Because I used to think so too.

After he silently completed the second half of the sentence in his mind, he decided to change to a question that was more relevant to him.

"So, will there be any symptoms for people who have been eaten by you... uh, whose emotions have been eaten by you?"

"What symptoms?" Alice blinked twice to show confusion.

"For example," Klein considered, "after you consume your emotions, will you suffer physical or psychological damage? Will you become indifferent to your emotions, have memory loss... and other negative consequences?

Influence."

"Do you feel that your emotions have become dull? Is your memory failing?" she asked rhetorically.

"...No." As he spoke, memories of the past emerged uncontrollably, reminding him of the captain who always forgot all the trivial matters in life. Klein replied with a smile.

After a few seconds, Alice sighed inaudibly:

"The smile is so ugly..."

Without touching his scar intentionally, she quickly brought back the topic and said:

"In short, emotions are invisible to most lives, and what I need to eat is just a little bit of it that escapes...well, it should be said to be spiritual power. The little bit that I took away won't be right.

No matter what the impact on your life, if you are afraid that I will squeeze you dry, you can actually rest assured."

"Your wording...don't always be so misleading."

Klein breathed a sigh of relief, took out the gold coin in his pocket without hesitation in front of Alice, threw it up and performed a quick dream divination.

The divination results showed that his physical and mental state did not show any negative effects due to Alice's "eating behavior".

After putting away the gold coins, Klein reluctantly straightened his expression and raised his final doubt:

"I'm a little curious about how you 'eat' emotions..."

Almost instinctively, his mind replayed the image of Alice straddling him, leaning over and licking his cheek.

And it is played back in a loop many times.

"Well, this is a little hard to explain, but I'm 'eating' right now." Alice obviously didn't know and didn't care what he thought, so she waved her hand very calmly, "As long as I enter the range of influence of that charm ability, I will

You can start enjoying the emotion. But theoretically speaking, the closer you are, the clearer the taste will be. If there is physical contact, the effect will be better..."

"So, you licked me before because-" Klein was stunned for a moment and quickly reacted.

"I'm licking you to confirm whether you are the real person..." After muttering something in a low voice, Alice patted her palms twice and smiled, "Okay, you should have asked enough, have you considered it?"

"

Hearing this, Klein fell into a brief silence.

If he nodded and accepted Alice's conditions, he would have to pay the price of being chewed out of her emotions from time to time; if he shook his head and rejected her proposal, he would have to say goodbye to her and watch her ruin other people's sincere feelings...

This, even a fool should know how to choose, right?

So after nodding wordlessly, he finally couldn't help but asked her his confusion:

"Why do you think I might reject you?"

Putting aside her emotional attitude towards him, if he nods his head, he will definitely make money, but if he shakes his head, he will lose blood. Do you need to think more?

Alice looked at him in surprise.

"Don't you feel a little disgusted by eating emotions?"

Disgusting? No, according to your previous description, the closer you are, plus the physical contact...

That's no longer a question of whether it's disgusting or not, but...well, it's a certain astringency that makes people think...

He truthfully expressed some of his thoughts and received a thoughtful nod from the girl.

"Well, according to what you said, it does feel a bit like that... But in my world, similar behaviors are mostly associated with demons and devils, so as long as a normal person is a normal person, he will hate it deeply.

Scorned and feared in every possible way..."

Klein's heart moved and he subconsciously asked:

"So do you have anything to do with the devil? Why do you need to feed on other people's emotions? I don't think this is a very common habit."

"That's another story. I don't think it's necessary to mention it yet."

With that said, Alice stood up and made a handshake gesture: "Now that we have reached a consensus on equal exchange, let's get along well in the future. Well, at least until I find a way to go back, I hope

We can all get along well."

Although she was not sure whether the choice was really equivalent, she said so, and Klein naturally would not raise objections without the sense of humor. He took the soft little hand and shook it up and down.

After letting go of his hand, Alice took off her shoes and sat on the swaying single bed.

"So, it's very late now, aren't you going to sleep?"

"...Sleep, I must sleep." Klein twisted his neck in confusion, forcing himself not to look at the pair of bare feet that were almost resting beside him, "But can you...well, use some spell,

Let me take a shower and change clothes..."

"This is simple."

Alice raised her right hand and quickly completed the spell-casting gesture and recited the syllables.

The effect of the cleaning spell was triggered, and the dirt was removed in just a few breaths. Even the several stains on the formal tuxedo that were difficult to clean disappeared.

Although it was indeed clean, it still felt weird, so it was better to take a serious bath and feel comfortable...

Klein thanked her in a low voice with some confusion, then stood up from the bed and prepared to go back to the room to rest.

"By the way, do you have any plans for tomorrow? When do you plan to go to Backlund?"

When he walked to the door, he heard a girl's voice from behind.

"Will you go with me?" Klein turned around, not forgetting that she had mentioned her plan of action to go to Intis.

Alice sat on the bed, hugged her legs and blinked lightly.

"If you want me to do this. After all, you have promised me that I will come to visit you often until I find a better tasting target."

Patronizing me... It sounds like I am a restaurant owner, and you are a bad customer who comes to my place from time to time to eat and have sex for free...

Klein couldn't help but laugh at his metaphor. Then he remembered the planned arrangement, and his mood darkened again along with his eyes.

"Tomorrow... I plan to buy a ticket for the steam train at three o'clock in the afternoon."

He had checked the calendar at the hotel reception desk and knew that tomorrow was Sunday. He also knew that as a person who had been resurrected from the dead, he should leave Tingen, a small city, early to avoid encountering acquaintances and causing a major accident.

But he still set aside far more time than planned.

The reason may only be clear to him.

Alice didn't ask anything, just nodded slightly in agreement:

"I understand. Let's hire a carriage to go into the city together tomorrow morning. After breakfast, we can have free time. We will meet at the steam train station at 2:50 in the afternoon."

"OK."

Klein opened the door and noticed that there were no disturbing sounds outside the corridor. Only the snoring of different rhythms coming from different rooms, the low-volume whispers of individual tenants, and the slight sound of the wooden door when he opened it.

Sound.

It looks like I'm going to fall asleep to the sound of snoring tonight... Fortunately, I'm adaptable to this.

As if remembering something, he turned around and showed her the same smile as before.

"Good night, Alice."

"you too, good night."

After saying good night to each other, the two of them took a rest, just as they did when they still lived at No. 2 Daffodil Street.

…………

The next afternoon, inside the Tingen steam train station.

Klein found Alice in a corner of the waiting hall.

She was wearing a dark brown classical dress, sitting upright on her seat, quietly flipping through a book, with no other luggage at hand. She looked like a young lady who had been separated from her family.

No traces can be seen on the cheeks that have been washed away, but Klein knows that there are some experiences that he may not be able to forget for the rest of his life.

"Although I can predict my fate a little, I still feel helpless about my fate, so I cover up all the sadness, pain, confusion and depression with a smile..."

Silently reciting the true meaning of "Joker" that he realized when the paint was washed off, Klein showed a bright smile. He had practiced it many times in front of the mirror. It was definitely not an ugly smile. He walked towards Alice and stood before her.

A huge suitcase was placed next to him.

She heard the noise and looked up at him.

"You smile... well, your smile is pretty decent, but your emotions can't deceive me."

She tapped her heart, then turned to look at the clock in the waiting hall to confirm the time:

"It's still early before three o'clock. I thought you wouldn't arrive for another hour."

Klein did not change his smile because of her ruthless revelation.

After sitting in the seat next to the girl, he raised his hand and lowered the brim of his hat slightly, approached her and whispered:
Chapter completed!