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Alfred’s sudden words confused me. “What? What are you talking about?” I asked him.
“Literally. All the fairies in the strawberry field disappeared. The same goes for Gyuri,” he replied.
I looked at Urki with a confused expression, and he confirmed that Alfred was telling the truth.
“Let’s go for now. I’ll go check it out myself,” I said. I quickly gathered the Griffins who were training and headed to the strawberry field with Alfred and Urki following behind me.
When we arrived, we found the Elden Villagers hanging around the area. They greeted me as soon as they saw me.
“I greet the Lord.”
“I greet the Lord.”
“Hello. I heard that the fairies suddenly disappeared, so I came to check it out,” I replied.
As soon as I brought it up, the beast people shuddered with an expression of helplessness.
I passed the anxious beast people and went into the strawberry field greenhouse myself.
Inside, the temperature was warm, and the strawberries were growing well. Everything seemed fine at first, but as time passed, my expression hardened.
“Gyuri, I’m here,” I called out, but there was no answer.
“Are you playing me? I’m already surprised enough, so hurry up and come out,” I said, but there was still no response.
“Guys?” I called out again, but no one answered me.
The silence in the strawberry field made me more anxious by the moment.
Finally, I tried to use my ability to communicate throughout the strawberry field to find them, but I could only feel the movement of the tiny creatures. I couldn’t find any trace of the fairies.
“They really disappeared,” I said, walking out of the greenhouse with a disheartened expression.
The beast-people waiting outside knelt in front of me.
“Sorry, my lord!”
“We didn’t manage the strawberry field properly
”
“We’re looking for the fairies now. Please wait a little longer.”
Perhaps they thought I would hold them responsible for the fairies’ disappearance, so all of them knelt down and pleaded for forgiveness.
The disappearance of the fairies was a big problem, but I didn’t think it was caused by the beast people.
I calmed the trembling beast-people by hiding my disheartened expression as much as possible.
“Get up, everyone. I don’t know why the fairies disappeared. I’m not here to question your faults right now. Please help me find the missing fairies quickly.”
The beast-people carefully raised themselves while looking at me.
“Does anyone know anything about the missing fairies? Is there anything strange recently, or has anyone seen fairies for the last time?”
“Uh
”
“Hmm
”
Alfred and Urki, as well as the beast-people, began to recall their memories.
The first person to open his mouth was Elder Poco, who can be said to know the strawberry field the best.
“The last time I felt the signs of fairies was about two days ago. I remember seeing a fairy who suddenly appeared, pulled my beard, and ran away.”
“Elder Poco, do you mean it was yesterday that the fairies disappeared?”
“I’m not sure. Unlike the lord, we cannot confirm their existence unless the fairy appears in person.”
“Hmm
?”
Listening to the villagers who have been in and out of the strawberry field in the past few days, it certainly seemed that none of the villagers saw the fairies yesterday.
At the testimony of Elder Poco, I stroked my chin and thought.
Originally, fairies hide in their own world, so it was not easy to find their existence. There was even a superstition that just looking at a fairy will bring you good luck in the Demon world.
But it was not quite common to see fairies here. However, the fairies often appeared before the Elden villagers and the Demons here.
Not only that, but it was quite common for them to play pranks or talk to them.
In fact, when I taught Elder Poco how to work in the strawberry field, fairies suddenly appeared and told him in advance what they would do if he messed with the strawberry.
If the people working in the strawberry field didn’t see the fairy all day, something must have really happened.
“Uh
”
Someone quietly raised his hand. He was one of the beast-people who worked in the strawberry field for quite some time. I asked, making eye contact with him.
“Do you remember anything?”
“I have a good ear, so I often listen to fairies’ whispers. I think they talked a lot about ‘Queen’ since about a week ago.”
“Queen?”
“Yes, I haven’t heard the exact details. I think it was a pretty serious conversation, not like the usual playful fairies.”
The queen of fairies
Come to think of it, Gyuri once mentioned the “fairy queen” when we made the greenhouse.
Originally, when it was cold winter, they would go to the queen and stay until spring, but she was happy that she could stay here thanks to the greenhouse being built.
Does the queen have anything to do with this?
When I was thinking about Gyuri’s story, I never heard her speaking ill of the existence called queen

The clues were too limited to come to a quick conclusion.
I talked a little more with beast-people to get more clues, but there was no more story that could be of any help.
With a feeling of grabbing at least a straw, I decided to find the fairies myself.
Everyone started searching around the strawberry field, leaving only a minimum number of people to take care of the strawberry field.
However, even though the Elden villagers, I, Alfred, and Urki diligently searched around the strawberry field, we couldn’t find any traces of the fairies until dark.
On the way back to the farm from the strawberry field.
“Haaa
”
A heavy sigh came out of my mouth as if the ground was about to blow.
“Senior, don’t worry too much. I don’t know what’s going on, but the fairies must be hiding somewhere.”
“Senior Elaine is right. Don’t worry too much, Senior Sihyeon.”
Alfred and Urki consoled me from both sides. I tried to force a smile on my face because I didn’t want to ruin the hearts of the two who cared about me.
“Right? They’re fairies who hide well anywhere
”
Even though I said that myself, I still felt uneasy.
Even the beast people seemed worried enough to say that they would continue to look for the fairies in the dark.
They knew that they needed the help of fairies to maintain the strawberry field. The disappearance of the fairies must have been a great shock to them as the strawberry field was no different from their blood for Elden Villagers.
I returned to the farm with a gloomy atmosphere and opened the door.
As soon as I opened the door, I heard a sudden sound of footsteps from the living room.
TAT TAT TAT!
HUG!
“Papa!”
Speranza flew into my arms.
“Oh my! Speranza!”
“Papa, why are you late? You said you’d play with me today!”
“Ah
I did. I’m sorry, Speranza. Papa forgot.”
I scratched my back hair with an awkward look. Then Speranza drooped her ears as if she was very disappointed. In a hurry, I quickly made excuses.
“It was because I had something really important to do.”
“What happened?”
“Well
 I mean




.”
“
.?”
Ugh. I couldn’t say the fairies were gone.
I wanted to hide the fact that Gyuri and the fairies disappeared from Speranza as much as possible.
I didn’t want to make Speranza worry.
As I tried to make a false excuse by making eye contact with Alfred

“Miss Speranza! Senior Sihyeon was really busy. He has been wandering around the strawberry field until now looking for the missing fairies.”
The tactless Urki told Speranza everything as it was.
“Uh
!”
“Urki!”
Alfred and I looked at Urki in disbelief. He shrugged his shoulders as if to say, [What’s the problem?]
“Did the fairies disappear?”
“Uh-huh
 Speranza, that’s what I mean
”
I had no choice but to tell her that the fairies in the strawberry field had disappeared.
Still, I added hopeful words to Speranza that they would return soon with a bright voice so that she wouldn’t worry too much.
However, Speranza showed a completely different reaction from what I expected. She wasn’t worried about the missing fairies, and I tilted my head with a somewhat vague expression.
“Speranza, what’s wrong?”
“Hmm
 I know where Gyuri is.”
“Do you know where Gyuri is?”
“Yes.”
I asked Speranza again with a puzzled expression.
“You mean
 you know where Gyuri is?”
“She is where the scary grandpa is.”
Scary grandpa?
It was a completely incomprehensible explanation.
“Speranza, I don’t understand what you’re saying, so could you explain it in more detail?”
Speranza, who heard my request, fell into thought for a moment. The fox girl, who was thinking cutely, came up with something and said it with a bright expression.
“Oh! People called that place ‘Papa’s place.'”
“Papa’s place?”
“Yes! Papa’s place!”
What is she talking about
 Is it about Earth?
At that time I was confused by Speranza’s inexplicable explanation. Alfred exclaimed with an expression as if he found out.
“Senior! Isn’t Speranza talking about ‘Vision World’?”
“Ah!”
Then, the scary grandpa must be Master Bellion.
Speranza tried to express the Vision world in her way.
“Sweetheart, did you mean the ‘Vision world’?”
“Un, I think Sister Lilia said something like that. Hehe!”
Gyuri is in the Vision World?
It was a complete surprise.
“But how did you know Gyuri was there?”
“Ugh. It just felt like that.”
Speranza answered like that with clear and shiny eyes.
It was a little absurd answer, but there was no suspicion that she was lying. Speranza must be really feeling Gyuri’s presence.
“Senior, what are you going to do?”
“Hmm
?”
After Speranza suddenly collapsed in the Sihyeon world, she had never visited there. It was because I was worried that there would be a bad influence on Speranza.
I don’t know why Gyuri left the strawberry field and why she’s staying in Vision world.
There seemed to be no other way to know the truth but to visit Vision world myself.
“Let’s go to Lilia.”
Lilia, who had created a dimensional door device was the only one who could lead us to the visual world.
I headed straight to where she was.