Chapter 172: The Taste of the Original Witch is Quite Good
Alice had already understood that it wasn't a river, nor river water, but the personification of fate.
However, the surging waves, like the sea waves rushing towards her, engulfed her and brought a sense of suffocation.
But—how could she suffocate if it wasn't water?
No one could answer this question. That memory vanished in an instant, leaving only a faint sense of confusion.
—Did she really like eating ice cream, or was she just trying to hold onto that ice cream from the past?
Alice pondered for a moment and then firmly said to Audrey, "One more, please."
Seeing Alice, who seemed to have made a significant decision after deep contemplation, Audrey fell into thought.
When the new ice cream was brought up, Alice scooped a spoonful into her mouth, feeling the ice cream slowly melt, and couldn't help but smile.
After a long while, when the taste of that spoonful of ice cream had completely faded from her mouth, Alice blinked and looked at Audrey.
Seeing Audrey's confused expression, Alice sighed lightly and then said with a smile, "Anyway, thank you for the reminder."
If she had been reminded of this earlier, Alice might have been confused for a while.
But up to today, Alice had realized—perhaps her past self, even if not herself, was inseparably connected to her.
For example, Shen Yinghuan's uncontrollable luck, or from Will Ansetin's performance, that very nasty past self, and also...
They all probably liked eating ice cream?
As for why she liked it, it was no longer important to Alice. What mattered was... ice cream was delicious.
Alice scooped a large spoonful of ice cream into her mouth and smiled contentedly.
...
After returning home, Audrey dismissed the maids and planned to ask Susie what had happened.
"Well..." Susie organized her words and replied, "She asked me if I wanted to eat chocolate."
"Huh?" Audrey's eyes became blank.
"She seemed genuinely curious if I could eat chocolate..." Susie hesitated and replied, "Audrey, do you think I should try it?"
Audrey opened her mouth and, after a while, dryly replied, "Better not."
After a pause, she added, "She wouldn't be curious about just this one thing."
Susie nodded her golden head.
...
Outside the Red Rose Manor.
After recounting her predicament, Triss looked at Klein, who didn't dare to move, her slender fingers sliding down her side, outlining a graceful curve.
Klein's eyes followed her fingers, and images involuntarily appeared in his mind.
Triss spoke in a tone that was a mix of grievance and seduction, with a hint of mischievousness:
"If you can inform the Night Watchers, the Punishers, and the Heart of Mechanics about this, and if I happen to meet you before they catch me, I don't mind letting you understand what true pleasure is."
It was somewhat like the tone Alice used before doing something bad...
This thought made Klein shiver, and he instantly lost all his amorous thoughts, sobering up immediately.
"In fact," he heard himself say in an exceptionally calm tone, "I had already notified the 'Heart of Mechanics' before coming here today."
...
After saying goodbye to Audrey, Alice took an ice cream and left the ball early.
—After all, she couldn't dance ballroom dances, and there was no one she knew here.
As a noble living in the Queen's District, Alice hadn't experienced the security here, but she had to admit that the buildings here indeed exuded an air of wealth.
Following her usual habit, Alice walked down the street. Suddenly, she instinctively closed her eyes, leaned back against the wall, and a mental storm swept towards the front left.
She heard a sudden scream, but she didn't dare open her eyes.
—The greatest danger here came from her eyes.
...
"…Do you believe me if I say I was just passing by?" Sitting in the interrogation room for who knows how many times, Alice looked at the member of the "Heart of Mechanics" team and asked sincerely.
Encountering an extraordinary being being chased on the street was an unexpected yet reasonable event for Alice.
But... why did that extraordinary being run away while she got caught?
Alice weakly looked at the disbelieving person in front of her and raised her hand feebly, "Forget it, go ask the Night Watchers."
...
With the endorsement of the Night Watchers, the members of the "Heart of Mechanics" team had no choice but to "believe" that it was a coincidence.
Praising the goddess, Alice returned home, ready to describe the experience to Klein. But as soon as she saw a flash of red light, she found herself above the gray fog when she opened her eyes again.
…Did he have something to say?
Alice looked at Klein in confusion.
Klein looked at Alice with a serious expression and said, "I saw that witch."
"!" Alice immediately became alert, "It really was a witch!"
"Not only that, but it was someone we know..." Klein hesitated to continue.
"Who?" Alice blinked.
"Triss." Klein replied, pinching his brow.
Alice looked at Klein in amazement and asked, "So, that 'commoner girl' was actually Triss?"
Klein nodded with a strange expression, "Yes, and she also..."
Klein frowned and described Triss's experiences during this period, including how she used her ability of "pleasure" to seduce him—of course, he didn't mention that her tone made him hallucinate Alice.
Alice nodded thoughtfully and asked, "Then why didn't you agree and enjoy the true 'pleasure'?"
Klein looked at Alice in shock, his expression twisted as he asked, "You do remember you're a girl, right!"
Alice blinked and replied, "I also remember that 'the taste of the original witch is quite good.'"
"?" Klein cursed Roselle the Great twice in his heart before continuing, "No, wait, that's not what I wanted to say."
"Then what is it?" Alice tilted her head.
Klein pondered and then said:
"Triss said that besides arranging her actions, the Witch Sect also changed her name. Her current name is...
Triss Chick."
Alice's smile disappeared.
The gray fog fell into a long silence. Just as Klein couldn't bear it and was about to say something, he heard Alice's expected normal reaction:
"The taste of the original witch is quite good."
Klein cursed Roselle the Great in his heart once again.