Alice Kuonji

Because she was united with the Witch Kuonji Alice's mother, Alice Kuonji's father passed away soon after her mother's death.

Perhaps due to this, or perhaps due to disputes over inheritance rights, the current Kuonji Zaibatsu and Alice Kuonji have a rather poor relationship. After all, Alice Kuonji legally has the right to inherit a portion of the Kuonji Zaibatsu's shares.

Currently, these shares are managed by an uneducated uncle of Alice Kuonji, and Alice Kuonji, disliking worldly affairs, has not come forward to claim them.

In reality, Alice Kuonji's appearance is not entirely like that of an Asian person as depicted in the game's character art by Hirokazu Koyama. Her mother was a descendant of the Mage Witch Yumina from Britain Island. Tracing back to the origin, it can be said that Alice has a considerable Celtic bloodline component in her lineage.

Therefore, even though Alice has pure black short hair that looks like smooth, soft, high-grade silk, her facial structure is much more three-dimensional than that of a pure Japanese person.

In this regard, Aoko is a bit similar to Alice. She once asked her cheap dad about it, and her dad said that the wife of the old Magus (Aoko's grandmother) might have some European Magus bloodline...

However, she passed away too early, so the specifics are unknown, and he never met his mother.

The appearance of the Aozaki Sisters can be said to be a combination of the most exquisite parts of Europeans and East Asians. Not only is their skin fair and delicate, but their features are not as flat as those of Japanese people. Aoko is quite satisfied with this, and even standing next to a beautiful girl like Alice, they each have their own charm and look quite well-matched.

Aoko believes that her appearance, figure, and magical talent are superior to those of Aoko in the original timeline not because of European blood in her lineage, but for other reasons. The factor of being a "Transmigrator" might be involved, but it's not entirely that. However, she is not in a hurry about this matter, believing that she will eventually uncover all the secrets about herself.

Aoko greatly values Alice as her roommate and secretly plans to find an opportunity to personally confront this "uncle" once she achieves Divine Skill Accomplishment and reclaim Alice's shares. Otherwise, it wouldn't be fitting for such a delicate "fairy tale princess" to worry about her livelihood every day.

In daily life, Aoko stubbornly refers to Alice Kuonji as "Alice," not "Aoko." This is because Aoko strongly dislikes the Japanese pronunciation of Alice's name, and Alice does not mind this behavior. After all, she was born in Britain, not Japan, and in terms of identity, Alice probably feels a deeper connection to Britain.

On the first day Aoko moved into the Kuonji Residence, she conquered Alice's taste buds with an exquisite and elegant afternoon tea. She spent a considerable amount of money to buy the most authentic Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong tea, paired with carefully baked savory finger sandwiches, classic English scones with clotted cream and jam, and finally, as a dessert, shortbread, providing Alice with the most authentic old British Union Jack Low Tea.

Such thoughtful service even made Alice, the landlady, feel a bit embarrassed towards her new apprentice. Moreover, while savoring the afternoon tea, she wondered internally who between her and Aoko was the one born in Britain.

Before Aoko arrived at the Kuonji Residence, Alice's daily meals were basically handled by takeout from high-end restaurants. This was because she knew absolutely nothing about cooking, and her refrigerator was always stocked with fruits and drinks. Since she had no servants, most of the housework was done by PLOYs left to her by her mother.

Aside from PLOYs purely designed for combat, Alice had many PLOYs that possessed special functions and the ability to help her with household chores. When she was bored, even the Robin would chat with her to relieve her boredom, truly setting a model for Familiars.

In the process of teaching Magecraft, Alice was undoubtedly a more rigorous teacher than the old Magus of the Aozaki family.

Aoko's grandfather was like a university professor; regardless of whether the student had learned it or not, he would simply proceed with the teaching at his own pace. Alice, on the other hand, was like the strictest high school teacher, monitoring Aoko's every learning progress and setting various goals that far exceeded Aoko's current Magecraft level to force her to improve.

Aoko was not a novice in Magecraft, but because her energy was not entirely focused on it, her Magecraft strength still had many areas that needed improvement in Alice's eyes.

Compared to the original Aozaki Aozaki, the current Aoko, as a plus version, has much higher quality and quantity of Magic Circuits. This allows the current Aoko to achieve and use various particularly complex Magecraft rituals.

However, like the original Aoko, her extremely high mana circulation efficiency allows her Magic Bullet Magecraft to achieve the highest level of rotation and output speed within the circuits, thereby achieving destructive effects like "Light Cannon" or "Gatling."

Touko and Alice looked down on Aoko's barbaric use of mana, but they had to admit Aoko's talent in destruction and praise her destructive efficiency.

Aoko herself was not proud of this destructive talent, nor did she belittle herself. This is because she clearly understood that it was the structure and characteristics of her Magic Circuits, along with her unique understanding of the tendency towards destruction, that allowed her to stand out in the competition for the sisters' inheritance rights.

Sometimes life is like that. Aoko's unparalleled talent in efficiency and destruction did not lead her to indulge in it. On the contrary, Aoko believed that this was merely the basic hardware requirement for mastering the Fifth Magic. The parts that truly required her to exert all her effort to learn and train were the gifts of otherworldly knowledge brought by that fragment deep within her soul.

For this reason, Aoko diligently completed the study tasks assigned by Alice in her daily life, but she did not do anything extra beyond that. When studying and practicing Net-weaving Arcana, she did not deliberately avoid Alice's gaze, but she also did not offer any extra explanations regarding this matter. After all, Net-weaving Arcana did not need to adhere to the principle of not spreading mysteries.

Aoko and Alice were both satisfied with each other. They lived a cohabitation life in the Kuonji Residence that was both intimate and slightly distant. They spent two years in this comfortable interpersonal relationship, during which Aoko also occasionally wrote many letters to Touko, who was at the Clock Tower.

Whether out of shyness or stubbornness, Touko's replies were few. However, judging from the content of her replies, she seemed to be preparing to act against one of the two people she wanted to warn Aoko about in advance.

The reason for taking action was that she was about to leave the Clock Tower. Recently, Touko's research results had become somewhat dangerous, and the people in the Clock Tower seemed to want to issue a Sealing Designation against her, with her teacher, Lord Balgretta, at the forefront.

Thinking that she was about to make a run for it, Touko decided to strike first, eliminate the easy target, and then return to Japan to launch a frontal assault and beat up her bratty sister to legitimately reclaim her family's inheritance right.