Alright, mission recap! I am Natsume Suzuki, better known as Annabel, and I am in this new world! After a couple of previously well-timed events, I've joined an adventurer team and shall help them with their weird task. What's the odd task, you ask? Well, we have to track and hunt a bunch of fairies that apparently lure adventurers and merchants to their deaths!

  Yeah! I know, right? Fairies being the evil guys in a fantasy novel!? What's next? Are unicorns also going to go around killing people!? I mean, with this author, you never know, but I best not get off script too much, or she might notice I am self-conscious! Now, where was I? Oh yeah, the fairies!

  According to the information in the mission letter, the fairies we got to hunt down are currently somewhere around the east road, a couple of miles away from town. As to my role in the group for this new mission, I kind of shot myself in the foot by offering to be the bait!

  My companions say that because two of them are higher-ranking adventurers with a higher magical presence, the fairies won't target them and will actually actively avoid them, so I have to pose as a low-level adventurer or merchant. We haven't decided that yet.

  "What are you babbling about over there? Come on, don't fall behind!" Seras says as she tugs on my clothes, pulling me out of my narrative field of deep thinking. How inconsiderate! Don't you see I got to recap a little here? Ugh! "Sorry, I was thinking about how I will have to pose as a beginner; maybe I'll get that green dress of yours?"

  Seras doesn't seem too thrilled at my comment and simply dismisses my genius idea with hers. "Well, I think you should just paint your clothes green instead! What do you plan me to wear if I give you my dress, you dummy!" I mean, fair point, Seras, but was there really a need to insult me!?

  "I don't have green dye, so I guess I'll just pose as a low-level merchant or something. Do any of you have anything I could use to pose as a merchant?" I know, ask the two guys at the front of the line, who seemed keen to ignore my little squabble with the vampire killer Seras Victoria; ehe, get the reference? Because she hates me, and her name is Seras. Alright, I'll stop! I thought it was a good joke!

  "I got a couple of artifacts I don't use anymore. I guess you could wear them to look like an artifacts merchant," the bigger, older guy responds as he turns around to hand me a couple of weird things. Among them were a pair of small earrings, regular rings, and little hair trinkets.

  "I got a couple of garments you can take as well. I honestly should get rid of some of this trash anyway." Nero is the one who now gives me a couple of more pins and a small belt to go along with my cheap dress, which honestly makes it look much better right away. Who knew a simple little belt would make such a difference?

  Wondering if the trinkets could overcome my antimagic field, I soon take my adventurer card out with all my stats to check it. Still, just as expected, I see no difference with or without the trinkets, even though they would supposedly buff me in small ways.

  Man, this is so unfair! There are so many options to acquire strength and power in this world, and I am locked out of all of them by default! Damn, that goddess!

  "In any case, Anabel, you should be getting ready; we'll arrive at the nearby location any time soon; as you already know, we will be behind you, watching you from afar! Lure those little assholes near you, and don't let them notice us approaching! Got it!?" Alex says as he hands me over a little ball with something inside of it.

  "What's this?" I naturally ask him. "It's a little netball; it's how we are going to catch these crafty sons of bitch! Just throw it in the air near them, and a net will pop out to grab a couple! It's pretty big, so it's hard to miss." Oh man, I wonder if the thing Alex gave me will even work near me since I have a 24/7 antimagic shield around me.

  "Alright, here goes nothing; we'll be right behind you, Annabel; the fairies will be somewhere uphill in about a mile. Keep an eye out, but don't be too obvious! Got it!?" Seras is the one cheering me on this time, and since she is always the bait, I take her advice closer to heart since she's done this before.

  So I just have to look natural and not give away the fact that I am hunting fairies, uh? Alright! It's time to test my incredible acting skills! Not to brag, but back in my world, I used to be a pretty good actor in my school's theater! I was the best back in my day! [If getting everyone to laugh at how bad you're at acting is considered good, then go for it, little guy]

  Here goes nothing! I say to myself as I start walking alone along the path ahead of me. I periodically glance back, noticing how stealthy everyone is trying to be at the side of the road, eventually forcing me to act more naturally as I keep walking along the route.

  So, in order to look like I mean business I soon start whistling because that's what everyone does in movies when they're trying to be natural, right!? Oh man, I'm more nervous than that time. I had to reveal my feelings to that one girl I used to like! UH! Calm down, Natsume! You got this!

  Just as expected, soon enough, I started seeing things ahead of me doing the same sneaky thing my teammates were doing, hiding behind the trees. There they were, a bunch of little humanoid, winged fairies. The fairies looked pretty standard to me, just like Tinkerbell would look, but something was definitely off with them as I looked closer.

  Only a few steps ahead, I would soon get the answer to my burning curiosity when I finally saw one at a reasonable distance. These fairies were disgusting and ghoulish, more than good-looking! UGH! SON OF A BITCH! I AM GOING TO PUKE! Oh, hell no! Why!? Why did she have to ruin fairies for me!? They're all covered in blood and smell terrible!

  "Hey there, little fella!? Are you lost?" One of the fairies soon approaches me, trying to seem friendly, and I try my best to act normal and unbothered, as I could probably see how they were not meant to be seen based on the stories I heard on my way here. Apparently, the fairies looked like Tinkerbell would to everyone else but not me because I am immune to any sort of magic, including disguise magic.

  "So cute! Your wings are pretty!" I respond to the little friendly fairy, which almost right away smirks when I act like a naive, stupid child. "OH? Thank you! I am proud of my wings as well. Do you want to touch them?" The fairy says. I start noticing how all of her little friends smirk with stinking smiles of pure evil, and the friendly fairy starts luring me into their trap.

  "Can I? I've never seen little humans with wings before. Are you some kind of god?" I continue acting naive and innocent for the time being, trying my damn best not to look at the ghoulish fairies smirking at me with those smiles from hell. "Of course you can! But first, you have to meet all of my friends over there." The friendly fairy says as she points to what looks like a clear magical death trap in the distance, making me recoil slightly.

  "What's wrong? Don't you like free hot chocolate? We can have a little tea party!" The fairy insists on taking me to a little table that looks like a clear death trap to me with my anti-magical sight, but that probably looked like high fantasy to anyone around, so I start stalling.

  "Oh, I don't know! Dad says I shouldn't go following strangers around." I throw that excuse to the friendly fairy, who quickly responds, "Oh, but we are not strangers! My name is Stella, and they are my friends! We are all friendly and eager to have a tea party with you!" As Seras predicted, the fairies soon showed themselves, pretending to be nice to me.

  "Now come! Come!" Stella keeps insisting this time, going so far as to tug on my clothes along with all her little fairy friends, and I move along with them until more and more little suckers show up, all pretending to be nice. The commission said the fairy group shouldn't be larger than maybe five, but by the looks of things, there must've been like 30 ugly suckers around me.

  "So pretty!" "What a pearly white skin!" "So white!" "Nice looking hair!" All the little fairies around me started giving me random compliments as they pulled me around; those little suckers were actually kind of strong, considering how small they were; they must've been so eager to dig their ugly teeth into my tender flesh!

  "Hey! What's this!?" One of the little fairies suddenly steals my damn adventurer card without me even noticing, finally forcing me to reveal everything as the jig was up. "ADAMANTITE!?" The fairy that stole my card screams as I throw my netball at a large chunk of them, followed by my entire team throwing a bunch of their netballs.

  {Fairies distorted painful screaming}

  "Man! There was way more than the commission said!" Alex finally comes out of the bushes along with the crew as the netballs trap all of the fairies in mid-air. The mechanism for it was actually kind of tight. They first expand out, extending to a 3-meter radius before closing into themselves again, catching anything with strong textile materials in the area.

  "Enough talk. Let's kill them before they escape!" Seras ruthlessly jumps on the little fellas inside the nets, squashing net balls left and right, killing many fairies with her feet. "Geez, someone is desperate for points! Leave some for us smucko!" Nero and Seras soon jump on the killing spree, leaving Alex perplexed.

  "You guys know we are sharing experience so long as we are in a team, right? The system will grant us the same amount regardless of how many you kill, you psychopaths!"