Danmachi: Is It Wrong to Be the Main Character in Orario?-Chapter 835: The Old Man’s Only in His Twenties This Year!
After completing Ais’s Status Update, Loki’s door swung open.
The three people waiting outside stared at Loki with wide, unblinking eyes.
Loki didn’t disappoint her children.
"Ais has reached her limit."
The answer shocked them—only a little. What followed was mostly joy.
"Three months... and she’s already reached this level? That’s really..."
Gareth shook his head, his smile carrying both relief and amazement.
Finn had already suspected this outcome. It was likely for this very reason that Bell had been qualified to take Ais into the dungeon.
Looking at Loki now, it was clear she had predicted this as well. Otherwise, she never would have agreed to let Bell whisk Ais away.
The only one struggling to accept this was Riveria. "813"
Of course, it wasn’t that she minded Ais becoming stronger than her.
What she couldn’t accept was how much more troublesome Ais had become compared to the past.
"What about that kid?"
Loki’s eyes scanned around the area, searching for Bell.
Meanwhile, Ais had been staring fixedly at a specific spot. After spending so much time around him recently, her senses told her no one was there—but her intuition told her her teacher was exactly in that direction.
So she called out softly.
"Teacher."
Loki, Finn, and Riveria all turned toward the direction Ais was looking—but found no trace of anyone.
When they turned back, Bell—wrapped tightly in his cloak—was already standing at Ais’s side, gently patting her head.
"Intuition, huh? That’s quite an impressive sense."
Bell hadn’t expected Ais to detect his presence at all. The fact that her gaze had aligned perfectly with his own direction was even more surprising.
If he hadn’t verified for himself that Ais truly couldn’t see him, even he would have been startled.
"You really shouldn’t be able to sense me—not even a hint. Yet you still found me. Your intuition is a little abnormal, Ais."
"Because Teacher does this a lot. Even if I can’t sense your aura, I can still tell you’re nearby."
Ais closed her eyes slightly, enjoying the head-pat reward as she calmly explained.
"So it really is a sixth sense?"
"I didn’t expect you could awaken it unconsciously."
Bell had studied the sixth sense before—one of the superhuman senses beyond the five ordinary ones.
The sixth sense was also known as spatial awareness.
It meant sensing distortions or presence within the same space. And if one mastered it fully, they could even sense beings across different spaces.
Bell himself had already mastered the sixth and seventh senses.
But seeing Ais awaken the sixth sense unconsciously truly surprised him.
"So you can sense my position even without trying?"
It was unexpected—yet entirely delightful for Bell.
"Good job, Ais."
The sixth and seventh senses couldn’t awaken a Saint Fighter’s Cosmo to destroy the world, but they were excellent support abilities in battle.
The four onlookers watched Ais quietly accept the head pat as Bell stroked her hair with total naturalness. They clearly had many questions.
Riveria was the first to speak up.
"Bell, what are you doing?"
Obviously, this wasn’t the first time. It looked like a routine gesture formed through many repetitions.
"Ah, that?"
Bell immediately understood what Riveria meant.
Head-patting praise was something an elder did to a junior—it wasn’t surprising it seemed odd.
But Bell needed to clarify before anyone got the wrong idea.
"This is Ais’s request. She said that whenever I think she’s made progress, I should praise her by patting her head."
"I asked her why before, and her answer surprised me. She said I reminded her of her dad."
"Albert?"
Riveria frowned, recalling Albert’s appearance—then looked at Bell again.
...Strangely similar.
Her eyelid twitched violently. She couldn’t help noticing that Bell and Albert indeed had quite a few similarities...
Their temperaments were different, but their appearance—the impression they gave—was extremely close.
White hair, a face that wasn’t bad-looking, and a height similar to hers.
He did have a bit of Albert’s aura.
Bell looked at Finn and Gareth with a troubled expression.
"I was going to suggest Captain Finn or Gareth, but unfortunately..."
"Captain Finn’s race makes it tough for him to give off a fatherly vibe. That youthful face doesn’t exactly inspire the thought of ’Dad.’"
Finn scratched his cheek awkwardly. He truly didn’t look like a dad.
"As for Gareth..."
Bell sighed again, impossible to summarize in words, leaving Gareth speechless. What hurt even more were Bell’s next words.
"Dwarves with big beards, a boisterous personality, and a love for drinking... Ais said Gareth felt more like a ’grandfather.’"
The word grandfather instantly broke Gareth’s defenses.
He was only in his twenties—not even thirty—and he was being called "grandpa" by a junior?
Finn and Riveria were both far older than he was!
"Pff—"
Not just Gareth—even Riveria and Loki, who had been listening seriously until now, broke through their 0.9 defenses.
Looking at Gareth’s heavily bearded face, they couldn’t help laughing.
He really didn’t look like a "dad."
As a "grandpa," though... it made perfect sense.
With Bell, Finn, and Gareth side-by-side, even Riveria felt Bell—the youngest—fit the "Ais’s dad" role best.
The comparison made their appearances and vibes instantly clearer.
Holding back laughter, Loki walked over and patted the suffering Gareth on the shoulder.
"Gareth, don’t be upset. Your ’grandfather’ aura really does fit well."
Gareth finally snapped.
"THE OLD MAN IS ONLY IN HIS TWENTIES!"
