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

Ania also asked along with them.

"Well, actually, I'd say I took the blame!"

Fujimaru Ritsuka still did not hide.

"When I first went to Solingen, I got lost in the forest without any food. After being lost for three days, I fainted from hunger and was rescued by the goddess Astrea. To repay the goddess for saving my life, I applied to join the Astrea Familia."

"what?"

This answer made the fishy ship's soul tremble.

"Being rescued and then joining a familia? That's really strange, isn't it?"

"Perhaps this is related to my background. I had no relatives or friends in this world. The goddess took pity on me and took me in. When I joined the Familia, I also swore to the goddess that I would return to Orario and make the Astrea Familia great again!"

"To make the clan great again is not a vow that can be easily fulfilled."

"It is precisely because it is difficult that it has value in being realized, isn't it? If something could be done easily, what kind of vow would it be?"

"The path ahead for Mr. Fujimaru Ritsuka is going to be very difficult."

She said that, but Seele's eyes held admiration.

Fujimaru Ritsuka helplessly spread her hands.

"That's why I came here to find my elder, hoping to get his help, but unfortunately you all said you've never seen him."

"There's nothing we can do about it. We haven't been working at the store for very long, so we have no idea about what happened a few years ago."

The black cat Chloe chuckled as she touched her ears in response, her eyes constantly glancing at Ryu.

Feeling a little embarrassed by Koro's gaze, Ryu quickly spoke up.

"The only way to know the specifics is to ask the store manager. You can ask the store manager when he comes out later."

"What do you want to ask me?"

Aunt Mia appeared at just the right moment, carrying a plate in her hand. Her tall and strong body made her look like a little giant, perfectly matching her title of "Little Giant" when she was still an adventurer.

She placed the plate in her hand in front of Fujimaru Ritsuka.

"Hey, I heard you're a friend I met recently, and you've only just arrived in Orari. This meal is on me."

"Thank you very much, manager."

Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded in thanks.

"As for the question I wanted to ask, shopkeeper, has a blonde high elf ever come here before? What was her name...?"

"I don't need to say the name, I know who you're talking about."

Miya reached out and interrupted Fujimaru Ritsuka's speech.

"Do you know how much trouble it will cause you to say that name?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka glanced at the staff present, expressing her confusion.

"Everyone here is Miss Ang's good friend, I think there shouldn't be any problem."

The shop assistants all burst into laughter, while Mia remained speechless.

Should I say you're naive or that you lack common sense?

"Forget it, I'll just assume you're naive. After all, you're a newcomer and just arrived in Orario. You don't know the darkness of Orario."

"No, I have already experienced the darkness of Orario."

Fujimaru Ritsuka shook her head slightly.

"I experienced it firsthand on my very first day here."

"That's true. To be able to shout something like that at the entrance of the Adventurers' Guild, you seem quite disappointed in Orario."

"Indeed, Orario is very different from what I expected."

Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded affirmatively, but did not show any disappointment.

"But that's precisely why Orario needs justice, isn't it?"

"Heh~"

Aunt Mia couldn't help but laugh.

"Young people really have a lot of drive."

However, Fujimaru Ritsuka directly denied it.

“I’m already 20 years old, I’m already old.”

"Old...what?"

Miya was momentarily stunned.

"It's nothing, store manager, you don't need to worry about it."

Fujimaru Ritsuka waved her hand.

"What I really want to know is, what about my family's senior...?"

“She came to my place a few years ago and stayed for a while to recover from her injuries. After she recovered, she left, and I don’t know where she is now.”

Mia simply threw out the answer she had given beforehand.

"They've already disappeared."

Fujimaru Ritsuka's face showed disappointment.

"It seems that the goddess's expectations are going to be dashed. I was hoping to bring my senior back to the clan."

"Given the current situation, I suggest you don't consider this matter for now."

As someone who had been through it all, Mia immediately offered her advice.

"What happened back then was quite a big deal. Even if the guild did have a lot of dark things to do at the time, and they were indeed in the wrong, what your senior did back then was indeed excessive and embarrassed the guild. Not to mention that you embarrassed the guild again today. For the sake of the guild's reputation, they will not let your senior off easily."

"so?"

"So what you need to do now is not to carelessly reveal your predecessor's information like you did just now, and then do something that will make a huge contribution to Orario."

"Only when you make a huge contribution will the guild have no reason to cause you trouble, and they will turn a blind eye to your predecessors. Only then can your predecessors return to their clan."

Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at Mia in surprise after hearing this. The method Mia mentioned was the same one that Ryu had used in the original storyline to become an adventurer openly again. When Freya went mad and single-handedly took on all the Familias in Orario, Ryu participated in the campaign against Freya's Familia and successfully defeated the main force of Freya's Familia, gaining great merit. As a result, the guild turned a blind eye and registered her as a "new" adventurer after changing her name.

Now, Mia had directly told him this method.

"Thank you, manager."

Fujimaru Ritsuka stood up from her seat.

"I will make a sufficient contribution to bring my ancestors back to the clan!"

"Then I'll be waiting to see how you do it."

Mia smiled and nodded.

"As for now, let's eat first!"

Volume 1: Chapter 16. Orario's Life Officially Begins

"Mr. Ritsuka".

"Mr. Ritsuka!"

The call in his ear made Fujimaru Ritsuka open his eyes, and the glaring light forced him to raise his hand to shield his eyes.

"It's morning."

"Mr. Ritsuka, are you up?"

The voice calling from outside the bedroom door came again, and Fujimaru Ritsuka quickly got out of bed.

"Ah, I'm already up."

Upon opening the door, Fujimaru Ritsuka saw Ryu dressed in a shop assistant uniform and pouted helplessly.

"Miss Ang, you've arrived way too early."

Liu rolled her eyes at him.

"The sun has been up for a while now; you're the one who's still asleep."

"Didn't you want to make the Astrea Familia great again? How come you're already sleeping in after only one day? You should be getting up early and training hard!"

Fujimaru Ritsuka, being urged on, looked utterly helpless.

"Making the Astrea Familia great again and sleeping in aren't mutually exclusive, are they?"

"I don't know if diligent people can necessarily succeed, but lazy people definitely won't! Yesterday you were saying that you should quickly accumulate merits so that your elder could return to the family clan! Are you just going to let her return to the family clan like this?"

"Okay, it was my fault."

Fujimaru Ritsuka helplessly grabbed her messy hair. Her senior had already started making her curl her hair so intensely on the very first day. It was outrageous. Yesterday she thought her senior was cute for lying to cover up her identity, but today she started to think of her as a bit of an old woman.

It's so unbearable to not let a lazy guy from 2026 sleep in. Even the goddess Astraea has never made me wake up early.jpg

However, Fujimaru Ritsuka could understand Ryu's feelings. As the only survivor of her clan, seeing her clan reappear and even rise again was naturally exciting for her, especially since she had the hope of returning to her clan freely again. This was her greatest expectation for the future.

"I'll wait for you downstairs. Hurry up and get ready so we can have breakfast."

Seeing that Fujimaru Ritsuka had admitted her mistake, Ryu was very satisfied and left after saying a few words.

Fujimaru Ritsuka reluctantly turned around, changed her clothes, and went downstairs to the restaurant on the first floor. The dining table was already set with lunch boxes, and Ryu was in the kitchen next door tidying up the tableware and ingredients. From her precise movements of finding the location of each piece of tableware, it was clear that she was very familiar with the place.

As for why Ryu is so familiar with this place, it's naturally because this is Asteria's residence in Orario—the Garden of Stardust.

When Fujimaru Ritsuka came to Orario, the goddess Astrea gave him the key to the Garden of Stardust. Since he was coming to Orario as a member of the Astrea Familia, he naturally had to stay at his own family's residence. Therefore, the long-sealed Garden of Stardust was reopened.

After having dinner at the mistress of Toyora's house last night, Fujimaru Ritsuka prepared to leave to find the Garden of Stardust. Unlike knowing the mistress of Toyora, he really didn't know where the Garden of Stardust was. So he asked Ryu, since no one knew the Garden of Stardust better than Ryu, his senior.

Ryu immediately took Fujimaru Ritsuka to the Garden of Stardust, the place where she had once lived.

Although the Astrea Familia had been gone for several years, thanks to their good reputation, their residence was preserved. Furthermore, the area where the residence was located was in the southwest district of Orario, an upscale residential area. The people on this street were all wealthy and wealthy Familias, so the security was relatively good. In addition, Ryu would occasionally sneak back over the wall to clean it up. Therefore, the Stardust Garden could be perfectly reopened.

After Fujimaru Ritsuka opened the gate to the Stardust Garden, Subaru immediately claimed that Fujimaru Ritsuka couldn't possibly clean such a large place by herself, and offered to come and help with cleaning and cooking. He then took over the management of the Familia's residence from Fujimaru Ritsuka.

Fujimaru Ritsuka really wanted to retort: ​​Are you also a purple-haired female passerby?

And so, this morning, Ryu knocked on the door to wake Fujimaru Ritsuka. Before even waking her up, she had already bought some ingredients and put them in the kitchen, and had already prepared breakfast.

Hearing the soft humming coming from the kitchen, Fujimaru Ritsuka could tell that Ryu was in a very good mood.

Being able to return to her clan's territory openly and honestly, and to take care of her clan's descendants, Ryu was naturally in a good mood.

Unlike Ryu, Fujimaru Ritsuka was in a bad mood because the food in the lunchbox in front of him was inedible!

"I was so focused on having food as soon as I woke up that I forgot that food isn't something you can just eat whenever you want."

As a high elf, Ryu's talent in battle is extremely exaggerated. Back then, she and Ais of the Loki Familia were known as the two great geniuses. However, outside of battle, her abilities in other things are somewhat lacking. For example, when it comes to cooking, her culinary skills are disastrous, and what she makes are basically culinary disasters.

For example, the charcoal-grilled sandwich in front of Fujimaru Ritsuka was black and hard, and looked like a complete lump. If it weren't for the layers and a few parts that weren't completely charred, Fujimaru Ritsuka wouldn't even be able to tell that it was a sandwich.

Senior, you really didn't pay any attention to the heat when you were making it.

Fujimaru Ritsuka had no choice but to close the lid of the opened lunchbox again.

"Hmm? Are you finished eating?"

After cleaning up the dishes, Liu heard the noise and crawled out of the kitchen.

"No, I haven't finished eating yet."

"Is it not to your taste?"

"Emmm...it's not a matter of whether it suits your taste or not..."

What is that?

"Well..."

Fujimaru Ritsuka was at a loss for words; he couldn't very well say that humans don't eat charcoal.

Liu walked over with a curious look, opened the lunchbox, and then froze on the spot, her fair face visibly turning red.

With a snap, the lunchbox was closed.

"It's...it's my fault!"