A Trustworthy Relationship

"Yes, I'll take a look alone."

Pastel sent back the Church Researcher whom the Knights Order seemed to have persuaded.

As the Researcher left, silence hung in the spacious room. It was a stillness that made it hard to realize Mr. Fairy Lump was in the same space.

Rubbing her arms nervously, she looked back at the center. Beyond the Quartz Wall blocking the way, a massive creature lay as if dead.

Actually, she wasn't sure if it was right to call it a creature. With countless limbs sprouting from a round body and fairy faces filling every empty space in between, its appearance made it hard to call it a normal creature.

But even this thought might be disrespectful to Mr. Fairy Lump, even though its intelligence and thoughts were unknown.

Even so, Pastel's lips trembled from the goosebumps she instinctively felt.

If Mr. Fairy Lump hadn't let all its tentacle limbs droop and the fairy faces hadn't closed their eyes, she probably would have fainted from her mind spinning at the unbearable sight.

The white scarf she had purposely wrapped around herself fluttered. The small Fairy's upper body popped out.

—Are we the only ones here...