By the dining table, He Xi rested his chin on one hand and looked over expressionlessly.
The pair of purple eyes beside him were even colder.
Even that good-for-nothing pet dog who normally only knew how to eat had stopped stuffing its face. It stared at her with bitter resentment, as though looking at some kind of hag.
Beilu swallowed and instinctively backed toward the portal behind her.
"Eek... Wh-what are you doing? Why are you looking at me like that...?"
He Xi spoke calmly. "Have you taken up a side job as an information broker lately?"
"An-information broker? I don't know what you mean!"
"Then let me put it another way." He Xi leaned forward slightly. "What did that red-haired human give you?"
Since Annis had come running over tonight, it naturally could not have been a coincidence. After all, he normally was not here.
And this little fairy, who usually feared trouble more than anything, clearly would not have gone to tell her all that for no reason.
"Well..."
Looking at the three pairs of increasingly dangerous eyes before her—especially the faint glimmer at He Xi's fingertips—Beilu chose to stop resisting.
"This isn't my fault!"
"She gave me too much! She gave me far too much!"
"It was enough delicious candy to fill an entire room! Every flavor you could imagine! I'd never even seen that much in my dreams!"
"And I only told her a few unimportant..."
At that point, she suddenly realized something. She clapped a hand over her mouth, then peered guiltily at He Xi through her fingers, not daring to continue.
Though he could more or less guess the reason, looking at this fairy creature who had been so easily bought off with candy, He Xi still had to marvel that those books about