Volume 3, Chapter 61 – Alice’s Troubles and the Awkward Atmosphere of Conversation

At the auction venue in Clavino, the capital of the Covenant—

Alice, one of the First Celestial Augur Knights, sat quietly before her computer, calculating and attempting to allocate the proceeds from this auction.

Although this blonde mature beauty very much wanted to follow Bai Lianyue back to Wishaven to continue staying by her beloved Alabaster Sovereign sister’s side, her sense of responsibility ultimately overcame her personal desires, causing her to remain behind and continue handling this massive sum from the auction.

After all, this enormous sum was quite important for the dozens of care facilities in her homeland.

Alice’s mother country, the Republic of Crocy, was located in the northeastern corner of the continent. Due to its remote location, cold climate, barren land, and lack of resources, the Republic of Crocy’s comprehensive strength could be considered the weakest among the five major human nations.

Over these years, due to the constantly increasing frequency of harassment by the Vassals of Sea, many towns on the Republic of Crocy’s borders had been attacked by Corrupted Beasts, leaving countless citizens displaced.

And the republic, which was suffering from an economic crisis, didn’t have sufficient capability to resettle these refugees.

Thus, Alice voluntarily took on this responsibility. Using her savings accumulated over a thousand years and part of the Roth Family’s power, she built dozens of care facilities to temporarily house the refugees… as well as those soldiers who had been wounded in war and were unable to sustain their livelihoods.

Taking care of these people undoubtedly required enormous funding.

For this reason, Alice, feeling tremendous economic pressure, had come to the wealthy Westivian Covenant to hold auctions and raise money.

“Alabaster Sovereign sister, wait for me~ Once I transfer the money back and resolve the settlement and care issues for my compatriots, I’ll come find you~”

After all, they had already been separated for a thousand years. Being apart for this additional period wouldn’t be a big deal.

When the time came, once she went to Wishaven, she would definitely have a few drinks with Alabaster Sovereign sister and Big Brother Xi Xuan~

Imagining such a scene slightly, Alice couldn’t help but let her lips curve upward in a smile.

But soon, the blonde woman shook her head.

“Forget it, let’s not think about these things. Doing proper work is important.”

Taking a deep breath, Alice suppressed the fan-girl expression on her face and revealed her usual meticulous, serious demeanor.

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However, this quiet working atmosphere hadn’t been maintained for even a few minutes before it was suddenly shattered by an anxious shout.

—”Great-grandmother!! This is bad! Something’s happened back home!”—

Accompanying the anxious voice’s arrival, a blonde middle-aged man holding a phone burst through the office door, gasping for breath.

Hearing this, Alice frowned and looked puzzledly at this descendant from her family.

“Nava, calm down. What exactly happened?”

“Great-grandmother, people from the republic’s government brought soldiers and surrounded our family home… saying we’re suspected of leaking national classified intelligence and want to arrest father and uncles. Additionally, the tax bureau is also charging our businesses with tax evasion and wants to fine us… 20 billion Sol…”

As these words left his mouth, this middle-aged man called Nava’s expression could be described as gloomy to the extreme.

Never mind him—even Alice, who had lived for a thousand years and seen countless major scenes, couldn’t help but darken her expression.

“Arrest? Fine?”

Silently repeating these two words, Alice’s expression became unprecedentedly grave.

You must know that over this thousand years, she had been continuously protecting the Republic of Crocy, as well as the republic’s predecessor, the Kingdom of Zambit… Whether it was Alice herself or her Roth Family, they had maintained good relations with the current government.

Why would the government suddenly move against their family? And with such trumped-up charges?

Had those guys gone mad?

With the Vassals of Sea constantly harassing them, requiring cooperation against external threats, they were actually pulling this stunt?

Thinking of this, Alice, feeling extremely displeased, unconsciously applied more force with her right hand, directly crushing the mouse in her grip into fragments.

“Great-grandmother, what should we do now?” Nava asked anxiously.

“Return to the country immediately.”

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Alice said coldly:

“I want to personally have a talk with the Prime Minister.”

Subsequently, Alice took a deep breath and gazed out the window with complex emotions.

I’m sorry, Alabaster Sovereign sister. I’m afraid I’ll have to delay even longer before I can come find you…

Meanwhile, at the Covenant’s northern defense line, a military aircraft had already taken off and was speeding urgently toward Wishaven in the rear.

And seated on this aircraft were none other than our Miss Bai Lian and her companions.

Inside the cabin, Suyu was elegantly sitting in her seat with her eyes closed according to her programming. Beside Suyu, Zhouyu, who was still maintaining his small dog form, and Octopus Sister, who had returned at some unknown time, were punching, kicking, and biting at Suyu’s body and face.

Of course, these two fellows were also controlling their strength at the cute pet level—they were merely trying to vent their dissatisfied emotions this way. Therefore, although she was being roughed up, Suyu’s body wasn’t suffering any damage.

On the other side, Miya was constantly pulling at Weiya’s little hand, begging for forgiveness, hoping her sister could forgive her recent “sister-selling behavior,” while Weiya continued pouting and ignoring her, silently watching the scenery outside the window.

As for our Miss Bai Lianyue, she was seated in the aircraft’s VIP room.

As a VIP room, the environment here was naturally more comfortable and spacious. Unfortunately, Miss Bai Lianyue didn’t feel this way—instead, she felt like she was sitting on pins and needles, feeling quite awkward.

The reason was simple. At this moment, a silver-haired man who was “not unfamiliar, yet particularly unfamiliar” was sitting directly across from the evil god miss.

The man was none other than the supreme commander of the northern defense line and current head of the Lingyuan family—Luo Fei-Lingyuan.

And at the same time, he was also her nominal husband.

—”Hus-husband?”—

Gazing at the dignified, handsome face of the man before her, Bai Lianyue couldn’t help but mutter anxiously in her heart.

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To take care of Ai’er and the others, Bai Lian had reluctantly accepted her identity as their “mother.”

But the identity of “wife”—Bai Lianyue had no idea how to deal with that.

Previously, due to her being overly airheaded, she perhaps hadn’t paid much attention to this matter. But now that Bai Lianyue had recovered some of her memories from the Alabaster Sovereign period, she naturally instinctively developed resistance to this identity.

After all, she was the First Celestial Augur Knight of the past! A genuine, upstanding man!

Now not only was she forced to take female form, but she also had to become someone else’s wife? It felt so weird…

Not to mention, Luo Fei was Xi Xuan’s son—becoming a friend’s daughter-in-law? Ugh…

For this reason, Bai Lianyue wanted to avoid contact with Luo Fei as much as possible.

Furthermore, Luo Fei was Lianna’s husband. As a husband, he must be very familiar with his wife, right? Would her identity be seen through?

And also, since she was his “wife,” wouldn’t this guy expect her to fulfill some wifely duties?!

As a former man, Bai Lianyue had some understanding of her current body’s destructive power. As long as he was a normal man, it would be impossible for Luo Fei not to develop some special thoughts about her body.

What if he wanted to kiss her? Or even have his way with her?

What should she do then?! Beat him up?

Bai Lianyue’s heart was extremely conflicted.

But facts proved that she seemingly didn’t need to worry about these things for now. Because Luo Fei had no intention of getting handsy—from beginning to end, he sat silently across from her, staring at her fixedly with a calm gaze.

Of course, being stared at like this constantly, Bai Lianyue’s psychological pressure was undoubtedly skyrocketing.

Finally, unable to bear it any longer, the evil god miss twirled her hair with her finger and asked awkwardly and cautiously:

“Um, that, why are you here?”

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“Why can’t I be here?”

Luo Fei replied in his consistently cold tone:

“This is the Covenant’s northern frontline, and I’m the frontline supreme commander. My being here is perfectly natural. On the contrary, why are you here? You even encountered Eye Demons…”

“Uh, this… just, curious, came to take a look…”

“Curious? Do you know what the situation is like on the frontline right now? You dared to come here and fool around just because of curiosity?”

Luo Fei’s eyes narrowed slightly, and a trace of displeasure faintly appeared in his crimson pupils.

“Although the main force of the Vassals of Sky is in the Kingdom of Qingyun, they’ve still recently dispatched quite a few Corrupted Beasts to our country’s northern territory. Their target is most likely those little girls like Ailiya. And you actually brought little girls like Miya and Weiya to the frontline? There should be limits to fooling around. If the Vassals of Sky had detected that Miya and Weiya were at the border, what would have come wouldn’t have been newly born vassals like Eye Demons, but beings at the level of the Five Draconic Sovereigns. Don’t think that just because you got yourself an ancient weapon maid, you can rest easy…”

“…”

Seemingly not wanting Luo Fei to blame the two little ones, Bai Lianyue chose not to argue in her defense.

“I-I won’t do it again next time…”

But hearing this reply, the displeasure in Luo Fei’s eyes still didn’t fade.

“Next time? Hopefully so… Although you’re not Miya and the others’ mother, since those children trust you so much… please don’t disappoint them.”

“I understand, I won’t let them down… hm?”

In an instant, Bai Lianyue frowned.

“Wait, what did you just say?”