Chapter 543 Alice’s Simple Theory

Chapter 543 – Alice’s Simple Theory

It was the first time since the “reunion” that Lucrecia saw such a complex, heavy and warm expression on her “father’s” face.

Before this, her father had also smiled at her, and showed many humane actions, but for some reason, she always felt that behind those smiles and words and actions, there was a vague sense of incongruity, and she always felt that it was her father trying to disguise his “kind face” after he lost his memory due to the subspace, and this sense of incongruity made her feel vaguely uneasy all the time.

However, at this moment, she finally saw some kind of heartfelt emotion on the other’s face – an apology and a regret that was hard for others to understand.

But she didn’t know whether this apology was for herself or not.

“I still don’t know enough,” the sorceress sighed softly, “I thought I had more or less caught up with you.”

“It’s a good thing you didn’t catch up when the …… Lost Country finally crashed into subspace,” Duncan shook his head, then took one last look at the silent floating Moon and turned toward the connecting bridge away from the platform, “I don’t know enough,” the witch sighed softly, “I thought I had more or less caught up with you,” she said. the bridge away from the platform, “Go back first, Lucy.”

Lucrecia was a bit surprised, “Aren’t you going to study it a bit longer?”

“I am not a scholar, nor do I have the specialized research methods and equipment,” Duncan waved his hand, “I came here just to see it with my own eyes, but it is up to the specialized scholars to reveal its secrets.”

Saying this he paused and added, “I’ll stay in Lightwind Harbor during this period of time, I’ll keep an eye on your progress on the ‘Moon’, and also, if anything like what happened to Taran Elle happens to any of the other elves, be the first to let me know.”

“I understand,” Lucrecia immediately nodded her head in response, then she hesitated for a moment before asking, “About the matter of your arrival …… Can I tell Consul Sara Meir? Of course, I won’t just reveal it to more people ……”

“As you wish,” Duncan nodded, “you may tell whomever you wish – their reaction to it will be of little concern to me.”

Lucrecia bowed her head slightly, “Yes.”

A few moments later, aboard the Lost Country, which was resting in the sea somewhere outside the glowing geometry, a rotating and spreading flaming doorway suddenly appeared on the foredeck.

The doorway opened with a crackling burst of flames, and Duncan’s figure stepped out from it – Alice, who was holding a large mop next to her and scrubbing the deck vigorously with several other mops, ran over happily all of a sudden, “Captain’s back!”

Duncan waved his hand to disperse the flames behind himself, and looked at the gothic figure in front of him, carrying a mop in his hand and wearing a happy smile on his face, and nodded briefly, “Well, back.”

“Did it go well?” Alice casually tossed the mop aside and looked happily at the Captain, “You were gone for a long, long time, did you talk a lot with Ms. Lucrecia? Did you go over to the ‘ball’ of whatever it is? What did it look …… like!”

The mop that Alice had thrown aside suddenly jumped up and gave the giddy doll lady a hard knock on the head with the wooden pole, then bounced around the deck and ran off to shuck herself in a bucket of water.

Alice covered her head and looked at Duncan blankly and accusingly, “Why did it hit me? It almost knocked me off ……”

Duncan looked at this Miss Doll with simple and distinct emotions, looking at her smile just now and her distress at the moment, unconsciously, that annoyance and sense of loss accumulated in his heart actually quietly dissipated a little.

Alice, however, remained resigned.

“…… You’d better check and see if that’s a mop for scrubbing the deck, maybe it ‘works’ in the dining room,” Duncan laughed, reaching out and pressing Alice’s head. Then asked curiously, “Besides I’ve been meaning to ask you – why do you insist on washing the decks yourself when the mops and buckets on this ship do the sweeping themselves?”

“I help!” Alice puffed out her chest justifiably, “How tired they are of scrubbing themselves!”

Duncan’s eyes twitched at the corners of his eyes, and he silently turned his eyes to look at the mops and buckets that were washing the decks not far away, as if they were afraid that if they slowed down a step, they would be grabbed by one of the mannequins and ‘helped’, and after a moment of silence, he shook his head, “You’re happy… . as long as you’re happy.”

Alice nodded sparsely, then saw Duncan turn around, seemingly ready to go back into the captain’s cabin, and she couldn’t help but open her mouth, “Captain, are you going back to rest?”

“…… Well, I’m a little tired.”

“Captain ……,” Alice but still with some uneasy look, she walked over and tugged on Duncan’s sleeve, “Are you alright?”

“Why do you ask?” Duncan paused in confusion, craning his head to look at the not-so-smart mannequin.

“Because you’ve been sighing a lot for the past two days and spending more time in the captain’s cabin than outside – Miss Nina thinks you’ve got something on your mind, but she’s too embarrassed to ask you,” Alice answered honestly, “Also , you also looked very pale when you came back just now, as if …… you had a lot of things that had been bottled up in your heart. But now you look better than you did a moment ago.”

Duncan looked at the mannequin in front of him with some surprise.

He didn’t think that Alice, who usually looked mindless and sparse, would actually observe and notice these things, much less that she would just grab herself and say all these things –

Perhaps it was because she didn’t think much on a regular basis that she didn’t know how to hesitate and stumble?
Some off-color associations came to Duncan’s mind, but he didn’t know what to say when he looked at the still worried and puzzled looking doll in front of him.

After all, even in the face of the knowledgeable Lucrecia, there were too many things he could not explain clearly.

“You won’t understand,” after a moment of silence, Duncan shook his head, “Things are very complicated, so complicated that it’s impossible to explain them to anyone, not to mention you, even Maurice is afraid that he won’t be able to understand.”

Alice, however, simply blinked and spoke without hesitation, “Then you can tell me about it as well.”

Duncan cried and laughed, “Didn’t I just say that you wouldn’t be able to understand ……”

“But I don’t understand a lot of the things you usually say,” Alice had a face of rightfulness, “I don’t understand a lot of things, but you’ll still tell me about them – I’m very good at listening to people talk about things, and if I don’t understand them, I’ll listen. will listen ……” Duncan’s expression was suddenly a bit subtle, listening to this silly mannequin so blunt, even a bit “proud” of the magical logic, he did not find a rebuttal for a moment.

Alice, on the other hand, was still looking straight at the “captain” in front of her, she neither felt ashamed that she could not understand a lot of things, nor did she feel that what she said at the moment was wrong in any way – she thought about it, she was curious, so she said it.

If something’s on your mind, just say it – that’s how everything works in Alice’s uncomplicated worldview.

She suddenly ran away, ran a short distance away and carried a large barrel half her height over and set it on the deck near the ship’s parapet, then carried another over and set it next to the one she had just carried.

She climbed onto that barrel with nimble hands and smiled and beckoned to Duncan, “Captain, why don’t you sit down as well – Ms. Vanna said a breeze and a view of the sea would put you in a good mood.”

Duncan hesitated for a moment, then suddenly laughed.

The doll was trying, trying to use her limited knowledge and experience, to find a way to make the Captain feel better.

Duncan walked over and sat side by side with Alice on the barrel.

His mood didn’t change because of the sea breeze – but he did feel a little better.

“Alice.”

“Hmm?”

“Let me ask you a question,” Duncan mused, at first he had struggled to think of a way to make Alice understand the concepts of the Moon and the stars, but now he suddenly realized that he didn’t have to explain these complicated things to her at all. If you live in a place, and there’s one thing that’s unique to the place you live – it could never have come from anywhere else, it could never belong to anywhere else, and just by looking at it, you know that it came from there…” Duncan mused. ……”

Alice thought for a moment and spoke curiously, “Like the fact that I’m living on the Lost Country now, and you’re the only captain of the Lost Country?”

Duncan froze for a moment and hesitantly said, “Your analogy isn’t quite right …… but it’s almost understandable.”

“Oh, and then what?”

“…… And then, you left there and couldn’t go back,” Duncan’s tone suddenly became a little lower, “You went to a very far away and strange place where everything was different from home, and you spent a You’ve been living here for a while, trying to find your way back home, but then suddenly, you see that ‘thing’ – that thing that theoretically could only be in your home town, and shouldn’t be seen in a foreign land anyway… …”

Duncan’s words fell away while Alice remained dumbfounded, but after thinking for no more than a moment, she suddenly burst out laughing.

“I must be back on the Lost Country then!”

“Back to the Lost Country?”

“Well, you said, it can be interpreted like this – you are the only captain of the Lost Country, and one day I was sent far away from the Lost Country, and I couldn’t find my way back to the ship, but you suddenly appeared in front of me again – so I must be back home! I must have gone home! After all, wherever you are, there is the Lost Country.”

The mannequin smiled happily and looked at Duncan with a confident expression.

“You said that the only place that thing could possibly be is ‘back home’, and now that it’s in front of you, that means you’re at home right now!”

Alice finished her theory, then scuffled around on the large wooden barrel, hands propped up on her chin as her body leaned over forward with a wide grin on her face:
“Captain, is that a brain teaser?”

Duncan froze a little.

He stared blankly at the doll lady on the barrel across the room, and when the sea breeze blew in from the side, Alice’s silvery-white hair flew up, just like her ever-bright and fluttering mood.

Then he smiled.

“Yes, it’s a brain teaser – now that we’ve both turned it around,” he said to Alice with a smile as he hopped off the barrel, “and one other thing.”

“Hmm?”

“You’re not stable in this position.”

Alice, who was still leaning forward and propping her chin up with both hands, froze at the words, “Huh?”

In the next second, she heard a slight clicking light sound suddenly come from the position of her neck.

“Boo-yah-“

With two thuds, Alice landed on the ground in two parts, and immediately afterward, the deck was filled with her signature, stuttering –

“Captain, save, save …… save ……”

(End of chapter)