In the next few days, Alicia thoroughly cleaned the castle from top to bottom. She enjoyed it and told herself that she was looking for clues.
Arthur also participated. He was very sensible, which also saved Alicia a lot of energy.
The ten-year-old child is also very adaptable to magic. He quickly accepted the many magical features of this castle and even played with the door endlessly for many days.
She cleaned the windows, cleaned the leaking sink, and even scrubbed the stairs. There was also a bathroom. To be honest, she had never seen such a dirty bathroom. The weeds in the shower frightened her. The weeds in the bathtub frightened her. The color shocked her even more.
I don't know if it was paint or some other medicine that made the bathtub colorful. The mirror was also covered with spots and stains. It was more like a workshop where some kind of evil human experiments were conducted than a bathroom.
Just cleaning the place took her a whole day.
Some bottles and jars placed on the shelf attracted her attention. There were some nouns written on them such as "skin", "eyes" and "hair" that were difficult not to notice.
Alicia first guessed that they might be made from a girl's body, but after taking a closer look, she found that most of them were cosmetics such as facial creams.
She thought back to her image of Xia when she spent time with him these days. To be honest, it was difficult for her to associate these complex types of cosmetics with him.
In other words, she gets goosebumps every time she thinks of him smearing all this stuff on his face.
She replaced them and scrubbed them clean.
She also made many friends in Eagle Point Port these days.
Alicia had never heard of this place when she was in the palace. It should be an unknown town in the countryside.
But the people here are really welcoming.
Energetic ninety-year-old grandmothers like her are rare in this era.
In line with the fine tradition of respecting the elderly and caring for the young, some enthusiastic neighbors nearby would always send some small gifts. When she went to the street to buy vegetables, people here would also send her more vegetables and give her some discounts.
Alicia would accept it with a smile every time, but sometimes she would also return some small dishes she made, which even Chara would praise more than once.
She loved some of the particularly local gifts, such as worn-out shells, which she used to decorate her under-stairs den.
The room is getting cleaner and cleaner, the cakes and jams in the pantry are neatly arranged, and there are some seasonal vegetables from time to time.
This magic castle feels more and more like home.
If one day, she really leaves here, she will probably cry, Alicia thought to herself.
When she was in the palace, she didn't have a friend she could really talk to. Although the maids responded to her requests, none of them ever regarded her as a friend, only respect.
After she became blind, she basically had nothing to play with. She just stayed in the palace and lived numbly day after day.
Although the palace was large and luxurious, the silence and emptiness made people feel uneasy.
Although it is small here, she sleeps very peacefully every night. She has not felt this way for a long time.
But she knew she couldn't stay here forever.
Alicia always felt that that person knew her, but she always turned a blind eye to her.
Alicia couldn't guess what he was thinking, and it was an uncomfortable feeling.
Therefore, she left Xia Ya's room to be cleaned until the end. She was a little scared, afraid that she would find something in it that would break her life at the moment.
For example, the girl's heart fragment or the content of the contract between Calcifer and him.
But soon, she gave up this worry. She must break this curse. She had had enough of being an old lady.
She got up early in the morning, and it was still raining lightly in Eagle Point Harbor. She tied her headscarf, rolled up her sleeves, wrapped herself in an apron, prepared a broom, bucket, and soap, and headed for the stairs as if she were on a battlefield.
Xia was reading on that balcony, which is what he had been doing these days. He was sitting on the rocking chair Alicia bought a few days ago.
It was a new model from a nearby furniture store. It was inspired by a child's cradle and was very comfortable.
It was very suitable for the elderly to sit and bask in the sun. She spent a lot of money to buy it and planned to sit on it and bask in the sun by the large lake where the castle is now docked.
But before she could sit there for long, she was snatched away by Xia Ya. His buttocks never left the chair, and he lay on the balcony reading in the sun every day.
Every time she looked at his lazy look, she felt a little angry.
Let Calcifer bear all the powerful magic of this castle, and leave all the daily chores to himself and Arthur.
And he robbed the ninety-year-old lady of her old man's pleasure and sunbathed in the sun doing nothing every day.
She no longer had any respect for this shameless guy.
As if he felt someone was looking at him, Xia closed the book and took care of Alicia with some interest.
"Want to clean my room?"
"What? Are you afraid that I will find something inside that I shouldn't find?" Alicia said with her hands on her hips.
"That's not true." Xia Ya said, "But when you clean it, remember not to move the positions of the things inside. Those are magic devices used to avoid the witch in the wilderness."
Hearing this familiar name, Alicia's breathing stagnated slightly. Although she had already guessed that the wilderness witch and Chara knew each other in the past, hearing it from his mouth gave her a different feeling.
"Who is that?" she asked.
"A trouble." Xia Ya commented, "It is a big trouble now, but in the future, it will probably be a small trouble."
"Isn't that the woman you had an affair with before and then abandoned her?" Alicia said.
"Why do you think so?" Xia Ya said with a strange expression.
"intuition."
And Xia Ya shook his head, "Do you believe it? I have never even seen her."
"Then why is she looking for you?" Alicia asked, "and why are you avoiding her?"
Char seemed to want to say something, but the sound of rapid footsteps coming from the stairs on one side attracted their attention.
Arthur was running up in small steps, holding a newspaper in his hand, and said excitedly, "Alicia, Xia, read this newspaper quickly.
The Emperor...His Majesty Moria...is dead! "
Snap!
The broom in Alicia's hand fell to the ground. Obviously, the news brought by Arthur had a huge impact on her, and she was stunned in place.
After a moment, she came back to her senses, immediately snatched the newspaper from Arthur's hand, and looked at the headlines in the newspaper with wide eyes.
While reading the newspaper, she slowly walked downstairs, leaving the bucket and broom here.
Arthur, who had come back to his senses, also noticed that Alicia's mood was a little strange at this moment. He hurriedly ran down the stairs and saw Alicia sitting by the window with her head lowered and covering her face.
Her body was trembling slightly, and slight sobs came from her body.
The newspaper fell to one side.
Arthur was a little at a loss. He didn't know if he had done something wrong, so he didn't dare to step forward to comfort him.
He ran up the stairs in a panic.
"Char! Alicia is crying! Go and have a look!"
Xia Ya was not surprised by this. He stood up silently and placed the book in his hand on the rocking chair.
"Why is she crying?" Arthur said uneasily, "Is it because of me?"
"It's not because of you." Xia Ya said.
"What's that for?" Arthur asked.
"Because of the separation, she lost an important relative." Xia Ya looked at him, "Can you understand?"
Arthur was silent for a moment and said, "I can understand. I cried all the time when Grandma Dean died."
After a pause, he asked, "Is there anything we can do?"
"Help her clean the room." Xia Ya said.
Arthur came back to his senses and looked at the bucket and broom on the ground. He nodded and said, "I understand."
Xia Ya said no more, but walked down the stairs directly...
Alicia was still sitting next to the workbench sobbing, her body shaking uncontrollably.
He walked to her side silently, picked up the newspaper from the ground, read the content on it and sighed.
"I thought it would take more than ten days for the news to reach Eagle Point Port, but I didn't expect it to be so fast."
Hearing this, Alicia raised her head and looked at Xia Ya, with tears on her face, "Have you known about this for a long time?"
Suddenly, Alicia seemed to realize something. She snatched the newspaper from Char's hand and looked at the time of death on the obituary. It was the time when Char went out with the God of Death.
"Did you take me away... took away His Majesty Moria?"
"It's death."
Xia Ya said seriously, "As long as you are human, you can never escape death. This is human destiny.
The God of Death does not bring death, but death brings the God of Death. He is only responsible for leading the soul to where it should go. "
Char looked at Alicia, "He guided the souls of many people that day, and this emperor was the last one."
Alicia lowered her head and fell silent. She still understood her father's body, and she also knew many truths.
But she never thought that this moment would come so unexpectedly, that it would even be too late for the last moment...
"I chatted with him for a while," Xia Ya said. "We got along very well. He gave me a box and entrusted me to deliver the box to his third daughter who disappeared not long ago."
Alicia raised her head and looked at Xia quietly, but said nothing.
Xia Ya sighed, "Unfortunately, I really can't find where his third daughter is."
"Can't you even find magic?" Alicia said.
"Magic is not omnipotent." Xia Ya said.
"Where is the box now?" Alicia asked.
Xia Ya raised his hand, and the exquisite box slowly appeared in his hand.
Alicia kept staring at the box.
"You seem to care about that emperor." Xia Ya looked at her with interest.
Alicia looked away, wiped the remaining tears from the corners of her eyes, and tried to calm down her emotions.
"I...I just think it's a pity that he was a good emperor and died like this."
Xia Ya nodded, as if he believed what Alicia said.
"Since you value this emperor so much, I will leave this thing to you for safekeeping until I find the third princess."
He placed the box on the table to one side.
"Leave it to me?" Alicia didn't react for a while.
"I have no place to put it in my room." Xia Ya said casually, "Besides, I'm really not someone who knows how to keep things. If I were to keep it, I might not find it one day."
"I can't deny this."
After these days of cleaning, Alicia has a very clear understanding of Char's ability to organize and place items.
"Then I'll leave it to you. I'm going to take a bath. Calcifer, prepare hot water for me."
Char said to Calcifer, and then turned around and walked up the stairs.
He hasn't had a bath in many days, and now that the bathroom is clean, he wants to take a good soak.
"It's really troublesome to take a bath so early in the morning." Calcifer complained, "Alicia, give me some wood."
Alicia looked at the box and then at the stairs that Chara walked through. Her eyes were filled with fluorescence, but she had no words.
She silently stood up and walked over to add a few pieces of wood to Calcifer, and then he heated up the bath water for Charcifer...
