living style, lend their power to people from the Lower World.

  After joining a family, they will give to the people from the Lower World.

  Then those individuals would have to meet the requests of the Gods, and help the Gods earn money.

  In other words, if we unfold those words, Gods are supported by their family members.

  However, we cannot completely ignore the benefits from the . Just by accepting it once, no matter what kind of people, they will all be able to repel the lower level monsters in the dungeon.

  According to Hestia’s words, it is a .

  “Ah, making Bell-kun take the burden alone, I really am quite sorry about it……”

  “I’m okay……Kami-sama, you, too, have been working hard.”

  If they are large families with lots of members, then, of course, there also exist weak families like ours.

  If it was like that, even Gods have no other choice……They must work hard like Hestia. There is no time or chance for them to enjoy the things they like, and could only simply focus on surviving.

  In that case, what else can they do……They could only mix with the crowd of people from the Lower World. But for such a God, I also could not help but become fond and intimate with her.

  Yes. But among the Gods, there are some that control their family like a empire——It was more proper to say that they developed their own family into a empire……As if they pretend it as a
managing empire game?

  But, because this was managed and created by others, so it is not considered to have betrayed the rules between Gods. Of course there are people who speak behind their backs and say that Gods are playing around with the people of the Lower World based on their own personalities, but there are some people who also wanted to be part of the royal family.

  Although Gods enjoy to smile and watch at the complicated and staggering matters of humans, in terms of promotion, they basically were useless.

  “……Sorry, I made you contract with such an incompetent god.”

  “Kami-sami, you…”

  Seeing the weak and tiny god, I could not help but say it out loud.

  My encounter with Hestia occurred shortly after I came over from the rural village and about to become an Adventurer, it was when I was mindlessly walked around the street where they recruit Familia members.

  The famous Familias are already saturated with numerous members, and the small and medium-sized Familias would always select those people with some experience in battle or other occupations first compared to me, who had just came from a rural village and did not know anything and even required care from others. I , who received many cold shoulders, eventually received an invitation from Kami-sama and did not hesitate to follow her.

  Kami-sama might think that she had created a psychological burden, because she seems to have a feeling that she had abducted a child who did not know anything.

  According to Hestia, she had only recently descended down from heaven, and was at her friend’s Familia before meeting me. Just like most of the other gods, she also enjoys to play around over and over again, and indulges herself in the books from the Lower World. Because she had always lived a sloppy life, on the contrary, it seems that her diligent friend was being used. The room located underneath the church was that friend’s final friendship.

  But in reality, there is essentially no difference between a God’s Grace , this is a fact.

  After receiving the Grace, no matter who, all start off from the same starting point.

  The development afterwards is completely based on the individual’s situation.

  That is to mean for the Familia, it was similar to the shop and empires, it was based on the member’s individual’s ability. It was absolutely not because Kami-sama was incompetent.