"Hey, Alice!

"Huh?"

At the gate of the city, Alice, who was about to step out of the city, was stopped in her footsteps, and she turned to see a child of her own age standing in front of her.

Although he is a boy, he has a delicate face, big eyes, and a round face, and he still looks a little cute, but unfortunately his hair is messy like a bird's nest, and even the fabric of his coat is covered with dust, completely burying Peugeot's face.

"Where have you been these days?"

Judging by his physique, the boy was probably younger than Alice, and at this time he straightened his face with an unhappy expression.

"Yo, John. Hahaha, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I've been busy with something lately, and I have a chance to play with you again. ”

"Don't want to run! If you win, run away, I won't agree!"

The boy said categorically, and strode through the gates, blocking Alice's path.

This teenager named John, just like his dirty appearance, is lively and mischievous, and is the type that causes the most headaches for adults.

By the way, he is also the son of Charlie, the deputy captain of the city defense guard, and has longed for his father since he was a child, imitating adventurers to dance knives and guns, so he was the child king of Celestia City for a while, and often led other children to play pranks together.

That's right, he is the "former" child king - but now the dynasty has changed, and the current child king is Alice in front of him.

Often, a boy forcibly blocks the way of a weak girl and looks as if he is bullying the weak. In fact, everyone in the town knows that it is not Alice who has been bullied all along, but poor little John.

Since Alice walked out of the lord's mansion and mingled with the villagers of the town, her cheerful and active personality, far beyond the ordinary athletic ability, made her quickly become the leader in the eyes of her peers, and naturally replaced John's position.

Not to be outdone, John tried all sorts of things to challenge Alice.

Unfortunately, the record so far is 49 defeats and zero wins.

It can only be said that Alice is really not graceful, her mental age is seventeen plus eight, she is over twenty years old, even if the opponent is just a child, she has no mercy at all, no matter what game, she will fight John to the end.

And John didn't give up because of this, he relentlessly searched for brand new projects, and tirelessly wrote to Alice. But in fact, no matter how hard he tries now, he can't shake Alice's status in the hearts of children. But it didn't matter, because John believed that he had to save his dignity and would not be willing to be trampled under the feet of a noble girl all the time, so he had to take back a city from Alice anyway.

In the past two days, John has made all preparations and made up his mind to be ashamed, but Alice has not appeared in the "secret base" where the children have gathered, and the anxious John began to take the initiative to search for Alice's whereabouts.

Since it was only a small town the size of a mung bean, he was soon asked for a clue - for several days, Miss Alice would go out of the city in the afternoon.

After receiving reliable information, John immediately took action, and first went around to the city gate to ambush him, and was finally blocked by him today.

Since they met on a narrow road, John also cheered up, even if he gambled on the dignity of a man, he must defeat the demon in front of him.

"I'm sorry John, but I really don't have time today...... Well, what do you want to compare? Race, climb trees, hide and seek, or just play a duel game?"

Unexpectedly, Alice, who has never flinched, looks like she is in high spirits today, which makes John angry. You know, he's done a lot of preparation for this day.

"It's not such a childish thing! Today we're going to compare the obstacle course!"

To put it simply, it is a race along a certain route, and the person who reaches the finish line first wins.

Unlike ordinary races, on the track, John painstakingly set up all kinds of obstacles. Of course, for John, who designed the track, he simply had an advantage, and this kind of competition was not fair at all from the beginning, and I have to say that it was really in line with the cute logic of a seven-year-old child.

"Ahhh......h Don't. ”

"What...... You, are you afraid of me?"

"Then there is an important agreement, I don't have time to play such a troublesome game with you, if you want to divide the winner and lose, it's better to be as direct as usual, right? How about a duel game, whoever falls first will lose, so it's decided. ”

"You, you...... Wait, wait——!"

After saying that, Alice didn't even give a chance to refuse, she had already taken a quick step forward, and with a slight trip on her toes, little John fell to the ground miserably.

"Okay~~ I've won, keep up the good work, boy, see you later. ”

Alice, who casually sent the boy away, turned around and was about to leave, but—

"Uh......h Whining...... Woo wow wow wow wow ——!!"

Even if he is a dignified man, John is only a seven-year-old child at best, and when he is bullied to this point, of course, he can only perform the unique nirvana of children - howling and crying.

"Uh...... So, what's that...... Wait—wait, wait, don't, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry!"

Alice was shocked, and immediately turned and hurried to John's side, crouching down and speaking comfortingly.

This is the first time John cried in front of him, Alice realized that she had gone too far, she panicked, so she had to take little John's little head into her arms, and while learning the gentle tone of parents to comfort their children, she whispered "Okay, I was wrong, don't cry, don't cry~~", while gently using her fingers to slowly straighten out the messy hair.

“——！？”

Startled by Alice's soft embrace, John immediately stopped crying. At the same time, for the first time, the self-respecting "original child king" was surprised to realize that Alice, the demon in front of him, who had always been invincible, and his biggest competitor, was actually a nephrite jade "girl".

"Hahaha, little John, what a set!

"This kid actually got her hands on Miss Alice, and the future is terrifying......!"

"No way, who made Miss Alice so cute, my kid also kept saying that he would marry Miss Alice when he grew up?"

"But John, you kid don't have to like to follow other people's drums all day long, men's personalities are too slimy but they should be hated?"

The townspeople who gathered unconsciously let out all kinds of laughter at the scene of the two children embracing each other warmly.

"Hurry up and let go of me!!!Who, who said I like this guy!"

This caused John to break free from Alice's embrace, and let out a scream, and he only felt that his cheeks were burning as if they were about to burst into flames.

The boy's shy resistance made Alice look puzzled, and she put on a slightly embarrassed smile and asked cautiously, "The ...... John, are you ...... Hate me?"

"I ...... No...... I...... I...... Eh!~~~ yes! I hate you the most!"

After a little struggle, little John shouted as if he had given up on himself.

"Ahh......h I'm sorry...... "For Alice, she didn't have the consciousness of bullying John at all, and she thought that she was just enthusiastically playing with each other, so little John's refusal made her a little disappointed, "It's annoying, it's nerve-wracking, I like ......you very much."

Alice lowered the corners of her eyes, sighed, and muttered softly. The girl's somewhat sad side face, in John's eyes at this time, seemed particularly worrying to him for some reason.

"No, not really...... Woo woo woo ~ ~ you guy!!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as the words "I like you very much" came out, John's cheeks became as red as tomatoes, and his small feet unconsciously stomped on the ground, and he let out a writhing moan from his nostrils, only to feel a wave of heat surging from the soles of his feet, almost making him smoke rise above his head.

Alice subconsciously thought that she had made him angry again, shook her little hand, and hurriedly said: "Don't get excited, don't get excited-this John~~ As compensation, today I will introduce you to the super handsome 'friend'!How about it?"

"Handsome, handsome friend?Who is it!?"

John didn't expect that the words blurted out by the other party would make him react so violently, and an indescribable irritability and sourness rolled and churned from the bottom of his young heart.

"Oh~!!!, I'm interested, right, so without further ado, hold on to my ——!"

John's eager rhetorical question made Alice immediately smile heartily, he squatted down and stretched out his hands, one hand held his shoulders, the other hand went around the popliteal fossa, and with the gesture of "princess hug", he couldn't help but lift the boy's body off the ground.

The postures of the two make for a fantastic picture, because common sense says that the positions of the two are reversed.

"Wait-you, what are you doing——!"

"Stop talking, it's fast, beware of biting your tongue!"

As soon as the words fell, the super express "Alice" set off urgently, although it was not as fast as Sophia's amazing speed that ignored the common sense of physics, but Alice, who was running with all her might, was already ridiculously fast.

The sudden acceleration caught John off guard, he had no time to care about his shyness, hugged Alice's neck tightly, and he let out a heart-rending scream in the high-speed gallop that he had never experienced before.

From stone roads to mountain roads, from grasslands to streams, no amount of terrain can stop Alice's speed.

By the way, this also made John realize that he was in the field of racing, and it was impossible for him to be the opponent of this demon.

An hour later—

- Hmm...... Alice. Brought other little things with him today, he's?

"He's John, it's my buddy! John, look...... Ahh——!h

John's legs trembled, his lips and teeth trembled, and he peed in fear.

It's not a metaphor, for his thighs are literally wet. Incontinence in front of his old enemy Alice is undoubtedly the greatest shame in life, but at the moment, the boy simply does not care about such an inconsequential face.

Because, in front of him, there is a "monster" that is taller than the mountain.

"Love, love, love, love, Alice! What the hell is this, what the hell is this——!"

Faced with the dragon, poor little John let out a mournful cry that could not be spoken.

"She's 'Rachi', she's very handsome, isn't she?

- Hmm...... He looked a little nervous.

"Eh, John, don't you like it? It's weird...... Shouldn't all boys like dragons, robots, or whatever? It's romantic......"

- Hmm...... You always like to talk about men's romance, but Alice is a girl, right?

"Ha~~!Even if the body is a girl, I will always be a gentleman in my heart. Anyway, in order to enhance friendship, let's first use the method I taught you to express friendship!"

- Hmm...... I'll try.

The dragon, whom Alice calls "Ratchi", lands its massive head beside the poor boy.

For a monster with a total length of nearly 100 meters and a height of more than 20 meters, just the slow approach of the head was enough to roll up the strong air flow that almost swept the boy away.

It slowly opened its abyss-like jaw, revealing two rows of hideous fangs and a long blood-red tongue in the depths, carefully licking the boy's whole body with the tip of its tongue, and in an instant the saliva completely soaked John's clothes.

That's right, that's Alice's brilliant point - if you want to ask how animals show intimacy to humans, the best thing to do is to lick each other's bodies, but she doesn't expect that the dragon will perform such an intimate act, and whoever else will think it is going to swallow itself as a snack.

Poor little John, who had fallen straight down in the dragon's saliva, rolled his eyes and foamed at the mouth, and had lost consciousness.

- Hmm...... is this a success?

"Ah...... Ahem. How to say, everything lies in trying, and failure is the mother of success...... So, Raghi, let's get down to business, can you transform into a beautiful girl......?"