Adelheid held the Windy Aegis in both hands as though it were the most important object in the known world, which in her eyes, it probably was.
It was one of the first ever gifts given by me, and she was there watching the process of making it and knowing full well of how precious and worth that cube is.
Her twinkling gaze swept across every visible surface of the cube with the kind of reverence usually reserved for sacred texts, and she turned it left, then right, then upside down, then back again without once losing that expression of pure, uncomplicated delight.
Watching it was enough to give me a sweetness overdose.
『 Giving it to her in cube form is rather crude, you know. 』
Hmm, that is true, I didn't think about that.
『 Her Demonic Essence is still in its early development phase. She needs physical contact to properly direct the force within it, and holding a cube that size for any extended period of time is not exactly comfortable for a child's hands. 』
