Mystery: Lucky One

Marpel Grocery Store, Engmat Street.

"Hello," Alice said with a smile after looking around the layout of the store, "I want to buy a dice."

The shopkeeper was a kind old lady. After looking Alice up and down a few times, she said: "The dice you need are worth 1 pound." Note ①

Alice's movements paused, and a sentence very similar to this sentence suddenly appeared in her mind: "The price of the shirt is nine pounds and fifteen pence, so you choose option C..." Note ②

Alice shook her head and threw away the voices in her mind, then took out a 1 pound note and handed it over, and once again sighed in her heart about the randomness of the "School of Life".

——The uniqueness is placed in a grocery store and only sells for 1 pound. Isn’t it just a lucky person who can get it?
Looking at it this way, maybe I can be regarded as a kind of protagonist... While waiting, Alice suddenly remembered her own protagonist theory. This idea came out of nowhere. She smiled, but the smile quickly disappeared.

——Whether it is the protagonist or the supporting role, they are all characters living in someone else's writing, there is nothing to be happy about.

Alice sighed, took the ring box she had seen in her dream from the shopkeeper, turned and left the grocery store.

"How's it going?" Klein, who was waiting outside, asked after seeing her.

Alice raised the ring box in her hand and said, "I haven't opened it yet - I think, judging from the situation when I saw the potion before, opening it here is not a good idea."

Klein nodded and then asked, "Are you going back to the hotel to open it?"

Alice blinked blankly, stretched out her hand to touch her belly, and asked hesitantly: "Can't I have a meal first?"

It was too reasonable. Klein couldn't refute this, so he could only take Alice to dinner.

When he saw Alice casually throwing the ring box aside and picking up the menu to order, Klein finally understood why people on the "Destiny" path would throw their uniqueness into the grocery store.

...This must have been influenced by the higher-ups, right? !
Alice didn't pay attention to what Klein was thinking. After flipping through the pages carefully, she asked a question that was crucial to the two of them: "Are you treating me?"

This made Klein, who had no intention of letting Alice pay, be silent for a moment, and then asked politely: "Perhaps, have you heard of AA?"

Alice pondered for a moment and then asked: "Have you heard of AAB?"

"What do you mean?" Klein asked doubtfully.

Alice put down the menu, scanned the surrounding environment, and then said in Chinese which was more convenient for expression:
“If there were only two of us, maybe it should be called AB system.

"It's just your treat, and I'll eat it with a shameless face."

After being quiet for more than ten seconds, Klein responded to her with the same words she had just said to Daniz: "Girls, don't say dirty words."

Alice choked for a moment, then looked at Klein and said seriously: "Actually, I have another idea."

"What?" Klein suddenly had a bad feeling and frowned.

Alice blinked twice and said eagerly: "There must be many churches of the Storm Lord in Bayam..."

After more than ten seconds of silence, Klein showed the kind expression unique to elders and said, "Alice, let's talk about your enrollment."

Alice lowered her head, pretending she didn't hear anything, picked up the menu and started ordering.

Klein reached out and took away the menu, and said with a smile:

"I was serious.

"I suspect that if you continue like this, the goddess will tie you to class."

Alice's body stiffened slightly. She carefully reflected on her mistake, then raised her head and said:
"Maybe I should steal the 'Aurora Society'... Um, do they really have the money?

"The God of Eternal Blazing Sun and Knowledge and Wisdom has no church in Backlund...

"Perhaps we can try the 'Witch Sect'? Well, we can also consider other secret organizations...

"But actually speaking of wealth, the God of Steam and Machinery has more money, right? After all, the 'craftsman'...

"But the money in their donation box is not necessarily that much - in other words, it should be about the same, right? The Church of Steam mainly has a lot of extraordinary items..." You, why do you have that expression? "

Klein glanced at Alice, who didn't think there was anything wrong with him at all. He didn't really want to chat with her, so he picked up the menu and called the waiter.

After the food was served, Alice pushed the ring box further away and started eating with concentration. This scene made Klein confused for a moment.

The meal time passed quickly, and even though Alice ate very slowly, or enjoyed it, she couldn't bring about any change.

After they finally finished their dinner and paid by AB, Alice stood up and prepared to leave the restaurant, completely unaware that she had forgotten anything.

Klein felt a little confused. He stretched out his hand to pull Alice back, gritted his teeth and asked, "Do you feel that you have forgotten something?"

Alice blinked blankly.

Klein couldn't bear it anymore and turned the ring box out of the corner and let it see the light of day. Alice suddenly realized it, patted her head in confusion and said:

"strangeness……"

……

Velma and Allen were having dinner at home. Suddenly, Velma reached out and covered her abdomen with a look of pain on her face.

Allen instantly became nervous. He knew what was in Velma's belly. He stepped forward to help Velma, but Velma suddenly recovered, as if nothing had happened.

"It's okay," Velma smiled reassuringly at Allen, "it's just that the baby kicked me."

Allen then forced a smile and sat back to eat uneasily.

The good news is that Velma didn't show any abnormality until they finished eating. It wasn't until the dinner was over and he came out after washing the dishes that he heard Velma's painful voice again:

"Uh-huh...

"It hurts..."

At this moment, Velma was curled up on the sofa, her wrinkled features telling of great pain.

……

She absently held the ring box and returned to the hotel. After asking Klein to watch her carefully and not to eat anything indiscriminately, Alice sat on the bed and opened the ring box.

Almost as soon as she opened the box, Alice lost the ability to think. She looked over absently. The ring box contained a milky-white six-sided dice just like she had seen in her dream.

The upward number on the dice was not 4 as in the dream, but 6. The blood-red concave dots fell on the milky white dice, as if telling an unknown story.

——For example, now.

The spirit was screaming with hunger. Alice used her only sense to control herself and did something stupid like swallowing the ring box together, and reached out to touch the dice.

The dice disappeared.

Suddenly, huge fear enveloped Klein. His hair stood on end, and every cell was screaming to escape, but his body stayed in place, unable to move. He could not even scream, and he even forgot to breathe.

——This is the most instinctive reaction when life faces fear that exceeds the limit of endurance.

He could only sit stiffly on the chair, watching Alice sit there blankly. Time seemed to have stopped suddenly. It was not until he felt a sense of suffocation that he saw Alice slowly raising her head, her eyes filled with Confused.

He heard the voice he was all too familiar with ask:

“Is this what it’s like to have a human body?

"I'm not used to it." (End of chapter)