...ok, now don't boil me alive because of what I'm going to say but why do I feel as if this spirit guy is no good at all? Yeah, he took care of her while she was alone but why did he even do that? He hates humans and, even if Etty is from that weird and twisted race, she's human all the same... And the only one that could put that idea of her mother abandoning Etty in her head is him... And even after seeing all the efforts the king has been putting in renovating the place she was living before, he dares to ask if the king kicked her out? Or the way he treats her?
And her "uncle"... Thinking that Etty hating the king would be amusing... What kind of BS is that piece of 💩 even thinking? Does he think that losing someone's trust and love is an amusing thing? If the author needed someone to fill the role of informant, then the child in training for the archives would have been enough: maybe he discovering a forgotten document or Etty's mother's secret diary or something would have been enough and that could even help to give him more limelight since it seems that the author forgot about him... Or even that demon guy could be of help somehow (if he didn't have amnesia)