Chapter 44 Arrival.

*Narration*

-2 days later

Orario was bustling with excitement as soon as the sun rose up to the sky. Today marks the start of the tournament where the strongest level 5s of the city will fight it out to see who is the one who stood on top.

The city was very much alive as travelers from all over the continent came to see the spectacle.

The event was much bigger than anyone ever anticipated it to be and it is all thanks to Hermes. Living up to his title as the messenger of the gods he let the word out all over the continent.

One of these travelers finally arrived at Orario.

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"So this is Orario?" I looked in awe at the sight of the beautiful city, it was brimming with life as the street was crowded by so many people. "It's so much cooler in person."

The place was like a living tapestry of life and culture as multiple races, some of them I haven't even seen before coincide with one another. It made me realize that Orario really is the center of everything here in this world.

"But why are there so much more people here?" I asked no one in particular except myself as I looked around the place. Wherever I look there's always a group enjoying, some even day drinking which can't be responsible if you ask me.

"Haven't you heard? There's a tournament today in the city." I heard a random voice besides me. I moved my head to look only to see no one. "Uhmm... I'm here." the voice sounded again and from the sound of it, it came from below. I looked down to find a little girl with chestnut-colored hair, and dog ears.

Holy shit is that fucking Lili? She looks just like what she looks like in the anime except in real life. Wait... Dog ears... Holy shit she's trying to scam me. Should I play along?

"Uhmmm... Is everything ok?" her voice snapped me out of my train of thoughts as she looked at me with those innocent chestnut-colored eyes of her's.

"Yeah..." I nodded way too fast for my liking. "Everything is dandy." what the fuck am I saying? Dandy? Really? Why the fuck am I giving her a thumbs up?

"Okayyy..." she answered awkwardly, and I swear I could even see her lips twitch as she smiles. She must think I'm super weird.

Time to change the subject. "Anyway, what's this about a tournament?" good job me.

"Right tournament." she fixed herself out of her awkward smile and continued. "The city is holding one to determine the strongest level 5. Personally I think the gods are just having a competition on who has the largest ego."

Wait... Was this in canon? "So a fight between all the level 5s huh. Seems interesting." I really do find this interesting, even though I already know who will win. I'm not a hundred percent sure of it but the odds point that Ais will win this event due to the plot of the anime.

"If you say so..." She answered me dryly which made me wonder why.

"Fighting is not your thing I take it?" I asked.

"It's not that, it's just I'm a supporter and since the announcement of the tournament less and less teams have been diving in the dungeon so..."

"No income for you huh." I finished her sentence. So she ran out of victims and now has her sight on me, a new face in the city who looks like a country hick.

"Yeah..." she looked down at her feet. Moments later she shook her head and looked at me. "Sorry about that. I didn't mean to bore you with my problems." she smiled charmingly at me. "Anyway you look like new here, do you perhaps need a guide to show you around the city?"

Wow she's good. Using the childish charm she has because of her size, acting so innocent and nice. If I didn't know any better I would've fallen for her trap. "Nah it's ok." I smiled at her. "I would like to experience the city myself... Thank you though."

"Oh really..." she looked sad as her stance became solemn. "That's a shame. Maybe next time then." she turned around and walked slowly away from me, her posture small like that of a wet and cold animal.

Damn she's good, but she won't get me. I refuse to be scammed out of my money. I watched as she vanished into the crowd of people and decided to be on my way when I can't see her anymore.

Now where should I go? Honestly my plan when I arrived was to join any random god in this world. There's a part of me that's tempting me to join the major familia such as Loki, Freya, and Hestia, but no way in hell would I put myself in that bullshit situation.

First of all Freya's familia is full of simps who would do absolutely anything for her, and from what I had seen in the anime, her charm is on 24/7, and I'm not about to test it if I'm immune to that kind of bullshit. So no thank you. Still seeing Ottar be a badass would be cool, but the cons are just too much for me.

Loki is the opposite, she is the ultimate simp aside from Hestia, well to be frank both Freya and Hestia are simping for Bell but I digress. It would be cool to see her familia in action especially Ais. But I don't wanna join them on the grounds that their familia is way too closely integrated into canon and I don't wanna mess that dynamic up. My biggest advantage in this world is that I have knowledge of certain events that will happen in the future. Sadly for me I'm an anime only type of guy.

And Hestia, honestly joining her is the biggest temptation I have right now, I mean who wouldn't want to be a part of the story and be even one of its main characters when they are given the chance. But alas I don't want to deal with all those bullshit that would be coming in Bell's way. I already learned my lesson about putting my nose where it doesn't belong, it's what got me here in the first place. So I'll just stay away from all of that and live a calm and exciting life.

As I was walking aimlessly I saw a familiar sign. The hostess of fertility.

I stared at the sign and decided to have breakfast at the famous pub. And if the anime is to be believed, the food here is absolutely great. Still would be nice if they have a coke though or anything close to an acidic carbonated drink that is in no way shape or form good for ones health.

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The inside of the pub was loud and rowdy as multiple adventurers were day drinking because of the excitement in the city.

I was greeted by the noise but pay it no mind, I did my fair share of clubbing and bar hopping in the past and this would be tamed by comparison to the booming sound of techno music grating in your ears at a full dance club.

A waitress came to greet me and took me to a vacant seat at the bar since all the tables had all been occupied by the rowdy adventurers.

"A new face!" A booming voice made me flinch in shock. It was deep but at the same time it was feminine which I found weird. I looked at where the voice came from and saw a giant of a woman.

"Mama Mia!" I said with an Italian accent, I was starting to think that there's something wrong with my head. Why did I say that sounding like an Italian plumber who looked Mexican and was created by a Japanese man.

"Do I know you? Weird accent." she said that second part silently but I caught it nonetheless.

"Uhmmmm..." holy shit nuggets, I can't exactly answer her with a I know you from a Japanese cartoon. Ok I knew she's famous so I can work with that. "Well anyone who is aiming to be an adventurer would know the great Demi ymir." nailed it!

"Hmmm..." she gave me a side eye while nodding suspiciously at me. "I don't go by that name anymore kid so it's better that you don't call me that."

"Understood." I nod rapidly at that, she was beginning to sound scary so yeah, don't mention her alias ever again.

"Now you look new here and you're quite young, so be sure to eat your fill, young ones like you should have plenty of food." She beamed me a smile and walked away.

"But I haven't ordered anything yet..." I tried to call her but she already went inside the kitchen. Then it suddenly clicked, what happened to Bell when he first entered this pub. "She's not gonna do that, is she?" I asked myself and the answer showed itself to me.

There she is, the gigantic woman, carrying a huge amount of food that no single person should be able to finish all on their own.

She walked closer to me and placed a huge plate of a whole catfish the size of my body in front of me, the plate landed on the table with a thud. "Oh don't worry, there's plenty more where that came from."

"..." I couldn't make a peep, this was too overwhelming. Only the stretchable pirate and the aliens from the vegetables planet can finish this amount of food... And there's more? There's fucking more?

"First time?" I hear someone besides me. I looked at the voice and saw a boy roughly the same age as mine, I couldn't recognize him from the anime so he shouldn't be anyone important. Maybe a random mob. "Oh how rude of me, the name's August by the way." he extended his hand for me to shake.

"Arthur. And yeah, I mean how can you finish all of this in one sitting." I answered him and extended my hand to shake his. The moment our hands touched I felt chills run down my spine.

Everything around me turned dark, it feels like I'm floating in space, everywhere I look there is only darkness.

My mind went numb as fear slowly gripped my heart, in all my life this was the first time I ever felt like this. Even in my past life where I was stabbed to death I didn't feel fear when it happened.

But this, this is different. Then I heard chains rattling behind me. I slowly looked back and saw a pair of gigantic golden orange eyes locking at me in this dark world that I was in. It looked feral, like that of a wolf.

"Interesting..." I heard it speak, its voice booming inside me, it felt everywhere yet nowhere. It was dark and deep. "A soul not of this realm."

It knows, fuck it knows. I tried to speak, to shout at it, to ask questions, but no sound came out of my mouth.

The eyes looked for a moment more and slowly started to close, with all my strengths I tried to make a sound, to call to it, tell it to wait, to answer my question, but to no avail. My body suddenly started to fall and then I hear the bustling crowd once again.

"--Thur? Arthur?" I snapped out of my trance as I heard someone calling my name. It was August, my hand was still shaking his, and I could feel the sweat pile up into my forehead. "Are you ok? You look like you've seen a ghost."

"I'm fine." I answered him quickly pulling my hand out. "its just too noisy here and I'm not really good with crowds." I lied, from the looks of it he didn't see that, it seems only I experienced what happened.

"It's not usually this crowded here." he scratched his head while he answered. "Well do enjoy your food. And you'll get used to Mia someday..." he started getting up from his seat as he received a take out of his order. As soon as he stood up all the patrons screamed his name.

"GO GET THEM AUGUST!!!"

"I BET ALL MY MONEY IN YOU!!!"

"SHOW THEM HELL GÁE BULG!!!"

He turned and waved at the crowd and smiled cheerfully as he made his way out of the pub.

My eyes glued at his every movement, it was polished and well trained, try as I did I couldn't find any opening from him. My mind was racing, who is that guy? What was that vision? Why did I have that vision? My mind was full of these questions that lacked answers.

He was famous, too famous for someone not in the anime. And if he's dead before the show starts there should be a mention of his name, flashback, or something.

"That's August Kaiser for you." I heard some adventurers talk about him.

"Yeah, I heard he beat Goliath again, this time he even crushed the monster core with his attack." I listened carefully, trying to find out more about this August Kaiser.

I was able to find rumours about the guy from the adventurers. How he killed a monster rex on his first dungeon dive, how he fought Bete a level 6 and one level above him to a tie which shocked me because from what I knew Bete was supposed to be level 5, it was also shocking to hear that he was able to keep up with him despite the level disadvantage. And my more.

All this knowledge got me thinking.

Where the hell am I? Because I'm sure as fuck this isn't the Danmachi I knew.

All I know is that I have to see what this August Kaiser can do and the tournament would be a perfect venue to do so.

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