Puppeteer of the DanMachi World

Meitellia introduced him with a smile.

"A friend... He doesn't look like an ordinary friend at all."

He seemed somewhat melancholy as he muttered under his breath, "He doesn't look like an ordinary friend at all. Damn it, everyone's sun has been plucked away by an outsider."

After chatting for a while, they parted ways.

"Meitellia really is popular."

Ming Ge said with a smile.

"Um... Is something wrong?"

Meitellia noticed Ming Ge's gaze. Her beautiful, deep-sea-blue eyes looked at him, brimming with curiosity.

Since Ming Ge had unconsciously spoken in Chinese, Meitellia had not understood him.

"I said, Meitellia is very popular."

Ming Ge smiled. "That boy just now seemed to like you very much... I think it's only natural for people to like a gentle, adorable girl like you."

"Then... do you like me, Ming Ge?"

Listening to Ming Ge's halting words, Meitellia's blue eyes curved slightly. Smiling as gently as a crescent moon, she asked the question.

Looking into her curious yet pure and gentle eyes, Ming Ge chuckled. "Of course I do. And not in the ordinary way."

"What does liking someone not in the ordinary way mean?"

Meitellia looked at Ming Ge teasingly.

"It means I like you a little more than ordinary."

Ming Ge was not timid in the slightest as he held up his fingers to indicate a tiny amount.

"Only a little?"

At Meitellia's words, Ming Ge looked at her with a smile on his face.

Rather than making Ming Ge blush, it was Meitellia whose cheeks turned rosy.

"A hundred million little."

Was this a confession?

Looking at Ming Ge's smiling face, Meitellia felt sweetness well up in her heart.

Her heart thumped wildly, and the feeling was incredibly pleasant.

So this was... love?

"Since you like me so much, don't let go."

Even though she was already blushing furiously inside, Meitellia still appeared warm and generous as she elegantly raised their tightly clasped hands.

"Of course."

Ming Ge revealed a gentle smile.

In truth, the fact that Meitellia had not refused when he held her hand already showed that she had romantic feelings for Ming Ge.

With that settled, the only thing he needed to consider to truly win her over was her family situation.

Come to think of it, Ming Ge still did not know anything about Meitellia's social relationships.

"By the way, was that boy just now someone you knew?"

Ming Ge asked curiously.

"He's from the Zeus Familia. Although the Zeus Familia appears to be at odds with us, we are ultimately allied Familias. Their hostility is merely a reaction to the attitudes of the chief deities."

Meitellia smiled. "Mr. Kroni doesn't have a very good reputation, but considering he belongs to the Familia of the great god Zeus, it becomes completely understandable."

"For example, peeping on girls while they bathe, or abandoning his companions and running away as a supporter..."

"Isn't that very serious?" Ming Ge asked in surprise.

"It should be, in theory." Meitellia smiled. "The peeping was simply because the great god Zeus led him astray. As for the latter, since he is someone Zeus acknowledged, he cannot possibly be a bad person."

That was one way to put it... Ming Ge's mouth twitched, and he felt an overwhelming urge to make a sarcastic remark.

What kind of person was that Zeus?

Suppressing the urge to complain, Ming Ge asked again, "What is a Familia?"

"Huh? Ming Ge, you don't even know that?"

Meitellia looked at Ming Ge in astonishment before explaining what a Familia was.

"A Familia is the term for those who receive a Divine Blessing from gods descending from the heavens and become adventurers."

"One chief deity corresponds to one Familia adventurer group. They are beings granted the potential to grow by the gods."

Meitellia said regretfully, "Unfortunately, I'm clumsy at everything and don't have the talent to become an adventurer."

"My sisters have gone to subjugate the sea sovereign, Leviathan, while all I can do is hide in the church and pray for them."

This setting felt strangely familiar... Where had he heard of it before?

Ming Ge frowned. He was still not very familiar with the common language of the continent, so he could only endure the discomfort of the disconnect within him and continue asking, "Could you tell me about the various races, as well as this city?"

"Of course."

Meitellia readily agreed.

According to Meitellia, this world contained humans and demi-humans. Together, they were collectively known as mankind, or the people of the lower world.

There was also another kind of life distinct from the lower world: gods.

They descended from the heavens to the earth, lived harmoniously with mankind, and created the mythology of Familias.

And Meitellia was a talentless "adventurer," as well as a member of the Hera Familia.

After connecting all this information and realizing that gods and the Dungeon existed, he finally understood what kind of world he had arrived in.

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, also known as DanMachi, was an isekai world.

"Everything lines up."