I'm in a mess, starting with a meteor shower!

No, no.

Liu quickly shook her head with a smile, "Misunderstanding, how could that be? I'm overjoyed that my junior is so kind to me."

"By the way, I haven't asked you your name yet, or which clan you belong to?"

"Um..."

Now it was Ryu's turn to be in a difficult position. She had casually pretended to be a newcomer before, but now she was in a hard position to answer. After some urgent thinking, she finally came up with a name.

“My name is Ang… Yes! Ang! I am… a member of the Artemis Familia!”

Although the Artemis Familia resides in Orario, they spend most of their time exploring elsewhere and rarely stay there, making it a perfect opportunity to disguise their identities.

I'm sorry, Artemis!

"It's the Artemis Familia! I've heard of you before!"

Fujimaru Ritsuka gave Ryu a thumbs up.

"I heard they're all very capable female adventurers."

"Yes... thank you for the compliment."

“By the way, Miss Ang, you’ve been in Orario for a few days now. I just arrived today and I’m looking for a place.”

"What place are you looking for? I've been in Orario for a while now and I know most of the places in Orario very well."

Upon hearing that her junior needed help, Ryu immediately became excited, finally able to make a difference as a senior.

Do you know a tavern called Fengrao Hostess?

"Ugh?"

Ryu was stunned, but Fujimaru Ritsuka ignored her and continued to explain.

"When I came here, the goddess told me that one of our clan's elders has been staying in Orario all these years. The goddess hasn't seen her for several years. The goddess heard that she seems to be in that bountiful mistress's house, so she hopes I can go and see if she is really there. If she is, I hope I can have a good chat with her."

Volume 1: Chapter 8. Ryu: The image of the senior is ruined.

Ruined!

At this moment, only this thought occupied Ryu's mind.

Unexpectedly, the goddess told the juniors about herself, including her address, and even asked them to come find her!

From this, it can be basically concluded that the goddess Astrea, whom she revered, had not abandoned her. She still cared about her and even sent her new kin from Orario to find her. This moved Ryu deeply.

But that's assuming that what just happened didn't happen!

If what just happened hadn't happened, Ryu could have waited for her descendants to come to the house in Fengrao, but what about this situation now?

I just said I was a newcomer, and even used a pseudonym. I pretended to be a member of the Artemis Familia. When I returned to Mistress Fuura, she asked me to come find her, and then I met her again. How do I explain this?

The appropriate response is an awkward one: "Haha, I was just kidding you in the dungeon."

Are you kidding me?! What will your descendants think then?!

The senior whom the goddess personally entrusted with her care turned out to be a complete liar, even pretending to be a newbie in the dungeon to deceive her! What kind of senior is this? Completely unreliable!

Liu felt like she was doomed! The goddess had finally sent a junior newcomer, but her series of actions in front of the newcomer had completely ruined her image!

Ryu held her head in her hands and made a wish in her heart, hoping that time could go back ten minutes.

"Miss Ang? What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"

Ryu's unusual behavior puzzled Fujimaru Ritsuka, who looked at Ryu with concern.

"Do you want me to take you back to the surface?"

"Uh...no, no, I just remembered there's something urgent I need to take care of."

Seeing the worry on Fujimaru Ritsuka's face, Ryu felt a pang of guilt in her heart; she was deceiving her junior again.

"Sorry, I have to go back to the surface now. Be careful in the dungeon! Don't go too deep or stay there for too long!"

Without waiting for Fujimaru Ritsuka's reaction, Ryu quickly put on her cloak, turned around, and ran away, disappearing from Fujimaru Ritsuka's sight. She even forgot that she had come here to secretly protect Fujimaru Ritsuka in the dungeon.

Only after watching Ryu disappear from her sight did Fujimaru Ritsuka finally manage a forced smile.

"Hahaha! That's hilarious! Hahahaha!"

I laughed for a while before I finally calmed down, clutching my stomach.

"My elder is so adorable!"

From the first moment she saw Ryu, Fujimaru Ritsuka recognized her. After all, Ryu had a very high appearance rate in the anime. In the early stages of the anime, her popularity was not as high as Hestia and Ais, but in the later stages, her popularity completely surpassed Ais.

As a member of the newly formed Astrea Familia, Fujimaru Ritsuka naturally values ​​her senior very much.

So when he saw the other person's face collapse because of his clone's self-destruction, he recognized him. However, he recognized Ryu, but Ryu didn't recognize him. So he pretended not to know her to test her. As a result, he found that Ryu was actually pretending to be a newbie in front of him, and even fabricated a fake identity as an Artemis Familia. This was too interesting.

So in the end, Fujimaru Ritsuka deliberately said that she was going to see the mistress of Toyotomi to find her senior, which scared Ryu so much that she ran away in a panic.

"Oh, I'm really looking forward to it."

Fujimaru Ritsuka stroked her chin, pondering what kind of scene she would encounter when she went to Toyo's house.

Considering that her senior spirit had just returned and would definitely need some time to set things up, Fujimaru Ritsuka wasn't in a hurry to go back immediately. She needed to give her senior some time to prepare, didn't she?

"Since it's still early, let's refresh a few more times."

"Dungeons are great! I can grind dungeons so much!"

Now that he's reached the sixth floor, aside from getting Chen Gong in a single pull on the first floor, he's saved all the Saint Quartz he gets from clearing the remaining four floors. He's not in a hurry to draw cards, since he has limited card slots in his team right now, and the current combination of his three Heroes is also very effective, so he's not in a rush to draw cards.

Although he wanted those powerful Servants, sometimes being powerful doesn't mean being suitable. After all, the stronger the Servant, the more terrifying the mana it consumes in battle. Fujimaru Ritsuka doesn't inherit the Servant's stats; he only inherits their talents. In battle, he consumes his own mana, and at only LV1, he doesn't have enough mana for those powerful Servants to burn. Instead, these three cards are perfect because they have low mana consumption.

With that thought in mind, Fujimaru Ritsuka's figure swayed slightly before disappearing into the darkness of the dungeon.

Possessing the class skills of Hundred-Faced Hassan, he has an A+ rank of Aura Concealment, allowing him to perfectly hide himself. As for whether he knows the Hassans' methods of concealment, Hundred-Faced Hassan also has an A+ rank of Proficiency in Encyclopedia. This passive ability allows Fujimaru Ritsuka to quickly learn Hassan's combat skills and concealment strategies. Once he deliberately hides, even monsters cannot detect him. As for the rest, that's the job of his clones.

While Fujimaru Ritsuka continued clearing the dungeon, Ryu had already rushed out of the dungeon at lightning speed.

After rushing out of the dungeon, she realized that she had entered the dungeon to prevent Fujimaru Ritsuka from having any accidents, but before Fujimaru Ritsuka, her junior, came out, she, as the senior, had come out first.

"I'm so..."

After realizing what had happened, Ryu muttered a self-reproach and turned to go back. However, the thought of Fujimaru Ritsuka's incredibly cunning skill set, and the fact that Fujimaru Ritsuka would have to go to the wealthy mistress to find her after leaving the dungeon, made her uneasy.

"He's so capable, he shouldn't get into any trouble."

Ryu wholeheartedly believes in her descendants, and what's more important to her now is to return to the mistress of Fengrao and think about how to deal with her descendants when they come out of the dungeon and find the mistress of Fengrao!

Having made up her mind, Liu lowered her head and left the plaza at the entrance to the underground city. After leaving the plaza, she quickly slipped into the alley and followed the winding alleyway back to the back door of Fengrao's kitchen.

"Huh? You're back?"

The shop manager, an older woman, saw Ryu return from the kitchen and asked her what was wrong.

"What did you all do outside?"

Liu didn't answer; instead, she took a deep breath.

"Mia Store Manager."

"Ok?"

The store manager sensed something was wrong with Ryu's tone and looked at her suspiciously.

"What happened? Are you in trouble?"

Ryu's expression was serious.

"Manager Mia, there's something I want to tell you."

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Volume 1: Chapter 9. Revealing One's Identity

"terribly sorry!"

In the back kitchen of the lavish hostess, several important waiters and the shop manager, Aunt Mia, stood in a row, while opposite them, a fairy girl with dark G-colored hair was bowing deeply at a 90-degree angle to apologize with utmost respect.

"This is the truth I've been hiding all along, and I'm truly sorry."

After deep reflection along the way, Liu returned to the store and chose to reveal her identity to the store manager, Aunt Mia, as well as to the other employees in the store, telling them about her past and identity.

As the sole survivor of the Asteria Familia, Ryu was wanted by the guild for excessive killing in the past.

After being rescued by Seele, a shop assistant, she joined the hostess of Feastland with Seele's help and became a waitress. In the process, she concealed her identity, for example, by cutting her long golden hair short and dyeing it a dark brown.

Originally, barring any unforeseen circumstances, she planned to continue living in secrecy. However, the appearance of her descendants, and their actions of even coming to the mistress of Fengrao to find her, made it impossible for her to remain hidden. Therefore, she had no choice but to return and reveal herself.

"So, Ryu, you're actually a wanted criminal!?"

"And it's that legendary hero, Gale!"

Seele stared at Ryu in shock, while Koro and Runova exchanged a glance and couldn't help but sigh.

"When we first came to you after accepting the mission, we thought you were just an ordinary adventurer. We never expected you to be such a powerful figure!"

"Shouldn't we thank you for sparing our lives? You must have been hiding your true strength back then, otherwise you could have easily taken care of the two of us."

Koro and Lunova, two adventurers with titles, one called Black Cat and the other Black Fist, were the "Double Black" duo back in the day. They received a mission to cause trouble for Ryu at the tavern, but after fighting for a long time, they failed to catch him. Because they damaged the equipment in the tavern, they were forcibly detained by Mia and given a sky-high fine of 100 million. In order to pay off their debt, the two joined the tavern and became waitresses.

Just as they both said, Ryu didn't use any of her unique magic at the time in order to conceal her identity, because using it would be equivalent to exposing her identity. If she had used it, the two of them would have been instantly killed by Ryu.

All three women made their own statements, but the shop manager, Aunt Mia, and the catwoman, Ania, seemed unchanged.

This strange behavior left Koro and Lunova very puzzled.

"Manager Mia, Ania, aren't you two surprised?"

"Um... I already knew, meow."

Ania touched her cat ears and answered with a smile.

"You knew all along?"

Koro, who was also a cat-eared girl, was shocked to see that her fellow cat had known all along but hadn't told her. But then she turned to look at the shopkeeper, Aunt Mia.

"Store Manager Mia knew about this too?"

Miya crossed her arms and snorted coldly.

"Hmph, I won't let any unknown guy work in my shop."

"Doesn't that mean that only the three of us didn't know?"

The three that Kroi mentioned were referring to herself, Lunova, and Seele, but that's not actually the case. Only the two of them didn't know, because Seele is the true form of the goddess Freya, so she naturally knows Liu's identity.

It wasn't that she discovered it herself; it was simply because both Aunt Mia and Ania were members of the Freya Familia, and Aunt Mia was the former leader of the Freya Familia. When Seele brought Ryu back to the Lady of Fengrao, Mia investigated Ryu's true identity and told Seele. So Seele knew Ryu's identity from the beginning, but on the surface, Seele still pretended that she was just an ordinary person and therefore knew nothing.

Ryu was somewhat surprised that Ania and Mia knew her true identity, but she was also moved. She had been worried that she would be kicked out after her identity was exposed, but it turned out that her identity had already been revealed on the very day she arrived.

“Manager Mia... I am very grateful that you were willing to take me in even though you knew my identity.”

When Ryu was wanted, no one in Orario dared to take her in, except for Mistress Furious. Not only did she not know her identity, but she was still willing to take her in even after knowing it. This kindness was truly profound.

And those who didn't know their identities, now that they do, show no disgust or fear whatsoever.

"It doesn't matter how this happens. It's the guild that's wanted you, not me. I only care whether you'll work hard."

Aunt Mia gave a very flimsy reason.

"So, why did you suddenly reveal your identity today?"

"Is it related to that new member of the Astrea Familia?"

The main topic of discussion among the guests at the tavern today is the new members of the Astrea Familia. Even Mia in the kitchen heard it. Knowing Ryu's true identity, Mia naturally understood what Ryu had been doing when she went out earlier. Now that Ryu has suddenly revealed her identity, a little thought tells her that it must be related to the other party.

"This...is indeed somewhat related."

Instead of the expected reprimand, the conversation immediately shifted to Ryuichi, leaving him somewhat embarrassed.

"Come on, tell me, Ryu, what happened to you, meow?"

Ania was also very curious. The Astrea Familia had returned to Orario, and they had been listening to this story for a long time. Now they just wanted to know what had happened between Ryu and that newcomer that made Ryu reveal her identity.

"Well... here's how it is."

Awkwardly, Ryu recounted to Shiro the situation of her encounter with Fujimaru Ritsuka in the dungeon, and Shiro was speechless after hearing Ryu's retelling.

"So...you lied to your own juniors, and even gave a false identity?"