"Megumi won't be able to come with us today."
Mercury Lamp said regretfully as they waited for the teleportation for a few minutes.
"Her family will be worried."
I supported the doll girl who was sitting on my shoulder and rocking gently. I wasn't surprised by this result.
"Humans who live in groups will always have more troubles than you. She will have to find a way to explain to her parents why she disappeared for a month. Thanks to her life in the hospital, Megumi probably doesn't have a single friend she can use as a scapegoat. It might be easy to fool her if she's only gone out for a few days, but to disappear from the world now and participate in the carnival half a month later … If it were me ten years ago, my sister would have been worried sick."
"And she has to come back often even during the carnival." Mercury Lamp's expression was a little gloomy. "Hui and I have thought of many excuses, but none of them work. She has no other friends, and she doesn't have the habit of going out. She only goes to the nearby shopping street and the hospital for regular checkups. So, after the carnival starts, I'm afraid you'll have to prepare a special pass for her. She can teleport between this world and the City of Shadows at any time, for any reason. Well, stupid human, am I being too willful?"
Eh eh eh? Speaking of which, since when did the stubborn chairman become so reasonable?
"Stupid human! Why are you looking at me like that! "
"Because I didn't expect you to be considerate of others."
Mercury Lamp didn't say anything after hearing that. She hugged my neck and bit me.
At this moment, the crystal chips in the hands of the curious, nervous, and confused Doll girls behind us lit up with a blue light at the same time. A gentle female voice sounded from these seemingly unstructured crystals, "Prepare three minutes before the teleportation. Teleportation personnel, please make your preparations and make sure that you haven't forgotten your luggage. This teleportation will take you directly to the Dimensional Hub's KL-186 channel. There will be no stops along the way. Passengers, please make sure that your ticket and the teleportation sequence are correct. This teleportation will be completed in an instant. After boarding the station, please exit from Exit 60 and take the initiative to show your proof of authority to the Dimensional Hub's staff. Thank you for your cooperation along the way.
… I suspected that this script was taken directly from the train broadcast.
The white light in front of me suddenly expanded as I ridiculed him. In an instant, the atmosphere in the surroundings changed.
He had returned to the City of Shadows.
This was probably the shortest trip we'd ever taken. In just half a day, we'd successfully abducted five human doll girls back home. Although we didn't do anything physically demanding like saving the world, why did I still feel tired?
I looked at the two people beside me. One of them was my child's mother, who had been in trouble for half a day, and the other was an energetic girl who had dragged me around shopping streets for hours. I immediately found the reason for their fatigue.
In the future, he would rather lead Pandora to patrol the base than go out with these two dryers at the same time.
"Ugh … Waaaah!! So big … so big! "
Only half a minute after the teleportation was complete did the exclamations that I had expected to hear. I couldn't help but wonder if these female puppets had been too busy being shocked during the last thirty seconds.
The petite, sweet, and adorable Barbie doll-like girl in a pink dress was the first to exclaim in surprise. That was because she turned around and saw the "door" that had just pulled her from another dimension.
A dimensional hub was a super machine that could be regarded as a miracle on Earth. In front of this tiny human doll, it was as gigantic and majestic as a mountain. When the other rosette girls were woken up by Squidberry's exclamation and started looking around, they saw even more similar structures in the distance. These gigantic mechanical rings formed an unprecedentedly grand matrix, and the people who had just been teleported were actually no bigger than ants in this gigantic plaza.
However, these metal rings were only a part of a series of grand buildings in the Shadow Fortress. In terms of function, these civilian-level teleportation devices were considered "low-end buildings" here. When the girls looked around, they saw that this place had already surpassed the human world by an unknown number of levels, and the low-altitude fortress that slowly streaked across the sky, unsurprisingly causing waves of exclamations.
"Hmph, don't make a fuss like an ignorant country girl." Mercury Lamp sat on my shoulder and tried her best to look disdainful, but it was obvious that she was proud. "This is just a door to a house!"
Our chairman had indeed started to show off according to plan. She was purposely trying to see Red's funny expression. Then congratulations, you have achieved your goal.
"Amazing, so amazing!"
Jadestone and Celestial Stone had been holding hands and looking around, so they probably didn't hear Mercury Lamp's words. "I have never seen such a scene before! Hey, Mercury Lamp, could it be that you, the 'medium' who claims to be the adoptive father, is a great noble here? He said he is the Grand Senator or something, it must be a very high official position, right?! "
I always felt that a certain Rose girl with heterochromatic pupils had gotten something wrong from the beginning.
However, it was normal for her to mistake me as Mercury Lamp's' medium '. For the Rose girls who regarded their father as the supreme existence, they couldn't imagine what it would be like for a stranger to replace their father in their heart. In fact, I also knew that in Mercury Lamp's heart, Rozen still occupied the highest position. No matter how close our relationship was, in her heart, Rozen was her only "biological" father. However, I didn't have any opinion on this. After all, that was also one of the most lovable things about the Rose girls.
I did not bother to explain to the Jade Star Stone that the Space Administration's Grand Consul was the highest leader of this country. The Rose Girls were only here as Mercury Lamp's younger sisters as guests. They could do whatever they wanted. As long as they were sent home in one piece after the carnival according to the previous agreement, it would be fine.
"If you want to play, you have all the time in the world. It's getting late, let's go home and eat first."
I bent down and picked up Mercury Lamp. I looked at the group of curious Rose girls below us. "Looks like we have to prepare a dinner party this time. Shallow Shallow, go tell your family that we are having a dinner party in Avalon. Ask Anveena and Chestnut to bring the food over."
Due to the large size of the family, every time we ate at home, it would be like a banquet. Once a group of guests came, the scale would be even more exaggerated. Often, it would evolve into a dinner party of dozens of people. So normally, when there were more people, we would go to Avalon to hold a small family banquet. We would appreciate the wine, taste the delicacies, and talk about history in the picturesque fairyland. This was a more artistic way of saying it. If you still had the mood to talk about your dreams when eating at the same table as Sandora, just wait to starve to death.
In short, Liliana called this "the dispirited life of an evil, decadent feudal king riding on the people's heads and sucking their blood and sweat." Every time she announced that she would attend the banquet with a critical gaze …
"Hey hey! Do you have Berry Dafoe for dinner? "
As we left the dimensional hub with everyone, Fledgling, who had been looking around curiously, suddenly jumped up and asked loudly.
This standard doll-like girl could be considered Mercury Lamp's youngest sister (not counting the Snowy Beauty Crystal that hadn't appeared yet). What a naive girl. She had really immersed herself in the mood of "going to her sister's house to play" so quickly. Although there were a few times when she wanted to talk to Mercury Lamp, she didn't dare to open her mouth. However, she didn't feel the slightest bit uncomfortable with the strange environment around her.
"Using snacks as a main course, you really are a hopeless brat." The Jade Star Stone pretended to be mature and sighed, but its curious gaze was focused on me. "Hey, human, who exactly are you?"
"Parent."
I replied concisely. "Regardless of whether you are the head of state, the emperor, or the leader of the military, aren't you Mercury Lamp's parent in the current situation?"
In the end, the puppet on my shoulder kicked me.
The dimensional hub of the City of Shadows was the place with the highest concentration of all kinds of teleportation doors. There was also a teleportation channel that led directly to Avalon. As we spoke, we arrived at a space door surrounded by a large number of soldiers and cannons. Canary lifted her head and looked around. She immediately shrunk her neck. "Oh, there are soldiers and cannons again. It feels like we are in a military camp."
"This is a military camp." Mercury Lamp said without turning her head. At the same time, she nodded slightly at the Empire soldiers who saluted her. After such a long time, she had learned some manners.
After passing through the space door of the dimensional hub, the scenery in front of us immediately changed. We went from a steel jungle to a paradise under the setting sun.
After going through a world teleportation, the rose girls thought that they wouldn't make a fuss like when they just finished the teleportation. However, after arriving at Avalon, they couldn't help but exclaim.
Normal people would have such a reaction, so I wasn't surprised. I whistled and called over a group of unicorns that were running for a short distance.
I had some experience after getting familiar with Liliana. These unicorns were all 1.40.
"I bet none of you have ridden a unicorn before." I waved the bag of popcorn in my hand, feeling proud of myself as I faced the group of dumbfounded puppet girls.
We chose the place we frequented the most: Fairy Lake. This beautiful place could be considered a treasure land of Avalon. The leader's family often held family banquets here, and the Heroic Spirits often had picnics or drinks here. Even Artemis and the others, who were believers, used this place as a place for Holy Communion. Around this treasure land, which was divided by the important figures, lived many plump Fluffy Rabbits and "Qiuluka." (A small yellow furry beast that looks like a rabbit but has a big head. It is a native species of Avalon. It is clever and cute. It likes to live with the Heroic Spirits and pee on the Fluffy Rabbits' water source. Due to their second habit, they are masochistic creatures that are often beaten up by the other small beasts in the area.) Daisy, who loved to play, was immediately attracted by the fearless little beasts that scuttled over from the bushes. She happily followed them to play.
The long table for the meal was already prepared. It was covered with a snow-white tablecloth and filled with Anveena and Monina's dishes. After the two girls with max cooking skills entered a duel state, the standard of our meals was significantly improved. Recently, Sandora had already started to consider whether or not she should legislate to allow the Empire to arrange four meals a day.
I conveniently mentioned that the large table in front of me was brought over from Storm City. This heavy and luxurious dining table was specially used for banquets held by the human nobles in that world. The reason I liked this thing was that it was really big.
Two maids were currently fluttering around the table like happy butterflies, distributing tableware to everyone. The shiny silver tableware was a gift that came with the table. Back then, the merchant from Storm City who sold this table had announced that he would forever provide us with the noble tableware that came with this noble long table for free. I didn't know if the merchant regretted it now, but Sandora had already earned back her money with those tableware.
A little further away, there was a group of people gathered. They were the heroic spirits who were used to coming here to eat. There were familiar faces like Artoria, the glutton second only to Sandora, and Cuchulin, the eternal fisherman of Fairy Lake. There were about a dozen of them. When we arrived, these heroic spirits who had arrived earlier all turned their heads and nodded at us.
Fairy Lake wasn't the so-called private land of the royal family. Compared to us who occasionally came here to eat, the heroic spirits were more frequent visitors.
Although they were usually a bunch of undisciplined fellows, most of these heroic spirits who came from ancient times still attached great importance to basic royal etiquette (except for some fellows, such as Cuchulin who always got struck by lightning for blaspheming the names of the gods, and Gilmei who always called her boss a lowly person, but in reality, her status was like Little Bubble's doll). We were the ones who suddenly came here to hold a family banquet, but the heroic spirits who had arrived earlier were still politely waiting for us to start the banquet. Thus, the arrival of me and the group of female puppets unsurprisingly attracted a lot of attention. This was also why I wasn't used to eating with my more rigid subordinates. Who would want to be stared at by dozens of pairs of eyes while they were sipping a mouthful of soup?
A group of people dressed in clothing that spanned thousands of years of human history, looking like ancient heroes who had walked out of history books, stared at us. Although a few rose maidens who had just arrived felt very uncomfortable and confused, they didn't say anything. Only Mercury Lamp immediately bared her fangs and brandished her claws. "Hey! What are you looking at! You can just eat your own food! "
"Haha!" A burly ancient general immediately laughed. The leaves on his armor clattered as he raised his wine glass and made a toast. "To your health, Your Highness!"
This Roman general's action became some kind of signal. The other heroic spirits who were not used to complicated etiquette immediately raised their glasses. A group of emperors and generals who had been through countless rounds of human history shouted in a mess, "To the health of Your Majesty!" "To the beauty of the princess!" "To the victory of the king!" "To the king!" "To the goddess!" "Princess, you are lucky!" "Achilles, when are you going to pay me back?" "Pericles, you are blocking my view!"
Although there were a lot of strange things mixed in, Mercury Lamp now showed her face in front of her sisters …
"Let's sit over there and have a good chat."
I put Mercury Lamp on the ground and pushed her to the group of sisters who obviously had something to say. This was a good chance for them to repair their relationship. That is, if the chairman didn't fight with the sisters again.
Zhen Hong looked at Mercury Lamp in a daze as she was pushed in front of her. She suddenly revealed a strange smile, "It seems that you have a lot of stories to tell, my 'princess sister'."
I didn't know when Liliana had wandered to the side. After the dolls left, she muttered next to me, "This is great. Six at once. It's lucky that you didn't find the Snowy Crystal. Now that you have a full set, do you plan to conquer them all?"
"You can't control your mouth!" I smacked Liliana's head, "They just came to our house to play!"
"Pfft, you might have to bluff them all the time. You put a row of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple boxes in front of them … Damn it, I will smash you to death when I wake up in the morning!"
"Although I don't know what you are talking about, I feel some kind of resentment that transcends time and space …"
I shivered and felt a chill run down my spine.
"Pfft, you are always so sensitive in such strange places." Liliana clicked her tongue and tugged on my arm. She pointed in the direction of the Heroic Spirits, "Look who is here."
Following the direction that Liliana was pointing at, I saw the figure of a woman wearing a black cloak. Actually, I had already noticed this person earlier. In my memory, there didn't seem to be such a cloaked woman, but she still gave me a familiar feeling. When she noticed my gaze and took the initiative to walk towards me, this familiar feeling became even stronger.
"Greetings to you." She took off her hood in front of me, revealing a slightly pale face with the unique slender lines of the Elven race from the shadows.
"Cirvanas?" I was instantly shocked.
When did she come? Why didn't she say anything!
"I came here late this afternoon, but I heard that you went to another world, so I stayed with these heroes first. I am very interested in their stories," the pale-skinned Undead Queen said faintly, "They are all people who have made great achievements."
"You too." I smiled, "Why did you come here early?"
"The World of Azeroth is now peaceful, and there aren't many things to do in the Salvation Army. I skipped work to come here."
The Undead Queen said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"The plan for the activities of the Forsaken during the carnival has been drafted. I firmly believe that I am one step ahead of Varian this time."
I was speechless.
If the conditions allowed it, could I start complaining now?
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