"What? There is such a thing?"

Fang Zheng was also surprised when he received the call from Meigan.

"Yeah, brother, what should we do now? Eve is holding her..."

"… Tie her up and wait for me to deal with her when I get back."

Fang Zheng thought about it and quickly made a decision.

"We'll be right back."

"What's wrong?"

Hearing Fang Zheng's call, Zhen Hong looked at her curiously, while Fang Zheng shook his head.

"A puppet named Mercury Lamp came to our house to cause trouble while we were away, and was caught by Eve."

"Eh? Mercury lamp?"

Hearing this name, Zhenhong suddenly couldn't remain calm.

"So we have to go back... I wanted to take a walk around the area... Is there any way you can send us home directly? I remember you can teleport through a mirror, right?"

"no problem."

Zhenhong also knew the seriousness of the situation, so she nodded, and then immediately came to the bathroom mirror, stretched out her hand and gently tapped it, and then the mirror suddenly began to shake like ripples, and then quickly changed its image. Then Fangzheng walked into the room with Zhenhong and Hinami, carrying the suitcase, and then turned left and right. A few minutes later, when Fangzheng stepped out of the mirror again, he had already arrived at his bedroom.

"Tsk tsk tsk, it will be much more convenient to go home with this thing."

Looking at the room in front of him, Fang Zheng couldn't help but sigh. Apart from anything else, the Rozen Maiden's Retrieval Stone was really useful. However...

"Why is this such a mess?"

Looking at the black feathers all over the room, Fang Zheng felt extremely depressed. He hurriedly opened the door and went downstairs. Then he saw Meigan busy cleaning the corridor.

"Ah, brother, you're back!"

Hearing the footsteps, Meigan turned around and saw Fang Zheng coming back. She greeted him hurriedly and then asked curiously.

"When did you come back?"

"Just now. In fact, I was on my way when I received your call. I wanted to give you a surprise... What's going on? Crows fighting?"

"It's the mercury lamp lady who filled the room with feathers..."

Meigan started to complain at this moment. After all, she was the one who cleaned up the feathers. She didn't know how the mercury lamp could make the whole room full of feathers, which made Meigan very depressed. She just spent a lot of effort to clean up the feathers in the corridor and the living room. Now there was still the second floor waiting for her.

Not only that, the window was broken when Mercury Lamp and Eve were fighting, and the corridor was a mess. There were too many things to clean up...

Oh, you are very brave to come to my territory to cause trouble.

Listening to Meigan's complaints, Fang Zheng also raised his eyebrows.

"Where's the puppet?"

"In the living room, Eve caught her."

"very good."

Fang Zheng nodded and walked into the living room. He saw Eve sitting at the dining table. Her blonde hair had turned into a pair of big hands, tightly grasping Mercury Lamp. The latter glared at her fiercely, but Eve completely ignored Mercury Lamp's gaze and focused on the TV program. When she saw Fang Zheng coming in, Eve immediately stood up and greeted Fang Zheng.

"elder brother."

"Well, I'm back. Thank you for your hard work, Eve."

Fang Zheng walked up to Eve, reached out his hand to touch her little head, and then looked at the mercury lamp.

"That's her?"

"Well, she just came to our house for no apparent reason and wanted to take us away, so I fought with her."

Wow, you are so bold, you even dare to kidnap someone?

At this time, Shinhong and Hinami also put away their suitcases and walked down. When they saw Mercury Lamp, Hinami was so scared that she hid behind Shinhong, and Mercury Lamp also shifted her gaze and stared at Shinhong.

"586,920 hours and 37 minutes gone, really red."

"You are awake after all, Mercury Lamp."

Staring at Mercury Lamp, Shinku's face was obviously not very happy. Mercury Lamp snorted coldly and then cast his eyes on Hinamichi.

"By the way, why is the loser of the game here? Hinamichi?"

"Alas--!"

When Hinamei heard Mercury Light calling her name, she shrank back in fear. Mercury Light looked at her unhappily, and then spoke.

"The defeated puppet must hand over the 'Rose Madonna' to the winning puppet and become her food. This is the rule of the Alice game. What you are doing is simply desecrating the sacred game."

"Don't mind my business. I have my own way of doing things."

It was obvious that Shinku was very upset with Mercury Lamp, and her tone became quite impolite, which was completely different from her usual mature and steady demeanor. Upon hearing Shinku's answer, Mercury Lamp chuckled.

"It doesn't matter even if it makes father angry?"

"you……"

"I'm sorry to bother you."

Seeing the increasingly tense atmosphere in front of him, Fang Zheng coughed, interrupting the verbal battle between Zhen Hong and Mercury Lamp.

"I'm sorry, I still haven't figured out anything about Alice's game, so... do you mind if I ask you something?"

Fang Zheng held Zhenhong down with one hand, signaling her not to get excited, while looking towards the mercury lamp.

"From what you said, the rules of Alice's game are that two parties fight, and then the losing party has to hand over the Rose Mother to the winning party to become her food, right?"

"That's it."

Although he didn't know why Fang Zheng asked him this question out of nowhere, Mercury Lamp still nodded.

"So what happens in the end? What will happen after all the Rose Mothers merge?"

"I will become Alice..."

Speaking of this, Mercury Lamp's eyes revealed longing.

"That is the most perfect girl that father longs for. If I can become Alice, I will be able to see father again!"

"…Explain?"

Fang Zheng turned his head and looked at Zhen Hong, motioning her to explain, but Zhen Hong remained silent and just shook her head slightly. Fang Zheng looked at Zhen Hong's reaction and shrugged his shoulders, then looked at the mercury lamp again.

"So you're going to participate in this Holy Grail War... er, Alice Game, but I still don't understand, what's the connection between becoming Alice and meeting your father... I mean your creator, right?"

"Because our father abandoned us!"

Having said that, Mercury Lamp's emotions began to become unstable.

"What he longed for was the perfect Alice, but I and I, none of us can become the perfect Alice, so Father was disappointed in us and abandoned us... So... So as long as we can complete the game and become the perfect Alice, then we can meet Father again!"

"……?"

Fang Zheng and Eve looked at each other in confusion.

"Brother, what is she talking about?"

"Oh, it probably means that the person who made them is a pervert."

"Don't speak ill of father!"

Hearing this, Shui Yindeng struggled hard again. She glared at Fang Zheng fiercely, as if she wanted to tear his flesh apart. Even Zhen Hong showed a dissatisfied expression at this moment, staring at him. But Fang Zheng seemed to not take their dissatisfaction to heart at all, and just shrugged his shoulders.

"Isn't that right? From what you said, that guy is basically a cold-blooded pervert, otherwise how could he come up with such a weird thing as letting the puppets he created kill each other? According to what you said, the Rose Madonna should be the core of the Rose Maiden, and this thing was given to you by that guy, so if he wanted to create Alice, couldn't he just take the core back from your body? Why did he have to go through so much trouble? If this isn't perversion, what is it?"

"……Why?"

Hearing Fang Zheng's words, Mercury Lamp and Zhen Hong were both stunned.

"Father, father is very gentle!"

Mercury Lamp retorted again.

"He has always been very gentle to us. It was because we disappointed our father that he abandoned us!"

"Then you still haven't answered my question. If you really disappointed him, wouldn't he just dismantle you and take away your core to rebuild Alice? Besides, he told you the rules of this Alice game himself, right?"

“…”

This time, facing Fang Zheng's question, Mercury Lamp and Zhen Hong remained silent.

"Brother, what does this mean?"

This time it was Eve's turn to ask, and Fang Zheng shook his head.

"That's what I mean. Either the creator has a problem, or they have a problem. I always feel that this Alice game doesn't make sense logically."

"That doesn't make sense?"

"That's right. Either the creator is a pervert who enjoys watching his creation suffer, or these girls have misunderstood the meaning of Alice's game."

At this point, Fang Zheng couldn't help but think of the Holy Grail War again. The ritual of the Holy Grail War was originally used to connect to the origin and achieve the third law, but later it was passed down and turned into the realization of wishes - Fang Zheng now felt that what Mercury Lamp said was contradictory, a bit like this.

“Woo…”

Facing Fang Zheng's words, Shui Yin Deng gnashed her teeth in anger, but for a moment she didn't know how to refute. She wanted to tell Fang Zheng that her father loved them very much, but if she did that, her father would become the pervert who liked to see his creation suffer in Fang Zheng's words.

But if I say that this is not the case, then I have no choice but to admit that I was wrong...

She was really pissed off!!

But at this moment, a thought suddenly flashed through Mercury Lamp's mind...

Could it be that I really made a mistake?

Indeed, from her understanding of her father, he really loves Rozen Maiden very much. But if you say that her father is a pervert who likes to watch his creations kill each other, then Mercury Lamp absolutely disagrees. In fact, they themselves don't quite understand why they hold the Alice Games. Her father held the Alice Games because he was disappointed with them and wanted to create a perfect Alice, which was just Mercury Lamp's own idea.

In fact, Shinku disagreed with Mercury Lamp's inference at the beginning. Now it seems that she obviously has her own opinion on Alice's game...

"Okay, let her go."

Seeing that the mercury lamp had stopped making noise, Fang Zheng waved his hand, signaling Eve to let go of the mercury lamp, and then he stared at the puppet in front of him.

"You can go now."

"Walk?"

"Yes, but there is one more thing you need to do."

"……What's up?"

"You clean this up for me."

Fang Zheng pointed to the ground behind him with a frown on his face.

"If you don't clean up for me, I'll roast your wings in Orleans next time I see you!"