After drying my own hair and the little girl's, it took us quite a while to leave the bathroom. An enticing aroma drifted through the living room, and I could see my wife busy in the kitchen.
"Huh? You two lazybones are finally up?"
Mi Xue even ran over to the stove and coquettishly said:
"We got up early! We even took a bath~"
"Go sit down nicely first. Be careful not to get burned."
"Okay!"
Their exchange really did feel like the everyday interaction between a mother and daughter.
Miluno had prepared shredded pork and egg pancakes for breakfast, made with the electric griddle.
This small appliance, which normally had an extremely low usage rate, had been turned into something spectacular in Miluno's hands. No matter what ingredients she had, she could make all kinds of pancakes from them, coming up with different varieties every day...
Only after Mi Xue and I sat down did Miluno speak.
"Actually, I have a new idea."
"Again? Can you stop messing around with that stupid electric griddle? You could at least make some meat porridge."
Hearing my complaint, Miluno rarely showed an embarrassed expression.
She awkwardly explained:
"No, I'm not talking about breakfast."
"Then what idea?"
"It's about Mi Xue. How to govern a world with scarce resources is a headache-inducing problem. The Earth Crystal's laissez-faire model of natural selection is hard for her to draw from, since she has emotions. Only cold machines can keep making cruel decisions about who gets eliminated..."
Mi Xue nodded repeatedly between us. This child simply could not bear to see her creations suffer.
"But resources are limited. The standard for happiness will indeed keep rising. To meet the needs of life with limited resources, reasonable elimination is necessary. Great Will feeds on emotions, so the