I weave my destiny in parallel time and space

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 Ya was reading on that balcony, which is what he has 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.

His Majesty Emperor Moria passed away! "

pat!

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.