Among the gods, Artemis was considered calm and steady.
Yet after grasping what the chat group truly was, she couldn't hide her amazement.
Leaving aside the fact that even gods hadn't detected it, the mere idea of "other worlds" was enough to thrill any deity.
Artemis was no exception.
Why didn't the gods stay in Heaven, living free and decadent lives?
Because they had already done so for hundreds of millions of years.
Every pleasure of the Heavens had long been exhausted.
Then, quite by accident, the gods discovered the Human Realm.
Finding this "new world," they clung to it like children with a beloved toy.
At first they granted humans power to fight the monsters emerging from the Dungeon, but soon the gods grew dissatisfied and descended one after another.
Yet if a god with unlimited power came down, the Human Realm would quickly become as dull as Heaven.
So the gods joined forces to create an inviolable rule.
A god could not use Divine Power in the Lower Realm; doing so meant instant banishment back to Heaven.
That might sound like a light punishment, but to gods who had endured eons of boredom, returning alone to Heaven—and being barred from descending again—was worse than death.
And so, merely for this "Human Realm," gods flocked to Seal their Divine Power and role-play as mortals.
Even if it meant living in shacks, wearing rags, and going hungry, they would never consider using Divine Power.
After all, dying by accident in the Human Realm still allowed a chance to return; banishment for using power meant never setting foot there again.
The Human Realm's allure was so great that even Artemis had fallen under its spell.
And now there might be countless such "Human Realms"!
How could Artemis not feel exhilarated?!
Meanwhile.
After learning the newcomer was Artemis, Rosen still couldn't be certain of her exact identity.
After all, besides the danmachi world, Artemis also existed in the FGO universe.
[Shepherd: "Do you know Orari?"]
[Moon Goddess: "Orari? How do you know that place?"]
Seeing Rosen's question, Artemis blinked in surprise.
Orari was the world-famous city built at the entrance to the Dungeon and the largest metropolis on the planet, where countless gods had founded countless Familias.
Yet she wondered: if Rosen was from another world, how did he know of this city?
[Fallen Angel: "Orari?! Now I know where the newcomer's from!"]
[Magic Old Man: "Oh, now you know?"]
[Fallen Angel: "Boss, Artemis must be the goddess from the danmachi world, right?"]
[Shepherd: "Exactly."]
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
Though the ridiculously long title begged for ridicule, Rosen was still somewhat surprised to see this world appear.
After all, his current Familia contract overlapped heavily with the danmachi divine-benefit system.
The difference was that his contract was stronger: even ordinary people gained immense power upon conversion, and they automatically awakened unique skills suited to them.
By contrast, the danmachi benefit system was more like magic.
And magic, throughout Orari, was something you might never encounter in your lifetime.
After all, there are only two ways to learn magic.
One is to gain it directly through the gods' blessing, the other is to study a grimoire and acquire it Acquired.
And not everyone can master magic.
If your status sheet doesn't show a magic slot at Awakening, then magic is gone for good.
Thinking of this,
Rosen's mind began to race.
If he ever got the chance to go over, he might try contracting a goddess.
At the same time,
nudged by the others' curiosity, Gabriel uploaded the anime featuring Artemis to the group files.
[Moon Goddess: "What does this mean? Arrow of Orion? Isn't that the weapon I use in the heavens?"]
[Fallen Angel: "It's the title of the movie you're in. Tragic, really—your whole Familia dies, you get caught by a monster and used as a Cauldron, and you limp back to Orari as a wisp of soul to beg for help... sigh."]
Back then she'd cried over the plot for days... [Moon Goddess: "???"]
Every word Gabriel typed made sense, yet strung together Artemis understood none of it.
What movie?
Her Familia wiped out? Herself captured?
What on earth was this?!
Even to a goddess, it sounded like gibberish.
Was this... bullying?
They say some Familia in Orari haze newcomers, ordering them around or worse.
Could the same thing happen here in the chat group?
[Shepherd: "Just watch the movie and you'll get it. Since you're still chatting, the plot hasn't happened yet—so there's time to fix things."]
Which reminded Rosen of an urgent point.
The events of Arrow of Orion kick in when Bell hits the 1-vs-2 stage of his growth.
Meaning Blue Ribbon had already been snatched.
And among all the girls in danmachi,
the most famous is obviously the Blue Ribbon Goddess, Hestia.
Rosen needed to pin down the current timeline.
[Shepherd: "Do you know Hestia?"]
[Moon Goddess: "Hestia? She's a dear friend. You know her too?"]
[Shepherd: "A little. How's she doing?"]
[Moon Goddess: "Well... when I descended she was still in heaven, but I visited Orari three months ago and she'd already come down; she's staying with Hephaistos' Familia."]