Xingyue, is Xiaokai also considered Kai?

"Bashi?"

"It's a red deer, isn't it?"

"No, no, her name is Bawanshi, at least that's what she says herself."

"I see, but it still feels strange."

"This is normal."

"Because Bavan Shi is a monster."

"I...I...am...no..."

Bawanshi wanted to retort, but found that her tongue was already getting tied in knots.

I'm so scared... Why can't I say it with a more beautiful voice and a more generous attitude?

Surrounded by fairies, Bawanshi suppressed the terror and panic that threatened to burst from her lips, wanting to speak earnestly with her fellow fairies.

"Why have you been with us for so long, and why are your feet still shaped so strangely?"

“It looks awful. If we cut it off, Bawanshi will look just like us.”

"I think that's great!"

"Yes, Bawanshi is so pitiful."

"Yeah, so pitiful."

"so poor."

"Let's cut it down."

"Bawanshi won't object, will she? She's always been very obedient."

"No, we're helping her."

Amidst the fairies' earnest expressions, Bawanshi, whose face was bruised, had no time to care about the pain, as anxiety gradually filled her consciousness.

My mind went completely blank. It's terrifying, so terrifying. What happened? Did I do something wrong? Did I do something that deserved to be treated like this?

How terrifying! No, I don't want my legs to be cut off. Even though it's ugly, I don't want it. I don't want pain, I don't want to be afraid anymore, I don't want to die...

"do not come!"

Bawanshi remembers saying something like that when she was somewhat distraught, and only now does she understand her own situation.

“Strange, Bawanshi, you’re acting strangely today.”

"You never resisted when we played together before."

"We're doing this for your own good."

The fairies, despite being called out by her, did not back down. Instead, they continued forward with confused expressions, but they did not drop their weapons.

She was so frightened that she slowly backed away, trying to call for other high-ranking fairies to save her, and then she realized she had made a mistake.

Because this is a remote area, only low-level fairies come here. She usually doesn't come here on her own; she's just brought here by others.

Is it a fight to the death?

However, the fairy girl had completely lost her courage.

She would be afraid if she were abandoned by her companions.

Being disliked by her companions would frighten her.

Therefore, Bavanshi felt powerless, but at the same time she was also thinking, maybe everyone really was just looking out for themselves?

Perhaps I've misunderstood.

However, the fairy girl was still terrified.

Whatever it is, all she wants now is to escape from here as soon as possible.

So Bavanshi pushed aside the fairies who were blocking her way and jumped towards the end of the Inland Sea without regard for the consequences.

Towards the door to the present world—

Bawan Shi heard from other fairies that it was a world belonging to humans, a world where fairies could easily die if they stayed too long, because it belonged to humans, not fairies.

As she pondered this, she felt as if she were falling endlessly into a bottomless pit.

As her internal organs floated to the surface after falling, a gloomy feeling welled up in the fairy girl's heart.

I don't know what it is, but I have a suicidal urge...

No, I don't want to die. I want to keep living, and then, like the princesses in human storybooks, wash myself with hot water, dry my hair a little, and go to bed in a warm room with a blanket. I want to go to my favorite place, to enjoy a leisurely life in a sun-drenched spot.

As she muttered this to herself, she remembered how, when she had said the same thing to the fairies before, they would always respond with strange, mocking calls:

"Wow, it's a princess."

“Bavan Hi is a princess.”

"But those are storybooks abandoned by humans. That means if Bawanshi is a princess, she was also abandoned, so she is not a princess."

"No, Bawanshi is a princess."

"Yes, Princess."

While they were talking, the fairies carelessly snatched the storybook that Bawanshi was looking at, wrote Bawanshi's name on it, and then called her "Princess" and laughed again. Finally, seemingly tired of playing, the fairies threw the storybook into the water.

By the time Bavan Shi spent a long time searching in the lake, the storybook was almost completely empty.

In the end, she tore up the storybook and threw it into the water, but then she remembered something and expressionlessly picked up the pieces and swallowed them one by one.

Please——

"don't want......"

A wail burst from his throat.

Immediately afterwards, the fairy girl felt herself bump into something, a very heavy impact, as if her whole body was about to be torn to pieces.

She could already foresee the terrifying humans tearing her flesh apart, along with her clothes, and the excruciating pain.

Bawan Shi tightly closed her only free eyelid, trying to at least block her vision.

However, the expected excruciating pain did not come.

"...?"

So she slowly and cautiously opened her eyes, her vision blurred with tears, and what she saw was not a ferocious 'human'—

It was sunlight, sunlight completely different from the world they lived in, and this sunlight from the human world made Bavan Shi feel very uncomfortable.

"This is the human world...it's terrifying..."

Bawan Xi murmured, her eyes welling up with tears from the fear of loneliness and the inexplicable sorrow.

Therefore, she burst into tears.

She didn't know how much time had passed before she came to her senses and realized that it was already dark, and she was still alone in the human world. She wanted to go back.

"I want to go back."

No one was listening, but the fairy girl kept saying it.

She nodded to herself with a soft "hmm" and began to observe her surroundings, intending to first grasp the situation.

With this awareness in mind, she saw a small hut with a campfire inside.

So she walked there, and what happened next was the 'vampire incident' that Scottish hunters talked about.

The four hunters were terrified by Bavan Shi's blood-covered body and her abnormal feet, and abandoned the valuables they had just acquired, choosing to flee.

Bawa looked bewildered at the valuables left behind by the hunters. Although she didn't understand, she still took them. Perhaps because of the hunters' fearful attitude, she didn't dare to stay in the hut any longer and could only go back to where she came from, which was a small lake.

At this moment, the night sky is always clear and bright, enveloping the beautiful and quiet Scottish Highlands. She walks on the magnificent Scottish Highlands, feeling a sense of desolation and poignant beauty. After arriving at the lake, the fairy girl squats down and looks at the silent lake.

She saw her reflection in the lake, her body covered in filth, her eyes like caverns, both dark and empty.

So she lowered her head, pressed her face back to her knees, and began to cry for reasons she herself didn't even know.

Perhaps due to exhaustion, she accidentally stumbled and fell into the lake.

After experiencing the same agonizing pain as before, as if torn apart, the fairy girl once again returned to the place she longed to be.

It feels like so much time has passed; everyone must have left by now.

Just as Bawan Xi was thinking this, she heard the sound of fairies flapping their wings behind her. She reflexively covered her head and involuntarily squatted down.

"Bavan Shi, you're back."

“I told you she would come back; she’s a very good girl.”

"Yes, we're all doing this for her own good."

The voices of the fairies reached her ears, and they seemed to be blocking Bawan Xi's path, as if they didn't want her to pass.

Bawan Xi lowered her head and answered softly, "Mmm."

"Bavan Shi, why did you run away? We were doing this for your own good."

The fairies lightly tapped the ground with their toes, fully expressing their dissatisfaction.

"Yes, it's all for your own good."

"Fine, to make it up to us, let's keep playing together."

"This time it's going to be a long game!"

The fairies meant for Bawan Shi to be beaten by them as before.

Bawan Xi hung her head, clutching her stained long dress tightly, and squeezed out a soft "Sorry" from her dry throat.

The view after lowering one's head is obscured by clumps of messy, reddish-black hair that stretches out randomly, making it appear dark and narrow.

The once clean red color has turned into an indelible black due to the accumulation of blood and grime from prolonged tearing.

"You stink! Can you get away from me? You're disgusting!"

"It smells awful."

"I'm sorry."

Bawan Xi kept her head down, apologizing in a trembling voice, unable to look the fairy in the eye.

"I, I'll clean it up...right now."

"No need. You'll become disgusting anyway. After we play with you, we'll still cut off your ugly legs. It's all for your own good."

The next instant, the fairy girl caught a glimpse of a fairy's hand approaching with lightning speed out of the corner of her eye.

Because of her accumulated experiences, she acted on her body before thinking; Bawan Shi put her hands behind her head and hunched her shoulders.

To her surprise, the slap didn't come down. The fairies seemed to have noticed something and stopped abruptly.

"Hey, what's that? It's sparkly."

"Is it some kind of treasure?"

"Human?"

"take it out."

"We want to see."

Due to the fairies' demands, Bawan Xi had no choice but to hand over all the valuables he had obtained from the hunters.

"It's something that humans use to trade."

"Wow! So beautiful."

"Bawan Xi, you're amazing."

Seemingly having found something special in Bawanshi, the fairies immediately became much nicer.

Then they said:

"Bawan Xi, we are good friends, and you are still a princess, so can you continue to travel to the human world and bring these back to us?"

The fairies didn't give Bawanshi a chance to reply before taking the valuables and leaving, as if it were only natural for Bawanshi to do whatever they said.

However, in the following days, Bawan Shi was 'accepted' by her companions more than before and was no longer beaten, because the fairies were busy playing with the human treasures they had obtained from her. But as time went on, the fairies, who found the amount of treasure too small, forced Bawan Shi to hurry back to the human world and bring more back.

Despite the fairy girl's repeated explanations that it would be extremely painful, the fairies still pushed her inside.