When the sun rose, Fang Zheng opened his eyes. The first thing he saw, as always, was Lala's sleeping face.
"Mm... Darling, eheh heh heh..."
Looking at Lala drooling and talking in her sleep, Fang Zheng shook his head helplessly. Then he got out of bed, changed clothes, and left the room.
"Ah, good morning, Brother. Where's Lala?"
"She's still asleep. She'll probably wake up soon."
In response to Mikana's question, Fang Zheng yawned and headed downstairs to the dining room. Eve and Mikana had already begun preparing breakfast, while Crimson, Suiseiseki, and Hinaichigo were watching a morning puppet show on TV. At first glance, everything was as it had always been. Nothing had changed.
And yet...
"Where exactly did things go wrong?"
Fang Zheng sat at the dining table, watching Mikana and Eve busy themselves with breakfast, unable to figure it out no matter how hard he thought.
In Fang Zheng's view, if Lala was the Main Quest, then by all rights it should have counted as "completed" by now. After all, wasn't that how the manga he had read always ended? Or was this not the ending at all? Was it merely the beginning? Then what was he supposed to do next? Accept Lala and marry her?
Lala had indeed said that it would not end like this, that she would work hard to make him accept her. Of course, if Lala was not seeking to be his first or have him exclusively to herself, Fang Zheng would not be particularly opposed. So what condition had yet to be met for the quest to clear?
The conditions had been perfectly clear with the Rozen Maiden and You.
Watching You come down the stairs, Fang Zheng scratched his head. Crimson and the others' Main Quest had been the Alice