"Stupid? The lord of this city is stupid, right? And Alice, you're stupid too. ”

In the living room on the first floor of the Lord's Mansion of Celeria, a noble girl with short silver curly hair looked at Alice with sympathetic eyes like a terminally ill patient, and made the above comment.

"Hey, hey, hey, it's too much! I'm kind enough to invite you home as a guest, what do you mean to be stupid, stupid! Don't elementary school students from another world even know how to write the word 'polite'?"

was sprayed without warning, even if the other party was super cute and textbook-like tsundere Lori, Alice couldn't turn a deaf ear to such verbal violence.

"Elementary ...... Forget it, I'm sorry to be rude...... If you don't hold back and tell the truth, then Miss Ben will say it differently. As she spoke, the girl named Aceia sat and smiled in the unassailable dignified posture of a noble girl, "Ahem, Mr. Lord of your city, is it an ape or a wild boar without brains?"

"Hey, it's even too much! Even the diǎn of being a human has been denied! Has my dad had a holiday with you?"

"Athea, your words are too open-mouthed. Although he was wearing a maid's outfit and was still a righteous and straightforward boy on his inside, John, finally couldn't listen to it anymore, and held grievances for his beloved lord, "Alice is indeed no different from a wild S-class demonic beast, but the lord is a good person!"

"On the diǎn of the mouth without covering, you are not far behind, my dear apprentice......

"Huh...... I'm just telling the truth. "I thought it was just a small peasant town on the border, but in fact it has only been a half-day since I came here, and there are things everywhere that surprise Miss Ben, aren't they? All of this, including the Teleportation Magic Array, is enough to make this town seek unimaginable benefits on the mainland, right? But why is it that the town even has such a low currency circulation!?Why don't the lords here use these advantages to show their strength to the whole of the Empire!!It's unbelievable!!Isn't there a chamber of commerce here?How did they let such a once-in-a-millennium business opportunity sleep on the borders of the Empire?What are they doing!!Stupid, stupid! Alice, you are a big stupid!"

"This ...... Everyone is self-sufficient, bartering...... As for the grandfather of the Chamber of Commerce, he is probably still drunk and hasn't woken up...... And don't let me lie down at every turn! Basically, I'm a martial arts faction and don't participate in the operation of the territory!"

"Uh-oh grunt grub~~"

Wearing an eye patch on one side, white bandages wrapped around both arms, and wearing a pure black robe with a stand-up collar, his hair was as beautiful jet black as his clothes, probably because of the professional needs of an adventurer, so he trimmed it more casually, just casually tied up a cocked braid at the back of his head.

Her name is Lilian, and like Aceia, she is a friend she met in Aitania two days ago. At this point, her mouth was filled with sweet 'cream ice cream', and she had no idea what she was trying to say.

"Over there, swallow what you say before you speak......!"

In fact, from the moment she entered the door to the present, Lilian's mouth has never stopped, from staple food to sweet diǎn to ice cream, which makes one wonder if her stomach is a bottomless pit after all. And the one who prepares the meal, of course, is the maid in the house. Now that there is no Hilda, although the flavor of Diǎn Heart has declined considerably, for the sugar-scarce empire, these are still delicious sweets that Lilian has never tasted.

By the way, the ice cream was prepared by Raki herself, and it was the only dish she could surpass Hilda's after a long period of hard work...... And ice cream isn't a dish. All in all, Lilian's face at this moment is full of happiness, and the temperament of the second disease in the evil eye radio wave system is gone, and she can't see the demeanor of the 'Demon Eye Black Flame Messenger who bears thousands of years of sins'.

"What a delicious meal ——! grunt——! so that all the sins that have been imprinted in my soul have been washed away...... This coolness, this silkiness, this delicate sweetness...... From the very beginning, I felt that Aunt Laqi's strength was deeply hidden, and now after tasting it myself, it is as if I have been baptized by the legendary demon dragon, the Qingyuan Dragon, and I feel the power of ice beyond the limits of the world......!"

Unfortunately, the lines are still the same...... Moreover, she guessed correctly by being beaten crookedly. For a moment, Alice thought that the name she casually gave to the ice cream sounded handsome, as if it were some nirvana. It seems that he was also poisoned by the second radio wave unknowingly.

However, unlike Aicia, she doesn't think about something too complicated at all, and concentrates on tasting the diǎn heart like an ordinary child, and on this diǎn, Lilian is more in line with her appearance and age, and looks very lively and cute.

"Well, we've visited it, and we've seen it! You have seen the beet field just now, even some children of our age can cultivate it smoothly, and the extraction and processing machines are all made by my sister, the cost is very low, and the efficiency is also guaranteed, with the business vision of Miss Athea's genius, can you use that to seek benefits for the 'alliance'?"

This is Alice's ultimate goal, the previous 'wedding rehearsal' live broadcast, due to an accident, the resulting chain reaction may make the alliance, let her father so hard to unite the hearts of the heart again. Since he wants to seek the well-being of the poor in the entire alliance region, he naturally has to be responsible for it to the end.

Although Alice also knows that the knowledge she knows and learns is too barren, it is too ugly if she has not shown a single backbone if she has undergone such a huge change as before. Even if it is Long Aotian in a third-rate story, it is time to go south and north to collect some talented younger brothers and start urban operations.

"Before you do that, answer Miss Ben's question, Alice. ”

"W-what......?"

Unlike the younger brother in other stories who obeys the protagonist's words, the eldest lady who is full of business talents, Aicia, is neither humble nor arrogant, and asks Alice questions in an equal manner. Alice was not confident about whether she could successfully respond to the other party's expectations, and only felt that her heart was beating a drum.

"What do you mean by 'for the benefit of the Alliance', for the sake of his father, Count Lutga, who is the leader of the Alliance, to amass wealth and fame, or to gather wealth for the sake of leading the city of Silya?"

Not at all like a serious question a teenager would ask, Alice swallowed, thought hard, and carefully organized her words—

"Neither is it...... Where to start, in fact, this is actually the case, before John, two of us, in [Regedia] because of impulsiveness, fought with foreign slave traders, and rescued all the slave children who were originally going to be sold abroad, ah...... By the way, the same kids you just saw in the beet garden...... At that time, as soon as my brain was hot, I said irresponsible rhetoric such as the alliance, liberation, and a bright future......"

"Eh...... eh, ——!?"

"Oh, oh——!?"

But Alice was only halfway through when she made both Aice and Lillian scream at the same time.

"Eh, what's wrong? Two people together, suddenly ......"

"You, you're the one from ago...... In the ...... where Regedia attacked the slave ship and saved all the slaves?"

For some reason, Athea's attitude suddenly became a little squirming, and her cheeks flushed and she asked in a mosquito-like voice.

"Ah, the brave man who attacked the slave ship and saved the slaves was not me, to be exact, it was John. As she spoke, Alice turned her gaze to the young maid on the side, "He was a lively man at the time~~!"

"Really...... I heard that it was a young knight who saved the slaves......

"Yes, John is a boy, but he is super handsome, a veritable young knight!" Elle did not hesitate to tell the truth about gender, of course, she also thought of the young knight Senilo who had infiltrated the slave ship with John at that time, but as a protective master, Alice decisively gave all the credit to her apprentice.

Hearing this, Athea immediately turned her enthusiastic and surprised gaze in John's direction, "Really, really?

"Well, I'm a man. ”

After all, the maid dress was not John's personal hobby, but was forced by Alice, so he did not hesitate to admit his true gender. Although Alice felt a little sorry for this, she originally expected to see the cute scene where John was embarrassed about his outfit just like in the pseudo-girl comics. But unfortunately, considering John's age now, this shame may not be sensitive enough, so he has not mastered such high-end selling skills.

"That's right...... Hey, hey, hey...... Finally found ......" Athea shook her shoulders and rubbed her little hands, and kept her slender fingers crossed and separated, and then crossed, looking uneasy, and buried her red cheeks very low, and her mouth was vague and did not know what she was saying.

"Hmm, what's wrong?" John raised an eyebrow at the sudden change in attitude, a look of confusion.

"No, it's nothing!!...... That one...... How so...... That, John...... Sir, would you like to come to my house and work as a maid...... and our family will provide better treatment than here?"

——This tsundere lady was attacked unguarded?

For the earth-shaking change of Ecia from 90% and 10% to 0% and 100%, combined with the situation of the lines and the rapid rotation of the brain, the memories related to the 'slave ship incident' are excavated...... Let Alice, who is by no means a dull harem hero who is a waste of firewood, and at the same time has a keen girl's intuition, instantly understands the ins and outs.

"Ho ho, it's so nice to poach in front of me, girl~!" she said, she poked her head out suddenly, came to Aicia's ear, and asked quietly, "Could it be that you are the noble daughter ...... who was kidnapped to the ship that day?"

“——！！”

Hearing this whisper, Athea's ears instantly turned tomato with shame, and her throat let out a soft and sad sound like 'woo~~~~~', because this appearance was too cute, Alice couldn't help the sadomasochism in her heart, and continued-

"Sure enough~~ That day, John, he ...... But hugging you naked, swimming all the way back to the shore?"

With a nidal blow, a puff of white smoke appeared on Ethea's head as if it were 'bang-', and her whole body curled up.

"Hey, John, Miss Elcia hired you to work in the house with a high salary? Not only do you get three meals a day and a nap, but you also have a blushing heartbeat for a special service?"

"What nonsense? I'm a warrior! This maid outfit is just a training for the path of a warrior. So Atheia, you're mistaken, I'm not a maid at all, and I didn't plan to leave Celia until I defeated Alice, sorry. ”

However, it is a pity that the seven-year-old Xiao Yue obviously has no understanding of 'love' at all, and he completely fails to understand the meaning of Athea's shyness. Although he keeps saying that he likes Alice, the so-called 'like' for him is probably a pure friendship.

Or, in other words, this kid is the one who is deeply hidden, the real 'harem dull actor', thinking of this, Alice can't help but jokingly fantasize about the day when she will become a member of John's harem. At the same time, he also made up his mind to exercise his martial arts more strictly, so as not to steer steadily on the road of Brother Cheng of NBOA one day.

"Oh hey, don't ignore me!Woo woo woo~~~~~ Beware of me cursing you with the black flame of sin~~~?"

At this moment, the black girl, who had been hanging aside since just now, was already with tears in her eyes, completely ignoring her image setting, and made an awkward scene like a child.

"Ahaha, overplayed, overplayed, sorry. Eh...... What do you want to say?"

Alice...... Are you the ...... of the [Luna Knight]?" Even Alice couldn't help but feel a little nervous about it.

"Uh, uh...... yes, it seems that the Adventurers' Guild calls me that, [Luna Knight] or something, hahaha...... Actually, she's just a country girl~~!"

"Don't be modest, needless to say, [Regedia]'s speech, you also participated in the battle of the 'Demon Dragon' with your grandfather before, right?"

Speaking of his grandfather, a legendary figure of the Imperial Adventurers Association, a saint-rank warrior - Tong?? Whitehouse, Lillian involuntarily touched the magic sword 'Black Rose' leaning next to her seat.

"Yes, it's the honor of my life to fight alongside Grandpa Whitehouse, ahaha......"

"Sure enough, sure enough...... From the first time I saw you, I should have thought of it—" Lillian stood up, stepped onto her seat with one foot up, and announced in a high-spirited manner, "You are indeed my fateful rival in my past and present lives, Alice, the knight blessed by the moonlight!"

"Ah...... Oh. ”

Unilaterally designated as a 'rival in her previous life', Alice doesn't know how to react.

"Pleasure in it...... The winner who couldn't be separated in his previous life finally waited for the moment of deciding. I can feel the trembling and excitement of your soul...... This time, I'm definitely not going to lose to-"

"What are you talking about, you were put down by Alice as soon as you looked at you, didn't you......?"

John mercilessly interrupted Lilian's spirited performance,

"That, it was a sudden attack, so it can't be counted~~! And when people are accumulating strength to kill!Too, it's too despicable~~!

"Hmph, I'm the only one who will bring down Alice. If you want to challenge, get past me first!"

"I can't ask for it! Listen, Servant of the Moon God...... I will let you sacrifice the black flame of the abyss today......"

"Alright, alright...... I'll wait until tomorrow morning for morning exercise. Let's get down to business......" Alice forcibly activated the skill of saving the topic, after all, everyone is still a child, and they all go around as they please, so as an adult (spiritual age of twenty-four) must set an example and be moderate, "In short, since I made the alliance single-handedly, I must also do my best to keep my word." Isn't it true that I'm asking, 'Whose good am I??, right?, and my answer is to make the world a better place, to make the country more comfortable, to make myself and everyone happy, and that's it!"

Although this wish sounded completely unrealistic, Alice was not lying. In her fantasy, the so-called 'Sword and Sorcery' otherworldly continent should be as light-hearted as 'OAS', yes, it's like a game-like world. But what about the present, this country has taken the route of a sword legend, and it is obviously not an appetite for itself.

So, if he is really a member of the protagonist of the Dragon Aotian system and can really change the world on his own, then Alice will undoubtedly choose to make this world a 'board of games'. Even if you fight hard, it's just a game where you don't get hurt and have fun with each other, which is perfect.

However, Alice never thought that such a dreamlike wish would never be realized, even on Earth, which is far ahead of the level of civilization. It sounds naïve and simple, but it is a long and endless road, which can also be summed up as the ultimate proposition of human civilization - peace.

"Hmph~! A child's wish!" Alice's reply brought Athea back from her shyness, and she threw her head with her arms and poked her head mercilessly, and then after a pause, she continued, "But...... Sounds good too...... Be honored, Alice, for Miss Ben will do her little bit for you. Don't, don't get me wrong, we're just on the same page!"

"Oh lose! Ahh——!h——!h

At the same time, Lillian held up the maid's newly filled ice cream and echoed inarticulately.

"Middle two disease, you swallow it first and then talk ......!"