But despite the fact that Alice has lived alone for decades, her adaptability is impressive. Levi had only lived here for a little over a month, and she had basically adapted to the life of one more person in the family. In the past, the continuous production and research for a long time has been changed to playing around here and that in fragmented time, and anyway, the magic envoy is similar to a vampire or the like, with an almost infinite life. The concept of time for an undead creature cannot be the same as that of a human with a finite life, although Alice would like to start with both magic and making dolls, making dolls with life and souls, and acting on their own without her manipulation. But because of the infinite amount of time, she doesn't have the same sense of urgency in this matter as the human scientists who don't sleep and eat.

If Lévy suddenly lives in the house of a human scientist who is concentrating on inventions, they will probably either treat him as transparent and leave him to fend for himself, or pick up a broom and beat him out and let him sleep outside to fend for himself. This is not an exaggeration at all, even Chao Lingyin, who is so familiar with him, has tried to think that he interferes with research, and has forced him out of the research institute, let alone changed to a stranger. In fact, if he had been seen in the forest as a strange Frankenstein, people might not have picked him up at all?

Thinking about it, it was a great blessing in life to meet Alice, although even if no one picked him up, Levi would not be a dinner for those little animals in the forest.

"Hmm, don't look at me like that, I feel so uncomfortable."

Levi looked directly at him with a 'warm' look full of happiness, but Alice shivered and felt a chill all over her body, and waved her hand to chase him away like a stray dog that had run to the house.

"Don't think too much, I just remember that I was rescued by you at the beginning, and I am sincerely grateful to you."

Knowing that Alice's tsundere disease has flareed up again, Levi didn't joke but rarely thanked her seriously. But in this way, Alice's waving gesture became even more panicked, as if someone who had never done good things was suddenly thanked and didn't know how to deal with it.

Alice is certainly not a bad person who has never done good deeds, but she has lived in Gensokyo for a long time in a place where they rarely interact with each other, and there is really no chance for her to do something that will make others thank her. After all, the fact that Alice was able to study magic on her own and become a magician was naturally quite remarkable in the eyes of many earthlings who were still trying to live a few more years, and it was even enough to be worshipped and recited. But in Gensokyo's paradise of non-human life such as monsters and ghosts, Alice, a magician who has cultivated no more years than a human lifespan, can only be regarded as a complete 'rookie'. Even in terms of the magic used and the power of the manipulated puppets, which measure a person's 'ability to fight', Alice is in the middle of Gensokyo, where she may have lived for thousands of years by catching a goblin, there are still too many people who are much stronger than her. Living in such a place, even if everyone occasionally interacts, where is the opportunity for Alice to help those big monsters who are stronger than her?

In the past, when she was in Gensokyo, Alice seemed to have received only gratitude from the children who watched her puppet show and the teacher who opened the temple house to teach the children all kinds of knowledge. Oh, and the neighbor who lives alone in the Enchanted Forest like himself also asks for help from time to time. But I don't know why that person's thanks never make Alice feel grateful, but often sighs helplessly?

Being thanked by a man like this, Levi is still the only one in Alice's life. Thinking of this, it is not difficult to understand why the normal 'common sense' of saving people and getting the gratitude of being saved makes her so helpless.

Fortunately, at this time, the two dolls who were ordered by Alice to make tea before, wearing a Shanghai dress similar to a maid's dress and Penglai, who was wearing a red princess dress, one carrying a teapot and the other holding a tray with teacups, sugar, lemon slices, and evaporated milk, flew over.

Is this really just a coincidence? From the corner of his eye, Levi visibly stared at the two little dolls flying slowly in the air, especially Shanghai, who looked a little struggling to hold a teapot in both hands.

Levi deliberately stared at the two little dolls, not planning to complain that the dolls were controlled by Alice herself, this must be her own embarrassment. Actually, in this cabin with Alice. After only about two or three months of staying, Lévy had a vague sense that something was wrong with her two favorite dolls. To be precise, Levy felt that something was wrong mainly because of the Shanghainese figure that was a miniature version of Alice, except for the longer hair.

If there is a particularly questionable big problem, there is actually none. But from the little things of everyday life, Lévy discovers a little secret that even Alice herself doesn't know. That's the little doll she named Shanghai, and it seems that she already has a sense of self!

I can't count how many times I've found that Shanghai always shows up at the right time to help his master. Or help Alice out of embarrassment like now, or take the initiative to help Alice when she needs something. Although it is still possible to determine that Shanghai's every move is driven by Alice's magic, based on Lévy's observation of Alice over the years, he believes that when she is shy like now, or occasionally loses her temper and is awkward, Alice does not consciously control the actions of her dolls.

Just like now, maybe the average person will think that Shanghai is because she received an order from Alice to make tea, and after making tea, she will naturally come to the table to pour tea. But under Levy's deliberate observation, he could find that Shanghai, which was originally doing mechanical movements like an ordinary puppet, suddenly sped up the action of making tea since Alice began to be shy, and even Penglai, who flew over here after making tea, was secretly dragged by her to speed up.

Levi has found similar situations several times, and he can now basically conclude that this puppet named Shanghai has self-awareness, and can at least judge the owner's feelings like a pet that has been kept at home for a long time, and decide his actions according to the owner's feelings. Such a doll should already have a preliminary 'soul', but no matter how much Levi tried, Shanghai responded with a 'I'm just an ordinary rag doll', so that he couldn't be sure what kind of self-consciousness the little puppet had developed. According to his bold guess, maybe Shanghai has evolved to the same level as Chachamaru Zero. Except that Alice's magic power is needed to act, and she can't move independently without her, everything else is already like a normal person. I1292