Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Vol. 4 by Fujino Omori Page A

‘Biolante’…Gives me goose bumps just reading it!”
    “This is so exhilarating!”
    “The gods just come up with this stuff off the top of their heads. They really are worth looking up to.”
    The Guild office was suddenly alive with excitement, especially the male employees.
    Eina and Misha’s supervisors seemed to be all in agreement, standing in a circle and talking as though they were of one mind. A group of women from another department arrived on the scene, their higher-pitched voices joining in the mix of enthusiastic chatter.
    Misha stood just outside the break room, separate from all of the energy across the room. A sudden shiver ran down her spine, twitching her shoulders.
    “T-they’re starting without us…! Let’s go, Eina!”
    “Ah, sure.”
    Eina followed her into the fray. Making sure not to lose sight of Misha’s pink hair as the human girl fought her way to get a copy of the name list, Bell’s face suddenly popped up in Eina’s mind.
    Ohhh, a softer name would be better for him…
    What if they named him something like “The Crimson Adventurer, Bloody Guy”?
Suddenly she could see herself telling him—with Bell puffing out his chest with pride and her sweating—as she chose her words very carefully.
    While not necessarily feeling that such a gallant name would be completely unsuitable for Bell, somehow it didn’t fit his image. Biting her lip, she did her best to calm down and prayed that she wouldn’t have to face that situation.
    “Eina, I got it! Quick, have a look!”
    Misha waved her over, a big smile on her face and the list in her hand.
    There were several documents containing the titles selected for the adventurers. The two of them started at the top sheet, their eyes working down the list through the second and third sheets.
    Eina finally found what she was looking for at the very bottom of the final paper.
    “—Ah-ha-ha-ha.”
    “Oh? Bell’s name?”
    Eina couldn’t control the laughter pouring out of her.
    Her pinkish cheeks tightened, her lips quivering into his soft smile.
    Misha leaned over the list, trying to find his name. Eina read it to her out loud.
    “It’s ‘Little Rookie.’”



CHAPTER 2
CHANGING ENVIRONMENT, NEW RELATIONSHIPS
    “…”
    I’m lying here, looking up at the white ceiling.
    I’m the only one in the room under the church, and I’m sprawled out on the sofa.
    There’s really nothing for me to do besides zoning out and letting the day go by.
Ticktock ticktock
. I can hear the gears inside the clock on the wall as it marks the steady march of time.
    It’s been three days since the fight with the Minotaur.
    This is becoming a habit. I’m getting used to daydreaming for long periods of time, motionless.
    I slept for two days at the hospital inside Babel Tower after that fight.
    It took a heavy toll on me…Neither my body nor my mind held out at the very end, and I just shut down. Apparently I slept like the dead, nothing but a bump under the sheets. However, I was awake enough at one point to see a look of relief on the goddess’s face, and Lilly’s, too. That’s the only thing I can remember after the battle.
    After that the goddess and Lilly half carried me back here. I spent the rest of that day on the sofa—exactly like I am now.
    “Level…Two…”
    I’m a Level 2 adventurer.
    Hearing that I leveled up brought a smile to my face. The proof that I’m closing the gap between me and
her
is now etched into my back.
    …But I just can’t get over the fact that I won, I beat that Minotaur.
    It’s like a never-ending transparent reverberation, unrelated to the heat of victory. But it’s not a langorous sensation—more a feeling like water rising up out of a flowing spring.
    Saying it feels like accomplishment would be an overstatement, but it doesn’t feel like I’ve been released from a burden, either.
    Loss…Yes, I feel like I’ve lost something.
    I can’t put it into words very well, but something about that Minotaur