Wow what's with so many negative comments. I'm probably one of the few who actually liked this. Don't see why so much hate. But I'll address a few issues I saw brought
1. "Age Gap" between Rio (ML) and Ren (FL). I have no idea what's the actual years of difference but imo there's no grooming or anything involved. Biologically ML seems to be older than FL BUT FL had a bit more common sense/knowledge because fairies are both with some amount of info PLUS ML was basically shut in their since he was born so he literally knew nothing. He didn't even know how to speak. But that doesn't mean FL groomed him or anything. FL herself was very much a child, whether physically (appearance wise), biologically (age wise), mentally. I think FL's initial human appearance actually matched the age of ML but he was just malnourished and looked thinner and weaker. Anyways, nobody's grooming anyone here. They were both children when they met. Stop overthinking things.
2. FL's "childishness". She's a fairy. They age differently. The only fairies we see around her much much older than her (like centuries older). As for Mir, and the few others who were born at the same time as her, we barely saw them enough to judge whether they're the same as FL or not. Fairy age wise she's still less than 10 years at the latest so idk what else you expect. I actually think she's been very good so far. Trying to become stronger, handle the actual things related to Rio all on her own etc.
3. This is something that needs to be said. FL and ML are codependent on each other. FL was literally about to become a dark fairy but decided to be a flower in the dark for the sake of ML. He's the first human she knows (and apparently a fairy's first human is special) and not to mention in such circumstances where the two only had each other for a while. At the same time, for ML, she was the only one to talk to him, want his reply, who was being nice to him, taught him how to speak and read, shared food with him (and the list goes on). So yeah, they're codependent on each other (which I personally don't mind). That said, FL has other friends and people she knows and cares about outside of ML. While as of ch 78, ML doesn't have anyone else, FL does want to introduce him to her friends and let ML meet other humans (and see the beauty of the world) so while they're codependent, it's not completely isolated type of codependency.
Wow what's with so many negative comments. I'm probably one of the few who actually liked this. Don't see why so much hate. But I'll address a few issues I saw brought
1. "Age Gap" between Rio (ML) and Ren (FL). I have no idea what's the actual years of difference but imo there's no grooming or anything involved. Biologically ML seems to be older than FL BUT FL had a bit more common sense/knowledge because fairies are both with some amount of info PLUS ML was basically shut in their since he was born so he literally knew nothing. He didn't even know how to speak. But that doesn't mean FL groomed him or anything. FL herself was very much a child, whether physically (appearance wise), biologically (age wise), mentally. I think FL's initial human appearance actually matched the age of ML but he was just malnourished and looked thinner and weaker.
Anyways, nobody's grooming anyone here. They were both children when they met. Stop overthinking things.
2. FL's "childishness". She's a fairy. They age differently. The only fairies we see around her much much older than her (like centuries older). As for Mir, and the few others who were born at the same time as her, we barely saw them enough to judge whether they're the same as FL or not. Fairy age wise she's still less than 10 years at the latest so idk what else you expect. I actually think she's been very good so far. Trying to become stronger, handle the actual things related to Rio all on her own etc.
3. This is something that needs to be said. FL and ML are codependent on each other. FL was literally about to become a dark fairy but decided to be a flower in the dark for the sake of ML. He's the first human she knows (and apparently a fairy's first human is special) and not to mention in such circumstances where the two only had each other for a while. At the same time, for ML, she was the only one to talk to him, want his reply, who was being nice to him, taught him how to speak and read, shared food with him (and the list goes on). So yeah, they're codependent on each other (which I personally don't mind). That said, FL has other friends and people she knows and cares about outside of ML. While as of ch 78, ML doesn't have anyone else, FL does want to introduce him to her friends and let ML meet other humans (and see the beauty of the world) so while they're codependent, it's not completely isolated type of codependency.
Anyways, tdlr: I like it.