Angel lifted Dangros off his shoulder and placed him in his left palm.
Then he raised his left hand until it was level with his eyes and quietly gazed at Dangros.
Dangros was somewhat bewildered by this, his tiny eyes full of confusion.
Angel said, "You don't seem very satisfied with the Dream Crystal Plain?"
Dangros shook his head. "No."
Angel silently watched Dangros. Only after a long while did he murmur, "If you're not dissatisfied, why are you so downcast?"
Angel had initially changed his mind and decided to bring Dangros to the Dream Crystal Plain because, after refusing Dangros, he had noticed its mood become exceedingly low.
If emotions had colors, Dangros at that time would probably have been shrouded from head to toe in heavy shadows, running counter to its former radiance.
Later, when Angel agreed to bring Dangros to the Dream Crystal Plain, the shadows on it had faded slightly. Yet they had not disappeared.
Angel had not paid much attention to it then. He had assumed it was simply the lingering nature of emotions—that once Dangros arrived at the Dream Crystal Plain and saw a different world, its mood would naturally improve.
But reality was completely different from what he had imagined.
After Dangros arrived at the Dream Crystal Plain, it had indeed been captivated by the novel world for a few minutes and temporarily cast aside the shadows. But once the novelty wore off, those shadows enveloped it once more.
Angel thought that he had been talking with Laplace and the others the whole time and had neglected Dangros, making it a little unhappy. So, while logging off to bring Gleipnir the Tooth-Bone Staff, he had also brought Dangros a bottle of quenching fluid.
This gave Dangros "something to do," while also telling it