Chapter 14 Don't watch, don't want

What Mori Ogai meant by drastic measures was to take Alice out for more walks, but before he could put this idea into practice, he switched roles with Ace.

Out of curiosity, Ace also followed Moriogai's example and summoned Alice.

He half-knelt beside Alice and looked at her curiously with his head tilted: "Alice?"

"Hmph." The girl turned her head away with a vivid expression.

Ace thought for a moment and turned to her again: "Alice, who am I?"

Alice frowned: "Rintaro, you idiot!"

So Ace frowned and said, "Mr. Ouwai, this doesn't seem very smart, does it?"

Alice was angry: "How am I not smart!"

Mori Ougai was not too happy either: [Alice-chan is not very smart in some way! ]

Ace looked at Alice, who was glaring at him with her hands on her hips. He grabbed her under the arms and lifted her up like a normal child. Then he asked thoughtfully: "Mr. Ougai, was the appearance of this ability designed according to your ideas?"

Mori Ogai sensed that this question was a trap, so he did not answer directly, but instead said in a roundabout way: [Alice originally said it like this, I could only make some minor changes.]

[Is that so?] Ace put Alice down with regret, [I also want to create a superpower like my brother.]

Mori Ogai: [……]

My heart stopped beating, then suddenly started beating rapidly again.

What a close call! His Alice-chan was almost going to turn into Alex!

[But why did Alice call you Rintaro? ]

【It is an old name.】

Mori Ogai didn't explain too much, and Ace didn't dwell on the question. He looked down at Alice and asked, "By the way, didn't Mr. Ogai just say he wanted to take Alice out for a walk? Shall we go out for a walk?"

Alice nodded: "Of course!"

"Okay! Then our first stop is to have a nice meal! Let's go!"

Alice jumped onto Ace's back and was caught by him. He pointed to the door and said, "Gogogo!"

…

Ace, wearing the outer shell of the gull, carried Alice on his back while shopping, just like a father carrying his daughter on his back. And when he carried her from behind, Ace even let Alice sit on his shoulders to free his hands.

"Rintaro! I want to eat that! I want a super big cake!"

In order not to expose Ace's existence, Alice simply called Ace "Rintaro".

"Okay!" Ace carried her into the cake shop with a bright smile, found a quiet table and sat down, then ordered the largest double-layer cake in the store.

As soon as the cake was placed on the table, Ace's eyes widened, even wider than Alice's who should have been more focused.

"Ah - what a sweet smell -" Ace picked up the cake knife, looked at the small plates in front of him and Alice, pondered for a while, cut the smaller cake on the top layer into four large pieces with two cuts, and then stacked two of the pieces and put them on the plate in front of Alice.

Alice held up her knife and fork, silently looking at the two large cakes stacked on top of each other on the plate in front of her, not knowing where to start. So she looked up at Ace who was sitting opposite her. Ace put the remaining two large cakes on his plate in the same way, and stabbed one of them with a fork, opened his mouth without caring about his image, and bit off a large piece in one bite, stuffing his cheeks with cream.

After gaining Alice's perspective, Mori Ogai, who was able to see his own external image, was also very silent.

Although I had prepared myself mentally, seeing my face behave like this, I was still...

Forget it, I'd better not watch it. The more I watch it, the more likely I am to have a heart attack.

Mori Ogai silently cut out Alice's perspective.

Seeing Alice just staring at him instead of eating the cake, Ace mumbled with a mouthful of cake in his mouth and recommended it, "It's delicious! Alice, why don't you eat it?"

Alice looked at the two pieces of cake in front of her that were not neatly stacked together and were difficult to cut, and sighed deeply, "Rintaro, your eating manners are a bit terrible."

Ace didn't care. He swallowed the chunk in his mouth, and there was only one chunk left of the two chunks on the plate.

He gave a thumbs up, "Well, eating it in big mouthfuls is a way to respect the food!"

Alice believed him and cut the two pieces of cake together with a knife with an expressionless face. She cut it several times in a row until it was divided into irregular small pieces. Then she picked up a small piece with a fork and ate it elegantly.

Mori Ogai, who saw Alice eating from Ace's perspective, said: [……]

It formed a sharp contrast. Obviously, he should have eaten in such an elegant manner.

Oh, forget it, I won’t think about it anymore. It’s painful when I think about it.

The double-layer cake is quite large, especially with so much cream, so it has a lot of calories and is very filling.

Ace ate as fast as ever. He ate more than half of the meal and then leaned back in his seat. Alice across from him was still delicately eating the large piece of food that was added to her plate at the end.

After Alice finished eating and wiped her mouth gracefully, Ace sneakily moved his face closer.

"Alice."

"Hmm?" Alice put down the tissue she was using to wipe her mouth, raised her eyes to glance at him, and asked in a questioning tone in a coquettish manner.

Ace chuckled, and just as Moriou was starting to have a bad feeling, he approached Alice and whispered, "Alice, do you want to try the feeling of eating a free meal?"

Before Sen Ou could react, Alice's eyes lit up, "I want to!"

Mori Ogai: ...

Mori Ougai:!!!

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At this moment, Ace had already stood up and bowed 90 degrees to the waiter who came forward to collect the bill after seeing that the table was about to leave after eating, and said loudly: "Thank you for the hospitality!"

Then he picked up Alice who was standing next to him and rushed out of the cake shop like the wind.

[Ace! Have you forgotten what we agreed on?! ]

The sound outside Mori Owl was drowned out by the roar of the clerk chasing after him.

Ace carried Alice with him, smiling brightly, through the streets and walls, and finally stopped in an alley near the port mafia building.

He put Alice down and asked with a smile, "How was it? Was it fun?"

Alice shouted, "It's fun!"

Only Mori Ou looked exhausted. He asked anxiously, "Ace, we are not without money. Why do you have to eat a free meal?"

"Well, when I was little, I often went to the Kingdom of Goa with my brothers to eat free meals." Ace held Alice's hand and walked towards the Hong Kong Black Building, talking about his childhood with nostalgia, "At that time, we were all wild children without parents to take care of us. I usually ate with the thieves, but... the Kingdom of Goa is where many nobles live, and we kids didn't have much money. I remember that at that time, the three of us would stack up together and use awnings to cover ourselves and pretend to be adults to eat in the hotel. When the waiter came to collect the money, we would jump out of the window and run away!"

He laughed and said, "Isn't it super interesting?"

"Wow! Interesting!" Alice clapped enthusiastically.

Mori Ou looked simple and straightforward with a blank expression on his face.

My goodness, you have restrained yourself these two times, right?

He sighed deeply: [Anyway, hurry back to the office and lie down, or the pain will be even worse later.]

He has already given up. It's just a stomach spasm. It won't matter this time.

"Okay!" Ace was quite active in obeying.

On the other hand, the hunter who was asked to watch the forest gull's every move only felt phantom pain in his teeth. He seemed to have seen something he shouldn't have seen, such as the leader hiding his identity and going out to eat a free meal...

It’s better not to report this to Mr. Omi.

He opened a hole next to Ace and asked quietly, "Chief, do we need to report this lady's matter to Omi?"

According to common sense, the family members of the Mafia would hide the truth from others. This secrecy is two-way, not only from other Mafia members, but also from their family members. For the safety of their family members, they would not even let their family members know that the person next to them is actually a Mafia member.

But the leader was so brazen in taking his daughter out shopping, and it made quite a fuss. Anyone with an eye on things could find out. Didn't he want people to know? And if he didn't report the matter to Omi, and Omi found out about it himself, wouldn't he be exposed as a spy at any moment?

After thinking about it, the hunter decided to ask the leader first. It's better than guessing :)

Mori Ogai also heard his question, and he habitually said in a roundabout way: [I will take her back to the Port Mafia later. She is the eldest daughter of the Port Mafia. ]

Ace repeated.

The hunter understood immediately: "I understand."

He immediately turned around and reported to Omi before the news about Miss Alice reached Omi's ears.

…

When Ace returned to the office outside Moriou, his stomach had indeed begun to hurt.

Alice boiled some hot water for him, then lay down on the bed in the back room of his office. Looking at Ace who was lying on the bed and didn't want to move at all, she suddenly said, "Oh, this way, I won't be able to finish my homework tonight, Ace."

Ace: “…”

I broke out in a cold sweat in an instant.

He immediately began to howl in a wailing manner: "Ah - it hurts - my stomach hurts so much! If I do my homework now, it will definitely hurt more, right? No! I have to protect Mr. Ougai's fragile body -"

Mori Ogai was used as an excuse, but perhaps because his body had almost gotten used to it and was only slightly uncomfortable at the moment: [……]

[Hehe.] He sneered, [If you really want to protect my fragile body, you shouldn't have eaten the free meal just now.]

Ace: “…”

Ah this.

He laughed dryly twice, "Isn't this, taking Alice out for some fun..."

Mori Ougai laughed at him again.

You are having a lot of fun playing with my special abilities :)