Mystery: Lucky One

Something seemed wrong... Alice stared at the calm expression of "The World", blinked, and looked away.

"Let me think about it," she said perfunctorily to the "magician" Fors, "otherwise it seems a bit too hasty to ask you to treat me to ice cream, but I can't think of anything else for the time being... Do I really want you to pay for it?"

Actually, it’s not impossible to buy it with money, as long as there is profit to be made, but Miss Fortune seems reluctant…

"If I have to pay money," the "magician" For thought for a moment and asked tentatively, "How much should I pay?"

Alice blinked, stared at Fors for two seconds, and gave an answer:
"250 pounds?"

"Ah?" Fors thought she had heard it wrong and looked at Alice in confusion.

"Look," Alice said, sitting up straight, and introducing the charm with great interest, "spending 250 pounds on a 220-pound fortune charm makes you look like a fool! Will you buy it?"

Phew, it can be seen that she really thinks this is a good idea, but it’s a pity that Miss “Magician” doesn’t seem to understand what 250 means…

Klein suppressed his laughter in the gray fog and waited curiously for the response from the Magician Fors.

Magician Fors took a moment to understand Alice's words, and then asked carefully:
"Miss Destiny, what does two hundred and fifty mean?"

Isn't this a number? Could it have another meaning... From what Miss Fate said, could it be an adjective to describe someone as stupid?

“Fool, idiot… maybe that’s what it feels like?” Alice tilted her head, confirming Fors’s guess.

“Uh,” Fors choked, “I, I don’t really want to be the idiot you call me…”

Alice looked away regretfully.

Seeing this, Audrey, the "Justice" standing by, interrupted and asked, "Ms. Destiny, why can 250 be used to describe an idiot?"

The Hanged Man Alger, the Hermit Cattleya, and the Moon Emlyn also looked at Alice curiously.

“Uh…” Alice paused. “It seems, it seems that I have seen a story in a book before… but I don’t remember what the story was about. Uh, anyway, anyway, everyone used it this way at that time…”

Was that the time when she was active? I don't know when it was... She claimed that the Goddess of Night was under her protection, and responded to some records in the City of Silver. She should be from the Second Age at least, or even earlier...

And the time of falling asleep...eh?

Alger, the "Hanged Man", was surprised to find that he didn't seem to have many clues about when Alice existed at the latest.

While he was thinking, Alice turned her head curiously and asked, "Ms. Hermit, you don't know either?"

Cattleya, the Hermit, shook her head.

What does this have to do with Ms. Hermit? It is safe to say that Ms. Hermit is the Admiral of the Stars and has a close relationship with the Mysterious Queen Bernadette... Wait, Bernadette?

The Hanged Man Alger immediately caught the key figure—Bernadette’s father, Emperor Roselle.

Yes, Miss Fate and Mr. Fool know the "symbols" "invented" by Emperor Roselle. I have previously speculated that they may have known each other before, and there may be more similar people. This "symbol" is the "words" they use to communicate, but it has been affected by the gods, so it cannot be identified through divination or other means...

No, in this case, it is certain that Emperor Roselle descended as an ordinary person, and Miss Fate seemed to be the same at the beginning. Then, Mr. Fool...?
The Hanged Man Alger forced himself to suppress his desire to look at the head of the bronze table and steadied his breath.

Miss Destiny said that she remembered nothing when she woke up, and Mr. Fool was the only trace of the past she could find... In other words, Mr. Fool should have recovered initially at that time and was intentionally looking for relevant clues...

This is consistent with my guess at the time. Mr. Fool is trying to get out of a certain predicament. This predicament should be...

Considering the situations of Roselle and Alice, Alger, the "Hanged Man", looked at the head of the bronze table with some hesitation.

...the frail body of a mortal?

However, Mr. Fool was already able to accept prayers at that time, and later he was even able to accept sacrifices and grant gifts… So “He” should have already taken back the authority and was in the process of regaining it?

Come to think of it, did Miss Destiny have a process of mastering power...?
Moreover, Mr. Fool seemed to be very familiar with Miss Destiny from the beginning... Since Miss Destiny and Emperor Roselle had both acted as humans, Mr. Fool should have been one too, so...

Did Miss Destiny know Mr. Fool in real life? But wasn’t Miss Destiny picked up by the Nighthawks? And she seems to have a very close relationship with the Church of Night? At least she is very close to the Goddess of Night...

... Could it be that Mr. Fool's identity in the real world is a high-ranking official of the Church of Evernight? !

This is not impossible. The attitude of the “world” towards the Church of Evernight seems to be friendly. As Mr. Fool’s follower, his attitude indirectly expresses Mr. Fool’s attitude, but…

The top leaders of the Church of Night are all known... Could it be that they are not the top leaders in public, for example, they directly obey the orders of the Goddess of Night? This would explain Miss Fate... Wait.

If Miss Fate was already in contact with the Goddess of Night at that time, why did she say that the Fool was the only trace she could find? If Miss Fate had no contact with the Goddess of Night at that time, how did she... Oh, I understand!
The Goddess of Night must not have contacted Miss Destiny directly at that time, but secretly reminded Mr. Fool. Miss Destiny contacted the Goddess of Night later!

Alger, the "Hanged Man", suddenly realized and thought he understood everything.

Immediately afterwards, a new question arose - why did the Goddess of Night do this?
The question had an answer a few seconds later, because he remembered that Alice had said at the Tarot Club that she had asked the Goddess of Night in person if she could transform into a mythical creature and let her touch it...

It seems that Miss Destiny must have done a lot of similar things in the past, so it is understandable that the Goddess of Night is unwilling to appear in front of Miss Destiny in person.

After all, Mr. Fool's choice seems to be to leave Miss Fate to the "world"...

Alger, the Hanged Man, looked at Gehrman Sparrow, the World, with a look of sympathy and pity, and inexplicably recalled the rumors that had changed several times on the sea.

In fact, the "world" and Miss Fate seem to get along pretty well...

At this time, Cattleya, the Hermit, said to Audrey, the Justice:

"The spinal fluid of the black hunting monitor lizard has been confirmed, 1800 pounds. There is no clue about the fruit of the psychedelic wind chime tree for the time being."

"This is very good, better than I expected. Thank you, Ms. Hermit." Audrey thanked sincerely, not caring about the price at all.

1800 pounds just taken away... Alice, who had never handled such a large amount of money, looked at Audrey enviously.

...Did my past self really leave no money for my present self?!
And fate, could you please stop giving me extraordinary characteristics and give me a large sum of money so I can see!
Alice clenched her fists darkly. After a short silence, Emlyn, who suddenly realized that his improvement might not be as obvious as that of other members of the Tarot Club, asked weakly:
"Do you have any clues about my last commission?"

Magician Fors immediately said, "There is a suspicious situation. I will investigate further."

She was eager to pay off her debts and was full of motivation.

After that, it was "Sun" Derrick who made the trade request:

"I need the root crystal of the Elder Tree, the golden-edged sunflower, and..."

He reported several ingredients from the potion recipe he had just obtained.

"The root crystals of the Elder Tree and those auxiliary materials are no problem." Emlyn the Moon said with a smile, "So, what can you use in exchange?"

The last time he offered the fruit of the Elder Tree to "Justice" Audrey, he knew where the root crystal was.

Sun Derrick thought for a moment and said, "A Beyonder characteristic corresponding to a Sequence 5 vampire?"

Alice thought of those grotesque monsters hiding in the darkness of the "Forsaken Land" and couldn't help wondering: If Mr. Moon knew that the Beyonder characteristics he wanted came from such monsters, I wonder if he would still be able to eat them...

"Blood clan!" Emlyn gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry, I'll tell you when I figure out what I want."

Alice looked at him and blinked, then suddenly turned to the World and shouted:

"Bald baboon!"

The World was half a beat late before turning around to look at her, his eyes full of confusion. After Klein was promoted to Master of Secret Dolls, the look in the World's eyes was obviously much more lively.

"Why didn't you react?" Alice frowned in confusion, "Why didn't you emphasize loudly that you are a human being like him?"

“Pfft.” Magician Fors was the first to understand Alice’s words with his excellent associative ability and laughed out loud.

Amid her laughter, "Justice" Audrey, "Hermit" Cattleya, and "The Hanged Man" Alger had a vague understanding, while "Moon" Emlyn and "Sun" Derrick seemed a little confused.

In Loen, "curly-haired baboon" is a slang term to describe a stupid person, which roughly means "you were left behind when humans evolved." Therefore, those who were not left behind naturally evolved into hairless baboons, or bald baboons...

This word, which seems to be an insult to the human group, is indeed similar to vampires and blood clans in a sense.

...Maybe?
Inside the gray fog, Klein looked at the "magician" Fors, whose laughter attracted everyone's attention, and was thankful that he had the extraordinary ability of the "clown".

Otherwise, if Mr. Fool couldn't hold back his laughter or slammed his head on the table every day at the Tarot Club because of what Miss Fate said, that would be too...

Klein imagined the scene and couldn't help but take a deep breath.

——As the saying goes, there are two kinds of death in the world, one is the disappearance of the body, and the other is social death.

He obviously doesn't want to die socially.

Emlyn the Moon didn't quite understand the connection between the two sentences, but he vaguely realized that this was Alice's mockery of him - maybe it wasn't intentional, she probably just thought of it, but that's how hurtful it was...

He looked at Alice with gritted teeth. Noticing his fierce look, Alice turned her head and hesitated for a moment before tentatively saying:
"Uh… excuse me?"

This apology was insincere, but Emlyn the Moon obviously couldn't ask for more. He leaned back in his chair like a deflated ball and responded weakly:

"It's ok."

Alice blinked, hesitated for a moment and asked: "...Let me praise you again...You vampires?"

Just as Emlyn the Moon was about to refuse, the World suddenly asked, "How are you going to praise me?"

Let me see what else she can say...it's not about me anyway.

Klein looked at Alice expectantly in the gray fog, so Alice tilted her head, propped her chin with one hand, and thought seriously:
"Hmm... can vampires... summon bats?"

She blinked and looked at Emlyn the Moon, who nodded hesitantly.

"Hmm..." Alice picked up the other one and put it against her chin. "Bats are actually very much like mice with wings, just like angels are people with wings..."

Klein suddenly had a bad feeling. Just as he was about to stop her, he heard Alice slap the table and say to Emlyn the Moon:

"I see!
"You blood race must be the gods that rule over the rats!"

She stood up a little from her chair excitedly. Emlyn the Moon was stunned by her brilliant deduction. After more than ten seconds, he looked at the World with lifeless eyes and confirmed with him:
"Has she always been like this?"

Was he asking about Alice's logic level or how much she deserved a beating... Klein glanced at Alice silently and replied while controlling the "world":

"Ok.

"She's always been like this."

Alice blinked, vaguely realizing that there might be something wrong with this reasoning, and she sat back in her seat hesitantly.

In the silence, the "magician" Fors gave Alice a suggestion with a serious face:
"Miss Fate, have you ever considered a career in literature? Your associative abilities are very suitable."

“Uh…” Alice paused, remembering Amon who came to her with the comic book, “No, no, I think if I do this, I might be hunted down by angels and true gods…”

"Ah?" Fors's eyes were slightly confused.

"Justice" Audrey sat motionless in her seat, but she couldn't help but recall Miss Destiny's invitation to discuss gossip about the True God.

...If these are the sources of inspiration, it does seem a bit dangerous! (End of this chapter)