Little Tyrant Doesn't Want to Meet with a Bad End Chapter 608.2: The Unsettled Two (2)

Before she could organize her thoughts and make sense of her feelings, she heard footsteps behind her. She turned around and saw a wooden doll maid.

“…”

“…”

The two of them quietly stared at each other for a few seconds before the wooden doll maid lifted its skirt and curtsied. It raised its hand to beckon to the silver-haired girl, and the latter responded with a nod before following the wooden doll maid.

The Mother Goddess was in hibernation most of the time, so these wooden dolls were the ones responsible for managing the tower, though there was not much to do since the silver-haired girl was the only other resident. She was usually left to her own devices, and the only time these wooden dolls disturbed her was when the Mother Goddess summoned her.

Their footsteps echoed loudly in the silent passageway.

Upon Alicia’s approach, the wooden dolls along the edges of the corridor bowed before opening the door, revealing a beautiful silver-themed banquet hall. A long table was placed in the middle of the banquet hall, and a silver-haired, crimson-eyed woman sat at its very end.

She was respectfully revered as the Mother Goddess in the ancient era, though the humans in the current era feared Her.

To the silver-haired girl, the Mother Goddess was, in a way, her biological mother. Her powers and her memories of the ancient era had all been inherited from Her, and the two of them were indeed inseparable from each other.

“Good evening, Mother.”

“Good evening, Alicia. You returned earlier than I expected,” the Mother Goddess replied with a calm nod.

Alicia was reminded of the events that had transpired on the battlefield, and that flustered her. She tried to conceal it with a smile and said, “…Everything went surprisingly well.”

“…I see.”

The Mother Goddess spent several seconds assessing Alicia, as if having noticed her unnatural reaction, though She didn’t say anything. Alicia heaved a sigh of relief as she walked over to her seat.

While the Mother Goddess spent the bulk of her time in hibernation, She would occasionally

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