The Baby Fairy Is A Villain [EN]: Chapter 165

The potion in the glass bottle sloshed gently.

Hata opened the cork sealing the bottle and cautiously sniffed.

After smelling the potion for a while, he dropped a single drop to taste it.

“Ptooey, ptooey.”

It seemed he didn’t like the taste.

Hata, with a deeply furrowed brow, perked up his ears.

His tail swayed slowly from side to side as if lost in thought.

Since Chesha was weak, Hata was only in his half-beast form.

Because of that, I had been watching his ears and tail moving busily for a while now.

Hata, who had been carefully examining the potion, came to a conclusion.

“It’s definitely a beast potion. Of course, the potions Hata makes are much better!”

Chesha nodded slowly.

They were investigating the beast potion that the three brothers drank to transform into adult bodies.

Hata wore a very puzzled expression.

“But who made it? As far as Hata knows, there aren’t any beast people who make potions…”

“That’s what I’m saying.”

Chesha crossed his arms and recalled the answer the three brothers had given.

“I don’t really know.”

As expected, the twins had no idea.

Since it was Kiernan’s work, they weren’t very interested and didn’t wonder about it.

Even Belzeon, whom he had trusted, didn’t know anything in particular.

There used to be some beast people who made potions.

Among the half-human, half-beasts, those with weaker animal instincts and good dexterity would make potions.

However, over the years, the beast people who made potions gradually disappeared.

Since the effects of beast potions could all be replaced with magic anyway, they were naturally forgotten.

Chesha only barely remembered that such things existed when Hata first said he knew how to make potions.

He felt like he understood a little bit why the beast people who made potions had disappeared.

‘Kiernan must be the culprit.’

As the master of the underworld, he probably wanted to monopolize beast potions for himself.

He was the kind of person who would do that.

But if so, why did he leave Hata alone?

Although he tried to hide his abilities, Karha, the executioner, had once discovered Hata’s laboratory.

He would have either killed him or brainwashed him, one of the two.

It was strange that he had left Hata alone.

‘Come to think of it, he was strangely kind back then too.’

Even when he and Kiernan had met alone as the Enchantress Richessia and the master of the underworld, Kiernan had subtly favored him.

Could it be because he resembled the deceased Countess?

‘Just how much did I look like her?’

There were no traces of the Countess in the Serpent’s Castle or the townhouse in the capital.

It was because Kiernan had eliminated them all.

He had made it as if she had never existed…

While he was lost in thought, Hata lined up potion bottles in front of Chesha.

It was a newly made “Potion to Return to Adulthood” for Chesha.

[♥Potion for the Little Fairy♥]

Chesha chuckled at the name tag on the potion bottle.

Even though he guessed it would be useless, he diligently drank it, thinking of the effort that went into making it.

As expected, the potion had no effect.

Chesha remained in his child form.

“…….”

Hata’s ears and tail drooped downward.

The puppy, who had been so confident just a moment ago, claiming to be the best potion-making beast person on the continent, lost his self-esteem again.

Just in case, he also drank the adult-transforming potion made by another beast person that the three brothers drank, but it had the same effect.

“Don’t worry too much. You’re still growing.”

Chesha diligently comforted Hata.

Hata quickly cheered up at Chesha’s comfort.

“But are you really going to attend the birthday banquet?”

“I have to…”

Chesha replied in a slightly unsure tone.

The three brothers’ plan was for Chesha and Kiernan to reunite at the birthday banquet.

While Chesha was gone, Kiernan had apparently been driving his sons like he was catching mice.

Belzeon had poured out venomous words towards Kiernan with a blank expression, saying that he almost died just cleaning up after him, as if he were mentally deranged.

Pushed by the revengeful three brothers, he had promised to cooperate for now, but it was questionable whether it would go according to plan.

‘I wonder what he’s doing.’

As he was thinking about Kiernan, Hata suddenly spoke.

“What about the outfit to wear to the birthday banquet! Should we get it from Miya?”

His opinion was that they could alter the clothes that had been made in advance.

“What if Kiernan finds out?”

“Hata will threaten Miya to keep it a secret.”

Hata pretended to clench his fist and shake it.

Since she only had to keep her mouth shut for about a week anyway, Hata chattered on, saying that he wanted to dress Richessia in the prettiest clothes.

Since they also had things to settle with the Skaya Kingdom, they were planning to leave the underworld tomorrow.

There was plenty of time, so it seemed like it would be a good idea to stop by Miya’s costume shop as Hata said.

“Okay, let’s go for a bit.”

Chesha set out with Hata.

Little did he know that he would run into Kiernan at Miya’s costume shop.

***

“Hmm.”

Kiernan raised an eyebrow as he read the letter delivered by the messenger bird.

The Skaya royal family was coming to attend the birthday banquet.

Information had come in that they had Chesha with them, and Karha had gone to check himself, but it was just a child who looked similar.

Having quarreled greatly with the Basilian County, they were in a difficult situation these days, so it seemed they had found a similar child as a desperate attempt to somehow resolve it.

To think that they could replace a fairy with a human child.

It was truly a foolish and arrogant thought.

Still, their efforts were commendable, so he wondered if he should allow them to attend the banquet.

[…And I will return to the capital with the twins to attend the birthday banquet.]

With the words that he would return to the capital with the twins, Belzeon’s letter concluded.

Kiernan smiled quietly after reading the letter.

“That’s suspicious, son.”

Kiernan’s keen intuition was telling him something was off.

He couldn’t put his finger on it, but something was suspicious.

It seemed he would have to ask Zahan directly about the situation, not Belzeon.

It was also time to replenish his potions, so it was also time to visit the underworld.

A black shadow soared from Kiernan’s feet.

The place Kiernan arrived at after immediately moving to the underworld was not the master’s mansion.

He briefly looked up at the sign in front of him.

He smiled faintly at the garish sign and opened the shop door.

*Clang*, at the same time as the bell rang, a cheerful voice was heard.

“Welcome-nyang!”

Miya, wearing a cat ear headband, smiled brightly at the counter before freezing.

“Gasp, Count Basilian…”

Miya quickly took off her headband and put it in the counter drawer.

“W-w-what brings you to the s-s-store…? You could have just called…”

She would have rushed to the townhouse in the capital if he had called, she said, looking around nervously, completely shriveled up.

Kiernan smiled at the frightened Miya.

The crazy costume shop owner in the underworld who imitated beast people even though she wasn’t one.

“It’s been a while, Miya.”

Miya was very flustered when he greeted her in a friendly manner.

That was because, following the connection from the last banquet, Miya had been in charge of the Basilian County’s clothing ever since.

However, she had only communicated with Ishuel and had never seen Kiernan’s face since then.

As a ‘costume shop owner,’ that is.

Kiernan lightly snapped his fingers.

The moment the finger snap was heard.

Miya’s eyes lost focus.

Miya smiled brightly and greeted him anew.

“You’ve arrived!”

Real cat ears sprouted from her head, and a long tail appeared from her butt.

Miya spread out a bag containing glass bottles on the counter.

“All the potions have been made, Master.”

It was a bag containing beast potions.