Grand Cathedral, courtyard.
"Another serving!"
At the broad dining table piled high with cups and plates, a figure nearly buried beneath the dishes tossed aside the last empty bowl, her lips still smeared with rice grains, filling the gap on the table. Then she made her request with great gusto.
"Ten beef legs, twenty pies, and add a few more dishes while you're at it. All meat. And three more barrels of rice."
Samael coughed lightly, forcing an awkward yet polite smile as he instructed the dumbfounded Wind Fae maidservants.
"She can eat way too much, meow!"
"Yeah, more than the village eats in a month..."
"She's practically a bottomless pit!"
Habetrotrot, Freya, and Bavangshi gathered nearby, secretly watching as they chattered away.
But none of it affected the golden-haired, heterochromatic-eyed girl's determination to keep eating.
Dish after dish was brought over and swept into the golden-haired girl's nearly bottomless stomach like a whirlwind. Her fair little belly showed not the slightest bulge.
Even Morgan and Melly could not help their cheeks twitching.
"It's fine. This should be a side effect of absorbing that ability. The symptoms may ease in the future."
Samael explained through a dry cough, trying to remain calm.
The golden-haired, heterochromatic-eyed girl eating as though she had not had a proper meal in eight lifetimes was Barghest.
Only, the tiny girl who had once been seventy or eighty centimeters tall had shot up to around one and a half meters, becoming a little girl with an extraordinary appetite.
Dog demons belonged to the Fang Tribe. They were mutated fae among the fae, and fae that devoured other fae.
According to Samael's memories, in some uncertain future, Barghest had devoured Favour, the hidden chief of the Earth Clan, and gained his abilities. That was how she resolved