Mystery: Lucky One

Did I say this... Oh, I think I said this the last time I saw him...

Alice was silent for a moment, then asked as a matter of course:

"Didn't I just save you?"

The rescue is done, the promise is fulfilled, so it doesn't matter if I kill him now...

Leo Master inexplicably realized this. He was dumbfounded and speechless for a moment.

As if to ease the awkwardness between them, the midday light rose and the dream ended at this moment.

Alice sat quietly staring at the bright "Apollo" for a few seconds, then jumped out of the bed, rushed out of the room and headed straight for the captain's room.

"Can I...uh, should I get out first?"

When Alice pushed the door open, she was surprised to find Cattleya just sitting up from the bed. Although Cattleya's clothes were still neat, Alice still asked this question.

"No need," Cattleya shook her head and motioned for her to close the door, "What's wrong?"

Alice closed the door carefully, and then said to Cattleya:

"I want to ask, um, in this ocean, is it possible to use a method like 'travel' to move directly to the core area?"

"...Normally, we wouldn't do that," Cattleya gave the same answer as Leo Master, "The space in this ocean is very chaotic. It's easy to get into danger if you do that, unless you trust your luck enough—"

At this point, Cattleya's voice suddenly stopped. She looked at Alice, suddenly realized something, and asked tentatively:

"Miss Destiny, is this what you want to do?"

Alice nodded.

Cattleya pondered for a moment and made a reliable yet unreliable suggestion:

"Have you asked Mr. Fool?"

Ask Klein? What's the point of asking him... But I should tell him. Oh, by the way, do I have to say that honorific name when I go in? It seems to be different from the "True Creator", but... well, let Leo Master say it!
Alice made her decision happily, turned around and rushed out of the captain's room, leaving Cattleya with a bewildered look on her face.

...?
The next person Alice found was Frank Lee. Alice remembered that he took away the flesh and blood from Leomaster and planned to use it for experiments.

"Wait a minute!" Alice screamed, stopping Frank Lee from planting the bloody mass into the ground, and rushed to him, "Let me use it to find Leo Master first!"

"Who?" Frank Lee stopped his actions obediently and raised his head.

Alice paused for a moment, not hiding anything, but not saying everything either:
"The owner of this mass of flesh and blood."

This is nonsense. Frank Lee was stunned for a moment, then he quickly remembered what Alice said yesterday and suddenly realized:

"Oh, you're going to save him..."

"No," Alice denied, "I've saved him, now I'm going to kill him."

Frank Lee's expression became confused.

Ellie was not polite at all. She took the opportunity to find out the location of Leo Master through the mass of flesh and blood - their ship had sunk long ago and he was on an isolated island.

Ah this... Never mind, the good news is that at least I don't have to worry about him running away somewhere else...

Alice stood up silently from the ground and went to look for Klein under Frank Lee's dazed gaze.

Klein was having a meal in the restaurant. Anderson was staying next to him for some reason. Alice approached them and heard Anderson's voice, who was unaware of the situation:

"Ha, she is indeed from the 'Destiny' path, the notoriously useless path!"

Alice stopped hesitantly. Klein looked up at Anderson, who had his back to her. Then he smiled warmly and suggested to him:

"I recommend you turn back."

Anderson turned his head in confusion.

"Hello," Alice said to him calmly.

Anderson was silent for two seconds, then he picked up the obviously untouched plate, stood up and smiled at the two of them:

"Oh, I'm done eating, you guys chat... Ouch!"

A sailor was walking nearby with a plate of food in his hand, and some unknown fruit on top of the plate accidentally slipped and was stepped on by Anderson who was just standing up.

"I'm sorry, I...ah—"

The sailor apologized quickly, but that was not the end of the story. Anderson slipped on the strange fruit and fell to the ground. The plate slipped out of his hand and ended up falling on his face.

She is usually so gentle to me.

Klein sat there in silence. After he sighed in his heart, he glanced at the empty seat and invited Alice without changing his expression:

"Would you like to sit down and eat with us?"

Alice turned around blankly, with an expression that said, "Why are you even more abnormal than me?"

Now is not the time to ask that... Alice used her limited brain capacity to think and shook her head.

"No.

“The floor is so dirty.”

The innocent sailor stood there looking at them with a little hesitation, not sure whether he should leave.

"Kevin!"

Someone shouted from a distance, and the sailor seemed to be saved, and said hurriedly:

"Someone is calling me, I'm leaving first!"

After saying that, he left quickly.

In the middle of the farce, Anderson lifted the plate from his face and was about to say something when Alice turned around and said to him:
"Don't worry, I won't forget to return your bad luck to you when I get off the boat."

Then, without waiting for Anderson to reply, she turned to Klein and said:

"I may have to go. Tell me, if I put six times the bad luck on him now, will the Future be in trouble?"

"Why is it six times?" Klein asked in confusion. "I remember it was five times before?"

"Yes," Alice nodded, "it just became six times as much."

Klein was once again thankful for Alice's gentleness towards him, and then gave a reasonable suggestion: "If you don't mind, you can leave a few doom spells for me and Admiral of the Stars. We will add them to him when we get off the ship..."

"Are you serious?" Anderson got up from the ground in horror. "No, are you serious?"

He suddenly realized that Alice's words about doubling the bad luck were not a joke, she was really counting seriously.

Although Anderson claimed that the "Destiny" path was a useless path, he also knew that the angels in power could definitely kill him with bad luck.

The reason why he dared to provoke Alice again and again was purely because Alice acted too gentle and obedient. She really seemed like a sealed object of Gehrman Sparrow as others said... Yes, Gehrman was obviously like that!
Anderson suddenly realized this, and he asked with wide eyes, "Why aren't you angry with Hermann?"

“You’re angry too,” Alice looked at him doubtfully, “I always cursed back at him. I even hit him once…”

No, what's the point of cursing back? Beat him? Forget about really hitting him. If you just transform into a mythical creature, no one here will survive...

Anderson looked at the two of them with an incredulous look, and that absurd thought came to his mind again:
"You two are really not lovers, right?"

“Seven times,” Klein suggested calmly.

"Okay." Alice nodded.

Anderson watched them make their decision with a blank look on his face. When Alice turned to leave, he finally reacted and shouted:

"I apologize! Damn it, that's my instinct, the instinct of a 'provocateur'! The Beyonders on our path are all a bit mean-spirited..."

Alice turned around, sneered at Anderson, then turned and left.

So, when Alice left the Future, Klein found Anderson with seven doom spells:

"I have a suggestion, do you want to listen to it?"

"What?" Anderson looked at German Sparrow in front of him warily, fearing that he would throw a talisman at him if he was not careful.

“You can bribe me with money,” Klein raised his hand. “I’ll charge you 1000 pounds for one talisman. For every 1000 pounds you give me, I will use one less talisman. Of course, you can also choose to pay with magical items or Beyonder characteristics.”

Anderson showed an expression that looked at him as a profiteer. Under Gehrman Sparrow's kind smile, he couldn't help but ask:

“Does He know about this?”

He called him "Him" again... Klein glanced at Anderson with an inexplicable feeling and replied calmly:

"This has nothing to do with you."

Anderson gritted his teeth, taking Alice's presence into consideration, took a deep breath, and agreed to the request:
"it is good.

"I'll find a way."

On the other side, Alice on the isolated island opened her eyes and whispered:

“I knew he wouldn’t use the spell on Anderson… Humph, luckily I’ve already returned the bad luck in advance.

"Just wait, when I get to the 'Forsaken Land of the Gods', I want him to deliver meals to me every day, all kinds of delicious meals and ice cream... He makes so much money anyway!"

For the ocean, where the rules are chaotic, it is both difficult and easy to shuttle through chaos - the good news is that she can move here like a fish in water, the bad news...

"I can't feel the angel. It's really out of control after using it once..." Alice sighed sadly, as she stuck her own state in the cycle of fate and forced to dissipate the pollution as soon as it appeared.

It was not difficult to find Leo Master, and when he saw Alice appear in front of him, Leo Master realized that he had no room for refusal - Alice even brought a small boat at Cattleya's suggestion to prevent them from falling directly into the sea in the core area.

What happened next was a natural progression. Alice took Leomaster onto the boat, and they ended up in the core area of ​​the ocean, waiting for night to fall.

When night fell, they were still in the same position as the day before. Anderson and Klein watched them from afar. Cattleya was sitting on a boulder with her knees hugged. Alice looked back at them and then looked at Leo Master.

Without her reminder, Leo Master knew what he should do. He took a few steps towards the projection of the "Giant King's Court" on the opposite mountain, took a deep breath, and prayed in a low voice in the ancient Hermes language with a pious and solemn expression:
"O Lord, the Creator of all things,

"You are the omniscient and omnipotent..."

"You are the source of all greatness, the beginning and the end,"

"You are the God of Gods, you are the ruler of the vast star world!"

The sea of ​​clouds separating the two peaks suddenly boiled over and parted to the left and right, revealing a dark gap with no visible bottom.

The projection of the "Giant King's Court" opposite suddenly absorbed all the dusk light, letting it rush forward and fill the deep gap.

Then, between the two peaks, in the misty sea of ​​clouds, an orange-red road of light appeared.

Leo Master took a few steps forward with excitement, looked at the road with tears in his eyes, and murmured in a low voice:

"Oh God……"

Seeing this change, Alice also walked forward, looked down at the cliff below her feet and the distance between herself and the road of light, and fell into deep thought.

"Shall we jump?" she asked calmly, turning her head.

These words were like a bucket of cold water poured on Leo Master's head. He also lowered his head and looked at the cliff under his feet, falling into deep thought.

"...Do you have any way to get down?" Leo Master looked at Alice with tearful eyes.

"Yes." Alice nodded solemnly, then took a step forward and jumped under Leo Master's expectant eyes.

...?
Leo Master looked at the scene in bewilderment until a scream was heard from below:

"Help ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

...?
Do I still dance...?
Leo Master moved his feet in hesitation, and he slid down from the edge of the cliff, falling with the sound of wind rubbing against his clothes.

Lord, I may not see you anymore...

Just as Leo Master was praying his last words in his heart, light rose from under his feet. He looked up blankly, and everything seemed to be in slow motion. The falling angel spread his white wings of light, flew from below to above, and grabbed him.

The sound of the wind became steady and gentle, and they slowly fell to the ground. Leo Master turned his head and saw Alice landing on the ground. The wings of light behind her turned into spots of light and dissipated into the air.

Leo Master lowered his head. The road formed by the dusk seemed unable to bear anything, but they stood on it firmly, as if they were standing on solid ground.

"What's wrong with you?" Alice looked at Leo Master who looked dazed and asked puzzledly.

"I was wondering..." Leo Master replied vaguely, "Since you have wings... no, since you can fly, why do you still scream..."

Alice blinked, looked at him suspiciously, and replied:

"But……

"Shouldn't humans scream when they fall off a cliff?" (End of this chapter)