The knocker had no intention of waiting for anyone to respond, and after she had finished speaking, she turned away without hesitation, and the sound of going down the stairs was heard.

"Lumia, when you get up, come down for lunch with Quack. ”

"Okay~of~"

The little monster lengthened his voice and responded happily.

"Let's go, quack. ”

Lumia was the first to push open the door and fly outside, knowing that if she let Quack go first, it would hit a hole in the door.

Quack nearly fell down the stairs, but thanks to Rumia's timely efforts against its chest, the two youkai tumbled down the stairs and fell to the ground. The disadvantage of staggering is reflected here, the monster itself will not be harmed in any way, but its movements will be disturbed by this, and many times the prey will take the opportunity to escape.

"I'll probably have to teach Quack how to walk...... Good morning, Alice. ”

"It's noon, to be exact. Good morning, Lumia, quack. ”

The little monster grabbed the monster's neckline and slowly floated down, and the monster fell naturally on all fours like a cat that was grabbed by the neck. Alice, who was making a puppet on the workbench that she would never finish, ignored the pair and replied to Rumia's greetings in a bland manner.

"Look, Alice is making dolls. If I hadn't seen her make them, I wouldn't have imagined that those dolls weren't alive. ”

“Guuuuhhhh……”

Lumia dragged the monster closer to Alice like every curious bear child. But she is not a real bear child after all, Lumia is still two meters away from Alice, and she deliberately lowers her voice to speak, so as not to disturb the puppeteer's work.

"I said you two, the master doesn't like to be watched by others at work, can you please consciously get a little farther away?"

A young girl suddenly appears in front of the two youkai and obscures their view. The sudden appearance of a strange monster in her field of vision frightened Rumia instantly hid behind the monster, putting her hands on its shoulders and poking out half of her head. The girl had straight black hair in a shawl, a small silver hat the size of a palm buttoned diagonally on her head, and it was unknown whether the bucket-like prop was ornamental or something else, and the girl was dressed in a silver dress and black stockings, with a barren chest with large lace patches on her chest, and a pair of ivory-white princess shoes at her feet. Her face is delicate and heroic, but it also gives people an indescribable sense of evil. When she spoke, she revealed a mouth of small, sharp jagged silver teeth, and her scarlet eyes were filled with undisguised disdain and disgust, causing Lumia to shrink back from Quack's back.

"Megatron, stop attacking them. ”

"I didn't do it. ”

"I mean verbal attacks. ”

Ellie mercilessly blocked Megatron's quibble, causing the girl to look away.

The seven-colored puppet pauses from what he is doing, kicks his feet lightly, and turns the front of the ergonomic chair towards Lumia.

"I apologize to you for Megatron's rude remarks. She was one of two gifts from a friend, and she was only respectful and friendly to me and its creator. I've tried many times to go back and change her personality, but each time it has failed. ”

"The Creator is the great god who gives me life, and the Master is the meaning and value of my existence. As for the other slags? What's the concern? Master, you are so kind-hearted. ”

"You won't think that way until you've really seen the world. ”

"I have seen the power of the Creator, and it is enough to rival the world. ”

"Megatron," Alice sighed softly, "and if you do this again, I'm going to summon Optimus Prime." ”

"Lord, master, what are you calling that stupid big man, I'm not better than him, it's enough to have me......" Although she was still arrogant, even Lumia could see the girl's retreat and trembling. Megatron's red eyes wandered around, clearly panicked.

"He knows when to be silent. ”

"Oh......"

The girl closed her mouth a little aggrieved and stopped talking.

"Let you see the smile. ”

Alice holds the doll's materials in her hands and bows her head to attach arms to it.

"So, is Megatron a puppet too?"

Lumia looked at it, obviously having a big problem with the question, but still silenced Megatron under the suppression of Optimus Prime's name, waiting for Alice's answer.

"No, she's a new silicon-based lifeform, but she's only demonized on top of that. Megatron has an energy-based soul called 'Tinder' in his body, which is a real life, the opposite of a puppet. ”

"Yes, but I think the Shanghainese are like living creatures......

"Shanghai and Penglai are self-disciplined dolls!"

Alice looked up abruptly and said in a loud voice.

Rumia has no fear of the puppeteer's overreaction, and even quietly bites her ears with the monster.

"Every time I talk about the doll Alice, I get very excited, probably because of an occupational disease. ”“Guuuuhhhhhh……”

"Shanghai is a general term for a type of puppet, the prototype of my self-discipline puppet! All Shanghai is related to each other, and the whole they form is a cloud system called 'Shanghai', which will record and screen how the puppet should react in the face of different situations, and finally evolve the ultimate self-discipline puppet without the control of the puppeteer! Megatron has a soul! She cannot be called a puppet! The soul is a whole of information composed of all non-material characteristics such as individual personality, memory, mental will, etc.! The ability to produce a soul is the most direct condition that defines the life of something!"

"Oh, oh...... Alice, calm down. Lumia waved her hand, signaling Alice to calm down. The little monster rolled his gaze and locked on the monster in front of him.

"Now, Alice, in that case, is quack a life?"

“…… I don't know, but from the information I have so far, it's possible that Quack doesn't have a soul in 80%. But but not having a soul does not mean that there will be no soul. If it were a life, it would not be long before the body that lost its soul would have new memories and personalities, and eventually a new soul. The seven-colored puppet returned to a calm and indifferent state, and replied softly while adding eyeballs to the puppet in his hand. "Quack's logic is shallow, but it's growing. Sooner or later it will acquire its own soul. ”

"Is it~ so?"

"That's right. ”

"Great, quack. Alice says you're going to have your own soul in the future...... Wait, what are you doing?!"

Lumia smiled and looked at the monster, only to see what made her soul reverberate.