Mmh. Its still delicious.

In front of Lillets confectionery, Airi got the pastries she wanted and nodded in a satisfied manner all the while chewing.

Shien stood next to Airi, looked at his much thinner money pouch, counted the few gold coins left in it, and could only lament about how hard this second life of his is.

Airi obviously also saw Shiens depressed state and spoke in an irritated tone.

Isnt it just a few pastries? Other people would practically beg to offer me stuff. Youre the only one whod act so unwilling about it.

Airi took another bite of her pastry as she spoke. She even looked quite confident the way she said it.

Shien got mad.

Youre obviously a bit shot yourself. Dont you think its shameful making me buy stuff for you?

Shien viciously countered.

But Airi acted completely nonplussed.

Delicious things are delicious. Whats shame got anything to do with it? Airi spoke like shes speaking common sense before then turning to ask, Also, whats a big shot?

In response, Shien just flapped his mouth a few times and wilted, too tired to talk anymore.

If it was Lucy, Shien would definitely give her a proper talking and let her know the meaning of brainwashing.

However, faced with this little girl whos definitely some major person of note while still acting like a naive and sheltered young lady, Shien really just couldnt do it and mislead her like that.

To give this world a big shot with a bunch of strange miscomprehensions?

The demon world would probably try to kill him for that, right?

Thus, Shien could only give up and sigh.

Speaking of, shouldnt you be at home? Whyd you run out on your own?

Shien moved on from the previous topic and instead asked Airi something else.

Strangely though, this instead only made Airi dissatisfied.

Rather than coming out, did you want me to wait at home just by myself? Airi spoke in a very dissatisfied tone, I might like sleeping, but when Im not sleeping, I really dislikes being bored, alright?

True enough. This little girls pillow isnt just there for show after all. Rather, she herself loves sleeping.

At the very least, during the past few days in the Latrard family home, Airi would typically sleep until noon before shed get up, and even when she does get up, shed behave like shes very sleepy. The scene of her sleepily rubbing her eyes had made hearts pop up in Lumia and Melikas eyes countless times. Even Vivian and Diere would sometimes end up staring at this little girl.

According to the person in question, in the past, she had even slept hundreds of years at a time in several occasions. Shes also had many experiences where she slept over a decade or several years as well. There were even times when shed end up getting sleepy while shes walking around, and then just fall asleep right there and then.

This is the reason why Airi would bring a pillow with her everywhere she went.

Thats something that she herself claimed .

Of course, Vivian and the rest instead claimed that Airis pillow wasnt just for sleeping, but also for blocking.

But none of them were willing to tell Shien just what its supposed to be blocking.

This made Shien quite curious, so he had on several occasions tried to steal Airis pillow. However, Airi places great importance on her pillow, so any attacks aimed toward it would be instantly dealt with.

But all this did was make Shien even more curious. One time, he even just directly asked Airi to let him take a look.

Just one look!

That was what Shien said back then.

How can I allow you to see?

However, Airi had not only rejected him without hesitation, she even gave Shien a glare.

Why?

Shien didnt give up though. Instead, he just kept on pestering Airi about it without end.

Finally, Airi was forced to give Shien an explanation.

If you see it, youll end up just like those annoying males, constantly staring at me. I dislike those kind of gazes, and I dislike the way they look at me even more.

Thus, Shien has still been unable to solve this mystery.

Bringing things back on topic though, due to her sleepiness, the little girl in question would sometimes not wake up no matter how much shes called out to. There were even several times when there was no one familiar at home when she awoke.

So this time was definitely because of that reason as well, right?

Thats why Airi ran out on her own.

I originally wanted to go find you, but you seemed to be in the palace, so I didnt go there. Thus, I just walked around until I got here.

Airi explained how she ended up here.

Alright. Shien shrugged, but he then questioned, confused, How did you know that I was in the palace though?

Shien only randomly asked that question without really thinking about it.

However, who would have thought that hed end up finding out something unbelievable through it.

I left a bit of magic power on you. Airi spoke as if its completely normal, This way, Id be able to detect you no matter where you are.

So thats how it is. Shien first just nodded habitually before then realizing the issues with that, making him ask in shock, You actually did something to me?

Your way of putting it sounds really bad. Airi frowned, I only used a bit of magic power for location and detection purposes. It doesnt do anything besides that. Otherwise, it would be really hard for even me to do anything to you through such a vector.

It seems that even Airi cant easily do something to Shien through his maxed out [Physical Resistance], [Magic Resistance], and [Abnormal Status Resistance] skills.

Thankfully, Shiens Holy Sword was triply sealed and its powers thus greatly lowered. Otherwise, even if Shien didnt actively use the Holy Sword, theres no way that Airi would be able to leave her own magic power on Shiens body given its powers against demons.

However, even without the Holy Sword, its likely that its only existences on Airis level who are capable of doing such things against Shien and his max level resistance skills, right?

However, Shien didnt feel any pride about that at all.

Didnt that mean that no matter where he goes from now on, theres no way for him to escape this little girl then?

This little girl seems much more clingy than he had imagined.

Right. Shien suddenly thought of something and addressed Airi, When I went to the audience today, I saw someone important among you demons you know?

Is that so? Airi didnt really care and just continued chewing on her pastries while asking uncaringly, Who?

His name is Jacinta. Supposedly, hes a direct subordinate of one of the six great demon lords, the Dragon Demon. Hes basically the second in command kind of existence in the demon world you know? Shien probed, Do you know him?

In response, Airi stopped eating.

Him? Airi spoke without much thought, Whats that idiot in the mortal world for?

I-idiot? Shien was rather shocked at that manner of address.

The reason why he brought up Jacinta was as a test to see how Airi would react. To see what kind of attitude she might have toward this second in command level existence of the demon world and use that to gauge Airis own position in the demon world.

But now, given Airis unthinking way of calling him an idiot, doesnt that perhaps mean that Airis status is even higher than Jacintas?

Higher than even a second in command level existence of the demon world?

Wow

Just who is this girl?

Thus, Shien weakly reported everything that happened earlier in the day to Airi.

Airi didnt really care at the start. Only when Shien brought up the matter of the Old Demon Faction appearing in the Stalim territory did the girl in question finally show a dark look, with a cold gleam in her eyes.

Humph

Airi coldly hmphed.

That single action made the air around them shake violently though.

Shien went silent.

Freaking terrifying.