Out of a sudden, the sound of humming could be heard again. As I looked at the elf, it seemed he wasn't bothered by the sound of humming. However, I was bothered by the sound of the humming, or the elf couldn't hear the sound. I asked him, "Do you hear something?"

He stopped his spoon where it was in front of his mouth, and put it. He was glancing around and said, "What's sound?"

"Well, the sound is like *hummmmmmmmm *hummmmmmm *hummmmmm." I tried to imitate the humming sound towards him, and his face was flat. "Do you not hear it? Just hear it closely!" And the sound could be heard by me again, "Do you hear that?"

He said, "Wait a minute!" Suddenly, I could see his ears begin to change to pointy ears, the elf ears I had known. He closed his eyes, and I saw his ears begin to be tingling. He opened his eyes and smiled, "I hear it now; you must be lucky and need to appreciate it more, you have those sounds in here…"

Lucky? What does he mean? The sound is humming around, and it's bothering me. I asked, "What do you mean by I need to appreciate these sounds, and why am I lucky?"

He tilted his head and said, "Do you not know about those sounds? I am surprised you can hear the sounds but not know what the sounds are…"

"Yeah…Yeah…I don't know what the sounds are, so can you tell me about the sounds?"

"It's Sylph. You have some Sylphs in your shop…"

Sylph? Is that a fairy? "You mean fairy?"

Out of a sudden, the humming sounds became so wild and loud, almost deafening. He said, "Woah, woah, woah, you don't need to say that…It's a sylph, okay, not a fairy…"

"Well, are they different? I thought Sylph and Fairy were the same…"

"Where do you know about that? Of course, they are different, the more you liken Sylph to a fairy, the more Sylph will be angry."

Oh no, a creature who gets offended, just like in the real world. "So why is Sylph getting angry because of what I had said?"

"The simple thing is because they are different…"

"Yeah, so what is the difference between them…"

"Do you actually don't know Sylph?"

"Come on! How many do you need to ask that, I don't know about Sylph, but what I know is that Sylph is the same as Fairy, but you said they are different, so that means, what I know about Sylph may be wrong."

"Well, that's odd, why do they come here then?"

"I don't know…SO CAN YOU TELL ME?"

"Alright, Alright…Sylph is an air spirit, where they are the guardian of air or wind. Their appearance is invisible, because, like their nature, air and wind are invisible. However, despite, they are invisible, we know about them from the sounds, the quality of the air, or the breeze around them. Usually, they love being outside, because it's more open and more freely. They usually love dispersing clouds."

So the sylph I know is the same thing. "What about fairy then?"

"Fairy is different, they are mythical creatures, where they were born because of the mana of the environment. A fairy isn't a spirit, that's why Sylph is angry about saying it is the same as a fairy. Because they were born from the mana of the environment, their appearance is based on what the creatures in that environment are. It made fairies change their appearance as they wished. Sometimes, they have a human appearance, an elf appearance, or a dryad appearance."

I see, so the fairy in this world isn't like Tinkerbell or like that, but rather about the concept of mythical creatures from nature. I asked, "Does fairy have a feud between other races?"

"Why do you ask that?"

"Because, when the dryads visited here, they seemed not to like or maybe seemed to hate fairy."

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"Ah, I see…Dryad and Fairy are actually almost identical, Dryad is born from the tree, and Fairy is born from the mana of the environment. However, Dryads are organised creatures, so their population will be the same based on how many trees are in the area for their living sources. Yet, since Fairies aren't organised creatures, their population is based on the mana of the environment, and their numbers are far better than dryads. The main problem is how the fairy acts, even though both of them act as guardians of nature, they have different views on how to guard nature. Dryads tend to be more protective and conservative in their approach to guarding nature, while Fairies are known to be more whimsical and free-spirited in their methods, so Dryads hate them, Dryads believe that Fairies are too unpredictable and irresponsible."

"I see…Well, from the behaviour of Dryads, that's actually accurate. They are more protective and conservative. So Sylph hates being called fairy because they are spirits, not creatures, on the other hand, does fairy hate being called sylph?"

"Well, for that, no. Fairy is a playful creature, so they will play along when they are called another race. However, if a creature can make their heart flutter, they will surely befriend them regardless of the race, but if a creature does the opposite, they will make the creature stray or make them in deep down misery."

Oh that, something new…"Honestly, I am curious about the feud between these creatures, Dryad, Fairy, and Elf." They are known as Fey Creatures, but in this world, these fey creatures aren't the same thing as I thought. "I know, you are an elf, and maybe this topic isn't suitable for you…"

"I am okay with that because I am a wanderer elf. I am not the same as Aella, the high priestess, so I don't have any view, belief system, or fundamental ideas like them."

"In their feud, who is the one that believes their view is the righteous one, or let's say they are the right one?"

"The answer is simple, the elf. The elf is different from the three."

"Why does the elf believe they are the right one?"

"Because they are a goddess' creature. Dryad and Fairy aren't goddess creatures, they are born from nature. It made elves see their origins and believe they were superior to them. The elf's belief in their superiority stems from their divine origins as goddess creatures, contrasting with the nature-born Dryad and Fairy."

"I see…" If Dryad and Fairy are nature-born, that means Sylph is nature-born too? "What about Sylph? Is Sylph nature-born too?"

"Maybe yes. Sylph is a unique one, because it is a spirit where we couldn't see them, we as creatures don't understand more detail about them."

"Despite you didn't see them, you knew if they were Sylphs."

"Of course…Even spirits couldn't be caught by our eyes, we still could feel or hear them…" Suddenly, his ears came back to normal as human ears, not the pointy ears.

I asked him about that, "Why do you need to change your ears? And, when you wanted to hear about the humming sound or Sylph, you changed your ears into another shape, what was the reason behind that?"

He answered, "The pointy ears—maybe you have seen them from Aella and Noella; they are spirit ears. Where these types of ears could hear spirits like Sylph. The spirit ears are the unique part of the elf from their goddess."

Ah, if the demon has the eyes, so the elf has the ears. "But those ears couldn't detect mana, right?"

"Mana? What do you mean by that?"

"Well, before you told me about the Sylph or even before you came here, I could see the mana trails above, after you have told me about the Sylph, I will assume these mana trails I have seen before are from Sylph. So, could those ears detect mana?"

"Hold on, hold on, you need to tell me about how you detect the mana first, you said with your eyes, how did that happen?"

"Well, because I have…" I immediately closed my eyes, and opened them back with the eyes, "These eyes…"

His face was shocked, and I could see his fingers at the table tapping and shaking. Despite his shock, he tried to speak with calm, "How do you have those eyes?"

"I think you already knew the answer. You were shocked, and your fingers were trembling; it means you already knew it better than me."

"Despite, I already knew the answer, it's still impossible, she came here and gave it to you."

"Impossible, huh? But still, she came here…So are these eyes the same as your ears?"

"You can say it like that, those eyes are the unique eyes from the demon race, however, different with these ears, where all elves have these ears, but not all demons have those eyes. You could have these types of ears like how you get those eyes."

"You mean? I could have those ears if Aella gave them to me?"

"Correct, only the creature who is closest to their goddess could give their unique part to another creature. The demon lord has given you her eyes, so the high priestess, Aella, could give you these ears to you."

"I see."

After all of that conversation, I saw his plate and his glass were already empty. It seemed he tried to take something from his mantle. It was some sums of gold coins. He brought three gold coins to the table, and said, "I think, it's time for me to get moving…" He stood up and walked towards the door.

However, I still didn't know what the purpose of his wandering around was, so I asked him again, "Wait!"

In front of the door, his face turned back to me, and I asked him, "What is the purpose of you wandering around?"

He simply answered, "I am wandering around to count my steps, to determine how big this world is…" He passed the door and closed the door.

Count steps to determine how big this world is, is this elf trying to know the size of this world by counting steps? What a mad lad…