The man is stone cold. There is knowing a golem core might assume a cute form to catch you off guard and then there is actually trying to kill the cute little elf/ fairy girl.
"The ultra-tiny, super small... ultra-cute, super hungry piko girl appears?!"
My brain keeps wanting to parse that as song lyrics. Specifically to ZZ Top's Sleeping Bag, or If I Were a Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof.