'I think you should agree to Doll's suggestion.'
Ethan directly sent a voice transmission to the Scarecrow. Fortunately, only the Scarecrow could hear it.
After all, it was a special communication skill. The Cursed Doll had never learned it.
["What?"]
The Scarecrow suddenly turned its head toward Ethan, its face full of disbelief.
It wasn't enough that his good brother had cuckolded him, now he was even planning to sell him out.
The moment that thought crossed its mind, the Scarecrow immediately shed tears like noodles.
'I'm doing this for your own good,' Ethan continued persuading him, 'Think about it...'
However, before Ethan could finish speaking, the Scarecrow exploded the moment it heard that opening line.
["For your mother's good!"], the Scarecrow cursed, ["Shut up! I never want to hear you talk again. You'd better stay away from here and keep your distance from me!"]
["What are you two talking about?"]
Hearing the Scarecrow suddenly roar, the Cursed Doll immediately raised its black caterpillar-like cloth eyebrows and curiously asked them.
Ethan smiled and explained, "I was persuading him to listen to you more. A man should be a little braver. Then he suddenly got angry."
"How can you be like this," After hearing that, the Cursed Doll immediately smacked the Scarecrow on the head and said, "Good advice may sound unpleasant, but it helps! Stop always thinking good advice is hard to hear. You should listen to what people tell you!"
"Fack, do you even know what he said?"
The Scarecrow had been misunderstood again and again, and immediately flew into a rage.
But for the sake of unlimited Multi-Eyed Monsters (unlimited Defense Towers), Ethan didn't lose his temper at all. He even kept smiling as he explained, 'Brother Scarecrow, hear me out first.'
'I know you don't like the Cursed Doll, but you also know how powerful it is.'
'Even two Archmages could only use a trick and an equivalent exchange to make the Cursed Doll a little more obedient, so you should know that nobody here can deal with it.'
'So...'
'That's why I told you to agree to it. If it goes off looking for those hard-to-find Multi-Eyed Monsters, won't you get a few easy days without having to deal with it?'
["Uh..."]
When the Scarecrow heard that, it wanted to argue back, but realized it couldn't find a single point to refute.
"What did he say?"
Seeing the Scarecrow stop halfway through its sentence, the Cursed Doll's bad temper immediately flared up.
It slapped the Scarecrow's head with its soft little hands and shouted, "Why do you always stop halfway through what you're saying? You're driving me crazy!"
["He said I should listen to you,"] the Scarecrow said through gritted teeth, though it didn't actually have any. Enduring the humiliation, it continued, ["That way it'll help family harmony!"]
"That's more like it!"
The moment the Cursed Doll heard that, it immediately broke into a smile.
This was exactly what it liked to hear.
"Brother Scarecrow says he actually doesn't want you to work too hard," Ethan immediately added fuel to the fire, "That's why he doesn't want you to go. But he's just too shy, especially when it comes to expressing love. He always pretends to be angry to hide how embarrassed he is."
"Really?"
When the Cursed Doll heard that, it was so moved it was nearly overwhelmed.
Inside its eye sockets, there actually flowed... cotton?
Ethan was stunned.
'If this thing has a big crying fit, wouldn't it cry itself thinner?'
'If it cries every day, would it eventually cry itself away?'
Then, in the next second, Ethan got the answer.
No, because he watched the doll stuff the cotton back into its stomach. It lifted its little cloth skirt, revealed a small tear in its belly, and stuffed the cotton back inside.
["I...",] The Scarecrow once again clenched its nonexistent teeth. It wanted to force itself to admit it, but in the end, it couldn't take it anymore and shouted, ["I absolutely did not!"]
"See? He's shy again."
Ethan immediately drove in another stab.
The Cursed Doll, meanwhile, looked completely satisfied and said with a grin, "Alright! Alright! I know you're shy. You're so cute. You can stay this cute forever... Mua!"
"Husband, stay home and wait for me. I'll be back soon!"
"Mua! Mua! Mua!"
Before leaving, the Cursed Doll clung to the Scarecrow's head and kissed it another hundred times.
Ethan could see the despair in the Scarecrow's eyes, along with silence pushed to its limit.
Only after... the Scarecrow confirmed that the Cursed Doll had left, did it finally explode and glare at Ethan.
["Ethan! You did that on purpose, didn't you? You did it on purpose, didn't you!"]
"Look, didn't I successfully get it away from you?", Ethan shrugged and grinned, "Instead of thanking me, I could always call it back if you want."
["Enough!"]
The Scarecrow was so angry that steam rose from its entire body.
In the freezing weather of the polar night, every wisp of steam it gave off quickly condensed into mist, then turned into snowflakes in midair and drifted back down.