With a series of eerie noises, the clockwork idol stiffened and came to a standstill like a rusty machine, and almost at the same time, Lucrecia, who was in a nearby cabin, noticed the anomaly of her creation.

The door to the cabin was slammed open, and a whirlwind of flying pieces of colored paper swept into the room, condensing into a human form in a whirlwind, and Lucrecia, the "Witch of the Sea", stepped out of the confetti and saw Luni with her head bowed and stumbling down next to the table.

"Luni?" Lucrecia quickly stepped forward, and immediately found the clockwork key that had fallen on the floor next to her, she picked it up and slapped the barrel on the back of the clockwork puppet, "What happened?"

There was a series of staccato squeaks coming from Luni's body, and it took a while for some of her parts to finally return to function, and a severely out of tune voice rang out from her chest: "Old master...... I'm looking for you......"

With a "bang," Lucrecia's clockwork key fell to the ground.

Luni turned her head and instinctively reached for her clockwork key, trying to reinsert it back into her back, but she was only halfway through her movements and stuck again, and the sound of the gears spinning was heard.

Lucrecia's face changed drastically, and her pupils shook when she heard the words "old master", but the sound of failure in Luni's body still made her wake up quickly, she shook her head suddenly, and hugged the shoulder of the clockwork puppet while forcibly suppressing her chaotic thoughts: "Luni, be on standby."

The clockwork doll slowly closed its eyes: "The order has been received, and Luni has begun to stand by."

Moments later, in the depths of the Bright Star's cabin, in a brightly lit cabin, Lucretia was busy at her workbench.

It was a laboratory that could be described as "complete and advanced" even at the headquarters of the Academy of Truth, with intricate mechanisms and pressure pipes for powering various devices throughout the spacious room, and among the countless machines, you could see auxiliary equipment covered with magical runes, as well as many crystal containers or reactors that were glowing, and a dozen automata dolls were taking care of these automatic devices, allowing Lucrecia to focus on the task at hand.

In front of the "Witch of the Sea", Luni was lying quietly on a large workbench.

The clockwork figure had been dismantled, the shell of the maid's costume was now set aside, the pure gold skeleton and various mechanical components made of brass almost covered the platform, and now only the part above the chest remained intact, which was placed on the edge of the platform, and she stared blankly at her disassembled body, occasionally blinking.

"Good...... Repair...... Is it?" A somewhat out-of-tune voice came from Luni's chest.

"Don't worry, it's just that the transmission mechanism suddenly stuck and caused the bearing to be deformed," Lucretia was busy without raising her head, "The amount of work is huge, but the repair process itself is not complicated, and there is no damage to your heart."

Luni slowly rolled her eyes, and she saw the "heart" placed in the center of the workbench.

It was a delicate brass ball, made of countless intricate pieces of metal, which floated silently over a pile of parts, and the metal pieces on its surface changed positions from time to time, revealing the structure inside, and when the metal pieces were angled at the right angle, you could clearly see that the inside of the ball was engraved with shiny runes, and a more delicate thing was floating in the center of those runes.

It was a very thin, very fragile finger, smaller than the fingers of a human toddler, made by a puppeteer a hundred years ago.

That is the true core of the mechanism doll "Luni", and the true essence is the last proof that a puppet born a hundred years ago has left in this world.

Lucrecia noticed Luni's gaze, and she glanced up, her hand movements suddenly stopped.

After a few moments, she continued to get busy, as if inadvertently, "Have you ever resented the fact that I made you like this?"

"Luni...... Why be resentful?" The puppet's head on the workbench made a dull sound, "Mistress...... Gave Luni life, and Luni ...... for it ...... glad

"But it was all just my own whim in the beginning, and I destroyed your original body for the sake of it," Lucrecia said lightly, "For a long time, I didn't realize that you had developed a real ability to think because of the influence of the border, and I only thought you were a machine, and I made many reckless 'experimental modifications' to you."

Luni didn't respond to her hostess, but after a moment of silence, she suddenly spoke, "Your emotions are nervous, you have something on your mind, a normal hostess, wouldn't suddenly say these inexplicable words."

Lucrecia was silent for two or three seconds: "...... Do you remember what you just said? After I just arrived at the restaurant and woke you up."

「…… Memory retrieval failed, Luni doesn't remember."

"You tell me, 'Old master, you're looking for me.'"

There was a string of eerie noises coming from the barrel cavity of the clockwork figure, but not due to malfunction, but due to confused thinking.

"You really don't remember?" Lucrecia looked up and looked quietly into Luni's eyes.

"Memory retrieval failed, Luni doesn't remember."

「…… It seems that my terrible father doesn't want me to have any chance to get a glimpse of him," a complicated smile appeared on Lucrecia's face, and she slowly unloaded a set of deformed gears, her tone a little erratic, "He just sent a one-sided signal to me...... He knows where the Bright Star is, and he knows how to find me......

"You're scared."

"I'm scared to death, but it's more of a ...... than I'm afraid. Sad."

"Sad? Why?"

Lucrecia looked into Luni's eyes, and after a long time, she shook her head slightly, "This is too complicated for you, and you may not be able to understand it now."

"Okay, Luni will try to find out in the future," the clockwork doll replied, then asked, "Do you think the old master is giving you some kind of warning?"

「…… I don't know, but it does feel like a warning," Lucrecia whispered, "even like some kind of pre-hunt declaration...... He's back from subspace, and he's even more elusive than the last time he returned, so maybe I should warn my brother......

"You should indeed remind Mister Tirion that he has set out for Purland, and that the Archon of Purland has said that the Lost is approaching the city-state."

Lucrecia nodded slightly, didn't say anything more, just kept her head down and kept busy.

……

Duncan carefully placed Nilou into the antique wooden crate and put the feather-shaped hairpin back in the drawer.

Then he looked at the wooden box where Nilou was kept.

As a big man, he always felt that there was something wrong with putting a girly doll in his bedroom.

But he couldn't seem to think of anything better than to put it in his bedroom.

Although the first test didn't yield any results, and he didn't find any clues from the "Nilou" doll that pointed to the transcendental, it was something related to "Lucrecia" after all, and he didn't dare to put the doll out of his sight because he wasn't sure if she would be of any use in the future.

After some struggle, Duncan sighed and temporarily placed Luni's box at the head of his bed.

"If you really have anything special, show your hands as soon as possible," he shook his head lightly as he looked at the ornate classical wooden box, "Don't be like Alice, you have to be thrown into the sea to perform some kind of coffin charge."

Of course, the wooden box didn't react, but Duncan didn't care about it either.

He went to the window and glanced at the sky outside.

Night has fallen, and the pale and dim light of the creation of the world is shining on the endless sea.

The powerful exorcism of the sun has subsided in the real world, and those distorted, ominous, and corrosive forces are gradually rising throughout the world, and at this time, humans will go into dreams as a way to escape the interference of the world with reason.

But for Duncan...... He had never felt any discomfort in the night, nor had he seen the shadows that daunted ordinary people.

The night is when his mind is sharpest.

He returned to his desk, quietly spread out a blank piece of paper, and took a pen from the side.

These are all things that have just been bought from the city-state of Purland.

After a moment of muttering, he wrote down lines of text on the paper:

In 1889, fragments of the sun appeared, triggering the Great Fire of Plant;

Behind the curtain of the factories in the sixth block lies a "reality" that has been destroyed by fire;

Within the Sixth Block neighborhood church, there is a distorted space-time that appears to be a closed loop, with two diametrically opposed realities superimposed on the church;

The source of the dog's "humanity" is unknown, but it is clearly not the power of the sun's debris;

The statue of the goddess in the church of the sixth block is suspected to have been affected by the rift in the subspace, and the nuns in the underground sanctuary are suspected to have died in the process of resisting the invasion of the subspace......

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Chapter 165: Lucretia's Stress Free Read.