"I get it. None of your employees slack off, so you have plenty of free time."
"Exactly." Kryudera nodded. "That lets me focus on running and expanding the business, and on planning for the future."
"It may sound leisurely, but every day I have to deal with mountains of complicated data reports."
"Fair enough." Yan Huan sounded resigned.
Come to think of it, there was something peculiar about the fairies of the Lost Illusionary Realm.
What exactly were fairies in Amphoreus...?
He vaguely remembered the village chief saying that whenever a city-state fell outside, more fairies appeared in the Lost Illusionary Realm.
But if fairies were simply people of Amphoreus who had died, the numbers did not add up.
After all, anyone who died in one cycle would come back to life in the next.
Surely they did not become fairies, then suddenly disappear and go back to being people.
Unless these "people" were different.
Perhaps they were not people caught in the current repeating cycles, like Kenis, but people from the normal Genesis cycles before Phainon and Cyrene's plan began.
But even then... the numbers still did not add up.
Those people were all dead. If they had turned into fairies, the Lost Illusionary Realm would be teeming with Little Fairies.
And why had Cyrene turned into a fairy after she died?
He had made at least some progress investigating Laigushi. When it came to the fairies, though, he had no leads at all.
During the first cycle, Phainon and Cyrene had been able to enter the Lost Illusionary Realm, but no one else from their village could.
To Yan Huan, the key was probably not whether Phainon had retained his childlike innocence. It was Cyrene...
There seemed to be more to her than being the local Demigod of