Endless Debt

"It's time to rest. I'm going to deal with the follow-up matters. I'll be back to pick you up later, little junior sister."

Bailey said and blew a kiss to Aimu. With a burst of arrogant laughter, she opened the door and disappeared at the end of the corridor, leaving Boluogo and Aimu in her office.

The laughter faded away, and both Boluogo and Aimu breathed a sigh of relief.

The quiet atmosphere did not last long. Boluogo stood up nervously and arranged his clothes. The snake scale fluid was crawling on the surface of his body, ready to be released at any time.

"What are you going to do?" Aimu asked from the side.

"What to do? Of course you ran away. You don't really want to live with Senior Sister You, do you?"

Boluogo seemed relaxed, but when he got along with Bailey, a witch, he felt a lot of pressure. No one knew what ridiculous things Bailey would do in the next second. The most terrible thing is that she is the minister of the sublimation furnace core. , no one can control her at all.

It's not that there is no chance at all. The old guys in the Hall of Scholars still have some say, but if those old guys see the current minister like this, they will probably have a heart attack.

"Live with senior sister..."

Aimu's tone became stiff, and a panicked look appeared on his face.

Compared with Boluogo, Aimu was only much more afraid of Bailey, but after a short period of thinking, Aimu stopped Boluogo's actions.

"I think I can." Aimu plucked up the courage to say.

"If the teacher disappears, he will definitely come back to find me. It will only become unsafe for us to be together, but it is different here."

Aimu and Bailey thought of going together, "No matter how powerful the teacher is, he can't break in."

TEDA is just a power bearer, let alone breaking into a house. His power is only for a condenser like Boluogo. Once he encounters a power bearer like Jeffrey and Lebius who have experienced hundreds of battles, , TEDA's chances of winning are pitiful.

Boluogo turned his head slowly, with a look of disdain on his face, "Do you think I care about this?"

"Otherwise?" Aimu didn't understand this time.

"What do you think Bailey will do to you next? Employee physical examination? Then issue work badges, and finally join the Sublimation Furnace Core?"

Aimu realized that their channels were not the same at all.

Boluogo muttered endlessly, "You are from our field department, how could you be intercepted by Bailey on the way!"

"ha?"

Boluogo took Aimu's hand and asked her to stand up.

"This sounds a little arrogant, but I worked so hard to get you here, how can I let Bailie enjoy the results," Bologo shouted, "Although Bailie and the sublimation furnace core also played a very important role. But ah, this kind of thing should be treated as one code!"

Until now, Aimu finally understood what Boluogo meant. It seemed that he was competing for employees with Bailey.

"Think carefully, Aimu, do you want to work with Bailey?" Boluogo asked.

There is no need to think about this kind of thing, Aimu shook his head vigorously.

"So what do you think about working with me?"

Aimu nodded.

"Okay! The conversation is over!"

Boluogo patted Aimu on the shoulder happily. He didn't notice that when he got nervous, he was not much different from Bailey.

After digging into his pocket, Boluogo took out the emblem of the Special Operations Group and slapped it into Aimu's hand.

"Welcome to the Rupert's Tail Task Force."

Aimu was a little confused. He looked at the emblem in his hand and asked blankly, "Is this... enough?"

"Of course not, but I think Lebius will like you, just go through the process." Boluogo slowly opened the door and observed the corridor outside the door.

"Between these, I have to find a way to get you out of here first."

If Bailee knew that she was going to kidnap Aimu to the special operations team, she would definitely be in a hurry with him, but as long as he left here, he would have plenty of time to argue with Bailie...

If that doesn't work, Boluogo can also sacrifice himself and agree to Bailey's strange request, such as exploring the ruins area.

Aimu looked at Boluogo's various behaviors, and she suddenly laughed, her body shaking non-stop.

Bologg looked at her doubtfully, and then Bologg shouted in surprise.

"Amu, can you make expressions?"

Different from the indifference he was familiar with, Aimu finally had an expression on his face.

"Well, senior sister helped me get it."

Aimu rubbed his face. The reason why it took so long to process the body was not only because Bailey was making strange modifications to Aimu, but also made some upgrades to her.

She looks a bit like Bailie, but her appearance is still close to Alice. Boluogo can't describe Aimu's current appearance. Fortunately, Aimu has not incorporated Baili's bad personality.

Aimu finally no longer looked like a shadow.

"Bailey has done some human work to some extent."

Boluogo muttered, completely forgetting that Bailie presided over his three trials.

"Okay, stop for a moment, Boluogo, I decided to stay here." Aimu's words made Boluogo's heart fall to the bottom.

"You want to stay here in the sublimation furnace core?"

"Although the days of fighting and killing together are very happy, you must know that I am an alchemist myself." Aimu emphasized his identity.

Boluogo was stunned for a few seconds, and then he remembered that his snake scale liquid was made by Aimu, and he felt in a daze.

After killing people with Aimu for so long, he really forgot about it.

"Okay, then I understand."

Boluogo didn't bother too much. He respected Aimu's choice, and he could also feel that Bailey really cared about her junior sister, but the way he cared was a bit strange.

After much deliberation, I can only attribute it to the fact that Bailie is more willing to talk about and tease Aimu with a wicked smile than to express her concern to Aimu in a serious manner.

Bailey may be a good senior sister, but when this kind of concern actually occurs, it is a big psychological pressure for anyone.

"One more thing," Aimu hesitated, but still asked, "if a person dies, he or she is dead, and there won't be any repercussions, right?"

"What's wrong?" Bologg heard Aimu's worry, "Have you... seen Alice?"

When he was in the abandoned land, the harsh environment left Bologg with no extra time to think about these things. Now that he was safe, when he recalled all this, he realized how important news Aimu had conveyed to her. .

"Yes, I saw Alice again," Aimu told what he saw and heard, "I was trapped in a dark world, and only Alice was with me."

"As an alchemy doll, I think I won't suffer from any mental illness. Similarly, if a human dies, even if he dies, there will be no ghosts talking to me. In that case..."

Aimu's voice dropped.

"I have talked about this with Teda before. He said that you may be affected by mental projection, causing you to become more and more like...Alice."

Until now, Boluogo still said all this, "Maybe the echo brought by the Philosopher's Stone is affecting you."

Boluogo analyzed, and then he felt something was wrong, and asked again, "By the way, I heard from Bailey that after the debugging, you should have woken up, but you failed to wake up..."

He seemed to have caught something, and Boluogo became nervous.

"Aimu, did Alice say something... strange?"

If your inference is correct, then everything will make sense.

Facing Boluogo's nervous gaze, Aimu recalled the scene of Alice reaching out towards him, and a familiar voice rang in his ears.

"Aimu, it's time to make a choice."

As long as you choose Alice, all your wishes will be fulfilled...

The blue halo stopped reciprocating, Aimu shook his head and replied.

"There's nothing unusual, no strange words...it's more like Alice's remaining memories, which I happened to have a glimpse of."

"Memories?"

Hearing this, Boluogo breathed a sigh of relief.

The shape of the devil is ever-changing, and the form of the contract is also not fixed. Boluogo is very worried that because he is too close to him, Aimu will be targeted by the tyrant.

This is not impossible. Devils are a bunch of bad guys who appreciate human suffering and struggle.

"Don't worry," Aimu spread his hands, "The situation is still under control, isn't it?"

"Yeah, it's under control." Boluogo relaxed and sighed.

This time he was tortured quite a lot, and his mood was ups and downs like a roller coaster. Fortunately, it all had a happy ending.

"Aimu."

After calming down for a while, Boluogo called out Amu's name.

"What's wrong?" Aimu looked at Boluogo.

"Do you think you want to be Alice?" Bologg asked.

Aimu couldn't figure out the answer to this question. She thought for a moment and smiled helplessly, "I don't know."

"Yeah, who can understand this kind of thing?"

Boluogo recalled the conversation Aimu had with him in the Abandoned Land. She felt that she did not have free will, and everything she said and did was affected by Alice.

"Aimu, I think Teda is a good teacher, but he is terrible at being a father," Boluogo muttered, "This is a cruel thing for you, but everyone You need to grow up and face the cruel reality.”

Aimu nodded, she knew what Boluogo wanted to talk to her.

As soon as he closed his eyes, Aimu would recall the miserable white puppet mask, and his crazy fantasies would accompany it, bringing death and destruction.

"In TEDA's eyes, you are not an independent individual, you are just Alice's shadow."

Boluogo's tone was heavy. He felt that Aimu should also understand this, but this was the first time that they had spoken about this matter openly.

Before, Aimu could pretend not to understand and immerse himself in his own fantasy, but now Boluogo tore off the hypocritical cover, revealing his bloody inner self.

"Although you and Alice have almost identical faces, and although I have never seen Alice in person... I think you are different on the inside."

Looking at Aimu, she may have been born with Alice as the foundation of consciousness, but it is obvious that Aimu is now different from Alice, both in appearance and personality.

"Anyway, welcome back."