Guys chill, it is a common trope that spirits and the like look like children or babies when weakened. It works the same backwards, give a loli enough mana and boom giant oppai with seduction techniques out of nowhere to ara ara to heaven
After ch9 things don't look good my friends, only get slightly better at like ch14. Have to bear with the shota for like 6 chapters then we kind of back to Oniichan, IDK if it's worth waiting since the translations are kind of slow.
dude moments like this just remind me of when i use to say embarrassing ass shit to the girls I was with, single life kind of sucks but at least I don't do that shit no more
I like the slice of life style but he was a grown man, with a real job. Responsibilities to the neck with a presumed intellect to match but he acts like a kid with serious flags albeit unintentional fwith a little girl. All I ask is for some significant timeskip if you wanna go with that route...
Maybe that axe means nothing and the author is trolling ppl but the fact it was shown when it could have been not been shown, like most panels, makes it very intentionally misleading if that were the case.