Chapter 22: Miss Alice, who is very talkative

Bread, jams, brioche cakes, tarts, shortbreads...... After eating this sweet lunch, I picked up a napkin and wiped my mouth, and then thanked Miss Jue for her hospitality. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

I had a gut feeling that the contents of the lunch were things that the underworld could not produce, which proved that Miss Jue's interactions with the underworld were by no means sparse, if not frequent.

"You're welcome." The Lord of the Earth Spirit Hall responded politely.

"Eat enough, eat enough......" The humanoid crow next to me patted her belly, her belly bulging almost as high as her breasts.

"When you're full, feed everyone." The crow was commanded by his master.

"Okay, okay, Akong, let's go." The pet crow left happily with a mouth full of cream.

The younger sister on Miss Jue's side raised her hand to speak: "Sister, love also needs to be fed!" ”

I guess she didn't mean to be fed by her sister, but to feed her pet.

"Go, go, go." My sister waved her sister away.

"Wow, Akong, Akong, wait for me." Love, chasing the crow, also left.

Pets and sisters, I feel like a mess, but Miss Jue is like turning a blind eye to all kinds of things in an orderly manner, messy pets around and my sister sometimes go home to make the messy environment even more messy and don't let Miss Jue scramble, this is also a hard-won cultivation realm, I think.

"Is there anything difficult about that?" Miss Jue already knew what I was thinking, put down the napkin that wiped her mouth and said, "Similar things are experienced and dealt with repeatedly, and the so-called difficulty will disappear sooner or later because of habituation." ”

This is almost the truth, I just experienced the lively and chaotic environment of the Earth Spirit Temple for the first time, so I felt that it was a mess, and when I thought about it, I found that Miss Jue didn't have to take care of every pet herself, nor did she have to pay too much attention to the mental health of each pet, and she didn't even need to spare much time to cultivate feelings with pets.

Because the hearts of all pets are in her mind, and if you grasp it in moderation, it will not be a mess.

"That's pretty much it." The owner of the Earth Spirit Hall said, "The lively environment should be easier to experience on the ground, and Miss Alice's house is not deserted. ”

"Not too far off......"

"You didn't care anyway."

"Ah, that's right." And I also own the dolls.

"Not bad." Miss Satoru agreed with me.

"However, the little dolls do not represent excitement, nor do they bring a mess of noise, strictly speaking, only Shanghai can barely be a pet."

"I don't think the dolls are any different from my pets."

I think so too.

When lunch ended, the saucer, knife and fork were thrown in place, and Miss Jue signaled that I didn't have to care, and that my own pet would clean up.

"I thought the only pets that could work were Arin and Akong."

"In the past few years, there have been more and more pets that can work, and it seems that everyone's ignorant cultivation has made some progress unconsciously."

"Does it have anything to do with the change of owner?" In my heart, I also pointed out to Miss Satoru that the changes that have taken place during the period of the Earth Spirit Temple, including the Old Hell, may have an impact on the pet's cultivation.

"It doesn't matter if you have it or not," she says, "as long as you can live happily, it doesn't really matter what the practice itself is." ”

I couldn't agree more, because for the vast majority of people it is true, to live ordinarily, or extraordinarily, until they return to samsara, and then do it again.

I couldn't say that a few years ago, but it seems that my growth is quite obvious.

“……”

At this time, there were only two people in the hall, Miss Jue and me, the Iron Throne was dark and dull on the steps at the end of the hall, but the sense of presence was extremely strong, the dull light almost obscured more antique ornaments hanging on the four walls, I looked at the snow-white and jet-black wolf heads inlaid on the walls above the Iron Throne, this kind of wolf can probably only be seen in high-dimensional, almost year-round snow-covered areas, "The history of these beast heads seems to be not short." ”

"Some were bought from declining aristocratic families, and some were picked up."

"Picked up?"

"Sometimes the nobles fled with their families, leaving some members who refused to flee or did not have the strength to flee to be raided by the mob, so I took the opportunity to pick up some of the things left by the nobles."

"Thank you for not hanging around my house."

"Where is Miss Alice's house before?"

"Hmm...... Probably forgot. "Of course, it's not that I really forgot, but I'm too lazy to remember, so Miss Jue, who is not serious, didn't read anything from my heart.

I looked around and said, "After all these years of pets, I still keep everything as bright as ever, Miss Jue is very admirable." ”

"Some things are hidden or thrown away, but not much." She didn't seem to pity the ruined antiques, and then said, "By the way, I have one more thing I want to ask you about my pets. ”

“……”

"Don't worry, Miss Alice doesn't have to be held responsible." As she spoke, she sent me a thought.

It didn't take me a while to read it, and I realized that what I was asked to do was exactly what Miss Satoru said, and that I didn't need to take much responsibility.

This is about a pet cat, of course, the pet cat is one of Miss Jue's pet pack, and ethnically it is the same as the flame cat herd like Rin Meow.

The so-called flame cat is the name of a group, and it can also be used to refer to a kind of duty.

If you talk about the group, as the name suggests, the flame cat is the feline cat family Flame cat species, the biological characteristics of the two tails make them easier to identify, which is a little different from the reason why Orange Meow has two tails, Orange Meow was just a very ordinary little black cat before becoming a monster, and the reason why it gave birth to a second tail may be related to the cultivation of the body, or it may be due to the physical changes caused by genetic mutations.

And the flame cat in the racial sense, even if it is an ordinary cat that has not yet opened the spiritual cultivation and become a demon, also has two tails, and from this point of view, the flame cat is a cat breed that has been genetically mutated and passed on for many generations.

There is almost no difference between ordinary flame cats and ordinary cats with only one tail, so they are naturally very suitable for domestication as pets, and flame cats almost all live in the underground world, which provides innate convenience for Miss Jue to collect a large number of pets.

Legend has it that seeing a black cat with two tails in a human funeral is a bad omen, and if you don't pay attention to the corpse, it will disappear, and the theft of the corpse is naturally recognized as a flame cat. Whether there have been some successful flame cats who have done this kind of thing, the facts are not clear, but even if some rumors passed down by human word of mouth are far from the facts, there must be an internal cause in the end, and probably a certain flame cat who loves curiosity or has a strange practice has done something similar and passed on this strange but disgusting way of cultivation.

However, the theft of corpses is only a rumor, and the number of occurrences is generally minimal, and almost no one dares to confirm who is the culprit of the theft of corpses, but due to rumors since ancient times, the cause of the crime is directly attributed to the "flame cat".

Regardless of human rumors, the true meaning of the duty of the flame cat is a kind of youkai responsible for collecting corpses that no one cares about and disposing of the resentful spirits that may arise, just like Ari, in the era when the old hell was still running, Irin and Ari's ancestors assisted Hell in destroying the corpses that were plagued everywhere in the troubled years and the resentful spirits that could be seen everywhere, which can be regarded as a combination of practice and duty, because most of the people who hold such positions are youkai who live underground and are cultivated by the flame cats, and the title of the position is commonly known as the Flame Cat.

As for what to do, Infernal lava is enough to destroy all sources of discord.