"So, this is the third fairy?"
When Ash arrived at his loyal little shop in his capacity as the manager of Nasta Café, he happened to see his beautiful employees playing with a tiny little kid.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Popuri desu!"
"Manager, she's super cute!"
Holding the delighted Popuri up, Erika made airplane noises with her mouth as if she were showing off a toy, cradling the fairy and sending her swooping up and down.
Newborn creatures generally possessed the universal skill of luring out sympathy through their cute appearances. This tiny fairy was as soft and adorable as a newborn puppy, and before long, Rei and Erika, who had just found her, were completely won over. Watching the girls and fairy play together so happily, Ash swallowed the exclusive information he had planned to share, feeling an inexplicable sense of tragic waste.
"Nice to meet you. I'm Ash, the manager of this Nasta Café."
Though he felt oddly dejected inside, Ash still reached out and shook Popuri's tiny mochi-like hand.
As expected of a Heart Tree fairy, she's so cute. But I, Kain, am confident I wouldn't lose to her in that regard!
The moment a demon starts competing with a fairy over who's cuter, he's already lost.
"Sniff sniff—"
After letting go, Popuri brought her tiny hand close to her nose and sniffed it, then slowly floated out of Rei and the others' arms toward Ash.
"I can feel it. There's a very powerful force!"
Seeing the fairy slowly approach, Ash kept a bewildered expression on the surface while quietly raising his guard inside.
What was going on? Could this newborn fairy not only use shields, but also specialize in detection? If she could somehow use some strange method to discover his true identity, then he