Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 832: Alice in No. 58's Impression
No. 58 continued, "Merlin's House is like a spark that will never go out. It could turn into a big fire at any time. The owner of the house has only piles of firewood around him. If he wants to suppress the fire, he can only keep throwing firewood into the fire that has not yet burned, suppressing the fire that is destined to get out of control.

Every owner of Merlin's House is like a person who is about to die of thirst. They will die of thirst in the next second, but there are only cups of poisoned wine in front of them. They drink one cup of poisoned wine, and the next cup of poisoned wine is the antidote to the previous cup. In order to survive, they can only keep drinking, even if they are no longer thirsty, they can only keep drinking like this.

Xia Shou, actually I have always been curious about why you are still alive today.

When you were in Moonburn Village, your power was the weakest among all the homeowners I knew. You simply did not have enough strength and efficiency to absorb those complex and strong desires and satisfy those doors. How did you manage not to go crazy?
Did you complete the perfect sealing loop when you inherited Merlin's House?"

Xia Shou could guess what the sealed loop No. 58 was referring to.

The Death Note had already mentioned the sealing principle of the House of Merlin. The desire produced by a sealed object was used as the sealing material to seal other sealed objects, just like the mutual generation and restraint of gold, wood, water, fire and earth.

If his guess was correct, the seal of Merlin's House was indeed perfect when he traveled to this world. At that time, even if he did nothing, there would be no risk of his desires leaking out.

Combined with what No. 58 just said, Xia Shou had enough reason to speculate that before him, when No. 58 still lived in Merlin's House, the balance of the doors in Merlin's House had not been perfected, just like the imbalance of the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, there were always strong desires constantly overflowing, and there were always weak desires constantly being suppressed and consumed.

This also forces the homeowners to find suitable anomalies to seal with extremely high efficiency to ensure that the anomalies sealed in the house will not break through.

"I can understand that the extraordinary will sink if they devour too much, but in fact, five skill slots are enough, right? Why are they going crazy?" Xia Shou asked curiously.

"Five? Five what?" No. 58 looked puzzled.

"You don't even know this?"

"Do you mean... the power gained from devouring?" No. 58 asked half-doubtfully.

"Ah."

"I kind of understand. Maybe you are talented in this area. The most talented owner I have ever met is Huai Yeyu. He can retain up to four extraordinary powers gained by devouring at the same time. But won't your spirit be affected by holding so many skills for a long time?" asked No. 58.

General Xia pondered over this sentence and found it a bit strange.

What does long-term holding mean? Are there any skills that cannot be held for a long time?

Aren't those skills something that can be carried with you forever and used at any time as long as you eat them?

Moreover, it was the first time that Xia Shou knew that the upper limit of the number of skills that Shadow Devouring could use was different for each person. Then how did the Death Note know the upper limit of his own five skills?

However, No. 58 had just reminded him that the door in Merlin's House had suddenly moved, and the seal on the door of the Molten Gold River had loosened because something unusual had happened to the door within the door.

At that time, he didn't know that the underworld had fallen into the Scar Age, and he didn't know that Thorad's adoptive mother looked like Alice, or even that she might be Alice. But now that he has all this information, it seems that the movement of the door within the door in Merlin's House is not a mere coincidence.

The Molten Gold River was classified as an abnormal phenomenon of the Tailor's faith, and the door within the door sealed inside it was naturally the faith of the Splitting Shears, which was in direct opposition to the Tailor, and happened to be the same as the faith of the Scar Age. In addition, the time of the abnormal movement inside the door coincided with the fall of Hades, so it was hard to believe that this was a coincidence. Even without any evidence, Xia Shou could almost conclude that the thing sealed in the door was something from the Scar Age.

Coupled with Alice’s past relationship with the King of the First Rift, even the things sealed inside may be directly related to the King of the Rift.

Tomorrow, after [Self-Destruction] has cooled down, he will open the door to the Molten Gold River, then open the door within that door, and use the opportunity of backtracking to find out what is locked in that door.

"Hey, are you listening?"

"Huh? What?"

No. 58's voice interrupted Xia Shou's thoughts. He stared at Xia Shou and sighed: "I'm asking you, do you have that kind of feeling for Alice?"

"What feelings?"

"Do you like Alice?"

"Lord Xia Shou, don't listen to his nonsense and ignore him." Alice said angrily.

No. 58 glanced at Alice, then looked at Xia Shou: "Many male house owners fell in love with Alice, and it's not their fault. Which man would not like someone like Alice? But they ended up being miserable. No matter how sincere their feelings were, they would not be reciprocated.

It was obviously impossible from the beginning, but the identity of the owner of Merlin's House gave them the illusion that they were very close to Alice, and that their relationship with Alice was different and unique.

I find this very funny, those guys always think they are special, but actually they have not spent as much time with Alice as Lilia, me, and Grandpa have. Just because they are Alice's nominal owners, they think Alice has become their property.

But to put it bluntly, they are actually Alice's property. To put it another way, when they became the owners of the house, they were actually an object in Merlin's House, no different from a piece of "furniture". It was not Alice who served them, but they were used by Alice... haha, just like a maid using a feather duster to sweep the dust and a mop to clean the floor, the owner's duty is actually just to watch the door.

There is only one owner of Merlin's House, and there is only one owner in Alice's heart. Don't have any more illusions."

"Lord Xia Shou is my master." Alice frowned slightly, her light golden translucent eyebrows, hiding the anger and dissatisfaction in her heart very well. As a maid, she could not be rude, even in front of such a rude person.

Because the servant's misconduct will become a stain on the master.

No. 58 looked at Alice again and said, "Alice, you just lost your memory, but you are actually that kind of person. Although you don't recognize me anymore, the fact is that the time you spent with this kid is not even a fraction of the time you spent with me and Grandpa.

Alas, I really don’t know what happened. Even your body is gone, and Grandpa and Lilia are no longer in the house. So many things happened during the time I was away.

Now, even I am locked in... I don’t know if this is considered life.”

(End of this chapter)