Prologue xxix

music box

"Uh...... This question is a bit difficult to explain. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Aslan's inquiry made me scratch my head a little, in fact, I didn't mean to have long hair, after all, too long hair would affect my daily movements.

"To put it simply, I didn't mean to have long hair, because I didn't have time to fix it for various reasons that I can't explain." As he spoke, seeing Aslan's puzzled look, I thought about it for a while, and said, "Well, I'll go and straighten this long hair later, so Aslan, you don't have to worry too much about this long hair...... Well. ”

It's too cumbersome to explain why, and it involves a lot of my privacy, so I'm going to just brush it off.

"Uh...... Well. ”

Aslan, who knew that I had no intention of explaining in detail, naturally would not be uninterested in asking.

"Hmm...... People think it's cuter for Kiki to have long hair. ”

Aslan was silent, but Lux, who was sitting next to me, spoke up. Hearing what Lux said, Aslan and I couldn't help but look embarrassed.

"Don't you think Kiki's long hair is cute and beautiful?"

Seeing our embarrassed faces, Lux immediately became dissatisfied, pouting cherry lips and glaring at Aslan and me with 'sharp' eyes. It's just that Lux didn't mention this sentence, and this mention made Aslan and I even more embarrassed. The reason is simple, because Lux uses the adjective 'cute, pretty'. Generally speaking, cuteness and beauty are used to describe women, so I really didn't know what expression to show when I was so 'complimented' by Lux.

"Isn't it?"

As if to emphasize his point, Lux said in an accentuated tone.

"Hmm~ Seriously, Qi is indeed quite beautiful."

Of course, it has nothing to do with cuteness - this sentence Aslan is just thinking about it in his heart, after all, if he says it, maybe someone will go crazy.

"I think you should use 'handsome' instead of 'pretty', Aslan."

Actually, I don't deny that I am 'beautiful', after all, whether I look at it from the front or from the side, I have a face as delicate as a woman. But as a man, I don't want to be complimented on my looks, so I finally came up with another word that has the same meaning – handsome.

"Handsome? Hmm~ Okay, then describe it as handsome...... It's cute, very handsome...... Poof, weird. ”

Knowing that Lux had the same understanding of Chinese characters as I did, Lux understood the meaning of these two words when I brought them up. However, after Lux said this, she thought it was strange to describe it like this, and she couldn't help laughing out loud for a while.

"Okay, okay...... It's a bit weird. ”

But it's better than 'very cute and beautiful Kiki'............ Perhaps—I thought as I looked up.

Aslan, the initiator of this topic, couldn't stop laughing when he heard Lux change his words. Of course, in order to take care of my face and dignity, Aslan just shook his shoulders silently, and struggled to endure the desire to laugh.

While we were talking and laughing, Siegel, Pacritt, and Renoa were naturally chatting, just chatting and chatting, and the topic unconsciously came back to us.

"Speaking of strange hair, I also think it's strange, why do you want to keep it so long? Like a girl. ”

Pakrit's impression of me had returned to normal, and he no longer looked at me through colored glasses, so he was as curious as Aslan when he heard what we were talking about.

Naturally, he didn't know why I had long hair, so he couldn't answer for a while, but Renoa, when he heard Paclet's last comment, looked at him with disgusted eyes, and said softly, "How can you talk like that?" Although Qi has long hair and does look like a girl from the back or side, he is a boy. —How else would Siegel recruit him? Renoah didn't say this, but she believed that with Parklet's tacit understanding with her, she would be able to know what she was thinking.

"Hmm~ I said the wrong thing." Pacritt just thought about it and understood what Renoah meant, so he simply nodded and admitted his mistake. After a pause, Pakrit said again: "But as a man, you really should still have a flat head...... When she said this, Pacritt also put down the chopsticks in her hand, and nodded again and again with both hands on her chest, with an expression of 'manly people should be like this', which made Siegel who saw him like this cry and laugh.

"Then why didn't you let Aslan cut a head? What a ......."

Siegel was puzzled by my long hair, but as an old friend of Packerett's, he didn't like the saying that a man should have a straight hair, so he retorted decisively.

"Here we go again......"

As soon as Renoah heard Siegel's rebuttal, he knew that the 'war' between Siegel and Pakritus had started again. This 'war' is also very simple, but it is just a question about whether the 'man' should keep a 'man's head', but Siegel and Pacritt have been arguing from the past to now, and no one can convince anyone, Renoa, who is very helpless about this, shook his head slightly, and then ignored these two 'man's', but turned his head to look at Aslan on the side.

At this time, Lux and Aslan, who had already laughed enough, naturally did not pick up the original topic again, but followed the question I asked, 'Can I open the gift before eating the birthday cake?'

When Renoah turned his head to look, my discussion with Aslan was at a low ebb, uh, to put it simply, no one could convince anyone - this scene was so similar to Siegel and Pacritt on the other side that Renoah muttered to himself, "What a father and son......" - Of course, Renoah seemed to have forgotten that I was not Siegel's child, well, at most an adopted child...... Well, in the end, it's Siegel's 'kid'.

"Generally speaking, you can't open a guest's gift on your birthday."

When Renoah interjected like this, he found that the atmosphere that was originally quite warm had cooled down in a blink of an eye.

"Uh...... Mother, we just have nothing to do, and this kind of thing is obviously very clear, so ......"

Seeing that Renoah was embarrassed because of the cold atmosphere, as Renoah's child, Aslan naturally wouldn't embarrass his mother too much, so he quickly explained the reason for falling into a low ebb. Hearing this, Renoa, who was quite embarrassed, breathed a sigh of relief, and at this moment, I suddenly said: "Actually, I really want to see the gift given by Aunt Renoah now, but I don't know if Aunt Renoah will agree......"

"Hmm......" My words made Renoa ponder for a moment before she nodded in agreement, "Since you want to see it, let's take it apart and see it...... Since I didn't learn until around five o'clock that today is also your birthday, I bought this gift on the way here. Because I bought it in a hurry, it is not very precious, I hope you don't mind. ”

When I heard that, of course, I said I wouldn't mind. I don't know how precious Lux's birthday present is, but for me, it's the first birthday present I've ever received, and no matter how much it's worth, it's the first birthday present I've ever received.

Now that Renoah's consent has been obtained, Lux naturally went to retrieve the gift box and put it on the table. In fact, Lux is also looking forward to what this birthday gift is, because for Lux, it is the first birthday gift I received for the first birthday with Lux for the first time, and it is difficult not to look forward to it.

"Then the man opened ......"

Lux cheered, and without waiting for Renoa to reply, she reached out and grabbed the two pieces of silk on the gift box, and then pulled outward, and the bow-like golden ribbon was untied.

"Huh~ It turns out that there is really a cat face."

When the golden ribbon was removed, the appearance of the box was completely revealed to us – it was a cat face. This cat's face looks down from the top, followed by erected cat ears, round eyes, not very obvious nose, symmetrical whiskers, it is worth mentioning that this cat's small mouth is actually on the side of the lid of the gift box, if it is not for the ribbon removed, it is really impossible to find.

"Hmm, that's a switch."

When Lux tried to lift the lid of the gift box, she found that the lid was so firmly fixed that it wouldn't move no matter how hard she tried. Seeing this, Lux groaned for a moment, then shifted her gaze to the side of the lid, the cat's mouth. She tentatively reached out and pressed her hand to the cat's mouth, and she heard a "click" crisp sound, and the lid of the box opened automatically.

"It's ...... Music box? ”

After the lid is opened, our eyes naturally fall into it. At first glance, I could tell what this gift was...... Well, in fact, if you look at it, you can almost recognize what it is.

It is transparent and crystal-like, with a round base outlined with countless small diamonds that reflect the white light of the chandelier above. On top of this luxurious base is a pair of dolls, which also seem to be made of crystal, and the whole body is also transparent, but when Lux sees this pair of dolls, her pretty face can't help but turn red...... And the reason for her blush is very simple, just because the posture of this puppet is like an intimate couple, hugging and kissing each other, and the sweet appearance is really 'far-reaching'.