Mystery: Lucky One

Sylvia's contracted pupils told Alice that her first two sentences were correct.

Her guess was confirmed, and Alice had barely vented her malice towards Amon, so she no longer had the will to continue talking.

Alice was not very angry about her plans being ruined. As an angel on the path of "destiny", she was always particularly sensitive to dreams. She did not forget the two dreams whose first halves were almost identical.

In fact, the second half is similar. She didn't get the treasure. If you have to interpret it in detail, it's probably...

The second dream was what should have happened. Fate chose her to get the treasure, but this was not the right time. She could only take a close look at the treasure.

The first dream is about the current situation - Amon stole the treasure that was right in front of him, or was the treasure a scam of Amon?

Who knows? Anyway, it was Amon who did it.

Alice was only sure of one thing, that was, no matter what the situation was, she couldn't get "Cassandra" now.

However, if it's Amon, we definitely can't just let it go like this, we still have to settle the account.

Alice shook her head, threw away the messy thoughts in her mind, and looked at Sylvia.

...How to deal with her?

The initial anger had long since disappeared during this time, and Alice still wanted to kill Sylvia, but the nature of it was more of a mission than hatred.

"Why didn't Amon kill you?" Alice lowered her head and asked, "Then I wouldn't have to do it myself..."

Her voice could be described as calm, or it could be said that not much emotion could be heard in it, but Sylvia's emotions were complex and varied: anger, fear, and perhaps even sadness?

Alice was unsure, but it didn't matter. She pinched her fingertips and murmured to herself:

"If you want to live up to the requirements of being a 'protagonist', you should die in an exceptionally... grand way?
"However, I am not your 'Cassandra'. We can even be called enemies, so you should..."

"You should let me go." Sylvia lowered her head and spoke abruptly.

Alice stopped talking and looked at Sylvia quietly. After a few seconds, she couldn't help but mutter:

"I'm like the villain in the story who died because of talking too much... Forget it, why did you say I should let you go?"

She finally wanted to hear Sylvia's reasons.

Sylvia seemed to have adjusted her emotions. She got up from the ground and knelt on the ground, then raised her head and said to Alice:
"If you were enemies, you should have let me go.

"The best way to defeat an enemy is to understand it, and I, I know many of 'Cassandra's' secrets."

Alice was stunned by this attitude. She did not correct Sylvia. In fact, even if she died, she would still be able to know those secrets. Besides, she might not know as much as she did. Instead, she looked at Sylvia and made a decision.

Alice reached into her body and took out a dagger and a candy under Sylvia's puzzled gaze. She smiled at Sylvia and said:

“Pick one.

"I won't kill you if you choose the right one. How about that?"

Sylvia raised her eyes and looked at her. After more than ten seconds, she took the candy, peeled it and put it in her mouth while Alice smiled.

Choose sugar... Alice stared at Sylvia thoughtfully. Just as she was about to say "This child must not be kept", she saw Sylvia's next move.

She decisively took the dagger from Alice's other hand and stabbed it into her own chest, twisting the dagger mercilessly, as if she was treating some mortal enemy.

Alice looked at this scene in amazement and was speechless for a moment. "There is no correct answer to this question, right?" Sylvia asked before she died.

——She is right.

If Sylvia chose the knife, it means she wanted to kill him, and this boy must not be kept alive.

If Sylvia chose sugar, it would mean that she is extremely cunning and she must not be kept.

If Sylvia chooses neither of them, it means that she is born rebellious and must not be kept.

If Sylvia chooses both, it means that she has strong desires and will definitely be a disaster. This child must not be kept.

There is no correct answer to this question. If I have to give a correct answer, it would probably be to commit suicide decisively like Sylvia, and then travel through time and space to be reborn...

Alice is not sure whether there is true reincarnation in this world. After all, according to what she has seen at the Tarot Club, the God of Death has gone mad.

She looked at Sylvia's body with mixed emotions and decided to start communicating with the spirit world.

Theoretically, such a ceremony should be held in a safe location, but Alice has 100% trust in the mausoleum built by Amon. After all, the biggest danger here is Amon.

Although the ritual that combined spiritualism and dream divination was complicated, it was not something Alice came up with on her own. She took the ritual that she had copied from Klein before, dug out the materials, and began to arrange it.

Alice already had a basic understanding of Sylvia's life trajectory, and this time she was communicating with the psychic just to ask about some previously unsolved mysteries.

So when the ceremony was completed, her first question was this:
"What did 'Cassandra' tell you when you first met her?"

In saying this, Alice respected Sylvia's wishes and used the "she" she had emphasized in the past, rather than the "he."

Sylvia's spirit answered the question with lifeless eyes:

“She told me that I was destined to be there, that my time had come, and that she was being guided by fate to help me.

“She seemed alive, and it was the first time I had seen a book like this, and at first I was scared, excited, and a little skeptical of her.

"Later, she predicted several things, and those things came true as she said..."

Alice understood what Sylvia said next, and it was obvious that this was how she was deceived.

When she finished, Alice shook her head and asked the next question:
"Why do you want to pretend to be a 'prophet' to deceive people?"

Sylvia answered this question without hesitation: "For the role of 'swindler'..."

It was a reasonable answer, but Alice frowned and asked:
"Did Cassandra come up with this suggestion?"

"No," Sylvia answered firmly, "Cassandra never mentioned it."

Alice frowned even deeper, because this contradicted her guess - she suspected that Sylvia was a bait used by "Cassandra" to attract her from the beginning.

She suspected that Sylvia showed up simply because "Cassandra" wanted to see her.

Alice didn't intend to give up her guess easily. She thought about it and then asked:

"Did Cassandra ever tell you...

"A story about pretending to be a charlatan and swindling people?" (End of this chapter)