"Hello, quack. Alice Margotroyd nodded reservedly, her expression not slackening even when she pronounced the name, which was not a name at all, still cold and elegant.

“Guuuuuhhhhhh……”

The monster responded to the voice, the expressionless rigid face and the delicate face of the blonde puppeteer opposite, as if two puppets disguised as living creatures were talking to each other.

"Quack, it's very stupid, it can't even speak, it only quacks, and it seems to be blind. But it's gentle, oh, Alice, don't laugh at Quack. ”

The monster itself didn't react, but Lumia quickly explained it to Alice.

"Is that so?"

"Yes~ That's it. ”“Guh！”

Ignoring the exchange between Lumia and Alice, the monster had been devoting his energy to the food in front of him. Knowing how exaggerated Lumia's stomach was, Alice's "cake" was not a delicate palm-sized snack in the usual sense, but an exaggerated ration of 30 centimeters in diameter, coated with a thick layer of cream, decorated with seasonal fruits and chocolates, and sprinkled with nut powder.

The monster dug a large piece of the cake with his bare hands, held it in his arms and nibbled on it. But the cake didn't get messy, the monster's fingers left more neat marks than a knife cut, and its hands were not stained with sticky cream, a property that made the blonde puppeteer unconsciously pay attention to it.

Alice thought for a moment, raised her hand in front of the monster and said at the same time:

"It's rude. ”

An illusory wide silver mirror appeared in front of the girl's five fingertips, reflecting the monster's dull face. The moment the silver mirror was formed, the monster that should have no vision stopped in an instant. It raised its head and looked in the mirror suspiciously, then shrunk back, leaning over its shoulders to protect its food and chew slowly.

"It's not stupid. Alice dissipated the silver mirror and took a sip of the black tea in her cup. "It's simply not self-aware. ”

"Huh?"

Lumia, who was cutting the cake on her plate, looked up blankly, she wasn't really hungry, but she couldn't control her hands when she saw the cake cut by the monster. The cake is divided into three layers just as a pure cake embryo, and there are fruit slices and chocolate sauce between the layers, where can the greedy little monster stand this kind of posture.

"I just used the mirror shadow technique, and the external manifestation is to summon an illusory mirror, which is actually to make the recipient sense the other self in the silver mirror, which can be used to check himself or pretend to be a ghost, but it is mainly used by witches for makeup. ”

"Is it~ so?"

Rumia, who was stuffed with a mouth full of cakes, didn't understand at all, but the mild-mannered little monster was still responding to his friends.

Of course, Alice knew that she didn't understand, but out of her serious and rigorous nature, she still had to explain to Lumia what she was doing.

"Quack's first instinct after sensing the other self is to protect the food, which proves that it doesn't know that it is the other self, so it will act like this. And the mirror shadow technique is not a simple optical reflection, but a reflection from the soul to the breath in all directions, even animals or low-intelligence monsters can recognize that it is themselves through the breath or something, and Quack's reaction can only be said that it has no self-awareness, which is quite rare. ”

"Self-awareness isn't necessarily related to intelligence, but Quack's intelligence is also extremely low, right?"

"It seems to recognize food, huh...... Maybe me. ”

Lumia thought seriously for a moment, and added the second half of the sentence not very confidently.

"What is it capable of?"

"I don't know very well, the physical fitness is definitely much higher than mine, special abilities...... Quack doesn't seem to have any special abilities. ”

"No, it does. ”

Alice shook her head and vetoed Rumia's words.

"It confuses other people's perceptions. ”

The blonde witch looked at the monster munching on the cake and twisted it up with the words "Mommy loves you~?" The white chocolate brand with the words was placed on the cake on Lumia's plate, and the tone was solemn.

"It's been nearly ten minutes since you entered the door, and it's supposed to be more than enough time for me to remember all the details I can make out of a youkai. But until now, my impression of Gaga's memory is only tattered black clothes, long black hair, pure black eyes, and bat ears. I can't even tell how tall it is or what it looks like, except that it's a roughly humanoid youkai. Every moment I think I see it, but the next I overturn it in my mind. ”

Alice frowned slightly, and said to herself:

"This is somewhat similar to the Sealed Beast Eagle that died at the hands of Wang Yu some time ago. ”

As the only two witches in Gensokyo, the relationship between the Seven Magic Envoys and the Seven Colored Puppet Envoys is not very close, but there are still normal levels of contact. Information consultation is a very important part of magic researchers, and the two witches often communicate with each other, and Wang Hui even has a clone to be an assistant to the seven-colored puppet envoy for a period of time to learn the craft of prop making, after all, this happens to be the weakness of the seven-colored magician. And seriously, compared to the sloppy master who relies on the little devils in his daily life and still has a little bad taste from time to time, Wang Yu still prefers this calm and interesting seven-colored puppet envoy, especially her indifferent temperament that is somewhat similar to Sixteen Nights Sakuya is a lot of points. Compared to Alice Margotroyd, Pache Noregui's daily routine is simply a pig farming, and it would be more appropriate to call it Dry Matter Magic.

Of course, after he told his thoughts to the Qiyao Magician, a certain witch immediately picked up the pillow and beat the disciple violently, which was another matter.

But the monster naturally doesn't know these things, it's just a remnant of Wang Yu's strength and body, and it has no thoughts, at most it's just a monster. The monster only has food in its eyes, and as long as it can be full, then it is fine.

"But...... I can clearly see the quack, it's pretty good. ”

Lumia probably understood what Alice was trying to say, and her voice was a little timid, not because she was afraid that the monster would hurt her, but because she was afraid that she would upset her friend by rejecting Alice's kindness.

"Won't change?"

"Won't change. ”

"Interesting. The expression of the seven-colored puppet did not change, but the blue eyes suddenly lit up with curiosity.