Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 164 Exhausted Communication

The bone pigeon surrounded by the flames of the spiritual body circled twice over the deck, and goods from the city-state of Purdue appeared in the flames. Alice looked at the first thing that appeared in front of her a little dullly, and then looked up at the captain after a while. .

To be honest, at this moment, Duncan almost thought that the puppet was going to cry and run away—this was the most likely one of Alice's many reactions he expected, but he stared at this silly puppet After staring with small eyes for a long time, the latter finally nodded in a daze: "Thank you!"

Duncan: "...?"

"You really bought me new hair!" The next second, Alice's face beamed with joy, as if she had received the most exciting gift, "I thought you were just joking last time! Goat head Mister has already said that wigs for dolls are very expensive things..."

Duncan: "..."

What he had been looking forward to for a long time did not happen, and the persecution had suffered a huge failure from the very beginning—the persecuted guy was overjoyed and even full of gratitude.

Duncan felt that his mood at the moment was like a fun person who lost his own fun.

"Captain? Captain, why are you in a daze again?" Alice's voice suddenly came, waking Duncan up from his distraction. The puppet stood on tiptoe holding the wig, and its face almost reached the tip of Duncan's nose, "You are in a daze a lot today This time..."

Duncan blinked, moved his face back a little, and looked at the cursed doll with a weird expression: "I didn't expect you to be so broad-minded——you were quite depressed when I told you about the wig last time, I still don't want to I thought you would have to struggle in your heart no matter what you received this time..."

"I'm frustrated with hair loss, why should I be frustrated with getting new hair?" Alice blinked and explained as if she felt that there was something wrong with Duncan's three views, "I'm a puppet!"

Duncan finally knew what the problem was.

Alice is usually too lively on the boat, except for the surprise of the cervical spine, she looks like an ordinary human being in every way. After getting along with this guy for a long time, he unconsciously treats her as a human being-and finally ignores it. The three-dimensional peculiarity of this guy as a puppet...

As a puppet, how could she care about wearing a wig!Do humans care about getting a new pair of shoes for themselves?
"Forget it, just think I'm overthinking it." Duncan covered his face and waved his hands. As the biggest natural disaster in the boundless sea, he once again felt that he couldn't hold back in front of Alice. "In short...you can do whatever you like."

"I like it!" Alice happily held the wig, then stretched her neck over Duncan's shoulder and continued to look at the things on the deck, "The rest..."

"This is for you too," Duncan sighed, trying to ignore the visual impact of an elegant and beautiful Gothic doll holding a wig and happily, turned around and picked up a box from the deck, "Open it and have a look .”

Curiously, Alice opened the delicate wooden box, and saw a set of silver hair ornaments made of diamond-shaped slices lying quietly in the velvet lining.

She raised her head in astonishment, and saw the captain nodding slightly to herself.

"Last time I took away the feather hairpin you found in the cabin," Duncan said lightly, "I promised you to buy you a new one, and now I will fulfill my promise."

Alice was stunned for a long time, and finally came to her senses, with unprecedented happiness in her smile: "Thank you, Captain! You are so kind, Captain!"

"Don't be so loud," Duncan couldn't help waving his hands as his ears buzzed because of the puppet's sudden high-pitched voice. "It's just a hair accessory, so there's no need to be so excited."

"Not only hair accessories, but also the new hair you bought for me!"

Duncan was suddenly a little embarrassed, a strong sense of shame haunted his mind as he thought about the whole thing, but was solemnly thanked by the person involved: "...don't mention that wig..."

Alice couldn't feel the subtle mood of the captain at all. This little puppet was immersed in joy, and then she naturally noticed the last wooden box on the deck.

It was a wooden box more than half a meter long—or a wooden box, with elegant and simple decorations and brass locks and hinges, which looked high-end.

And for some reason, it reminded her of her own "house".

"What is this?" Alice put the wig and hair accessories aside, pushed the wooden box forward curiously, and asked.

"I also bought it from a doll store, but this one is not for you," Duncan said casually, "You can open it and have a look."

Alice snorted and opened the wooden box curiously.

A girl doll with exquisite workmanship and classical style is quietly lying in the wooden box.

Alice: "...?"

"You can call her 'Nilu'," Duncan's voice came from the side, "but unlike you, she's just an ordinary doll...probably."

Alice didn't respond for a long time, and after nearly ten seconds, she suddenly made a movement——with a soft click-pop sound, her head fell into Nilu's box, together with the small doll inside. roll in one place...

"Help...help...help..."

Duncan sighed, picked up Alice's head and put it in place with ease, and looked at the shamed guy helplessly: "Is that how you react?"

Alice just supported her head with both hands to straighten her neck, then stared at her captain with wide eyes, with an expression of disbelief on her face: "Captain, you... you have a new doll ..."

"What a mess!" Duncan felt that something was wrong when he heard this, and quickly interrupted Alice before more trash talk, "Didn't I say that Nilu is different from you, she Not running and jumping like you, and what does it mean to have a new doll? It’s like I have some kind of weird collection.”

"Then you bought a doll back, didn't you..."

"There is a very special reason for this," Duncan exhaled softly, stood up and looked at the sea in the distance, trying hard to suppress the trash talking in Alice's stupid mind with a serious and deep expression on his face, "This name The doll named 'Nilu' was originally a pair with another doll named 'Luni', but many years ago, my daughter took away 'Luni', and now I found it by coincidence The 'Nilu' who was left in the store covered in dust, I think... she should be bought."

Duncan did not hide the information he had just learned, and said it in a natural manner-in any case, he must now play the role of "Captain Duncan", and starting from this character, he must "take it for granted that he always matters to children".

Alice's eyes widened without surprise, and she stared at her captain in astonishment.

"Boat...Captain, you have a daughter?!" The puppet held its head with both hands, as if afraid that its head would run away from home due to shock in the next second, "I... this is the first time I've heard of it!"

Duncan sighed inwardly, saying that this was the first time he had heard of this...

But he still maintained the same expression on his face, just nodded slightly: "Is this strange? I also have a son, and I haven't seen them for a century."

"You still have a son!?" Alice was even more astonished. She even took two steps back, and then rolled her eyes twice. She didn't know how to operate in her head, and suddenly said, "Then don't they have a mother?"

Duncan: "..."

At this moment, he and Alice could only stare at each other.

"I regret that I started this topic with you." After a long time, Duncan finally sighed and said with a vicissitudes of life, "I don't want to talk about this."

"Oh... oh oh! Okay!" Alice didn't know what she was thinking about. After a moment of stunned, she nodded again and again, and then she looked down at "Nilu" in the wooden box, and suddenly understood Come over, "Ah, that feather-shaped hairpin I found in the cabin last time...could it belong to your daughter?"

Duncan was noncommittal.

He was actually not sure about this matter, but considering the nostalgia that emerged from the bottom of his heart involuntarily when he saw the issued card, it was probably not much different from Alice's guess.

Then he noticed that Alice had been secretly looking at himself, and noticed the strange expression on the puppet's face from time to time.

"You can say whatever you want," he said lightly, "It's more rude to look at you so furtively than to speak out."

"Ah, it's nothing, it's nothing, I just..." Alice waved her hands, and then said hesitantly, "I just suddenly felt...you still seem human."

Duncan: "...Are you praising me?"

Alice was taken aback for a moment, and then seemed to recall what Mr. Goathead taught her, with a sorry expression on her face: "Ah, I'm sorry Captain, I shouldn't call you human..."

"I... I thank you," Duncan sighed, waving his hands, his face exhausted physically and mentally, "take your gift and go back, I want to wait by myself."

"Oh."

(End of this chapter)