Chapter 164 A physically and mentally exhausting communication
The bone pigeon surrounded by spiritual flames circled twice above the deck. The goods from the city-state of Pland appeared in the flames. Alice looked at the first thing that appeared in front of her in a daze. After a while, she looked up at the captain.
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To be honest, Duncan almost thought that the puppet was going to run away in tears at that moment - this was the most likely reaction he expected from Alice, but in the end, he stared at the silly puppet.
After staring for a long time, the latter finally nodded blankly: "Thank you!"
Duncan: "...?"
"You really bought me new hair!" The next second, Alice's face beamed with joy, as if she had received the most exciting gift. "I thought you were just joking last time! Goat head
My husband said that the wig used for the doll is a very expensive thing..."
Duncan: "..."
What he had been looking forward to for a long time did not happen, and the persecution operation suffered a huge failure from the beginning - the persecuted guy was very happy and even filled with gratitude.
Duncan felt that his mood at the moment was like a happy person who had lost his own fun.
"Captain? Captain, why are you in a daze again?" Alice's voice suddenly came, waking Duncan up from his distraction. The puppet was holding a wig and standing on tiptoe, with its face almost touching the tip of Duncan's nose, "You have been in a daze a lot today.
This time..."
Duncan blinked, moved his face back a little, and looked at the cursed doll with a strange expression: "I didn't expect you to be so generous - weren't you quite depressed last time I told you about the wig?
I thought I would have to fight in my heart no matter what happened to receiving the gift this time..."
"I'm frustrated about losing my hair. Why should I be frustrated about getting new hair?" Alice blinked and explained as if she felt something was wrong with Duncan's outlook on life, "I'm a doll!"
Duncan finally knew what the problem was.
Alice is usually too lively on the boat. Apart from the weird cervical spine, she looks like an ordinary human being. After spending a long time with this guy, he unconsciously treats her as a human being - and ends up ignoring her.
The uniqueness of this guy’s perspective as a doll...
As a doll, why would she care about wearing a wig? Do humans care about getting a new pair of shoes?
"Forget it, just think I'm overthinking it," Duncan covered his face and waved his hands. As the biggest natural disaster in the boundless sea, he once again felt unbearable in front of Alice, "Anyway... you just like it."
"I like it!" Alice held the wig happily, then stretched her neck over Duncan's shoulder and continued to look at the things on the deck, "The rest..."
"This is for you too," Duncan sighed, trying hard to ignore the visual impact of an elegant and beautiful Gothic doll holding a wig happily. He turned around and picked up a box from the deck, "Open it and take a look.
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Alice curiously opened the delicate little wooden box and saw a set of silver hair accessories made of connected diamond-shaped flakes lying quietly in the velvet lining.
She raised her head in surprise and saw the captain nodding slightly to her.
"Last time I took away the feather hairpin you found in the cabin," Duncan said calmly, "I promised you that I would buy you a new one, and now I keep my promise."
Alice was stunned for a long time, and finally reacted, with an unprecedented happiness in her smile: "Thank you, Captain! Captain, you are so kind!"
"Don't be so loud," Duncan's ears buzzed due to the doll's sudden high-octave voice, and he couldn't help waving his hands, "It's just a hair accessory, there's no need to be so excited."
"Not only the hair accessories, but also the new hair you bought me!"
Duncan was suddenly a little embarrassed, and he felt a strong sense of shame that he wanted to enjoy the whole life but was solemnly thanked by the person involved: "...don't mention that wig..."
However, Alice could not feel the captain's subtle mood at this moment at all. This little-minded doll was immersed in joy. Then, she naturally noticed the last wooden box on the deck.
It was a wooden box over half a meter long - or wooden box, with elegant and simple decoration and brass locks and hinges, which gave it a high-end look.
And for some reason, it reminded her of her own "house".
"What is this?" Alice put the wig and hair accessories aside, curiously pushed the wooden box forward, raised her head and asked.
"I also bought it from the doll store, but this is not for you," Duncan said casually, "You can open it and take a look."
Alice yelled and opened the wooden box curiously.
A girl doll with exquisite workmanship and classic style lies quietly in the wooden box.
Alice: "...?"
"You can call her 'Nelu'," Duncan's voice came from the side, "But unlike you, she is just an ordinary doll...probably."
Alice didn't respond for a long time. After nearly ten seconds, she suddenly made a movement - there was a soft click, and her head fell into Nelu's box, along with the small doll inside.
Roll in one place...
"Help...help...help..."
Duncan sighed, picked up Alice's head and put it on in a familiar manner, and looked at this embarrassing guy helplessly: "Is this how you react?"
Alice just held her head with both hands and straightened her neck, then looked at her captain with wide eyes, an expression of disbelief on her face: "Captain, you...you have a new doll."
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"What nonsense!" Duncan felt something was wrong when he heard this, and quickly interrupted Alice before she could talk more rubbish, "Didn't I say that Nilu is different from you?
I can't run and jump like you, and what do you mean by having a new doll? It sounds like I have some weird collecting habit."
"Then if you buy a doll, wouldn't it..."
"There is a very special reason for this," Duncan exhaled softly, stood up and looked at the sea in the distance, trying hard to suppress the nonsense in Alice's mind with a serious and deep expression on his face, "This name
The doll named 'Nelu' and another doll named 'Luni' were originally a pair. Many years ago, my daughter took 'Luni' away. Now I discovered it by coincidence.
'Nelu' was left gathering dust in the shop, I think... I should buy her."
Duncan did not hide the information he had just learned, and said it in a natural manner - no matter what, he must now play the role of "Captain Duncan", and starting from this character, he must "know that he is a natural person"
Matters for children”.
Unsurprisingly, Alice's eyes widened and she stared at her captain in astonishment.
"Ship...Captain, you have a daughter?!" The puppet held its head with both hands, as if it was afraid that its head would run away from home due to shock in the next second, "I...this is the first time I have heard of it!"
Duncan sighed inwardly, thinking that this was the first time he had heard of this...
But his face still maintained the same expression as before, and he just nodded slightly: "Is this strange? I also have a son, and I haven't seen them for a century."
"You have a son!?" Alice was even more shocked. She even took two steps back. Then she rolled her eyes twice. She didn't know how her head was running, and she suddenly said,
"Then don't they still have a mother?"
Duncan: "..."
At this moment, he and Alice could only stare at each other.
"I kind of regret starting this topic with you," Duncan finally sighed after a long time and said with a vicissitudes of life, "I don't want to talk about this."
"Oh... oh! Okay!" Alice didn't know what she was thinking about. After being stunned for a moment, she nodded repeatedly. Then she lowered her head and glanced at "Nelu" in the wooden box, and suddenly understood
Come over, "Ah, that feather-shaped hairpin I found in the cabin last time...is it your daughter's?"
Duncan was noncommittal.
He was actually not sure about this matter, but considering the nostalgia that involuntarily emerged from the bottom of his heart when he saw the hairpin, this was probably not much different from Alice's guess.
Then he noticed that Alice had been secretly looking at him, and noticed the strange expression on the face of the doll that was hesitant to speak from time to time.
"Just say what you want to say," he said calmly. "It's more rude to look at me secretly than to speak openly."
"Ah, it's nothing, it's nothing, I just..." Alice waved her hands, and then said hesitantly, "I just suddenly felt... you seem to still have some humanity."
Duncan: "...Are you praising me?"
Alice was stunned for a moment, and then she seemed to recall what Mr. Goathead had taught her, with an apologetic expression on her face: "Ah, I'm sorry, Captain, I shouldn't have scolded you for being humane..."
"I...I thank you," Duncan sighed, waving his hands with a look of physical and mental exhaustion on his face, "Take your gift and go back, I want to be by myself later."