At first, I thought that Mercury Lamp wasn't willing to come with us because she wasn't prepared to meet her younger sisters under such circumstances. But now, it would seem that I had obviously overlooked the fact that a bunch of shameless leaders of the Empire would slowly erode a Rose girl's moral integrity.
That short man was simply afraid of being scolded …
When a small puppet named Jade Star rushed out of the house and used an extra-large watering can to "spawn" a large number of vines to attack me and Shallow Shallow, I suddenly came to a realization.
That prankster had previously written a vague "threat letter" to her younger sisters, claiming that she would send them to another world — wasn't that a scam!? Anyone else would have misunderstood, wouldn't they?
Vines, soundwaves, roses, and a moving doll. These normally harmless things had now transformed into weapons. Not to mention, there was also a valiant-looking girl waving a golden scissor. Just a few seconds after Jade Star "escaped" to report back, the vines swarmed out of the house in front of us and circled around to attack me and Shallow Shallow from all directions. Such seamless teamwork and powerful firepower gathered in such a short period of time. It was obvious that the enemy had trained intensely for a long time in order to deal with any possible "danger" that might come at any time. Mercury Lamp's little scheme was as clear as day. After she changed a perfectly good invitation letter into a threat letter, these pitiful younger sisters of hers had been preparing in fear for who knew how many days.
"Hey, Ah Jun, something doesn't seem right."
Facing the oncoming attack, Shallow Shallow still had the time to chat with me. She casually grabbed the golden scissor that was rushing at us from above and tilted her head to the side as she muttered to herself.
"Whew, Mercury Lamp probably knew that this would happen. She must have been afraid of being scolded, so she didn't come with us."
I activated my energy shield and formed a vacuum around me to block the sound wave attacks from all directions. These attacks came from a young puppet girl standing on the roof. She was dressed in bright golden clothing, and she used the violin in her hand as a weapon to release air pulses mixed with high-frequency sound waves. Although the latter sounded like an impassioned violin song, it was mixed with frequencies that the human ear couldn't discern, making it a powerful attack. You see, even in a world like the Rose Girl, we can still use a scientific perspective to analyze problems. Now, let's discuss whether Jade Star's watering can, which could instantly grow gigantic vines, contained a highly concentrated extract of Jinkela. Let's enter science and enter the Xiling Empire …
"Jade Star! Hurry up and come back! "
Jade Star immediately shouted anxiously after Shallow Shallow effortlessly snatched away the valiant-looking girl's blade. At the same time, even denser vines began to surround us from all directions. Jade Star's watering can was like a Jinkela factory, providing these vines with an endless supply of energy. Alright, let's continue walking into science, all the way to its nooks and crannies.
It felt like this puppet girl and the struggling girl holding the golden scissors could become the lucky ones who would be tricked by Liliana into … baptizing.
As Shallow Shallow was afraid that the other party would resist too strongly and accidentally injure her, she let go of the golden scissors. The puppet girl with green and red eyes, the exact opposite of Jade Star, immediately retreated to her sister's side. After she escaped from danger, a blonde girl wearing a red dress took the opportunity to take action. Rose petals that appeared out of thin air shot out from the blonde girl's hand like sharp boomerangs. The petals quickly expanded to the point where they covered the entire sky. Then, they swept towards us like a tornado. Without a doubt, this was an attack with absolute confidence in its victory. Even Mercury Lamp hadn't caused such a ruckus when we first brought her home.
Scatter, Senbonzakura. Should I ridicule Petal Shower like this?
"Damn it! Why can't my attack hit them! "
After a few seconds, the puppet girl in the green dress shouted unwillingly.
At the start of the "battle," Shallow Shallow used Time Freeze to seal off the flow of things in the vicinity. This was to prevent this inexplicable misunderstanding from causing too much trouble. Thus, even though the rosette girls had a variety of fancy attacks, they actually didn't have any effect. Everything in the surroundings had been frozen in a state of invincibility. Not to mention attacking us, the Jade Star vines couldn't even lift a speck of dust when they swept across the ground.
Our family of three looked at the rowdy rosette girls in front of us with a distressed expression. I recalled the time when Mercury Lamp first came to our home. She was indeed the number one puppet. Back then, the 92.3cm girl had caused a ruckus almost as much as the group of sisters in front of us. Of course, another reason was that the group of beauties in our home were causing trouble.
"Let's catch one first."
After I felt that I had caused enough of a ruckus, I turned around and caught a small body under my armpit. Seeing that my sound wave attack was ineffective, I tried to use my bow to fight the puppet girl in close combat. I lost the first round.
Let me think, this little girl in a bright yellow dress with gray curly hair and pupils should be called Canary, right?
"Let go of her!"
Just as I remembered the name of the struggling little girl under my armpit, another voice suddenly interrupted me. I looked up and saw a pair of golden scissors rapidly enlarging in my line of sight.
"Ah Jun, I caught one too!"
Shallow Shallow froze the ambusher in midair. Then, she walked forward and hugged the ambusher in her arms. She smiled at me as if she was asking for credit.
The rosette girl who used the golden scissors looked as brave as a boy but had the gentleness of a girl. She and the 'gardener' who was a twin of the Jade Star Stone, Azure Star Stone, also lost the first round.
Bubble looked at our results and shrugged in boredom. She clapped her hands a few times.
"Clang!!"
An eight-barreled ion cannon fell from the sky and smashed into the ground like a heavy tank. If it wasn't for Shallow Shallow stopping the flow of time in this area, I reckoned that the cannon would have sunk more than half a meter into the ground.
"All resistance members in the house, listen up!" The majestic-looking mother of the child raised a megaphone and climbed onto the cannon. She had a helmet with the words' Town Security 'written on it that she pulled out of nowhere. She also had five bars on her arm. In the east wind that was filled with the smell of gunpowder, the little loli dressed in white seemed to be possessed by Pandora. "You have been surrounded! I order you to immediately give up resistance! Raise your hands above your head and don't move without permission! There is no way to survive if you resist! Repeat！ Dont move！ Put your hand on your head！ Otherwise, we will open fire! "
Half a minute later, a group of rosette girls and a bespectacled boy who hadn't shown his face since earlier obediently walked out.
"The child's father, it's all settled."
Bubble, who had done a great deed, jumped down from the cannon. He shouted at me as he held up the helmet that had fallen diagonally. The words' Town Security 'on it glowed resplendently under the bright sunlight.
… As expected of the person who could hang out with Liliana normally. His moral integrity was off the charts.
"Alright, alright. Don't frown. I don't think we hurt you, right?"
Shallow Shallow and I placed the Firmament Stone and Canary on the ground. Looking at the group of anxious rosette girls, we felt a headache coming on.
A group of short girls who were around the height of a winter melon were leaning against each other. Their eyes were resolute as they looked forward to protect each other. It was as though they were about to enter the end of the world together. What was with this subtle and bastardly sense of guilt?
"It's all that idiot Mercury Lamp's fault …"
I let out a long sigh. Then, I took out the chip from my pocket again. "I repeat, Space Administration, Supreme Administrator. Also, I am Mercury Lamp's current adoptive father."
As soon as I said that, there was silence.
"What did you say?!" The one who broke the silence was the girl who stood in front of her sisters. She had a pair of golden ponytails that reached the ground and a noble and elegant face. She was dressed in an elegant British queen's floor-length dress. Her light snow-blue crystal-like eyes reflected the three strangers in front of her who the girls didn't trust. If one disregarded her inconspicuous figure, she would really be a noble and elegant lady of the upper class.
The original protagonist of the rosette girl world, a noble doll named Red.
"Be more polite, especially in front of your elders." Bubble crossed her arms in front of her chest and stared sternly at the group of doll girls who were even lower than her. "I am also your elder! The man beside me is my husband! That's why I am Mercury Lamp's stepmother! "
"… I understand now. You are making fun of me. How dare you make use of such a young child."
If it's possible, please stay away from this unprincipled little loli! When she collects you like an otaku, you will know how scary she is!
Bubble, who wanted to sneak over to catch a rosette girl to collect, was full of regret. I smiled bitterly at the doll girls in front of me who were full of misunderstandings and were on guard. "Phew, Mercury Lamp really knows how to cause trouble for me … You should have received a letter, right?"
"You are really enemies!" Canary, who had just regained her freedom, immediately waved the parasol in her hand. (How did a violin transform into a parasol? Let's enter science, enter science …) She gestured to us. "That suspicious postman uncle broke into someone's house in the middle of the night. One look and you can tell that he isn't a good person! And that letter with the black feather, it really was a letter of challenge from Mercury Lamp! "
"No, it was actually just an invitation." I shook my head expressionlessly. "Because of the carnival, I asked Mercury Lamp to invite her friends and sister over to play. But it seems that she really doesn't know how to write."
But she could actually write a normal letter. I didn't say this out loud.
As expected, the group of rosette girls looked at us with distrust.
"Stop joking. How could Mercury Lamp do such a thing!" Zhen Hong was still in a defensive posture. She seemed to be protecting her sisters behind her. Although she was killed in an instant, her eyes were still filled with calmness.
I shrugged. "I know that a few months ago, she disappeared in front of you for a while. When she suddenly appeared, she called you 'sister'. You must be very surprised. Actually, during that time, she was with us and spent some time in another world. People change. Mercury Lamp has already given up on the enmity between you and her, but she was too embarrassed to come over and admit it herself. "
Being a stay-at-home dad was truly a mentally and physically exhausting job, especially when your daughter was always mischievous outside. What was even more exhausting was that the targets of her mischievous antics were her biological sisters. What was even more frustrating was that those biological sisters of hers weren't your daughters, but on the other hand, those daughters of yours treated you as their father. Yet, your daughter's sisters didn't know about this at all … Come on, let's make a formula and analyze what Zhen Hong should call me …
"Child's father, I feel that you have already broken down."
Bubble looked at me with a worried gaze.
"Broken your sister!" I abruptly raised my head from the complicated Ethical formulas. The pained expression on my face probably shocked Mashiro and the others. Yep, there was also the blue-eyed boy Sakura Jun next to me. It was a pity that his existence was now infinitely close to zero. "Mercury Lamp! Hurry up and come out! How long do you want to hide?! "
Following this shout, everyone's gazes immediately focused in the direction I was looking at: the top of a short wall by the roadside.
A black feather suddenly floated up from there. "Mercury Lamp, have you been molting recently? You seem to have molted two days earlier than Araya. "
Under the joint gaze of so many pairs of eyes, even someone like Mercury Lamp wouldn't be able to last long. Following a light shout from Zhen Hong, the black Goth girl jumped onto the wall from behind and swiftly flew in front of everyone. She stared at me from a distance of three meters.
"Don't hit my head! Don't pinch my face! Don't spin me in the air! "
Before I could say anything, Mercury Lamp quickly stated her conditions.
"It feels like you're in the right. Fine, I agree."
After obtaining the promise that she wanted, the puppet girl finally revealed a satisfied expression. With a whoosh, she landed on my shoulder and affectionately hugged the large head next to me. She also tried to pull the large head off her head.
Every little girl in the family had their own way of being intimate with each other. Most of them would be hugs. Sitting on my shoulder and hugging my head was Mercury Lamp's unique way of acting coquettishly. However, she would involuntarily pull my head off her head in the end, making me want to cry.
"Apologize to your little sisters. Look at that lousy letter you wrote!"
I shrugged my shoulders and forcefully pulled Mercury Lamp over while she groaned unwillingly. I forced her to face the astonished Rose girls.
At this moment, as a successful trainer, a sense of pride rose in a certain Head of State's chest.
"Zhen Hong, we meet again."
Although the black-haired Goth girl had been acting coquettishly and pulling my hair a second ago, the moment she turned around, the black Goth girl instantly regained her indifferent expression and spoke softly to her younger sister in front of her.
Unlike in the past, Zhen Hong didn't tell Zhen Hong the exact number of days she had been separated from her. Instead, she simply greeted her as if it was a normal greeting. A strange look flashed in the eyes of the elegant golden-haired puppet girl. It was evident that she had noticed the change in her sister's way of speaking.
"Mercury Lamp …" Zhen Hong had an expression of disbelief on her face. She looked at the Rose girl who was always filled with a violent aura. Now, she was sitting on the shoulder of a human (in theory) with such a calm expression and was greeting her in such a calm tone. She had no idea what Mercury Lamp had been through in the past few months. She was completely lost. "You …"
The environment would change everything, especially after following a bunch of unscrupulous Empire leaders and experiencing an unconventional war in the universe. Mercury Lamp had witnessed the vast world that a Rose girl would never be able to understand. Mercury Lamp had long abandoned the 'insignificant' hatred between her and Zhen Hong. Thus, after adjusting her expression, Mercury Lamp looked at her younger sisters with a mischievous look and said softly, "The carnival is coming. Do you want to come to my house to play?"
… I realized that in the process of battling with Liliana, this little puppet had also been tainted by the latter's two-faced side. For example, she would use the psychological gap to provoke others and laugh behind their backs at their ridiculous reactions. She knew that her sudden change in speaking style would have an impact on her younger sisters, which was why she did it.
"You brat! You must have done something to Mercury Lamp, right?! " Canary said with a horrified expression. She waved the parasol in her hand and poked it in front of my eyes. "She definitely doesn't look normal right now!"
"If you knew how big of a commotion your sister made when she first came to my house, you wouldn't say that. You don't know how much effort it took for me to make her obedient … Hey, Mercury Lamp, don't bite my ear!"
Thus, the awkward father-daughter pair once again became a mess.
"I see," Zhen Hong's voice drifted into my ears with a slightly raised tone. "It seems like Mercury Lamp, you've finally found your own warmth. Although it's too late to say it now, but, yes …"
"No need to apologize," Mercury Lamp, who was fighting with her 'adoptive father' just a second ago, used the ability to change settings that she had honed for a long time in the upper echelons of the Empire to enter chairman mode in the blink of an eye. She turned her back to her younger sisters and said stiffly, but not coldly, "That's it. Today, I'm just here to invite you to my house to play. For the past few months, I've been in a very incredible place. If you're curious about it, you can follow me today. Except for the guy with glasses over there! One stupid human is enough! "
After all, he's the original 'main character'. I haven't even said anything and you've already thrown him into the cold palace.
I cast a sympathetic glance at the gloomy bespectacled young man, the protagonist of the original story. Then, I took out a huge stack of chips and said, "Little girls, line up. One IQ card for each of you. Every Rose Maiden will get one, a total of six … Okay, five …"
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