Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 1204 Do you mind sharing with me?
The sky was slightly bright, and the first ray of morning sunlight quietly climbed through the window lattice and sprinkled on the girl's peaceful sleeping face, making her long golden hair shine brighter than gold. What surprised the young man a little was that Alice, who was usually very noisy, slept surprisingly well. She basically did not do anything like rolling around or kicking, and only occasionally muttered a few words in her sleep.

This guy slept soundly, but he played games all night without even closing his eyelids. Now, under the warm morning light, he felt warm and sleepy. Lingge, who hadn't slept all night, didn't want to play games anymore. He just wanted to go back to his room and take a good nap. Fortunately, Alice, who was sleeping soundly, didn't hug him tightly like she did at the beginning, and refused to let the young man go no matter what. He tried to remove the restless hands of the genius player from his neck and shoulders, then leaned over to pick her up, and put her back to bed with great effort. After covering her with the quilt, he breathed a sigh of relief.

This guy feels much heavier than Olvera and Iyetta. Is it an illusion?

“No, I don’t…”

Alice on the bed suddenly murmured, which startled Ling Ge. Then he realized that this guy was just talking in his sleep. He giggled as he spoke: "I am also... not as good as you say... Bai Ye... hehe..."

Well, now Lingge knew what she dreamed about.

At first I thought Bai Ye should apologize, but now I suddenly feel that that guy is a bit pitiful. Why?

The young man sympathized with the gray-haired girl for a while, then turned around to put away the game console and cassettes, put them back in the drawer, and thoughtfully drew the curtains to prevent the gradually brightening sunlight from affecting the sleep quality of the genius gamer. After doing all this, he turned around and left the room. Not sure if it was an illusion, but before he gently closed the door, he seemed to hear the girl on the bed whispering in a weak voice: "Well, thank you... Lingge..."

Will the proud talented player also say thank you?

Well, it must be an illusion.

……

Coincidentally, when Lingge left Alice's room and stood in the corridor, the door of the room next to him also clicked and was opened from the inside. The young man was stunned for a moment. If he remembered correctly, the owner of that room should be——

"Ah, Ling."

The pink-haired girl, who had already finished her morning wash and whose face was still flushed with the warmth of cold water, looked energetic all the time. She looked up and saw her brother, and greeted him happily. Because of his poor mental state, the young man just nodded to his sister as a response, and then he didn't know what he remembered, and asked in confusion: "Why did you get up so early today, Metien?"

The pink-haired girl always had the good habit of going to bed early and getting up early, but since she started to study medical knowledge in depth, she would stay in her small laboratory until very late every day. As a parent, Linger insisted that eight hours of sleep quality every day was very important for teenagers, so he specially granted her the right to go to bed late and get up late, which made Shemi and Leticia jealous for a long time. It was still early in the morning. Usually at this time, not to mention Metien, even her two friends were still sleeping in bed.

"Ah, you really forgot!"

Metien showed a condemning expression and angrily said to his brother: "Today is Kadora's baptism ceremony, of course I have to rush over early to prepare! Don't forget that you have to help, Lingge!"

"This..." Being accused by his own sister, the young man couldn't help but feel a little ashamed: "Of course I didn't forget, it's just, ahem, I was careless for a moment."

"really?"

Medien looked at his brother with suspicion, and then keenly noticed that there was still a trace of tiredness in the corners of his eyes. Looking more carefully, he didn't seem to come out of his own room. Wasn't that Sister Alice's room?
The pink-haired little girl was stunned!
She thought of a terrible possibility!
"Lingge, you, you, you didn't sleep last night!? And you were in Sister Alice's room? Oh my God, what did you all do!" She was so surprised that she was incoherent. If she continued to quarrel like this, she might wake up others, and then she would really be unable to clear herself.

Lingge walked over and tapped his sister's head unhappily, saying with a dark face, "Don't let your imagination run wild all day. I just went to comfort Alice and play games with her."

"Really? Hehehe!" The pink-haired girl covered her head and gave her brother a flattering smile, saying that I didn't mean it just now, but this made Ling Ge more convinced that she did it on purpose. She is obviously old enough to be called a girl, why is she not as well-behaved as a child? Is there something wrong with my education method, Mr. Yang Ke?

The young man thought helplessly.

"Oh, right." Ling Ge remembered something and said to Metien, "I fixed Alice's game console. Well, it's not completely fixed. It can only be used to play games for now. But Mitch and Kadora should be very happy, right?"

"Really? That's great!" Metien's eyes sparkled. She was really happy. Not only was she happy that Sister Alice's game console was finally repaired, but she was also happy that she could finally fulfill her promise to her friends. "Then I'll ask Sister Alice if I can bring the game console to Tianxin Church so that Mitch and Kadora can experience the game made by Sister Alice! Well, that will definitely be fun!"

"Are you really going to let everyone play games at the baptism ceremony, Metien?" Ling thought she was just joking.

"Of course." Metien had a good reason: "The game console is the goddess's sacred weapon. Is there any reason why it can't appear in the ceremony? In addition to the game console, I also specially asked the boss lady to prepare a lot of delicious food, invited the potted plants to play hymns, and asked Sister Lorena to help make a lot of beautiful fireworks. It will definitely be very lively at that time, hehe."

She smiled like a child about to attend a carnival, and from her description, the baptism ceremony was indeed no different from a festival.

Lingge could hardly imagine the scene at that time, but now, the resident priest of Tianxin Church is Metien after all. She also serves as the Holy Spirit of the Goddess and a nun. She also has two loyal subordinates, Sister Livia and Sister Gloria (suspected). She holds great power, so naturally she can do whatever she wants.

The young man rubbed his sister's head and said, "Don't overdo it."

"This is not a game, but a serious ceremony!" Metien defended herself, but Linge just responded with a look that said "Do you think I will believe it?" This made the girl very angry, and she ran away angrily, with the sound of her footsteps echoing in the corridor.

Perhaps it was because Metien made too much noise when she went downstairs, waking up the others who were still sleeping. After a while, the door opposite opened, and the Princess of Beman walked out slowly, yawning as she walked, which was very indecent. Linger looked at her silently, and Ovella glanced at the young man with a glance, and saw the indescribable expression of the young man. Her body couldn't help but stiffen. After reacting, she immediately closed her mouth and swallowed the yawn. At the same time, she folded her hands on her lower abdomen, coughed twice, and raised her head again, looking at the young man with a reserved face, as if the person who yawned in the corridor just now was not herself.

Lingge was speechless: "Can I take it that you are insulting my eyesight, Miss Olvera?" "Hehe, I don't know what you are talking about?" Because she was too nervous, Olvera even broke out a habit she had never had before: "I am Her Royal Highness the Princess of Beman, an elegant and dignified lady, how could I yawn in the corridor? Haha, hahahahaha..."

This is probably called confessing one's mistake, right?

Linger stared at her for a long time, until a drop of cold sweat appeared on the princess's forehead, and then he said suddenly: "You have dark circles at the corners of your eyes."

"Eh? Really? Is it serious? I washed in front of the mirror for a long time before I went out, so it shouldn't be that obvious, right?" The elegant and dignified princess suddenly revealed her true colors.

"I lied to you." Ling Ge added slowly.

"Ugh!"

Avella, realizing she had been deceived, blushed first, then her cheeks slowly puffed up, and she stared at Lingge with anger. If eyes could kill, the young man would have been cut into pieces by her. Of course, even if eyes couldn't kill, seeing the princess's gradually clenched fists, Lingge had no doubt that if he got close at this time, he would definitely be hit hard. Only at this time, the princess would not care about the so-called royal etiquette.

Or maybe she didn't really care about it at all. She stayed up late, delayed her manuscripts, drank alcohol with the bartender, and occasionally sneaked into the kitchen to eat snacks in the name of sleepwalking. How could these behaviors conform to royal etiquette? But this guy seemed to have no sense of self-awareness and had to pretend to be an elegant and dignified lady in front of Lingge. Naturally, the young man couldn't help but want to expose her.

That being said, the princess's fighting ability is unquestionable. After all, she has been practicing court swordsmanship since she was a child, and it is not a problem for her to beat ten of her with one hand. In front of her, Ling Ge did not dare to show the same "cold" attitude as when facing Bai Ye. He quickly changed the subject before she took action: "Why did you get up so early, Ovira?"

"Ah?" Her Royal Highness the Princess was stunned, as if she didn't know how to answer.

"I thought you would sleep a little longer." Ling Ge said, "It's not easy to get some sleep now. No one will blame you even if you sleep in occasionally."

Sleeping and dreaming are very common things for ordinary people, but they are a luxury for Princess Berman. Of course, sleeping in is also a rare experience. Ordinary people still love the short time of lingering in the quilt when the morning light falls, let alone Ovella who has never experienced this feeling? From this perspective, she is just taking back what she has been missing for a long time.

People like Shaymi and Leticia, who slept in simply because they didn't want to get up, would be taught a lesson by the landlady and the countess; but as for Olvera, Lingge sincerely hoped that she could experience this feeling, at least to make up for his regret of never being able to sleep in peacefully for a long time in the past.

The feeling of leaving behind all distractions and troubles, curling up in a warm bed, and feeling every bone and even every cell in the body becoming lazy and comfortable is actually not a bad one.

"No."

Olvera suddenly murmured.

"What?" Ling Ge didn't hear clearly, he walked closer, and the distance between them was shortened. Her Royal Highness felt his breath coming towards her, and a drunken blush appeared on her face, but she still forced herself not to avoid his sight and repeated what she had just said word by word: "I said, I didn't sleep last night!"

That’s why you have dark circles!

Can't you even see that? I'm so disappointed in you, Lingge!
Her Royal Highness the Princess thought indignantly.

"You didn't sleep?" Ling Ge couldn't help but frowned. "Why? You finally got rid of the curse and were able to sleep like a normal person. Isn't this what you always wanted? Or was it that Saint Xia Liya and I were too indulgent to you in the past, so you developed the bad habit of staying up late, and now you are unwilling to correct it? If so, I will tell Saint Xia Liya and ask her to strengthen her education and supervision of you in the future, Ovira..."

"That's not the case!"

Seeing the young man using Xiao Xia to bully her, Avella became anxious and no longer cared about being shy. She directly said the reason that was difficult for her to say: "I was waiting for you all night!"

"Wait for me?" Ling Ge was immediately puzzled: "Why?"

"Need I ask?" Avella was even more puzzled than him, wondering why this young man would ask such a matter-of-fact question. She blurted out without thinking: "Of course I'm waiting for you to sleep with me!"

Click.

With a terrifying sound of unlocking a lock, the door to the next room suddenly opened.

At this moment, the young man and the princess reacted in the same way. They both tensed their backs, opened their eyes wide, and showed expressions of surprise or fear on their faces. They didn't even dare to look back. Because they both knew very well who the owner of the next room was.

The woman who, in most cases, has absolute dominance over the humans, humanoids, and non-humanoids on Yunjingkong Island.

"Good morning, Ringo, Olvera."

A peaceful, gentle, yet creepy voice, clearly ringing next to my ear, makes me feel like it is coming from a very long distance, the distance between life and death: "I just heard you guys talking about an interesting topic, do you mind if I join in?"

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