Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 198
The sun was shining brightly outside the window, and the extremely bad weather before seemed to be just a distant dream, only the remaining water marks on the window sill and the wet ground on the street proved that there was indeed a heavy rain in the middle of last night—and This sunny day after the rain seems to be suitable for snoozing at home.

But Shirley has had enough sleep, she has never slept for such a long time at one breath, and she is a little hungry, which urges her to get up quickly.

Because lying in bed hungry is an unpleasant memory for her - when she was younger, she used to sleep through the hungriest nights, and if it wasn't for Agou's wake-up and support , she may have left this world on a certain cold and hungry winter night.

When hunger exceeds a certain critical point, people will rub shoulders with death in sleep, which is one of Shirley's valuable life experiences.

She left the soft and comfortable bed, got up and changed her clothes, and at this moment, a burst of brisk footsteps came from outside the door.

"Shirley! Are you awake? I heard something!"

It was Nina's voice.

Shirley was taken aback for a moment, and quickly agreed: "I'm awake."

The door was pushed open, and Nina, who was wearing a white shirt, a short coat, and a light brown plaid skirt, appeared at the door. She saw Shirley who had just changed her clothes at a glance, with a smile on her face, and then walked over quickly: " You have slept for a long time! How do you feel now? Is your back still hurting? How is the wound... Let me see let me see..."

"It's a bit exhausting, so I slept for a long time... I'm fine, really," Shirley dodged the overly enthusiastic Nina awkwardly, but her dodge and resistance in front of Nina, who was usually so powerful, was nothing. It looked weak, and finally turned around obediently, letting Nina check the injuries on her back and arms, "It's just minor injuries, I... have a strong recovery ability, and... oh, it's so itchy , don't... itchy haha..."

"It's really healed!" Nina finally let go of Shirley, who had started to jump and dodge to the side. She looked at her friend in amazement, as if she was observing some rare creature, "Last night It was such a big wound when I was there, but now it’s not only gone, it doesn’t even leave a scar... How did you do it?”

"Didn't I say that I live in symbiosis with the deep demon, and Agou's characteristics are a strong body and regenerative ability," Shirley straightened her dress—the dress she was wearing yesterday had been destroyed in the battle, and at this moment This is another old dress brought from home, and it is one of the only belongings she rescued after the attack, "Actually, my regenerative ability can be stronger, but Ah Gou said that I am nutritious. Bad, the regenerative ability will be discounted..."

"Then you have to eat well here, uncle's craftsmanship is very good now," Nina said immediately, and then she was a little curious, "Well...all people like you...I mean, people who live with the deep demon , are they all this powerful?"

"It depends on what kind of demon you are co-existing with - the words of the deep hound bring toughness and regeneration ability, as well as a certain enhancement of perception ability, and the regeneration of terror means willpower and resistance to spiritual pollution. In addition, there are various All kinds of demons, I can't tell...Anyway, the symbionts of the deep demons are the supernatural beings with the most messy abilities. In order to be able to operate in the real dimension, those demons have always been very generous to their symbionts..."

Speaking of this, Shirley suddenly paused, her expression became serious, and she looked into Nina's eyes: "Speaking of which, I suggest you not get too involved with things in this field... You should already know it, it's normal Those who coexist with the deep demons are all lunatics of the Annihilation Sect, they are different from me, and their demons are also different from Agou."

"I know, I know, I'm not a child," Nina quickly waved her hands, but she still couldn't hide her curiosity, "But have you seen other demon symbiotes? I mean those believers of annihilation..."

"I haven't seen it, and I don't want to see it. Listening to Agou's description is disgusting enough. If I see it, I will definitely beat them up and report it to the sheriffs," Shirley said, frowning, " Nina, you have a lot of questions today... You didn't ask so many questions when you saw Agou before, and you don't have to go to school today?"

"You will live in my house from now on, so of course you need to know more about you. I heard from my uncle that your house was destroyed by a gas explosion, and you have nowhere to go..." Nina said seriously As he said that, he took Shirley's hand and walked out, "Also, the school is on vacation. Don't you know about the nearly two-month vacation?"

"I didn't know, I didn't go to school..." Shirley muttered subconsciously, she was dragged out by Nina, and walked towards the kitchen where the smell of food was wafting. She noticed that the whole second floor was quiet. Quietly, I couldn't help being a little curious, "Is Mr. Duncan not here?"

"Uncle went to the first floor. He said he wanted to entertain someone. Let's have dinner on the second floor first," Nina explained. She dragged Shirley to the kitchen door, but then she seemed to remember something, and quickly pulled Shirley again. Walking in the direction of the bathroom, "Oh, by the way, wash your hands, wash your hands before eating, or uncle should be nagging again."

"Oh... oh." Shirley was dragged around by Nina in a daze. She didn't know whether it was because she was hungry or because she had slept for too long. She felt dizzy, but... this feeling Seems good too.

At the same time, beside the counter on the first floor of the antique shop, Duncan was explaining something to the person opposite in detail, and sitting opposite him was a woman wearing a delicate and elegant long skirt, a fine check veil, and long golden hair. Beautiful young lady with long hair and dignified features.

Dignified and beautiful blonde lady (×)

It's Alice in a wig (√)
"...It's almost like this. There are a lot of common sense that you need to know to live in human society, but you just need to understand the most basic part. This is enough for your current scope of activities, and in this store you have to do There are very few things, just familiarize yourself with the simplest things first, such as cleaning and arranging shelves." Duncan finally explained the things to pay attention to here, but still looked at the blond girl who was sitting in front of him with anxiety, "...Do you still remember what I taught you on the boat?"

"I remember!" Alice hurriedly nodded vigorously, but she seemed to remember something after nodding twice, she quickly reduced her nodding, and nodded slightly in a very dignified and elegant posture, "Don't worry, I remember clearly!"

"Yes, the nodding should be small, it seems that at least you have remembered this." Duncan exhaled, his gaze swept over Alice, and he checked the details again.

Covered the original silver long hair with a golden wig, slightly made up to adjust the details of the appearance, and covered the lower half of the face with a veil, wore long white silk gloves on the hands, and also wore a special lace decoration around the neck neck ring to conceal its special articulation details.

Basically all the parts that can be camouflaged are camouflaged.

Of course, if someone who really knows the Frost Queen Lei Nora is standing here, or someone who has observed Anomaly 099 at close range with his own eyes, he may still be able to see this "blonde" from the details of his eyebrows and eyes. "Girl" looks suspicious, but the probability is almost negligible.

The Frost Queen was already half a century ago, and it is almost impossible for people who have had close contact with Anomaly 099 to be alive.

Ordinary people, even the guards of the church, would definitely not recognize Alice at this moment as the cursed puppet that was out of control.

Duncan couldn't help but sigh softly again.

In fact, he originally planned to wait for a while before letting Alice come to the human city-state to "see the world". He planned to stay a few more days for the puppet to make up lessons on the boat, but he couldn't bear it. Looking at the sad look in the distance and muttering about nothing, he still moved this time forward a bit.

It's just that within the scope of his ability, he still gave this guy some emergency common sense, and instilled in her the most basic "three views of normality", reckoning... it should be enough.

perhaps.

Now Nina and Shirley are eating upstairs, he caught a timing and asked Ai to send the doll from the boat to the store to familiarize himself with the environment. The first thing Alice did when she came here was to feel around curiously. It took a lot of effort to "press" the guy to the counter, but even so, he could see that the doll's attention was almost completely absent from his lecture.

She began to look around again, although she tried her best to maintain a posture of sitting upright, but her eyes that were rolling around and her neck that was moving could not be concealed from others.

Combining the dignified and elegant sitting posture with the restless eyes, Duncan can only say that he is indeed Alice——the two states of elegance and naivety can appear in a superimposed state at the same time in one person...

After looking around for a while, her attention finally returned to Duncan, with undisguised concern and... curiosity in her eyes.

(End of this chapter)