Which one was more sincere?
Though that wasn't entirely the right way to put it.
But Little Griseo was actually quite easy to understand.
She simply felt that since you knew her identity, you should win her fair and square afterward through the Goddess Competition.
Unless she took the initiative herself.
Otherwise... no way!
If everyone acted like you did,
wouldn't everything become a mess?
The other girls would have complaints too.
That wouldn't do!
It felt just like a beginner's protection period.
When that world had yet to be incorporated into the Ark, or had only just been incorporated into the Ark, and Little Griseo hadn't had much contact with you yet,
there was the bonus of novelty.
Even... living in their original world, with the contrast provided by their homeland,
would always make Little Griseo treat you with much more tenderness.
Under such circumstances,
if your child had grown up to be eighteen or nineteen, or even over twenty, and still acted spoiled with you, asking you to buy them toys,
you would definitely smack them.
But!
If your child was only two or three years old...
As long as they weren't unbearably naughty,
wouldn't you adore them no matter how you looked at them?
It was the same principle.
So even Little Griseo herself had never realized
that she was always patient with girls she had only recently met.
But toward girls she was already familiar with... she inevitably became somewhat indifferent.
It wasn't that she truly meant anything by it.
But!
Sometimes...
it still made many girls spit lightly and call her a jerk, and they weren't wrong!
In any case,
she was a heartless woman. So what?
No matter how you put it,
she cherished the female protagonists from the original works she had only