I was taken aback by the first line that the humanoid creature muttered for the first time. But why call me daddy? Also, based on the voice of this creature, it is a clear female voice. But heck with this! I am still a virgin guy! How the h.e.l.l did I earn a kid?"Looks like the Elemental Pixie is imprinting you as her parent. Elemental Pixies are much more sensitive in mana. Looks like she recognized your mana that makes her call you her father," Maple explained.
Moonlight stares at the Elemental Pixie with awe since it was her first time witnessing the birth of an actual Elemental Pixie that is already extinct. The Elemental Pixie flew towards me and hug my neck despite her small size like a miniature porcelain doll.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
"Daddy! Daddy!"
I am not sure what to say about this. The little pixie flew and attached to my neck, not willing to let go. The little fella might be cute but this little fella is also dangerous and magical.
"What should I do about this?" I looked at both Moonlight and Maple.
"Well, just let it be for now, don"t you think it"s cute Kazuma?" Moonlight grinned.
"It"s already treating you as your parent. It"s too late for us to take her away from you," Maple nodded like she sort of understands something. Understand my *ss, they just don"t have any idea what to do about this little thing!
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After the little event, we decided to move away from the area. I cremated the corpses and we left the area before someone else saw us. If we are not wrong, those hooded elves still have accomplices scattered around the forest, searching for Catmod"s whereabouts. With the commotion earlier, it is sure to attract the eyes of those guys but it was also proven that those guys are in a bit farther location than the dead hooded guys because it"s been a while since Moonlight performed the ritual but not a single enemy still appears. From Maple"s detection. Aside from us, no living human being is alive in the 100-meter radius around us which made me sigh in relief.
Catmod"s trail is broken and without anything to check where the trail continues, we had to search manually.
"This forest is somewhat big isn"t it?" I comment as I look above the trees for any ambushes.
"Of course. These trees made almost 98% of the Ruins" environment. I am quite sure that this place is one of the greenest places available on Earth. Many floras and faunas of this place are either rare or undiscovered which makes this uncivilized area that humans already tarnished," Maple explained.
"But, magicians are already here, and many magicians are humans. That means that this place is already tarnished," I commented.
"The Forest of Trials is something that cannot be easily accessed by humans. Unless a magician helped one of the mortal human to access this place, entering this place is either slim or no chance of being discovered by humans whose goals are to destroy our environment," Moonlight explained.
I nodded in her explanation but I doubt that no one else can find this place. If the elves found this place, it won"t be too long for normal people to discover this place as well.
The search we made already continued till dawn but Catmod"s trail has already disappeared without any traces left for us. It was like, it got intentionally erased from the whole forest. In the end, we decided to camp out for now. Since we need to stay on track for Catmod"s whereabouts, we did not bother to return to the lair and just decided to eat breakfast here.
We have to take a quick snack before we need to move on. To avoid accidental discovery by the enemies, I asked Itazura to cast another illusion skill around us. Still, we are tense around our area because we are unsure whether the enemies are either around us, spying or they might just be around the corner, sniffing out on our location.
While we are eating, I saw the Elemental Pixie is looking curiously on the sandwich in my hand that I packed earlier before we head out. I tear a small part of the sandwich and gave it to her. She stares on it curiously, even sniffing and poking it. After a while, she grabbed it and look at me before she looks back on it.
I look at the Elemental Pixie while eating the remaining sandwich. Seeing me swallow the sandwich, the Elemental Pixie mimicked me and also sent the small piece of sandwich to her mouth and bit it. Her eyes glowed when she took a bite on the sandwich which looks cute as she bit another and another. Moonlight and Maple smiled looking at the little pixie eating her first meal.
"So, have you thought already a good name for the little pixie of yours?" Moonlight asked.
"Ah... I forgot about it. I have not think of a good name for this little fella. And besides, my naming sense is quite horrible," I explained.
"Well, I think I will agree with that," Moonlight said as she stares at Itazura. Itazura seems able to detect that she is the one being mentioned as she raised her both ears up.
"Why don"t you call her Hikari? Although she has the black color as the dominating color, the white color in her hair and clothes seems brighter than any light," Maple suggested.
"Wow! Maple-san, you are so good at naming! I don"t know why I have no talent in doing that. Teach me your ways!" Moonlight said.
"Uh...it"s not really something I can teach..."
I looked at the little pixie on my shoulders and talked to her.
"Are you fine with the name Hikari?"
The little pixie tilted her head like it was trying to determine what is the meaning of my words. Soon she smiled and give another bite to the sandwich I gave her.
"I will take that as a yes then. Your name will be Hikari starting today."