Duncan quietly watched Alice, and Alice looked back at him with full righteousness.
After a moment, Duncan rubbed the space between his brows, feeling a strange emotion rising in his heart, the sense of discomfort lingering for a long time.
It was the same face, yet how could it express such a vastly different temperament...
"Captain," Alice blinked her eyes curiously as she saw Duncan's reaction and leaned forward to ask, "Why aren't you saying anything? Did I say something wrong?"
"...No, it's not your fault," Duncan shook his head, freeing himself from the jumbled thoughts in his mind, then suddenly raised his eyelids to look at the automaton in front of him with a serious and solemn expression, "Alice, have you... ever been curious about your connection with the Frost Queen?"
