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I found the picture below on Pinterest. The caption was 「松田＋幼女に夢見てる漫画」.

I don't understand the use of the に particle. I had already seen it used in
the structure 「person + に夢見てる」 before.

I'm not even sure how to translate it. Would it be "to see a dream in"? I
don't see how that makes sense though.

Now, on to the picture itself:

I'm having trouble with translating Matsuda's last sentence.

> 榛原は 案外
>
> こういうの（は？） ドライな

I'm thinking of "this is surprisingly dry". But what's "this" exactly? This
situation? And it feels dry to Hagiwara? That's why the は particle is being
used?

Or is this aspect/comment of Hagiwara that is surprisingly dry?

What does dry even mean here? Insensitive? Since Hagiwara seemed to be mocking
Matsuda, I thought it could be "dry humor", but the definition doesn't seem to
fit.

Maybe it's because Hagiwara was being too cold towards the little girl? I
unfortunately don't have the previous pages, except [this
one](https://www.pinterest.jp/pin/197384396154358094/). I don't know if it
comes directly before the one I'm concerned about and it doesn't seem to help
much, in any case.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DWg7I.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DWg7I.png)
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grammar translation
「に夢見る」 and translating 「こういうのドライ」
* ～に夢見てる (short for ～に夢を見ている) is "to have illusion _about_ ～". ～ **を** 夢見る means it's a concrete goal/dream, whearas ～ **に** 夢 **を** 見る means you embrace a vague fantasy/illusion about it. For example, 彼は留学を夢見ている basically means he wants to study abroad, but 彼は留学に夢を見ている is closer to "He believes studying abroad is good." If I understand correctly, the subject of 夢見てる is the author. To put it verbosely, the caption is "a (fan-made) manga where I (the author) have an illusion about (the combination of) Matsuda and a little girl".
  * こういうの refers to "this type of situation" (helping a little girl on the street). Since the topic of the sentence is 萩原, the omitted word after こういうの is something like ～について.
  * ドライ(な) here is an antonym for sympathetic/eager/emotional. It doesn't mean 萩原 won't help the girl, but perhaps he would do it in a more businesslike manner.
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