Angel and Moon Dew walked out of Rumbadi Shop together.
"Big brother, thank you," Moon Dew said, lifting her little face with a solemn expression.
"Thank me?" Angel asked. "I don't think I did anything. Or is there an ingredient you want me to find for you?"
Moon Dew shook her head. "It's not an ingredient. It's... a Dream Registry."
After a pause, she lowered her head, looking embarrassed. "I should have exchanged Dawn Points for Cocorosa's Dream Registry myself, but you did it for me."
Angel smiled. "Oh, that? It was nothing. Just a small favor."
"Besides, having you exchange for it and then transfer it with a tag would waste another 210 points. And I brought Cocorosa here in the first place, so I'm responsible for her."
Angel repeated what he had told Granny Tang earlier.
Moon Dew kept her head down. "I just feel a little guilty," she murmured.
"What's there to feel guilty about?" Angel crouched and gently stroked her head. "It's only a Dream Registry."
Moon Dew shook her head. "I shouldn't have felt relieved just now," she said earnestly.
When Granny Tang told her that Angel had covered the cost of Cocorosa's Dream Registry, she had instinctively breathed a sigh of relief.
She already had to shoulder the cost of Dream Registries for Niv and Cocorosa, and might have to do the same for other Flower Moon Fairies later. Each one cost 410 Dawn Points. She was efficient at clearing Dream Bubbles, but she was still only a child. Faced with such a huge sum and a deadline, she felt the weight of it for the first time.
Angel's help had lifted a burden from her shoulders, and she had felt relieved.
That moment of relief was real, but it had come from passing