I paid too much for Feiwuluo

The time sequence came to late autumn.

The temperature has plummeted, and the whole of Kanto seems to have been thrown into the quick-frozen layer of the refrigerator, and there is a strong sense of autumn.

Alice has been sleeping alone for the past two days.Because Anna was taken to his hometown in the country to play by Kamamoto Toshio.

Alice really wants to go to the countryside full of grass and small animals, but Alice still has to go to school, so she can't go.

For this she cried again.

Although [the tearful blue-eyed doll] can be seen once every three days in Barbara, there is still no merciless person in the Red Clan who can remain indifferent to her tears.Hatta was heartbroken by her crying, and quickly comforted her by saying that they would take more photos and send back many souvenirs.

As a result, hearing his promise, Alice cried even more sadly, buried her face in Kusanagi's arms and yelled aggrievedly, "I will never play with Misaki again, woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo out out with each other" which broke Misaki Misaki's heart. It cost seven or eight yuan, but Chitose Yang laughed at him for not knowing what the little girl was thinking (in the end, of course, they fought again).

Then Anna hugged Alice and said, "I'm not going to Liz, don't cry." The crying little girl stopped crying instantly.

She was probably crying out of oxygen, and she froze suddenly. She stared at Anna's face for a while, and after finally realizing what her sister was saying, she started crying again.

While crying, I said sorry to Anna, saying that I didn't want Anna to go out to play, but I was sad when I thought that everyone didn't have to go to school, and only I had to get up early every day to go to school and do my homework...

"Anna, don't worry go." Kusanagi hugged the weeping Alice with one hand, touched the worried Anna's head, and pushed her towards Hatta and the others, "If you really don't want to go, Liz Today I might be dehydrated from crying because of guilt."

So serious!

But it is indeed something Alice can do!

Only then was Anna convinced.

She took a step and turned her head three times, and finally Shishu led Anna away.

What Anna didn't know was that Alice still cried for a long time after she left.

After all, there is no puppy in the world who doesn't like to go out and play.

Letting her watch others go out to play helplessly is like a punishment.

Alice, who sleeps alone and still likes kicking the quilt, sneezed twice when she woke up in the morning.

Shocked, Kusanagi Izumo hastily made her drink a large glass of warm water, and added a thick jacket to her school uniform.

"Izumo..." Alice, who was developing into a little bear again, felt wrapped up in a panic.

Especially the creaking hole, shirts, sweaters, school uniform jackets, jackets, several layers of fabric are stuck here, so that the arms can't even stick to the legs naturally.

"It's so thick...so hot..." Alice scratched at the collar of her sweater, she didn't like the feeling of the long fur sticking to her neck, it was very itchy.

"I don't want to wear..." she muttered.

"It must be worn." Kusanagi refused very simply, and straightened the collar of her crooked sweater, "You are not allowed to take it off at school—you don't have an outdoor activity class today, don't try to use this as an excuse."

Alice pursed her lips and pursed her lips.

She pulled the collar of her sweater again, and then Kusanagi poked the back of her hand.

It didn't hurt to poke the back of the hand, but Alice suddenly became a little angry, and turned the high stool around, and no one wanted to pay attention.

——Bad Izumo.

She tugged at the collar of her sweater, thinking angrily.

——I want to hate Izumo for 3 minutes!

A trace of determination flashed across Alice's face, but then the determination relaxed again.

——No, 3 minutes seems a bit long...

- Or 1 minute?

——Hmm... 1 minute seems a bit long...

She showed a tangled look.

——Well, it should be dozens of times.

Alice held out both hands.

——One, two, three, eight, ninety!

He clenched his two little hands into fists without counting seriously.

——Okay, I don’t hate Izumo anymore!

Pulling herself together, she put both hands on the edge of the barbara and deftly swiveled the high chair back into place.

In the process, the sweater collar made inevitable contact with her neck again.

Alice kicked the bar counter angrily.

Immediately, she realized that the bar counter was not something that could be thrown around and kicked, and immediately looked behind the bar counter vigilantly.

Fortunately, Kusanagi Izumo was heating milk in the kitchen at this time, so he didn't notice the movement outside at all.

— Phew...Izumo didn't notice.

She patted her heart.The wool from the collar of the sweater scratched his neck again.

—……Can’t I not wear a sweater……

Alice covered her neck with her palm to temporarily isolate herself from the sweater's harassment.

——Why must there be so much fur on the top of the sweater...

— Bad sweater.

——If I didn’t have a sweater, I wouldn’t have hated Izumo for ten seconds.

"Bad sweater, bad sweater!"

Kusanagi forbade her from pulling her collar roughly, and the first-grade children who hadn’t loaded the swear word lexicon could only say “bad”, “excessive”, “not good”, “dislike”, “hate” "This kind of words to express their dissatisfaction.

Alice's volume was low because she was speaking bad words and could not be heard by others.

Standing in the distance, only a sound similar to snoring can be heard.

Having a nightmare, Zhou Fangzun, who felt smoke in his throat halfway through his sleep, caught this kind of movement coming from nowhere when he was still on the stairs.It wasn't until I got closer that I realized that it was Alice who was lying on the bar counter chattering.

Zhou Fangzun's footsteps were easy to recognize.

Because Anna's footsteps are da da da; ——Boom—boom—it's like a sloth!

Alice immediately turned her head to look at him. Although she knew that the person who came was the Scarlet King, her eyes still showed that unconcealable... stunned...

If you have to say it, the meaning that those eyes want to express can probably be expressed as "You actually got up!" "Why did you get up so early!" "Aren't you Zhou Fangzun!" A few sentences sum it up...

Compared with her vivid expression, the pain, groaning, broken walls, scarlet flames, and the near-limit, broken, symbolic of death in the dream showed that the previous red kings were going to the end. The Sword of Damocles seems to be temporarily forgotten.

The most urgent thing is to teach this stinky kid a lesson.

Zhou Fangzun stretched out his hand, and easily pinched Alice's little head with his broad palm, and he could hear Xiao Chai's "sorrow" when he pressed his fingers a little harder.

——pretend.Zhou Fangzun sneered, but did not let go.

Zhou Fang Alice is very good at pretending to be pitiful.

Especially when her "enemy" is her legal father, Zhou Fangzun, she must be the most innocent and most distressing "victim" in the world.

But now that no one is there, she pretends to be pitiful and no one is watching. Only the incompetent bad father who likes to bully his daughter will comment on her acting skills in his heart.

Feeling that the little girl in front of her was about to get angry, Zhou Fangzun let go of her hand.

Alice, who was let go, covered the sides of her head with her small palms.

"I hate you!" She showed the momentum of "I will break up with you for 3 minutes", and loudly announced her condemnation of his rude behavior and the divine verdict to the Red King.

"Oh." Zhou Fangzun responded indifferently.Alice punched the cotton aggressively.

"You are bad!" She added angrily.

Red King: "Well. I'm bad."

Alice: "...I hate you!"

Red King: "Oh."

"... Super! Super annoying!!!"

Zhou Fangzun is happy.

Anna is not the talkative type. When she changed her teeth, she was definitely not as talkative as the little one in front of her, and it was even less likely that her teeth would leak out because of her emotions.

He raised his eyebrows and smiled.In Alice's eyes, this smile could only be called a mockery.

She pointed out her pronunciation mistakes in a straight voice-in short, it was finding fault: "It's 'you', not 'li'."

Alice: "..."

Alice: "... Woo!"

"Crying, it's useless to cry." Zhou Fangzun stretched out his hand and pinched her face, the flesh was plump and soft, easy to pinch, the kind that would sink his fingers.

No wonder Chitose and the others always like to rub her face like dough, and always make her eat more.

Alice yelled, jumped off the stool, and ran into the kitchen while yelling "Izumo, help."

Complaint went.

Kusanagi helped her tie a high ponytail today, and the black curly hair dangled behind her head.

After the hair that jumped up did not enter the door frame of the kitchen, the Scarlet King covered his face with the hand propped on the bar, laughed silently, and disappeared without a trace after a while.

The more powerful the king, the more broken the sword of Damocles he possesses.

Because all the power of the kings comes from the slate that elects them to be "kings".

The more power is extracted and used, the sword will be like a fuse, and one day it will "blow" due to the overloaded power, and then "fall" as a punishment.

It will fall into the ignorant "Damocles" who only knows how to exercise its own power blindly, but does not know what restraint and restriction are.

The attributes of each king are different, and the power of the third king, the Red King, is undoubtedly the most "violent" among the seven kings.

This inherent property is a double-edged sword.

It not only makes the "Red King" rank among the best in strength among the seven kings.

But at the same time, it also made it difficult for the previous "Red Kings" to control their own power.

Managing one's emotions has almost become something that every Red King must learn.

Finding "something that cannot be destroyed and wants to protect" and use it as a warning to avoid the outbreak of kingship caused by the abuse of power and the fall of the sword of Damocles, which symbolizes the power of the king - is early Questions Zhou Fangzun needed to think about when he just became the "Red King" in the past few years.

From time to time, Zhou Fangzun would be alone.

Silently enduring the scarlet flames that were about to burst out, continuously churning like magma under the skin; and the sharp pains coming from the temples one after another, like stirring the brain with an awl.

When he first became king, a voice told him——

【Because you want to suppress this force, that's why you work so hard. 】

So how about not suppressing it?

- Then it won't hurt.

- Then you will be "free".

—Isn't it something you've always wanted?

Like the snake that tricked Eve into eating the fruit of wisdom, it is full of sweet temptations that are desirable.

Fortunately, at that time, he quickly found that "something that cannot be destroyed and wants to protect"

He is willing to use his own power for the sake of Bard Wuluo.

And similarly, for the sake of barking Wuluo, he was also willing to restrain his own strength, restrain his already fiery temper.

But before he became the "king", Zhou Fangzun was just Zhou Fangzun.

He is an ordinary person with a bit of a grumpy temper, a very big nerve, who likes to drink strawberry milk and sleep in late, not a saint.

Facing the "things" that will bring you unhappiness and pain, even if you know that they are not the objects you should hate and blame, you will still inevitably vent your anger and imprison your own "shackles" when your emotions reach the threshold of about to erupt. ".

——As long as you smash this vulnerable "cage" that traps you, there will be nothing in this world that can hinder you anymore.

Such a one-and-done idea will always circle in his mind.

So when Zhou Fangzun had such thoughts, all the allies who knew each other would know that the king in this state cannot be disturbed.

So this time everyone planned to go to Kamamoto Toshio's hometown to play together, and everyone didn't disturb the Red King who was trying to restrain himself.

But it is often said that there are exceptions.

There are only two people in Barbara who are so fearless as to touch the lion's beard in a state of anger.

One is the ten bundles of tatara that obviously possesses flames, but can't pose a threat to anyone.

The other is Zhou Fang Alice who simply doesn't understand the pain of the Red King, and for some reason blindly believes that the Red King is absolutely impossible to do such a bad thing as spanking a child.

She pulled her bear slippers and poked Zhou Fangzun who was lying on the sofa like a lifeless stone statue.A faint, surging red was faintly seen on his exposed skin.

But the other party was annoyed, and only rolled his eyes, and cast his gaze on Alice lying on the back of the sofa, hugging the pillow.

"Will not you go to bed?"

As she spoke, her upper and lower teeth knocked against each other, and the hand that was stretched out to poke Zhou Fangzun also retracted behind the pillow.

It was twelve o'clock in the evening.

Two hours had passed since Kusanagi stipulated that Alice must fall asleep.

Normally speaking, You Chai, who couldn't wake up now, should have been asleep long ago.

However, at this time she woke up.

There are only three things that can wake Alice up from her dark and sweet dream.

First, alarm clocks (including humanoid alarm clocks).

Second, it's hot.

Third, it's cold.

Based on the actual situation, it is only the third option that makes her crawl out of her bed.

But unfortunately, no one wants to see the Scarlet King now—and no one wants to talk to him if he sees it.

He quickly closed his eyes, and decided to deal coldly with Alice who was disturbing him even if he didn't sleep well.

But after a while, not only did footsteps not leave, Zhou Fangzun's face also had the feeling of being "poked, poked, poked, poked".

Red King: "..."

"...What are you doing?" He anxiously grabbed the paw of the bear who kept poking shallow holes in his face, and found that her hand was unexpectedly cold.

This kind of temperature reminded him of when the stinky kid came here almost a year ago, and it was the same, as cold as the ice that Kusanagi fished out of the freezer.

"It's so cold." Alice clenched her upper and lower teeth again.The small knocking sound finally reached the ears of the Scarlet King.

Only then did Zhou Fangzun realize that the weather forecast had indeed said that he would dive into the water to cool down tonight.

And Anna wasn't here today, so Alice didn't have to get under the covers if she wanted to.

"...Don't you know how to turn on the air conditioner?" While enduring a headache and having to speak, the Red King looked particularly listless at this moment.

"But the air conditioner didn't respond." Alice murmured softly, her words revealing the dissatisfaction of "I've done it a long time ago, so I need you to remind me".

Zhou Fangzun: "..."

so annoying...

But he still got up slowly from the sofa and stepped into Anna and Alice's bedroom.

The remote control of the air conditioner was placed on the desk where she and Anna were placed side by side.It was very conspicuous, and Zhou Fangzun found it quickly, and then picked up the air conditioner hanging on the wall and pressed the [ON/OFF] button.

The small LCD screen on the remote control lights up, but the air conditioner itself has no response at all.

Zhou Fangzun pressed it a few more times without giving up.The remote control was turned on and off, turned off and on again, and there was no movement at all, only the indoor unit of the air conditioner, and Alice who silently watched his futile attempts.

Fifth switch.

Still useless.

"I told you that it can't be opened..."

Zhou Fangzun heard the stinky kid standing behind him muttering in a low voice.

I couldn't add more irritability for a while.

Adhering to the simple idea of ​​"Slap and beat something that can't be repaired, maybe the line with poor contact can be right on it", the Red King raised his hand.

He slapped the air conditioner's indoor unit.

Then--

"Bang----!!!" sounded.

The shell of the air conditioner case and other internal parts that could not bear the blow and fell apart clearly showed that this was definitely not a moderate slap.

Zhou Fangzun: "..."

Zhou Fang Alice: "..."

Zhou Fang Alice: "Izumo will scold you tomorrow!"

Zhou Fangzun was [-]% sure that he heard three parts of distress and seven parts of schadenfreude from this stinky kid's words - the distress was for the air conditioner, and the schadenfreude was obviously aimed at him.

At the same time, there are two solutions to the problem of "Youchai is too cold to sleep well" before the Red King.

Option one, throw her with her quilt to the first floor with central air conditioning.

Option two, let her spend the night with me.

——After all, this will call someone to repair the air conditioner, even if it is repaired, Alice probably won't sleep.

Among the two options, option one is very good, saving time, effort and worry.

The only downside is that Kusanagi Izumo, who rushed to Barbara tomorrow morning to tell Alice to get up for school and saw the child appearing on the sofa on the first floor, would definitely go crazy.

It's like sending a fate to a question.

Zhou Fangzun silently crossed out the plan.

Forced to choose the second option - let Zhou Fang Alice squeeze a night with himself.

In short, as long as there is a heat source next to her, right?

Anna, who is hypothermic, also likes to curl up next to him when she takes a nap.

Thinking of this, the Scarlet King's originally frowning brows relaxed a little, and he felt that the way to solve the problem was not as complicated as he imagined.

But soon he found out that he was wrong.

—and very wrong.

Holding her own pillow, Alice, who jumped onto Zhou Fangzun's bed, first carefully checked the firmness of the bed, and then condescendingly placed her pillow at the head of the bed.

However, not long after she lay down, the Scarlet King, who thought she could finally return to peace, saw the stinky child get up again.

She lifted the quilt that was stained with a strong smell of smoke: "I don't want to cover this!"

Then she ran back to her room in her nightgown and carried her quilt over - she was too short, at least half of the quilt was dragged on the ground, probably sweeping the corridor clean.

"I want to cover my own quilt!"

Zhou Fangzun: "..."

"as you like."

It took a while to lay the quilt.

Seeing Alice getting into the bed he had rolled up, Zhou Fangzun thought to himself, he can sleep now.

Well, still can't.

Zhou Fang Alice, who tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, sat up again.

Zhou Fangzun: "..."

"What are you doing?"

There was a bit of irritability in his voice.It was like a lion warning to a cub crawling on his head.

"...so dark..."

Zhou Fangzun: "..."

I remembered.She is really afraid of the dark.For this reason, Kusanagi also installed a small night light in her and Anna's bedroom.

"Lie down." Stuffing the cold and shivering young Chai back into her bed, Zhou Fangzun stepped onto the floor with bare feet, took the night light and placed it on his bedside.

The warm orange light immediately illuminated a small piece of darkness, and even Alice's little face, which was a little pale from the cold, looked a lot healthier.

"Don't you have anything to take?" he asked.

Alice nodded.

Zhou Fangzun stepped on the edge of the bed.

"Wait, wait!" Alice immediately yelled to stop his movements, "You didn't wear shoes just now! The floor is so dirty!"

This means to let him go to rinse again.

Zhou Fangzun: "..."

He just wanted to complain.

In terms of dirt, he is no dirtier than the quilt she dragged all the way just now!

Rather, I would like to thank her quilt for mopping up all the dust on the floor just now!

It's a pity that the Red King didn't want to talk.

He wanted to quickly put this little guy who was as energetic as a bouncing bean to fall asleep quickly.

It's too much trouble if you don't fall asleep.

I really don't understand how Kusanagi can take her back to the apartment every weekend and take care of her so safely...

Zhou Fangzun also took a bath by the way.

Saved time being picked on by a stinky kid saying that he smells like cigarettes...

Raising children...is it such a troublesome thing...

The owner who usually only teases the puppy and does not take care of the puppy suddenly begins to feel a little guilty for his negligence.

However, this guilt disappeared after less than two hours.

Zhou Fangzun, who closed his eyes, felt something was placed on his stomach before he could fall asleep.

He opened his eyes, and then found Zhou Fang Alice's short leg resting on his stomach.

Probably because he was warmer...so he leaned over in his sleep.

Zhou Fangzun: "..."

... Forget it, let's go.

Not heavy anyway.

He lay down and closed his eyes again.

Then after a while—the bridge of the nose was suddenly punched—the back of Alice's hand hit Zhou Fang, who was lying on his back while sleeping, on his face.

Zhou Fangzun: "..."

He has already begun to suspect that this stinky kid is not asleep at all!

But following the light of the night light, he stared at her for a while. If this long and steady breathing was faked, it can only be said that Zhou Fang Alice's acting skills have advanced by leaps and bounds to the point that he can't tell.

Of course that is impossible.

So Zhou Fangzun lay down again.

He was on guard against Alice's next "attack", and fell asleep unconsciously.

Another dream.

As always, a tiresome dream.

The scorched wilderness, the dilapidated buildings, the soil from which weak white smoke rose, and the air filled with the smell of burnt.

There seemed to be nothing alive but himself.

Anna, who would always break into his dreams because of her sensory ability, did not appear this time.

It was as if the whole world had been burned by him, leaving only the sound of something being continuously burned.

crackle.

crackle.

Crackle.

He stood there in a daze, looking at the lifeless purgatory in front of him.

Until something cold dripped on his face.

Zhou Fangzun raised his hand and wiped it.

The sticky feeling quickly disappeared from his hot fingertips.

- It's water.

Or rather.

- It's rain.

In this kind of dream, it will rain?

how is this possible……

However, as if to deny his thoughts, the rain became heavier and heavier.

Realizing that something was wrong, the Red King suddenly opened his eyes from his dream——

A small face that had not yet shed its baby fat was hanging in front of his eyes, and tears were streaming down his face.

—and those tears fell all over his face.

Zhou Fangzun: "..."

……what time is it?

He wanted to sit up and search his phone.The next moment, she was thrown into her arms by the crying "Little Rain Girl" in front of her.

"Wow - I thought you were going to die!!!" she wailed.If you live in a residential area, you will definitely be complained by neighbors about the loud noise in the middle of the night.

Zhou Fangzun frowned, and soon found that his body temperature had once again risen far beyond the range that an ordinary human body can bear—even a child can feel "very wrong" without a thermometer—in fact, every time he finished He would always be like this in his dreams, but Zhou Fang Alice didn't know it. After all, she would never go upstairs to wake him up as a "little enemy".

Zhou Fangzun hugged her away a little, and then under the light of the night light, he found that Alice's hair was all stuck to the sides of her face and neck.She was covered in sweat, nine out of ten she was affected by his high temperature and then woke up from the heat.

The stinky child hiccups from crying.

Zhou Fangzun seldom comforts her - usually other people are responsible for such work.

Don't worry about the Red King at all.

But now that no one was around, he could only rack his brains, and finally squeezed out a dry word of comfort.

"It won't die."

"Really, really?"

"Ah."

"But, but your body is, so, so hot... woo woo..."

"It's normal." He put Alice back on her bed, covered her with the quilt, recalled Kusanagi's way of coaxing her to take a nap on the first floor, and patted her on the back lightly, but found that the palm of his hand Fully opened, it can cover most of Alice's back.

...Why are you still so skinny.

He remembered that when he carried Alice to the Legal Affairs Bureau to go through the adoption procedures a year ago, her back could be covered by his entire palm.

A year passed without any improvement.

It was impossible for Kusanagi to starve her.

"You didn't, didn't you lie to me?" She was tired from crying and yawned.

"No."

"You have to be a liar, a puppy."

"Ah."

"I still have to swallow a thousand needles."

"Yeah." Zhou Fangzun lowered his voice, checked his phone, it was three o'clock in the morning.

tsk...

"Go to sleep," he urged.

She has to go to school tomorrow.

"Woooo..."

Alice whimpered again, but finally she couldn't beat the deep sleepiness, and slowly closed her eyes.

Crying takes energy.

At least in the second half of the night, she didn't move around like punching.

Zhou Fangzun stared at her sleeping face for a while, and then closed his golden-like eyes in the darkness.

And this time.

The charred dream was never visited again.

Perhaps thanks to the blessing of the rain, he slept soundly.

Rare to sleep so well.

And if you can sleep longer, even better.

Zhou Fangzun was awakened by a knock on the door.

The person outside the door asked: "Jun, is Liz with you?"

He got up and got out of bed, opened the door, and sure enough saw Kusanagi's face.

"Still sleeping." He yawned, and opened the door of his room completely, allowing Kusanagi Izumo to enter.

"Did you break the air conditioner in their room?" Kusanagi really asked about it.

His Excellency the Scarlet King hummed a little guiltyly: "Sorry..."

Kusanagi covered his forehead and sighed: "I told you so many times that you can't hit things that seem to be broken... but let me listen to it, you idiot..."

Red King: "Hmm..."

"Forget it, I've contacted you to get a new air conditioner." Kusanagi waved his hand, "Speaking of which, you didn't just throw Liz to the first floor. Did you finally realize that you are her 'father'?"

Really thought about it that way, the Scarlet King felt guilty again: "Well...well..."

When Kusanagi heard his answer, he smiled gratifiedly, then turned around and walked to the bulging Xiaobao's bed, and patted Alice who was curled up inside through the quilt.

"Liz, wake up." The soft Kansai accent is more like a slow and gentle song than the sharp ringing of the alarm clock.

Usually, Alice would wake up after yelling no more than three times, and then hugged Kusanagi's neck and acted like a baby.

But today she not only wrapped herself in the quilt uncharacteristically and slept, she didn't even wake up after Kusanagi called five times.

Is it so troublesome to wake up on weekdays...

Just when the Red King had such doubts in his mind, Kusanagi Izumo's handsome face suddenly sank.

He peeled Alice out of the quilt that wrapped her into a ball like peeling corn, revealing that little face that was so red that it was obviously abnormal.

"Liz?!" Kusanagi hurriedly picked up the little girl with the quilt and others.

However, the only response to him was Alice coughing violently.