Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 1292 Are you all wasting your time?
"Hey!"

Avella struggled to carry a pile of dishes into the cupboard, then gently closed the door. Looking at the carefully scrubbed dishes shining behind the glass window, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "Is this the end?"

"Thank you for your hard work!"

The proprietress's voice came from behind. She was standing at the door, looking at everyone with a smile. There was not even a trace of water on her hands. This was certainly not because she was highly skilled and had mastered the trick of how to wash the dishes without getting any water on them, but because she was not doing any work at all. She was just watching the whole process. If anyone was slow, she would criticize them by name. She looked like a black-hearted supervisor!

The hotel owner actually asked the guests to do housework while she watched them. Is this fair?!
But no one dared to say anything. After all, thinking from another perspective, it seemed that these guests had never paid rent or meal bills. They had been eating and living for free. Anyone with a little sense of shame should feel ashamed of this, let alone just helping with housework.
"Well, now that the work is done, let's take a break and get ready to go to school." The proprietress seemed to be in a good mood, and said to the girls in the kitchen in a cheerful tone: "After all, you still have to go to class - or teach the children, it would not be good if you are late."

Ovilla glanced at the sky outside the window and thought that she was already late, so why bother about this moment?

As it happened, she was not the only one who had the same idea. Avella exchanged glances with them, transmitted information across the air, reached a consensus, and tiptoed out of the kitchen while the boss lady was not paying attention. After arriving in the hall, the genius player couldn't wait to stretch, and then shouted indignantly, her voice was so loud that it seemed that she was not the one who was ordered around by the boss lady in the kitchen just now but did not dare to complain: "Class, class, every day is class! I won't go!"

After saying that, she sat down on the chair with great authority, raised her head and hugged her chest, with her back straight, standing with a mighty sword, looking majestic and awe-inspiring. She could be defeated, but she would never surrender!
But she collapsed after less than half a second, holding her stomach and groaning, "Ah, damn, my waist is so sore. I actually squatted and washed the dishes for half an hour, Shesta, you bastard..."

"When you say your waist hurts, you should hold your waist, not your stomach."

Avella, who was passing by, pointed out her mistake, then pulled a chair over and sat down. Her performance was not as exaggerated as Alice's, but Princess Berman was born in a noble family and was very spoiled. She had hardly done any housework since she was a child. The only time she did it herself, she wanted to let her father and mother feel her filial piety. As a result, she broke two mirrors, overturned three cabinets, and broke a lamp stand. Since then, she has never had similar thoughts again. Today, by chance, she made up for all the mistakes she made when she was young with the boss lady, but she was not very happy. There was a hint of fatigue in her voice: "By the way, Alice, aren't you a maid? How come you are as unfamiliar as us? You almost broke a plate, and Miss Shesta scolded me."

"Not all maids are good at housework." Alice said with a deep face. Although she tried hard to make her words sound philosophical, like a famous saying that could inspire deep thought, combined with her half-slumped posture in the chair, it was really not convincing.

All I know is that there is no maid who is only good at playing games.

Olvera quietly rolled her eyes.

"If you have a sore back, do you want me to prescribe some medicine for you?" Rorona came over with her usual unpredictable smile on her face. "Although I'm not a doctor like Metien, the potion made by alchemy may be more effective. I guarantee it will cure the disease."

Will the medicine cure the patient? Alice seemed to remember something terrible, shuddered, and then decisively rejected her proposal.

Rolena didn't care and found a chair to sit down, not seeming to be in a hurry to go to school. She was also a victim of housework, but her performance was much better than Alice and Olivia. She looked at ease from beginning to end. Perhaps it was the years of living alone in Lotdana City that trained Her Royal Highness Princess Haixi to take care of herself.

At this time, the sharp-eyed Leticia spotted two figures sneaking out, and immediately slammed the table and shouted, "Yieta, Xino, where are you going?"

The two figures, one tall and one short, froze at the same time.

"Wow!" Alice narrowed her eyes, stared at the backs of the two people, and laughed strangely: "Are you going to school? How much does Linger pay you a month? You are so self-disciplined?"

"Alice." Knowing that it would be difficult to escape once she was targeted, Xino turned around and said helplessly, "Self-discipline relies on inner moral constraints. Lingge didn't give me any money either, but I felt a heavy responsibility because the children were waiting for me to go to class. Don't you feel the same way?"

"That's right." Ieta poked her head out from behind Shino, flapping her big wings behind her, looking like she was nodding in agreement with Shino's words. A lot of feathers dropped down, making the floor that the angel had worked so hard to clean dirty again. Unfortunately, she herself had no idea: "Classes are so interesting, why do you always skip classes, Alice? How about going to class with me?"

"Not so good." The genius player curled his lips, unmoved.

Yieta blinked her eyes and said, "I just helped you share some of the work."

Although Miss Angel looked weak, she was actually a real country girl who could even do farm work. Housework was nothing to her. She was kind-hearted, so she agreed to Alice's request without thinking.

She tried to use kindness to call back the little conscience left in the genius player's heart, but the latter was not good at repaying kindness, but holding others' kindness hostage to ask for return - holding others' kindness hostage to ask for return from her: "It is because you helped me that I care about you, understand?"

She spoke righteously, and her expression was so solemn that she could be placed directly on the altar of Tianxin Church, replacing the goddess. "Think about it, we worked hard and finally finished the housework. It was the time when we needed to rest, but Lingge forced us to go to class and endure the boring class time and useless knowledge. Isn't this too much? So we have to unite and resist, to let that guy know that we are not to be trifled with!"

“That’s right!” Leticia slapped the table restlessly, actively responding to Alice’s call: “No class, no class!”

She was so arrogant because her grandmother had gone home to catch up on her beauty sleep. If Metien was here, she might be able to persuade her, but the pink-haired girl was not left to do housework. After breakfast, she rushed back to the rebel camp. Although the decisive battle has not yet begun, small-scale conflicts continue, and the number of wounded is increasing. The task on her is still heavy. Sister Livia and Shemi are the girl's helpers. The former is needless to say. Although the latter does not look very reliable, she has experience in taking care of the herb garden and is very familiar with the habits of herbs. If she is just helping out, she is still very reliable. In case of any emergency, the fairy magic that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't work may also be of some use. Olvera lay on the table, staring at the two for a long time, and then said slowly: "Xino, and Yieta, I can understand your feelings, but it is also necessary to relax occasionally. The school is not unable to operate without the two of you. Don't we still have Lingge and Sister Xiaoxia?"

"Or," she narrowed her eyes and said sarcastically, "do you also want to abandon us and run away on your own?"

"Uh……"

Xino always felt that the word "running away" was not suitable to describe the current situation, but when she met Avella's eyes that seemed to be resentful and condemning, she couldn't say a word. She and Yieta looked at each other for a long time, and finally chose to compromise helplessly: "Okay, I understand."

She hesitantly retracted her steps: "I won't go to class today. I believe Ling Ge and Xiao Xia will understand?"

"I don't think this is right..."

Yieta grumbled, but no one paid attention to her. Aoweila nodded with satisfaction: "That's right. The so-called class should be attended by yourself. If you are not happy, what's the point of attending the class? Humph, so what if Ling Geli doesn't understand, so what if Gao is not happy? He doesn't make us happy, so of course we can't make him too happy!"

I can only see that you are unhappy. Also, if you attend class when you are happy and don't attend class when you are unhappy, wouldn't that make you a bad student? Princess Beman, if your teacher knew about this, he would definitely be very sad, right?

Facing Xinuo's meaningful gaze, Avella's cheeks flushed. She realized that she seemed a little too emotional, but she was still stubborn and refused to admit her mistakes: "I, I didn't say anything wrong. Look, Gloria didn't go to class either. She must agree with me!"

In order to increase her persuasiveness, she also tried to drag in a certain gray-haired girl who had been sitting in her seat in silence from the beginning until now.

The latter's mouth twitched: "...I am Bai Ye."

"Ugh!" Olvera choked and looked embarrassed. To be honest, she always felt guilty when facing Bai Ye, but she didn't know why. If she had to say it, it might be that she always felt that her secret had been exposed in front of her, but Princess Berman was sure that she had kept the secret very well and it was impossible for anyone to know it.

It's impossible!

"Besides," Bai Ye paused for a moment, then corrected Avella's statement: "I didn't go to school not because I liked that pervert... ahem, I didn't like Ling Ge, but I just didn't want to let Gloria mislead the students."

"Nonsense!" Gloria's indignant voice came from his mind: "How could I mislead the students? And you have always disliked Ling Ge, didn't he just make you cry once? Why are you so petty and still holding a grudge? Bai Ye, you are too narrow-minded, and you are confusing right and wrong. Even I, a righteous person, can't stand it..."

"Then you, little idiot, spoke so much for him. It couldn't be because he hugged you once, right? A hug full of friendship that touched you?"

"Ah, this... Hehe, there is no such thing. But Lingge is indeed a good person. He is willing to give a warm hug to a nerd like you. You have never enjoyed it before, right? It's all thanks to me."

"Are you stupid? The person he's hugging is obviously you."

"Hey, but we share the same body, so hugging me is the same as hugging you?"

"…You are indeed an idiot."

Bai Ye was speechless, too lazy to continue arguing with this guy. When he returned to reality, he found that everyone's discussion had subsided and there was only silence in the hall. Olvera was lying on the table in a daze, her eyes were empty and she didn't know what to write; Alice was bored and counting her fingers for fun, as if she had forgotten how many fingers she had; Leticia was holding her elbow with one hand and her chin with the other, thinking about something with a serious face. She rarely showed this expression, and for some reason she looked a bit humorous and it was difficult to be serious; Rolena was playing with the cup on the table casually, and the crystal clear glass cup was repeatedly fiddled with between her five white and slender fingers; Xino was resting with her eyes closed, and the sunlight shone in from the direction of the door and sprinkled on her hair, which was golden like a layer of gauze; Yieta was a little uneasy, looking left and right, as if she wanted to say something but stopped, and always felt that she was wasting time.

Although this is not a feeling, it is a fact.

In fact, even if they don't go to school, they still have a lot of things to do. Olvera has to improve her novel and take care of the violets in the small garden; Alice can continue to work on her game and study how to repair it (except for Saint Charia, no one else knows that Alice's game console and cartridges have fallen into Linger's hands); Leticia can help Metien take care of the wounded in the war, although given her personality, she may prefer fighting rather than saving people; Ieta has to take care of her primrose field and write the diary that she never finishes; Rolena and Shino are even busier, either studying alchemy or practicing martial arts all day long. They have already made remarkable achievements in their respective fields, but they still work hard day and night and never slack off, so busy that people think they have no time to rest at all.

In comparison, Bai Ye found himself quite idle and had nothing to do.

No, the one doing nothing is Gloria!
What does it have to do with me?
And after all, wasn't it all that guy's fault? He dropped a shocking piece of news and left without a care in the world, leaving everyone in a mess. Even the sound of cocktails hadn't been heard from the bar for a long time. The Countess seemed to have gone back to catch up on her beauty sleep. Who knows if she was stimulated by this incident and was secretly flipping through those third-rate romance novels on the bookshelf.

He is indeed a pervert!
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