Chapter 57: Hide and Seek
When it comes to Alice's recent life pattern, it generally looks like this-
Wake up at 5:30 a.m., wash up properly, and start your morning exercise before breakfast.
Start with physical training and follow a fixed route, which is about 10 kilometers. Then in the middle of the square, you will practice your boxing moves.
At this time, the people of the city who were on their way to cultivate happened to pass by the square.
"Miss Alice! It's early today!"
"Haha, this girl is as good as ever!"
"Hey, Miss, be careful not to get hurt!"
When they see Alice, they greet her warmly.
"Uh-ha~~~Everyone's morning~~!"
Of course, Alice will not be stingy with her smile, and will return the greeting with vigor.
As the daughter of the lord, she has no arrogance, she is neither willful nor approachable, which makes the lords show a trance as if they have been cured.
If you just look at her appearance, Alice is undoubtedly quite a charming girl, and she herself is confident in this. The peach-blonde hair is neatly cut down near the shoulders, the blue eyes are shiny like jewels, and the delicate facial features are embellished on the round face, the contours of the eyes are slightly drooping, exuding a gentle temperament, and the pink and white lotus leaf dress also sets off the young and fair skin just right.
In short, Alice, who is only eight years old now, is already so cute that she has dazzled everyone, and her future growth is probably limitless.
However, this is like the girl who appeared in a fairy tale, and after saying hello, she immediately put on a fierce posture that was incompatible with her image.
As the boxing proverb goes, it moves like a stretched bow, and its hair is like thunder. The moves of Bajiquan are fierce and fierce, and the tiger is vigorous. And Alice has brought the power of her moves into full play.
Obviously she was just dancing her fists in the air, and the square was like a hurricane, and no one would doubt the destructive power contained in her punches and kicks.
Fortunately, the square where Alice practiced boxing was paved with a special material, just like the training ground of the garrison, and according to Alizar, the material that made up the ground used the automatic recovery technology of Shirda's body armor, which has a strong memory recovery ability. Ordinary damage will be repaired automatically in the blink of an eye, allowing Alice to do her best.
In fact, as far as Alice herself is concerned, in the exercise, she has restrained her strength as much as possible. After a period of training, the control of the vindictive spirit is still unsatisfactory.
Since her previous life, Alice has belonged to the Sensation School, also known as the genius type. Even if you don't understand the principles of moves and movements in your head, your body can react naturally. Even if you try to suppress the 'vindictiveness' to a minimum. Inadvertently, the body can still burst out with the power to shatter the rock.
"Drink—"
Restraint, restraint......
"Hah-"
Restrained...... Restrained......
"Drink-!
It didn't take long for Alice to forget her training goal, and her excessive concentration made her immerse herself in the moves, and she began to use her punches and kicks unscrupulously.
And so, disaster struck the square. In the loud sound of "bang-bang-bang-bang-" again and again, deep pits and cracks were smashed open.
Indeed, as Alize said, if it is an "ordinary" damage, it will be recovered immediately, but the damage caused by Alice is not ordinary, and the recovery cannot keep up with the speed of Alice's destruction. Soon, the ground was unrecognizable as if it had been hit by bombers.
"Whew-"
After completing a set of moves, Alice was angry, and after taking another deep breath, she opened her eyes and found herself standing in the middle of the ruins. There is at least a 50-square-meter square, and now it looks like the end of the world.
"I ...... I feel invincible......"
Alice looked at her little hand, which was still the delicate skin of a noble girl, and at the same time showed a confused expression.
"Ah~~ah~~ It's boring......"
Bored, Alice let her body roll backwards, and fell to the middle of the ruins with a "snap", and the destroyed ground, like some kind of creature, slowly returned to its original state.
I have to say that the current situation is very different from the 'crossing' that the 'teenagers' fantasized about. Except for being attacked by bandits at the beginning, arguing with her sister and blowing up a mountain, the world in her eyes is simply peaceful.
Although in reality it may not be so peaceful, for she heard from her sister Sophia that the situation in the empire is one way or another, and that Celeia will be drawn into strife or something—but a month has passed and there is still no movement. It's like listening to international news about the tense situation in the Middle East every day in country C, but in fact it has nothing to do with itself.
――Why don't you become an adventurer and travel the world?
This thought only passed through her mind, and was immediately dispelled by Alice. Regarding the fact that she is just an eight-year-old girl who can't take care of herself, she still has self-knowledge.
She didn't know anything about the empire, she didn't know anything about the world, she couldn't even read words...... Maybe she can do kung fu, but the reality is not a martial arts novel, and she can't break into the rivers and lakes with a little kung fu.
There are people outside the mountains, she still understands, a girl like herself who doesn't know the world, I'm afraid she will be sold if she can't walk a few steps.
- But it's boring......
Ariezel spends her days in the basement, doing all sorts of research in high spirits. Sophia, on the other hand, devoted herself to the training of the garrison, and mingled with the uncle of the garrison from morning to night.
As a result, both sisters found what they had to do in another world, and they were the only ones who had nothing to do all day.
Rachi, the friend he had finally made, also ran away from home without a sound, and now he was left with only the skin of a dragon, lying on the top of the mountain and sleeping soundly.
Now, in this rural area where there are neither computers nor the Internet, Alice has to pass the time by practicing martial arts every day.
As for why he practiced martial arts alone in the city, instead of going outside the city to find demonic beasts to conduct actual combat. The reason is very simple, basically the monsters will turn their butts and run away when they see her, of course, it is just a gesture to catch up and press them to death.
But this can't be called "actual combat" at all, it's simply abusing and killing stray animals that have no resistance. Even though Alice was originally a bit of a battle maniac, she didn't lose her heart to unilaterally bully the weak. It's a waste of effort, it's not interesting, and it leaves a lot of guilt.
Although Alice didn't know it, the poor little animals in her eyes were fierce monsters in the eyes of ordinary people.
In the end, apart from her sisters, if you want to find an opponent on a par with her, it's probably only Hilda. But Hilda is busy, and the bandits' attacks have left the family without more than a dozen maids in one go, and her workload has increased exponentially.
Although her body was transformed into a Robocop, she had no time to uphold justice, but had to use all the equipment that was more than ten years more advanced than that of Country A for cleaning, and recently she can often be seen cleverly killing cockroaches in her home with some dangerous heat rays.
Come to think of it, Alice can only mingle with the children in the town and play games with them...... Speaking of which, the little ones are still quite cute. Especially John......
- Speaking of which, I haven't seen this guy in a few days. It seems that Raki was scared a lot......
Thinking so, Alice made a beautiful carp stand up, and with a "snap" it rose from the ground.
Often, small children are used to congregating in a fixed place to play together. To use common sense on earth, it's the equivalent of a sandpit in a community park, or a gym equipment area or something like that.
In a small town like Silia, there is no place for children to play, and children have to explore the natural amusement park on their own, so the area around the windmill tower by the river has become a secret base for children. In the eyes of adults, it may be just a dump of broken garbage, but in the eyes of children, it is a paradise.
Today, there are also many children bustling together, some of them climbing up and down the garbage heap, some playing with pebbles by the river, and some jumping into the creek to swim. The river is shallow, and since there is no industrial pollution in this world, the water is also very clear, and you can occasionally catch some fish and shrimp.
Children of Alice's age are gathered here, and older children do not appear here, and in the countryside, children from the age of ten will follow their parents to the fields. Usually eight or nine-year-olds are not aware of the gender differences for a while, and boys and girls are all rolling together and living in harmony...... Well, these guys are fighting and crying, but in fact, they can't get along.
-- Everywhere we go, we repeat ugly disputes. Scold...... The world is truly twisted......
With a pretended emotion in her heart, Alice walked in the direction of the children. On the way, she gracefully dodged flying gravel and mud with her amazing dynamic vision, and she didn't want the bears to stain her favorite dress. It's just that she didn't notice that the fabric on her back had darkened a lot because of the casual lying just now.
"Ahh
"Alice~~~ Let's play!!"
"Wow~~ Alice is so beautiful today~~ She is worthy of being a noblewoman!!"
The innocent and straightforward reactions of the children put Alice in a good mood, and she has recently become more and more popular in the town, and she seems to be a star everywhere she goes. At this point, she was smiling to herself, "Hahaha, look at my glory as much as you can, fools!" and smiled at the children and asked, "Hello everyone, then, is John no longer here today?"
"John...... didn't come today!"
"I didn't see him either. ”
"Well......" Alice sighed, thinking to herself, "That guy is still hiding at home, maybe he's going to become autistic", so she decided to drag him out of the house herself. After all, the one who caused the psychological shadow on Little John was himself.
But he hadn't taken a few steps when suddenly, a man ran to the river with a sad face.
The man was dressed differently from the average townsman, a dark green uniform - camouflage. Alice has an impression of this, because all members of the current Celestial garrison wear it for training camps every day. And Alice, in the garrison, is also in the name of a martial arts consultant.
"Instructor Alice—!"
"Uncle Charlie?"
The person who came was Charlie, the deputy captain of the garrison, and he should still be in the morning exercise time, but he left the training ground and ran to the river, and his anxious appearance always made people feel extraordinary.
"Please, have you ever seen my stinky boy!"
"Huh...... no. ”
"Everyone? Have you ever seen John, who didn't come home all night last night!"
"Hmm...... I haven't seen anyone since yesterday hide and seek. ”
"Yes, yes, yes, I didn't find him until the evening, and everyone went home!"
"Huh, he was here yesterday?"
It turned out that John had been here yesterday, and Alice immediately followed up. Finally, to summarize the testimony of the children: John came here yesterday afternoon to play hide and seek with everyone, but in the evening, no one could find him, and everyone thought that he had gone home first, and they went their separate ways.
- How irresponsible...... Alice just wanted to count a few words, but on the other hand, they were just ordinary children, and there was no point in blaming them.
Anyway, now John Jr. is missing. This made the fire of justice in Alice's breast simmer again, and she believed that it was a sign that an evil crime was quietly unfolding......
And you have to do something!