Want to be human, but cube-like

She paused, her dazed mind gradually returning to normal, and then her jumbled thoughts were sorted out and made clear in her mind.

"Whoa! Ellie! Sorry, I wasn't fully awake just now..."

Upon realizing the situation, Ai Yin blushed and stammered.

"It's okay, I'm quite comfortable."

Alex smiled gently as she said something that might be misunderstood by others.

"It's already dinner time, Aine, would you and Rana like to stay for dinner?"

Unable to wake Ryuna after a long time, Xiangzi frowned in annoyance, but she still turned to Aine and asked.

Xiangzi seemed to have gotten used to it, and he could now completely ignore the misunderstandings that Alex would occasionally say.

"Hmm, you're not planning to be open tonight?"

Ai Yin rubbed her face, which had cooled down a bit, and hesitated for a moment before asking.

"It's probably too late to prepare ingredients now. If we're in such a rush, why don't we just continue resting? What do you say, Alex?"

Xiangzi looked at the street outside, and as she spoke, she looked at Alex, seeking her opinion.

"Well, it's okay. Anyway, the new dishes have already been tested and there are no problems. We can directly replace them with the new menu later."

Alex nodded in response.

"Then I'll have to bother you... But, before dinner, could we sort out the costume issue first?"

After all, she had just eaten a hamburger at around 3 a.m. and had been sleeping until now, so Aine wasn't really hungry. She thought it would be a good time for everyone to help make the performance costumes that had already been finalized.

"I think we should wake up Lena before we discuss the costumes."

With a sigh, Xiangzi began to consider whether he should grab Lena's shoulders and shake her awake.

"Hey, is Xiao Le Nai sleeping so soundly?"

Turning around, Aine looked at Ryuna lying on her other side and leaned closer.

"Little Lena? Wake up!"

She gently nudged her, but found no response. So she grabbed Lena's shoulders, propped her up, and continued to call out softly.

"Huh~?"

This time, Lena finally responded. She looked up, squinted at Aine, and then leaned in, softly falling into Aine's arms.

"call……"

Just as Ronai was about to drift back to sleep, she frowned uncomfortably, twisted her head, and rubbed against Aine's chest.

"Where's the pillow?"

He straightened up again, and mumbled something in a daze.

Just then, Alex walked over and stood next to Aine.

"Hmm~ This is it~"

Squinting and looking around unsteadily, Lenai immediately chose the bulging target.

She leaned over, burying her head in Alex's chest, rubbing against her contentedly with a satisfied smile.

All that remained was Aine's increasingly hostile expression.

Volume 1: Chapter 135 What exactly is a kiss?

Before they knew it, it was evening, and everyone was starting to feel a little hungry.

"Is there anything anyone would like to eat?"

Alex put down the clothes she had finished sewing, stood up, glanced at the wall clock, and asked.

“Matcha Parfait!”

Lena, who had been leaning against Alex and sitting idly beside her, immediately raised her hand and shouted.

It seems that Lena knows that the shop can now use matcha to make food. Before, she would only name some meat dishes.

"Hmm~ I just saw that they've added barbecue skewers to the new menu, I'd like to try them~"

Aine stretched after putting down her needlework, and as she spoke, she looked at Ryuna.

"Besides, I don't think Ellie's shop sells matcha parfaits."

The latter shrank back, hiding behind Alex, peeking out half of her head and looking back at her with puffed-out cheeks.

"Gu..."

It seems she's still upset about being pinched on the cheek and pulled out of Alex's arms to wake up by Aine.

"Ha...really."

Seeing this, Aine sighed helplessly.

"Xiao Lenai, let's have dinner now, and when we leave later, I'll take you to get a matcha parfait, okay?"

She leaned over and spoke softly to Lena.

Le Nai should be the one in the wrong, so why is she the one apologizing to the other party?

But I have a feeling that if I don't buy Lena a matcha parfait as compensation, this little white fluffy dumpling will remember this for a long time.

"...Two portions!"

However, Lenai didn't seem satisfied. She pursed her lips, thought for a moment, raised two fingers, and said.

"No, there's only one left. If you don't want it, there won't be any more."

With her index fingers crossed beside her cheeks, Aine rejected Rakuna's further advances.

"Matcha parfait... I'll look into how to make it later."

Standing in the center of the negotiation between the two girls, Alex pondered for a moment, recalling the experience of treating Lena to matcha parfait before. She felt that this thing should not be difficult to make, so she spoke up.

"That way, Lena can eat at the store next time."

"So, Ellie is spoiling little Lenal too much!"

Ai Yin complained softly.

"Hum~"

Then she saw Lena give her a smug smile.

"If Aine wants anything, I can get it for you, whatever it is."

As if trying to prove she wasn't biased, Alex spoke earnestly to Aine, who was joking.

"Hmm... there's nothing I really want."

Upon hearing this, Ai Yin became a little embarrassed again. She turned her head away and muttered something under her breath.

"Then we'll need to buy an ice cream machine and find some fruit suppliers."

Seeing that the two seemed about to start another awkward conversation, Xiangzi quickly spoke up to steer the conversation back on track.

"An ice cream machine...what is that?"

Alex asked curiously.

"...It's a machine that can make ice cream?"

When she asked that, Xiangzi paused for a moment. He had only seen others use this kind of machine when he was working. You could make ice cream by pressing a button. He didn't really know how it worked.

"hungry……"

At this moment, Lena, who had been sitting quietly to the side, spoke up again, interrupting their conversation.

"So, what does Lena want to eat?"

Upon hearing this, Alex remembered that they were about to have dinner, so she repeated her question.

"Except for the matcha parfait."

She added one more sentence.

……

After the meal, everyone packed up their things, and Aine, along with Lena who couldn't wait to enjoy the matcha parfait, left the burger shop.

The costumes were finished just before dinner. They also discussed the Valentine's Day event package and discounts. Apart from that, there was nothing else to resolve. They just needed to wait until Aine and Rana came over after school tomorrow afternoon.

After turning off all the lights in the burger shop and making sure the doors and windows were locked, Alex and Xiangzi returned to the Sky Island.

Last night I only bought some ingredients for research. After being able to trade with the villagers, there are still many things that Alex needs to handle personally.

Next to the oak plantation, Alex added a small area filled with jungle wood for growing cocoa beans.

It cost her a lot of money to grow this. The cocoa beans alone required four gold coins, and she needed to buy four jungle tree saplings to grow them into big trees using bone meal.

"Alex, are they... crying?"

At this moment, Xiangzi walked over with a strange expression. She pointed to the row of single rooms where the villagers were housed and asked Alex.

"The villagers will still cry?"

Alex blinked and followed Xiangzi over.

Just as Xiangzi had said, as soon as they got close, they both heard bursts of crying, both men and women, the sobbing alternating from time to time, which was quite eerie.

"It seems like you're not in a good mood?"

Each villager opened the interaction interface and took a look. Alex looked at the mood attribute field.

A uniform atmosphere of frustration and negativity.

"But it doesn't seem to have any impact."

She ignored the blue particle effects emanating from the villagers and glanced at the prices on the trading interface; there were no changes.

"It's just a bit noisy."

Alex closed the interface and frowned in annoyance.

"Why are they in a bad mood? That's strange..."

This was Alex's first time using this module, and she had absolutely no experience in it.

Unlike her mother, who could quickly master even the first mod after a short period of trial and error, and would suddenly learn a lot of mod knowledge that she didn't know before, Alex once admired her mother very much.

"Yes...why is that..."

Xiangzi, standing beside him, responded with a helpless sigh.

Anyone locked in such a tiny cubicle where it's difficult to even turn around, and having to watch their fellow human beings being dragged out and killed from time to time, would find it hard not to feel terrible, no matter how optimistic they are.

However, she was indeed somewhat surprised. Although the villagers' behavior and logic did not seem to indicate that they had any self-awareness, they were surprisingly quite like normal people in these details.

On the contrary, it made the feeling of a foreign object even stronger.

"Then let's move the villagers somewhere else, otherwise it's too noisy."

After some thought, Alex decided to say

.

Without further ado, Alex and Xiangzi built a row of small single rooms in a place further away from the teleportation portal. Alex had to run back and forth several times before she finally managed to move all the villagers there.

“Huh… all right!”

With a long sigh of relief, Alex looked back at the portal and the tavern with satisfaction. Now, no matter how loudly the villagers cried, it wouldn't disturb them.

"Isn't there any other way to improve their mood?"

Xiangzi still felt uncomfortable having to listen to the villagers crying every time she came over, she asked.

"I don't know either. There are too many interactive options, and these villagers are actually quite different from the ones I've seen before."

Alex shook her head and replied.

She had never heard of villagers having such a thing as being in a good or bad mood before.

Moreover, there were many things that Alex didn't understand about the interaction options with these villagers.

If only Mom were here, she could easily understand many things that Alex doesn't.