Chapter 546 – Alice’s New Friend
Chapter 546 Alice’s New Friend
On the front deck of the Radiant Star, Shirley grasped the guardrail at the edge of the ship’s side, looking with excitement at the coastline that was gradually clearing up on the sea level in the distance, and exclaimed happily, ”Ohhhhhh! I can see the harbor! I can already see the harbor!”
“You don’t want to fall overboard with excitement,” Dog’s voice came from the side, “And don’t just giggle, don’t forget what you promised the captain before you left home, even if you go out to play ……”
Shirley did not wait to hear the end of the start waving their hands, “Oops I know I know, hey Dog hello nagging ah, how with a mom like ……”
Lying on the deck next to the profound hound suddenly dissatisfied up, began a new round of nagging, while standing not far away from the Lucrecia is with some complex and subtle eyes looking at the movements on the deck, eyes flashing between also do not know what are thinking.
Nina stood beside Lucrecia, she looked at this elegant and mysterious temperament, beautiful appearance but with a disturbing sense of indifference and detachment of the “sea witch”, whispered: “You do not think that Shirley is too noisy, right? She’s always like this ……”
“No,” Lucrecia said faintly with a slight sideways glance, “This ship has always been noisy, and my dolls will make more noise than that.”
“Oh ……” Nina said with an oh, then a bit of a coy smile, “That …… Thank you for letting us ride on this ship. ”
“Father asked me to send you to Light Wind Harbor, so I naturally did so,” Lucrecia said, she glanced at Nina, seemingly a little uncomfortable dealing with strangers, but this discomfort and embarrassment would always turn into a kind of indifference and condescension in the eyes of the onlookers, so she made an effort to adjust her expression a little bit, wanting to make herself look a little bit more gentle A little, “I remember you’re name is Nina, right?”
“Uh-huh.” Nina immediately nodded, a bright smile appearing on her face.
“…… You called my father ‘Uncle Duncan’,” Lucrecia seemed to have a hint of curiosity in her demeanor, “aren’t you …… not afraid?”
“Not afraid, Uncle Duncan is very nice,” Nina said with a smile, then she paused for a moment, her bright smile narrowed to a gentle smile, she looked into the eyes of the “witch” lady in front of her, “I know what happened, you don’t have to worry about it. I know what happened, you don’t have to worry about it …… but I think it’s fine the way it is now.”
“…… That’s good.” Lucrecia silently looked at Nina for a moment and gently nodded.
But immediately after, she heard this girl called Nina beside her ask another question curiously, “Miss Lucrecia, is the relationship between you …… and Uncle Duncan not too good?”
“Why do you ask?”
“I’ve heard some people say that, they said that the Radiant Star broke with the Lost Country a century ago, and when Uncle Duncan brought us here just now, I saw that you always avoided his eyes intentionally or unintentionally,” Nina said, her voice trailing off, “I’m sorry, did I say it wrong? That doesn’t seem very polite ……”
“It’s true that we had taken different paths,” Lucrecia, however, didn’t care and just shook her head, “but that’s in the past, and as for now, the relationship between my father and I probably can’t be described as either good or bad, and I don’t think… . we just haven’t seen each other in too long.”
Nina blinked as she listened, seeming to sense the subtle regret and sentimentality in Ms. Witch’s tone, and hesitated, “You’re not what I thought you were at first …… I was kinda nervous before I actually met you! .”
“The world speculates about things they don’t understand and never takes responsibility for their guesses,” Lucrecia smiled, “Besides, there’s no need to add honorifics when addressing me, Nina, you can just call me by my first name.”
Nina froze, “But you ……”
“My father is your ‘Uncle Duncan’,” Lucrecia looked at Nina, her smile finally taking on some real warmth, “I’d feel awkward if you were always addressed with honorifics under that premise. ”
Nina thought about it and nodded, “Oh, it seems so ……”
The corners of Lucrecia’s mouth quirked up as she looked at the girl in front of her, essentially a sun shard but nothing more than a normal girl in word and deed, and then turned her head to look at the Demon Summoner not too far away, lying on the edge of the ship’s side in anticipation of a trip into town.
Meanwhile, the Morris scholar was in the cabin, catching up with Taran El, whom he hadn’t seen for decades, and they seemed to be discussing a trip to the city-state university in Lightwind Harbor, while the “Exile Judge” named Vanna was in the middle of the deck, curiously touring the unique “Spiritual Structure” of the ship, led by the rabbit rabbi. “Spiritual Structure”.
As for the living doll named “Alice”, she must still be with her father, who introduced her to Luni as soon as she came aboard, and then took her away with him.
They were his new “followers” – people who looked like they were on vacation when countless smart people in the world were trying to guess the purpose of the reorganization of the Lost Country Fleet.
In one sense, these people are indeed powerful, each with great skill and definitely deserving of a place in the Lost Country Fleet, but look at it another way ……
They were yet completely different from what Lucrecia had imagined at first.
This is not a group of horrible and depressing “subspace dependents”, on the contrary, they are very interesting, and it is very easy to get along with them, and it seems that the father did not gather these people together …… because of any deep and long-term planning, but just a coincidence to gather these traveling companions. The father gathered these people together not because of any profound long-term planning, but just by coincidence, these traveling companions are just.
“After docking, I’ll arrange a place for you to stay,” Lucrecia collected her thoughts, “I have a few strongholds in Lightwind Harbor, and they’re fairly clean. Do you guys have any goals once you’re in town? I can give you guys some recommendations.”
“Recommendations?” Nina’s eyes lit up when she heard that, “Then do you …… know where there is a lot of good food in Light Wind Harbor? I’ve heard that this city-state has the largest variety of food in the entire Boundless Sea, that’s what I’m here for!”
Lucrecia’s expression was subtle for a moment, “…… The ‘delicacies’ of Light Wind Harbor?” Nina nodded vigorously, “Yes!”
“…… Didn’t my father explain to you in detail about the food culture of the elves?”
“No,” Nina said with a blank face, seemingly vaguely aware of the subtlety in the other party’s tone, “Uh, did I get something wrong?”
“…… can’t be wrong, it’s something you need to experience for yourself to understand,” Lucrecia said thoughtfully, with a serious look on her face, “I’ll take you to the Crown Neighborhood afterward.”
Nina had an expectant look on her face, “Lots of good food over there?”
“…… It’s close to the hospital over there.”
Nina: “……?”
At the same time, inside the crew rest area of the Radiant Star, Duncan found a place to sit down and rested while watching a scene not far away with interest.
There were two mannequins standing there, both looking a bit dazed.
Alice looked curiously at the strange “person” opposite her, who looked more “dolled up” than she was, and after a moment’s thought, she suddenly turned her head, “Captain! How do you make friends with strangers?”
“Introductions first,” Duncan fished out a couple of fries from somewhere and casually tossed them to Aey, who was lounging on a small table nearby, “Starting with names.”
“Oh,” Alice nodded and turned her head to look at Lunie, who was standing across from her, “Hi, I’m Alice, also known as Anomaly 099.”
“Hello, I’m Lunie,” the clockwork doll standing across from Alice followed suit, bending down and introducing herself extra politely, “I’m Mistress Lucrecia’s servant, are you the old master’s servant?”
“I’m not, I’m the captain’s mannequin! I’m in charge of cooking and cleaning on the ship!”
Luni cocked her head, a slight sound of gears rubbing together emanating from a certain part of her body.
Alice, on the other hand, continued to curiously survey her new friend in front of her, “You don’t have strings on your head hey!”
“Wires? What’s that?”
“It’s that thing that everyone has on their body, it floats out of their body, the captain said that only I can see it,” Alice gestured, “He said that it might be the ‘thread of the soul’, and I couldn’t understand what it meant, anyway When I grabbed it, the man didn’t move ……”
“Your words are hard to understand,” Lunie said in a somewhat stilted tone, “I’m a doll, I don’t have a soul …… but I do have clockwork.”
While saying that, this clockwork mannequin turned around and showed Alice the clockwork handle that looked like a big bow on her back waist area.
“Hey, clockwork hey, I have it too!” Alice was instantly happy and also turned around to show her new friend, “See this spot? There’s a clockwork hole under the dress too, but I can’t reach it myself, so the key to the clockwork is in the Captain’s hand ……”
“Interesting, we have similarities,” came the sound of a series of gears running merrily inside Luni as she seemed to cheer up, “This is the first time I’ve seen a being similar to myself, both the Mistress and the Old Master said you could be friends with me, and it seems they were right. ”
“Right? The Captain is awesome!” Alice said happily, “And look, our joints seem to be similar too hey, although your arms are a bit stiffer than mine ……”
Lunie lowered her head and observed her own arm, “Yes, we share a similar joint structure.”
Alice was instantly happier, and immediately afterward, she reached out and cupped her head, “By the way, can you pull your head off? Mine can! Look-“
With a “Boo-yah-“, Alice pulled off her head right in front of Lunie, and held it up with both hands to show off, “You, you, look, look, it can be pulled, pulled off… …”
Lunie watched in amazement as her new friend in front of her acted so impressively, and followed suit, cupping her head in her hands and pulling it down.
Click.
(End of chapter)