"Alice! must be the greatest puppeteer!! I want to make the most perfect puppet, make a... A puppet that will always be with me!"

Since that big fight with her mother, Alice has packed up some things, closed the workshop, and prepared to go on a long trip.

"Today is Alice's thirteenth birthday, and it is also the day Alice leaves, in order to pursue the path of the greatest puppeteer, Alice has to travel all over the star field, gathering the essence of hundreds of schools to uncover the ultimate mystery of the puppet - puppet notes, travel, and preface"

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The Capital of Machines – Ottory

Alice's first stop is the Capital of Machines, the sanctuary and birthplace of mechanical civilization.

"Master Cassel, a little girl outside the door wants to see you, saying that she is asking you for advice... The figure between the puppet and the machine ......," a maid whispered as she approached a slightly dilapidated door.

There was silence in the door for a long time, no one seemed to be inside, the maid was used to it, and Alice was surprisingly patient, but her fingers kept twisting the corners of her clothes, a little nervous.

Xingli stared at a small yellow flower next to the door, wanting to see if the flower in this mechanical capital was a precision mechanical flower.

“............... I've been waiting for a long time, come in. ”

Alice took Xingli's hand and slowly walked in through the door, and in an instant she seemed to have come from the mechanical capital to the hidden peach garden.

In the antique room, on a chaise longue sat an old man with white hair, a long white beard, a wrinkled old face, and a curious and kind gaze......

Alice thought it was ...... Master Cassel will be a terrible old man with half of his body mechanical, a long greasy beard, and all kinds of mechanical parts in his home, looking obsessively at the mechanical creation in front of him......"

Cassel laughed and led Alice into the house.

"If Alice had been in this position before I was a bad old man, she was exactly what you thought she would be, and I was able to hold a part for days and study it, and I couldn't even sleep in my arms, thinking that I would study it for a while even in a dream, and I couldn't walk when I saw a delicate object, and I thought how nice it would be if I could take it apart and study it. ”

Alice suddenly thought of a very strange and important question.

"Master Cassel, you ......"

"Alice...... I'm an old acquaintance with your mother, and she greeted me early on, saying that you might come to me, Alice...... Your mother is also troubled, and your father ......."

Cassel began to tell about the past, the maid had already exited the door, and Xingli was quietly looking around.

As those secrets were revealed, the most fragile string in Alice's heart trembled, and Alice was confused for the first time, the cause of her father's death was never mentioned by her mother, and there was no explanation, since her father went to the battlefield voluntarily and ended the war with his own death......

So why do you want to pursue that perfect puppet, are you ...... Too naïve?

"Alice, as long as you find your own reason to pursue the perfect puppet, no matter what it is, I, an old man, will definitely teach you what I have learned all my life!"

After leaving Master Casso, Alice no longer had the confidence of the past on her face, nor did she talk about the greatest puppeteer.

At first, she just wanted to resurrect her father, as long as his father came back, their family would be happy together again, and after her mother took over the burden from her father, she spent less and less time with her, and the smile on her face became less and less.

She has liked dolls since she was a child, she likes to talk to dolls, since her father is gone, her mother's busyness, she has become more and more obsessed with dolls, she wants to make dolls come alive, so that someone can accompany her, she ...... It won't be lonely anymore.

She's just a ...... after all Child.

Her mother was out and about almost all day, leaving Alice alone in front of the empty home.

It's not home.

Alone away from the place that only made her sad, Alice began to study the secrets of the dolls, she had met many puppeteers, and she had seen many dolls, but those were not what she wanted, or in Alice's heart, those were not worthy of being called dolls.

Alice's mother didn't know what Alice was thinking, but she had no way, really no way to find time to spend with her daughter.

can only give her the greatest material satisfaction, provide Alice with all the resources to make a doll, try to push everything away on her birthday, even if it is only a short day, only one day in a year can accompany her, seeing that Alice is becoming more and more incredible dolls, she has both pride and trepidation in her heart, she knows that Alice wants to resurrect her father, in this way......

Since his father is willing to end the war with death, is it too willful for him to want to resurrect him, from the misery and sadness of the war that Cassel heard, his father rushed to the border of the star field after his ninth birthday, and what he said to himself before leaving, now in retrospect, how similar are the last words......

A few days later

"Maker ......"

Xingli came to Alice, who was sitting alone by the river.

"Xingli, what is the meaning of your existence. Alice's voice trembled.

"Star Glass...... I don't know...... But Xingli, who now wants to comfort the maker, the maker, is very sad, and Xingli is also ...... Sad. ”

Alice looked up at the starry sky, watched the river of stars flowing, and said.

"Xingli, I tell you, the meaning of your existence now, to accompany me!your maker!Alice!Pursue the ultimate meaning of the puppet!Help Alice!Become the greatest puppeteer!"

Alice's voice was uplifting, with love for dolls, with anticipation of dolls......

"Alice absolutely does not believe that the puppet will stop before that threshold, you can definitely become a real person! you are definitely not a simple puppet! you can definitely ...... Own yourself. ”

"If I can find my father's soul, I can let him come back to me and my mother again in the form of a puppet, even if he doesn't want to, even if it's only for one day, I just want to see him...... Let him go home with his mother and celebrate my birthday for me......"

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When Alice returns to Master Cassel's residence with her own reasons, her love for dolls gives them anticipation and her desire to see her father.

In exchange for the old man's surprised and relieved smile, he really taught Alice what he had learned all his life without reservation.

On Alice's fourteenth birthday, she was not accompanied by her mother, but she had a kind old man and a doll named Xingli.

Over the past year, Cassel has been amazed by Alice's intelligence and understanding more than once, and what is even more commendable is that her pure and almost flawless heart has become more and more dazzling under the polishing again and again.

Cassel knew that Alice would achieve much more than the old man himself, not only because he was teaching Alice, but he also learned many precious things from Alice.

"Alice, stick to your original intention, I don't have anything to give you, old man, this mechanical heart is the pinnacle of my life, and now I will treat him as your gift. ”

Alice respectfully took the rosy core from Cassel's hand, bowed deeply, and turned around with the star glass to step on the starship, everything was silent.

"I hope so...... In my lifetime, I can see ...... There is one of the greatest puppeteers in the star field...... Old friend, you should really get up and see, your daughter, grown up......"

The maid on the side heard Cassel's murmur and said with some puzzlement: "Master, it is not difficult to do this kind of thing with your connections, it is just a short resurrection of a person and a day's soul from the Netherworld." ”

"No, of course I can, but I can't do it, that would be a disservice to Alice, it's something she should have done with her own hands, this is her opportunity, and if she does it, I want to ...... Maybe God, too, will open up and reunite their family. ”

The maid was silent, he had followed Cassel for so long, so he naturally knew a lot, Alice's "side door", how narrow and difficult the road was, not in a few words could be clear.

And Alice's next stop, she has to go there to confirm that her father is not there, but there to explore, the most difficult, difficult and complex part of the doll - the soul.

ps: Thoroughly, the secret book in the next chapter is [Witch Witch, Immortal Witch]

I don't know when I'll be able to write it.,After all, after writing the outline, I don't have to touch a word.,I always feel like there's something missing.,But the witch's overall route is already very clear.,So it's going to be updated in the form of a big chapter.。