The youkai spoke "Do you not wish to change?" "To not wither the plants you love."

"To be able to control your great power." "To be able to play with friends."

Do you not wish to become that?

The fairy nodded her head. The youkai smiled. And when she had realized...

...the fairy was in a large mansion. The youkai spoke, "If I were to make a comparison, this would be your chrysalis, or cocoon."

The fairy nodded.

"This place is for you to be reborn into ◯◯◯◯." "You can't go outside. Until your body is complete, the outside air is poison."

And from then on, the fairy spent good time with the youkai.

The youkai were all kind to her.

The youkai made her warm food, told stories until she slept at night, told her how to use her power, and became someone to play with.

The happy life she had been brought into was incomparable to the life she lived up to now.

In that life, the fairy said thus. "I don't want to go back outside, I want to be here with you forever. You're the friends I finally have."

And the youkai responded. "◯◯-sama, those words make me very happy."

"But we can never be your friends."