Mystery: Lucky One

The conversation ended with Alice being driven away.

Alice, who was driven back to the real world, kicked the floor angrily, then sighed and lay quietly on the bed.

"It seems... I don't know what to do again..." Alice muttered softly, and she felt a desire to sleep until the end of the story.

...Why can't I skip the battle? It's ok that I can't skip the battle, but why can't I skip the daily plot?
Not knowing what to do, Alice sighed sadly and decided to go get some ice cream.

……

Klein, who didn't want to continue chatting with Alice, eventually drove her away.

At night, after finishing a busy day, Klein began to concentrate on... thinking of a name for Alice.

The inventor of ice cream... No, I feel like she'll complain if I write something like this, so let's see if I can change the way I put it... Well, if I write a positive description, will her personality be better?
This had nothing to do with mysticism or anything like that. This idea came to Klein only because he knew that Alice had a bit of... idol baggage.

Although Alice's truth is often exposed due to various accidents, it must be mentioned that when everyone thinks she is a good person or everyone thinks she is very powerful, she does tend to maintain her image.

So calling her "Ms. Great Destiny" can actually really make her feel better - provided you don't call her to her face.

Klein thought carefully and deliberated for a long time before picking up his pen and writing the first sentence on the paper:

“The creator of happiness and miracles.”

Eating ice cream... is also a happy thing, right?
After writing this sentence, Klein glanced at the sky outside, shook his head, and put down his pen.

Go to bed early. I still have to continue volunteering tomorrow. Besides, her habit of asking others to do everything is not good. I have to leave some things for her...

Thinking of this, Klein put down his pen again.

……

Alice saw Renette Tinicole again on Thursday afternoon. When she happily took the ice cream, she suddenly felt a chill down her spine.

It was as if the stall owner was Amon and I felt a chill down my spine... well, actually it wasn't that chilly.

Alice silently turned on her psychic vision, confirmed the location of Renette Tinicole, and then took the ice cream and tried to find a deserted place.

This position was not suitable for conversation, and Renette Tinicole also realized this. She followed Alice back to her home not far away, watched Alice close the door, sit on the sofa, and then... started eating ice cream.

Ok?
Renette Tinicole felt a little confused as she watched Alice concentrating on eating her ice cream. It was not until Alice emptied half a cup of ice cream that she finally confirmed that she was being ignored.

"Alice." Renette Tinicole tried to speak up to show her presence.

"Ah," Alice raised her head and looked at Him. After blinking twice, she said, "I almost forgot... what do you have... Oh, Shadow of Doom, anyway, you have to wait for me to finish eating..."

As she said this, she scooped up another spoonful of ice cream and put it into her mouth.

Renette Tinicole suddenly felt a deep sense of powerlessness. She looked at Alice, then at herself, and began to doubt the meaning of her life. ...Can such a person be an angel?!

He didn't understand, so He decided to talk to the child's parents again.

Alice didn't know what Renette Tinicole was thinking. She slowly finished the rest of her ice cream, then looked at her curiously and asked:
"Have you found the Shadow of Doom?"

A powdery object appeared on the table. The powder was black and seemed to reflect light faintly. Alice curiously tried to capture the faint light spots in it.

The faint light drew Alice's attention. She focused on it unconsciously. Her chaotic thoughts seemed to disappear for a short time. She became extremely calm and focused, with only the flickering dust in her eyes.

The flickering dust made it extremely difficult to capture the light, and Alice tried several times, only to find that she always missed the target just enough, like a cat trying to catch a laser.

But Alice was not a pet cat that could be teased by others. She simply opened up her spirituality, enveloped all the dust at once, and solved all the problems.

The moment Alice finally caught the bright spot she had dreamed of, a picture broke free from it and appeared in her spirituality.

Alice saw a woman sitting near the door, washing clothes, and next to her was a young girl.

Alice had seen such scenes before. In Backlund's East District, in the legendary slums, many women made a living from this.

——If you can’t live like this, the next step would be to become a street prostitute.

But such families usually have no father, or no men - the main labor force of this era.

And there is actually a man in this scene - the man is staggering back from outside, and the way he walks tells Alice that he is definitely drunk. Alice sees that he kicks the laundry basin away.

He didn't know what he scolded. The woman who was suspected to be the mother listened meekly with her head down. After listening for a while, the little girl finally couldn't help it. She raised her head angrily and refuted - or should be a refutation, because the man became visibly angry.

He kicked the little girl angrily, and the mother rushed over to block the child. Alice couldn't hear the sound, but she could almost imagine the suffocating crying and screaming.

But Alice was very rational at this moment. She continued to observe calmly, watching the beating end, watching the man leave, watching the little girl fall on her dying mother in pain, and finally getting up from the ground in anger.

Of course they couldn't afford to hire a doctor, so they didn't know how long it had been before the mother took her last breath and her body grew colder and colder. The little girl held her mother's body and buried her with an expressionless face.

This was just the beginning. The second scene appeared. Alice couldn't see the little girl's facial features clearly, but judging from her figure, she seemed to have grown a lot. Her thin body even had a sense of slimness.

Alice suddenly had a bad premonition, which soon came true. In the next scene, the father took several banknotes from someone.

The follow-up of this incident seems to be imaginable, but in the corner of the picture, even the father did not notice that his daughter was watching this scene with cold eyes.

Alice instantly lost her rational and calm state when she saw the little girl - who should be a young girl now.

In the child's arms, there was a book with an ocean blue cover. (End of this chapter)