As the other guests of the party had not yet arrived, the current guests conversed and caught up with their family, Aereon and Paela, asking each other general things about how their current life was going and sharing interesting things that had happened.

Though for the two parents, the most interesting that had happened to them, in their opinion, was raising Astraea. It was more than interesting, it was life-changing. They had talked all about the experience they had gained and memories they had made in the past year as parents, including the ups and downs, though there were only a minuscule number of downs due to Astraea herself.

Asides from her amazing intelligence, she was also very well behaved and they had admitted that she had never cried before. Every time that she was hungry or had soiled her diapers, she would always make loud noises similar to if someone was calling out to them on a street instead of becoming similar to an emergency alarm that was blaring into their ears.

She also smiled and giggled every time they spent time together, which always made them feel warm and fuzzy inside. It always helped heal Aereon's heart and mind from the stress that accumulates from working for multiple days straight.

Astraea playfully hummed as she pretended to not be paying attention to their conversations and internally praised her parents at doing a good job of telling them about her cuteness, as well as her good behavior.

A notification sounded on Aereon's holowatch, telling him that the other guests had arrived. He granted them permission to enter without delay and the new guests appeared on the platform not long after.

Four new guests had arrived, with two of them being much smaller in size but still bigger than Astraea.

One of the guests was a handsome man that looked to be a similar age to Aereon with messy black hair and dark red eyes, his stature was bigger than that of the compact and strong body of Aereon, having more clearly defined muscles lines in the casual clothing he was wearing. He had a rugged face that would be popular amongst mature woman in the west compared to Aereon's face that would be popular amongst teenage girls in the east.

Standing behind him and peaking around was a boy that looked around four years old with blood-red hair and ruby-colored eyes, a nervous expression visible on his slightly chubby face.

Just beside the two males guests were another two female guests. The first female guest was a young woman that looked in her early twenties with short blue hair and black eyes, she had a more voluptuous figure than Paela did, though Paela did look like she was still in her late teens and was much shorter than the young woman.

She wore a simple yet fashionable pair of blouse and skirt, behind her was a little girl that looked around two years old with cyan hair and the same black eyes as the young women. 

The two adults had gone up to Astraea's parents and started conversing with great familiarity, obvious that the four were close friends. 

"Is that your one-year-old demon spawn over there sitting on Kaelie? Ain't she a cute thing!" The male guest pointed over to Astraea, having noticed her in the middle of their conversation. 

"That's her alright, and she far from a demon spawn compared to your own kid." Aereon proudly stated. 

"Hey, Kyris buddy, why don't you go introduce yourself to a new friend huh?" 

"But they're a baby! They won't understand me!" The boy named Kyris whined in reply, as he looked over at Astraea with an expression of distaste. 

Kyris' dad knocked a fist on his head lightly, eliciting a cry of surprise and slight pain. 

"Baby or not, first impressions are always important! Now go over to them and introduce yourself!" His dad commanded, making him grumble as he reluctantly walked forward. 

"Do you always have to treat him like that Dennix? You might affect his growth if you keep knocking on his head like that, he's still a four-year-old after all..." The young woman asked as she looked at Kyris' back with a pitying expression.

"Aneya's right, he might lose whatever little brain cells he has left that he had inherited from you," Paela added on with a concerned voice despite the small jab she had inserted into her sentence. 

Dennix rolled his eyes at the jab and looked at his sons back as he let out a sigh. 

"He inherited my thick-headedness in more ways than one, so he'll be fine. Despite not being too bright like I was, he's got good instincts and talent, he's made more progress than a kid his age should have in our recent magic practice." 

"He's instincts transferred over to his magic talent like I did when I was younger so he doesn't even have to try too much to improve, made him cockier and a little more spoiled."

"I've been getting more complaints from his preschool teachers that he's starting to misbehave so I decided to beat the disobedience and cockiness out of him before it gets worst and he becomes like me when I was younger." Dennix finished as he let out a tired sigh. 

"You were a jerk back then, good thing that was only externally huh? I'm sure he'll grow up to be a good guy so why don't you lessen the discipline or he might build up some resentment for you." Aereon placed his hand on Dennix's shoulder as he gave out the suggestion.

As Kyris approached Astraea, he was a little angry and annoyed at why he had to waste his breath on a baby, thinking that she would only answer in indistinguishable babbles and drooling as she did so. 

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Deciding to get it over as soon as possible, he stopped a small distance away from the couch Kaelie and Astraea were sat on and starting to introduce himself, not noticing the anticipating expression of everyone seated as they all looked at Astraea. 

"Hi...my name is Kyris and I'm four years old... What's your name?..." He asked unenthusiastically, expecting big sis Kaelie to tell him the baby's name when they failed to answer. 

"My name is Astraea! Astraea Lanixer." Astraea stated loudly, shocking Kyris who had not expected a distinguishable answer.  Astraea had already been a little annoyed at Kyris calling her 'just a baby' when he had replied to his father, becoming more and more annoyed as he dragged his feet when walking to her and the uninterested tone he had used when introducing himself. 

She decided to increase her vocabulary a little such as including 'is' in her introduction, as well as adding on her last name which made her introduction more mature sounding. 

It worked wonders as she saw the expression on his face as well as the impressed expression from the seated guests that did not expect her to know her family name, and how to differentiate it from her given name.

"Astraea... can talk?! How is your year-old-daughter already talking so clearly! What kind of things did you teach her!" Dennix questioned Astraea's parents loudly, his volume was mostly due to his jealousy towards them for having such a smart child. 

Kyris himself had only started talking that clearly while understanding what he was saying when he was three years old, and it might have been much later if he and his wife had not decided to teach him vocabulary everyday. 

"It's purely her intelligence, while we taught her more than regular parents would, I'm sure she would have been able to talk that clearly only a few months later just from us talking to her or listening to our conversations," Paela explained, proud to once again pronounce her child's immense intelligence.

"I think it's more than just intelligence too, little Tirana here can speak just as well as Astraea, but she's much shyer and usually only talks to me and my husband," Aneya added on, a little envious at how confident little Astraea was in comparison to Tirana. The little girl in question was currently hugging her mother's leg quite tightly as she looked down on the floor.

"That's our cute daughter for you, she's never seemed to be afraid of the things around her and is usually very curious about them, She's never cried before or anything either, not even when she was hungry or in need of a changing," Aereon added on. 

With two loud claps, the chatter in the room subsided as Paela turned to address everyone in the room. 

"Alright, everyone! Since all the guests are present, Let's start off this party with a feast we cooked, and afterwards, we'll be doing some activities we planned." 

With that, the group of guests along with the three residents went up to the large circular table with the food Paela had cooked for the past few hours. 

There were foods such as pasta, fried rice, curry and whole loads of other foods that Paela had cooked, and despite the quantity of the food, all of them were of high quality and had good presentation.

There were a total of eleven people and all of them were seated at the table according to their ages, with the elders, adults, and children sat together. 

Astrea was seated on a high chair that didn't restrict her movement and allowed her to be at the same height as the two children sat beside her, who were both using slightly boosted chairs.

Everyone at the table started picking dishes from the spread, with the adults helping the children get theirs.

Kyris excitedly shouted that he wanted the spaghetti, making Dennix scold him for raising his voice and told him to wait.

Tirana didn't make a sound but looked at the spaghetti in desire, making Aneya roll her eyes at her child, before helping to give her a small portion.

Everyone looked towards Astraea, anticipating how she would ask for the food and if she would pick spaghetti, they all had built a sort of expectation that Astraea's actions would differ greatly from a normal child due to her intelligence.

It was a little unnerving for little Astraea as she felt as if she had to reveal more of her intelligence just to meet the expectations of everyone, and it would have been very obvious if not for her enhanced behavioral cuteness.

Despite using the least amount of points out of her three cuteness powers, it had been the most helpful out of all of them for the past year.

Trying not to mind their stares too much, she kept maintaining her cute smile and started to speak.

"Curry with rice pwease!" Astraea asked politely, purposely mispronouncing 'please' to increase her cuteness factor.

Everyone at the table gave a sound of approval and praise, no matter how many times they see it, they couldn't help but be impressed at Astraea's level of intelligence.

Kyris looked on at the approving faces that were looking towards Astraea and made a bitter and jealous face. 

He thought to himself that they were only praising the baby as she was a bit smarter than normal, but even he could do the same if he really wanted to! He could even pronounce 'please' without saying it wrong either!

While Kyris poked at his food with a scrunched up face, Tirana happily ate hers without a care in the world about her surroundings, with the first smile she has had since she had arrived.

The only thing she was thinking to herself was 'yummy!'