Alice left happily, and it looked like she would be happy for many days, while Duncan was left alone on the deck, looking at the wooden box containing "Nilou".

He took control of the "clone" in the city-state of Purand and left Uptown, and was currently on his way back to the antique shop, and before leaving the puppet shop, he and the old lady had a lot of things to do with Lucrecia and Tirien, but nothing more.

As the shopkeeper himself said, she was just an ordinary citizen after all, just living longer than humans, and having experienced some things many years ago, but apart from the original relationship and hearsay information, she didn't know much about the two "Duncan descendants".

On the Lost Land, Duncan was immersed in thought.

He even had a pair of children in his body, even a couple of living children, and it sounded like the brother and sister were no ordinary people - one of them had been loyal to the Frost Queen and now became the biggest pirate leader in the cold sea, and the other had been wandering the borders of the civilized world for a long time, engaging in mysterious explorations, and was awe-inspiring to be called the "Witch of the Sea" by the captains.

Such a pair of "children" only gave Duncan the feeling of trouble and a little nervousness at the moment.

He is now "Captain Duncan" of the Lost Country, and it looks like he will have to be "Captain Duncan" for the foreseeable future, so he will have to find a way to maintain this status, but if one day in the future ...... What should I do if I really run into that brother and sister?

Should I show filial piety to my father? Or should you show that you are ruthless? Should I say hello, or should I walk away coldly?

According to the store manager, the Tirien siblings had a "break" with their father a hundred years ago, and the Sea Mist and the Bright Star parted ways with their flagship Lost Country after a mysterious "family conflict", which is known to the world.

But what happened at that time may only be known to the three parties involved.

Duncan sighed softly.

Whatever the real situation at that time was, one thing seemed certain: the relationship between me and the brother and sister seemed to be not filial to the father and the son, or the father and the daughter—and if they did, it would be better to work in the direction of the family's misfortune......

He bent down and picked up the wooden box containing "Nilou", on the velvet lining the box, the puppet girl who was only a few dozen centimeters tall was lying quietly, this little guy who was born a hundred years ago is now the new "member" of the Lost Country.

Is "she" really connected to Lucrecia? Or is there really the doll named "Luni" that she bought a hundred years ago by Lucrecia's side?

Duncan hadn't given much thought to it when he bought Nilou, but now his mind was active, and with the wooden box in hand, he returned to the captain's quarters.

The goat's head was at the helm as usual, and as soon as Duncan opened the door and entered, his usual noise rang out: "Ah! The great captain has returned to his loyal captain's chamber, you seem to have brought a lot of supplies from the city-state, and your loyal omissions are very concerned about the health of the ship's food, and if you don't mind, I will personally guide Miss Alice to become a qualified ......."

"Shut up, don't you mess around with that puppet anymore, I don't want my next meal to look like a pot of ghostly demon vomit," Duncan glared at the goat's head, "Where are we now, and how far are we from Purland?"

"Oh, we're still moving at full speed toward Purander, and we've made several successful spirit accelerations in between—like 'playing on the edge of the real world,' and now the Lost is only ten days away from that city-state," the goathead said happily at once, "I guess it won't be long before you'll feel a clear charge of power as you walk through the spirit realm—the Lost Land's influence will be the biggest boost for your activities in the city-state......

Duncan glanced silently at the goat's head, who stopped babbling and was silent for two seconds before suddenly uttering, "The loyal first mate always knows the captain best."

"Very well," Duncan nodded, and walked to his bedroom with the crate, but soon he paused again, his mind quickly scribbling and assembling words, and finally asked casually with a calm expression, "You say, how would Tirion and Lucretia react if they saw me again?"

It was a test he had carefully weighed, and it was the most normal question he had ever considered, the least suspicious of all, and the one that could obtain some information.

He didn't ask Goathead what he thought of the siblings, because such questions were too blunt, and he didn't ask what had happened between the siblings and the Lost Country, because that would reveal his own situation—the way he ended up asking questions was more in line with his own identity and his relationship with Goathead.

The goat's head was visibly stunned for a moment, and his voice hesitated for a long time before reaching Duncan's ears: "You mean...... Your children...... I'm sorry, Captain, I don't know whether to talk about your family or not, because you rarely talk about them to me, but if you have to say it, you have to say it......

The goat's head, who was usually very sharp-tongued, swallowed several times before finally continuing, "If I have to say, I think we might have another fight with Tirion, just like we did in Frost, after all, he always likes to solve problems with artillery, and Miss Lucrecia...... She's probably going to get out of the way......

Duncan was noncommittal, but suddenly, he realized two things!

First, he remembered that Goathead had revealed that the Lost had "fought" with someone near the Frost City-State, and that battle had been fought with Tirien!

Second, Goathead's reaction was strange at first, and he made a point of emphasizing that Duncan rarely mentioned the siblings to him...... Judging from this sentence, could it be that this goathead didn't really get along with that pair of brothers and sisters? What he knows about the siblings can only rely on Duncan's "mention"?

Wasn't this guy on the Lost from the beginning?!

Duncan's eyes froze slightly, but his face showed nothing, except to nod his head to indicate that he heard the goat's reply, and continued to walk quietly, returning to his bedroom.

The thick oak door closed behind him, cutting off the view of the goat's head in the chart room, and allowing Duncan's mood to slowly regain his calm.

With a long exhalation, he took Nilou out of the wooden box and placed it on his desk, staring at the doll for several minutes before finally greeting her, "Hello, my name is Duncan."

Of course, the doll didn't respond in any way.

She's really just a puppet.

Duncan suddenly felt that his behavior was a little stupid, and he smiled awkwardly, saying that it was fortunate that no one on this ship had the courage to peek into the captain's bedroom, and then opened the drawer at hand and felt something inside.

It was a small, delicate hairpin in the shape of waves and feathers.

This is the "old thing" that Alice has found in the cabin.

Duncan stared silently at the small hairpin, and as before, the strange nostalgia once again permeated his heart.

It seems that this is the only wisp of "humanity" left by the original owner of this body, in the form of indifferent emotional fragments, remaining in his heart.

"I'm afraid this is really Lucrecia's ......," Duncan muttered to himself, "a gift that she didn't get out of, or the only memento she left on the ship after she left......

He slowly picked up the hairpin and flipped it gently in the sunlight, which shone brightly through the window and the silver edges of the hairpin.

A small cluster of green flames spread from Duncan's fingertips, submerging the hairpin in the blink of an eye, and then the flames flowed through the air and wrapped around the doll Nilou.

Duncan calmed down and tried to feel if there was a supernatural power left within these two things, or even a little "connection" that could point to "distance".

However, the flames quickly faded, and neither the puppet nor the hairpin responded.

Is it because they are really just ordinary mortal objects, or is it because Lucrecia is currently on the border of the civilized world, so far away that the "connection" remaining in the two objects is so weak that even the fire of the spirit cannot capture?

Duncan frowned, and once again filled the flames, and at the same time, with the mentality that he couldn't even tell, he tried to speak, "Lucrecia...... Lucy?"

He took the nickname of the name Lucrecia - perhaps, a nickname that would make a stronger connection than the official name?

Nothing happened.

Duncan waited for a long time, and finally had to extinguish the flame in disappointment.

At the same time, at the edge of the Eternal Veil in the Far Frontier, the clockwork doll "Luni", who was wiping the table, suddenly stopped.

This "engineering creation" that has been transformed by Lucrecia's own hands countless times, and is now almost an "alchemical life", came from the body of a series of gears and bearings that rotated wildly, followed by a bunch of "creaking" noises.

The clockwork key behind Luni's back clicked and fell to the ground, the alloy-reinforced arm stiffened down, and a wisp of green smoke slowly rose from the open seam behind the maid's shell......

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