Mystery: Lucky One

Chapter 409 Chapter 92 Faith
Ouroboros had no intention of waiting for her. After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the afternoon town in a steady and even rhythm.

Like a machine executing orders, He walked to the end of the light of "Apollo", and a skin lantern fell right at His feet.

Ouroboros bent down to pick up the lantern on the ground without any reaction, then turned back to look at Alice who was still standing there in a daze.

The spirit did not call the police, which gave Alice a little sense of trust. She more or less believed that Ouroboros was not here to kill her, but she also had another worry - would Ouroboros suddenly want to kill her at some point?

Alice didn't know Ouroboros, nor did she understand Ouroboros, but she knew herself, and she believed that she might come up with strange ideas at any time, or... a revelation from fate?

Being alert to the unknown, Alice took a step forward and followed.

Anyway, He doesn't want to kill me for the time being, so I'll just follow Him and see where He wants to take me. If He suddenly wants to kill me at that time, I'll talk about it then...

Thinking of this, Alice felt relieved.

After seeing Alice catching up, Ouroboros turned around and continued walking.

Alice was quite shy when they first met. She didn't ask anything, but just followed Ouroboros quietly. In order to make the lantern Ouroboros just picked up meaningful, Alice took the initiative to extinguish the light of "Apollo".

So, she and Ouroboros walked in the afternoon town one after the other, with only a lantern in Ouroboros's hand as a source of light.

When they were halfway through the afternoon town, Alice finally couldn't help it because it was so quiet around them and they didn't even encounter a monster.

Alice felt that she should at least say something, like asking where they were going, so she took two quick steps to make the few steps between herself and Ouroboros disappear, and raised her head to the side and asked:
"Where are you taking me?"

“The sanctuary,” Ouroboros replied softly, his expression and pace unchanged.

Alice stopped dead in her tracks after receiving this unexpected answer, staring at Him warily.

After walking a few more steps forward, Ouroboros stopped as if he had just realized something, and looked back at Alice in confusion.

He did not speak, and Alice did not ask any questions. After half a minute of silence, Ouroboros took the initiative to walk towards Alice, and in her puzzled gaze, he stretched out the hand holding the lantern.

Alice was stunned for a moment. She stretched out her hand tentatively, and Ouroboros handed her the lantern, then turned and continued walking. After a few steps, the second lantern appeared at His feet from nowhere.

Ouroboros picked up the lantern from the ground with a gentle expression, then turned back to look at Alice.

He... He thought I was asking for a lantern?
Alice understood this unusual line of thinking after a few seconds. She felt a little dizzy, and as a test, she took a cautious step forward.

As expected, Ouroboros turned around and continued walking. Alice paused, thinking that the idea of ​​bringing her to the sanctuary to be killed was too difficult for Him. She quickly followed and asked the next question:
"Why do you have to walk? Can't you fly?"

Ouroboros did not look back, and continued walking at a steady pace while answering:

“It’s more pious this way.”

Alice paused for a moment after seeing the impeccable answer and then asked, "...Then why did you fly over here just now?"

"This is faster." Ouroboros' tone did not change at all. Every question was answered reasonably, and there was no problem in every link. After trying to understand this idea, Alice asked a new question:
“But I am not an angel or a follower of your Lord, I do not need piety, and I should not even visit His sanctuary.

"Even if you really want to go, you shouldn't take me there in such a rude way. I think maybe you should invite me first and then take me there after I agree. It's like you were ordering me or threatening me just now."

This success made Ouroboros stop. He turned around, and Alice's figure reappeared in his gentle and indifferent eyes.

Alice suddenly became nervous, and she had the urge to turn around and run away, because until now, Alice had not been able to sense any emotion from Ouroboros - He really was like a perfect angel, but too perfect, a little bit unlike a human.

Wait a minute, angels aren’t humans, they’re complete mythical creatures… but it seems like angels can have children with humans, how weird…

Alice began to have wild thoughts.

Ouroboros seemed to accept Alice's logic. After staring at Alice for a few minutes, he asked in his unchanged voice:

"Will you come with me to the sanctuary of the Lord?"

He extended the invitation just as Alice had said.

Alice was shocked and rejected the invitation without hesitation:
"I don't want to."

The wrong response caused the logical system Ouroboros had rebuilt to collapse. Alice finally saw the first emotion other than gentleness and indifference that appeared on Him in such a long time.

It could be doubt, or bewilderment, or simply a little confused, but it was better than being unchanging like a robot. Alice felt a little more comfortable. She looked at Ouroboros who was still stuck, and mercifully gave the next instruction of the program:
"Why are you taking me to the sanctuary?"

Ouroboros looked at her calmly and said the words Alice hated to hear the most in her life:

“This is destiny’s guidance.”

Alice, who had been acting like a sorcerer, looked at Ouroboros in front of her and fell into deep thought: He seemed serious, what should she do?
——Unlike Alice, who seemed calm but was actually noisy and had overactive psychological feedback, Ouroboros seemed to be calm from the inside out.

Alice looked at His expression which had not changed from the beginning to now, and recalled His even silence, unchanging tone, and gentle voice without any changes in intonation. She stroked her chin and asked:

"Have you performed so many roles that you've forgotten what you're really like, or have you always been like this?

"The so-called 'machine', is it something that moves when fate pushes it, and doesn't move when fate doesn't push it...

"Don't you have your own ideas?"

Ouroboros' expression remained unchanged. He answered as if he knew what Alice wanted to ask:

“I will always follow the Lord.”

Alice, who already knew that the believer was an "anchor", became increasingly confused - could this also be true in reverse? !
(End of this chapter)