Mystery: Lucky One

"......?" Klein looked at Alice with eyes full of shock and confusion.

He couldn't tell what he felt for a moment. In fact, he instinctively thought about the possibility that Alice was joking, because the topic of having children had been brought up repeatedly by Alice during this period of time.

But he quickly dismissed the speculation.

It was possible that Alice was joking, but her jokes often came true in strange ways - so it was very likely that Emperor Roselle was really giving birth to a child.

Is it authority related to fertility? Desire? Or a further, more direct authority...

The moon is related to a deity with relevant authority? Hmm, it should be an evil god...

Anyway, this at least shows that there is something wrong with the moon in this world... No, she also told me to be careful with the stars before, so, there must be something wrong with the entire sky in this world...

Klein frowned and looked at Alice. After considering for a moment, he asked a question:
"Can I know about this?"

This is what he should confirm.

After all, judging from Alice's previous performance, the secret hidden in the sky above their heads seems to be something that cannot be known unless there is an angel.

Ellie answered without hesitation:
“Probably not.

“However, if it is later confirmed that Russell Armstrong did successfully land on the moon and return, then he would be forgiven for being crazy.

“After all, he might still be imprisoned somewhere giving birth to a child.

"…Does this count as imprisonment… Ouch!"

Because of Alice's sudden thought, Klein reached out and knocked her on the head without hesitation, causing her to hold her head and glare at him.

In order to prevent himself from being soft-hearted, Klein turned his gaze away from her tearful eyes before commenting:
"Russell Armstrong... nice name."

Alice immediately forgot her grievances and raised her chin proudly.

Klein didn't let her be proud for too long. He pointed at the diary and reminded her:
"Finish it."

Alice lowered her head obediently.

“On October 7, I finally made up my mind.

"I will try to switch to the similar 'Mystery Voyeur' path. Only in this way can I become a Sequence 1.

"I have always suspected that the Hidden Sage was originally a conceptualized uniqueness, but later, due to some accident, it developed intelligence and fully awakened. Therefore, the Sequence 1 position of this path is most likely still vacant!"

Alice raised her head again.

"In other words," Alice looked at Klein and asked, "I am now a kind of 'Hidden Sage'?"

“Although this seems to be correct…” Klein looked at her helplessly, “But this is not what I want you to see.”

"......?" Alice blinked.

She carefully recalled what happened during and after Klein read the diary, including the questions asked by Cattleya, the Hermit.

Alice suddenly had a guess. She put down the page in her diary, took out the third page and asked thoughtfully:

“This was written by Emperor Roselle when he was crazy in his later years?
“He must have been so emotional that his strength got out of control… This page of the diary is contaminated!

"That's why Bernadette chose these pages of the diary and asked that question!"

——Only in this way can Bernadette find the reason for Roselle's madness without understanding Chinese.

However, there could be another possibility. For example, as the daughter of Emperor Roselle, Bernadette actually knew the time when Roselle wrote each diary...

This is certainly a possible reason, but in Alice's opinion, through this method, Bernadette can more easily judge the time when Emperor Roselle went crazy, but she may not be able to judge on which page of the diary the reason for Emperor Roselle's madness appears.

Unless she thought that the Fool already knew about this - but the Fool was still collecting Russell's diary, and Alice had admitted that this was a language they used to communicate.

People would never guess that the Fool needed to obtain occult knowledge from Roselle's diary, so it could only be for a more secret reason, such as the truth behind their coming here, or the reason why Roselle went crazy in his later years.

So Alice tends to think that in Bernadette's eyes, the Fool is someone who has some guesses about the reasons behind these things, but still needs to be investigated.

Unless Bernadette really found Klein from Tingen City during the investigation against her, and connected Klein from Tingen City with Sherlock Moriarty from Backlund, and finally associated Klein with the Fool himself.

There was really no other way, so Alice had to consider the possibility of murder to silence the witness.

While some immoral thoughts were going through Alice's mind, Klein had already confirmed her guess in surprise:
"Yes, how did you know that?"

"It's very simple," Alice briefly summarized her guess. "What else can it be?"

"?" Klein looked at Alice in confusion. Alice ignored him and lowered her head to continue reading the diary.

With just one glance, Alice realized that she had guessed correctly.

This diary is different from the previous ones. It has no date, the spacing between the words is large, and the handwriting is heavy, but these are not the most important things.

There is a certain power remaining in this diary, a certain power from the spirit and emotion attached to the words, polluting those who read it.

The good news is that the page of the diary that appeared above the gray fog was not the original one, so this power was like duckweed without roots. After causing harm to Klein once, the remaining power was minimal.

What's more, Alice, who is an angel, will not be affected.

Alice simply felt the existence of this power through her keen spiritual intuition, and she looked at the contents of the diary thoughtfully.

"No! Impossible!

"how so!
"If my guess is correct, I was not the only one who had that experience!
"No! No! How could this happen!
"What I saw told me that everything will be destroyed, including everything I created! No! I will not accept this ending!

“We must work hard to save ourselves and stop pinning our hopes on the Seven Gods!

"Only by ascending to the throne of Sequence 0 can I and those I value be saved!

“Should I try to pull Mr. Door back to the real world? No! Although He claims to be only Sequence 1, I believe that He is definitely not an ordinary Sequence 1! He is likely to bring me unexpected disasters!”

Alice let out a slow breath.

“It turns out that Bernadette made the right choice for these pages of the diary,” she said to Klein.

Although he had already read the diary once and had some guesses in his mind, Klein still reached out to Alice, wanting to hear her thoughts. After all, this was Miss Fate - although the information density of her words was sometimes lower than that of Roselle's diary, you couldn't ignore any word.

Because you never know which nonsense or joke will come true in the end.

Alice blinked and gave her first guess: "An experience like his, does it mean time travel?"

“I think so too,” Klein replied.

This is actually not difficult to guess, because the teachings of the "Ancient Sun God" have a very high duplication rate, which in a sense exposes the identity. Add to that Roselle and Klein, and Alice whose situation is yet to be determined, there are already four "travelers" in this world whose authenticity is yet to be determined.

Besides, they all knew that an Earth civilization existed before the First Age. Even though Alice's memory seemed to have been tampered with and her intuition might have been guided, there was evidence in the real world as well.

The authenticity of this matter has been basically confirmed, and it always sounds much easier to go from a past civilization sleeping to the present than to travel to another world.

All they had to figure out was where they had been sleeping during this time.

Thinking of this question, Klein subconsciously turned back to take a look at the long staircase.

As early as when he was promoted to Sequence 6, that staircase had already appeared above the gray fog, but until now, he did not have the ability to climb to the top of the stairs and push open the door - he suspected that he would have to wait until he was promoted to Demigod.

"What's wrong with you?" Alice asked him, blinking.

Klein didn't say anything. He looked at the stairs again and then asked Alice a question:
"Can you open that door?"

As soon as he asked the question, he knew it was nonsense - because every time Alice came above the gray fog, she needed his permission, so he knew very well that Alice had never tried this before.

As expected, Alice shook her head and asked him doubtfully:
"I haven't tried it...what's wrong?"

Klein pondered for a moment, looked at Alice, and put forward his idea:
"Tell me, is there a possibility that behind that door...

"Public dormitory?"

When he thought about this, Klein felt an inexplicable sense of terror.

But this matter seemed particularly reasonable. After all, it was normal for him to sleep in his own castle - even though he was not the owner of the castle.

Alice quickly ruined the mood:

"Wait a moment.

"If it's a public dormitory, how many people should be in it? Are there male and female dormitories? What's the accommodation like?
"It won't be a youth hostel, will it?"

"?" Klein began to look at Alice with a puzzled look.

He had to admit that this was not the first time Alice had focused on some strange questions that were difficult for him to understand, but every time he heard similar questions, he didn't know how to answer.

Alice stared at him. After more than ten seconds, she blinked and took the initiative to change the subject:

"Hmm... The Emperor should have Sequence 1 by now, and it should be Sequence 1 of the Secret Peeper pathway.

"The knowledge imparted by the Hidden Sage brought pollution, and the diary he wrote brought pollution... Well, their abilities matched, and they both released viruses.

"Everything will be destroyed... Has he seen the end?

"Well, speaking of which..."

Alice thought of "Cassandra" who she had almost forgotten.

The book that calls itself "Cassandra" and likes to run around seems to have an honorific name, and there's a similar line in it.

"Tell me," she suddenly asked a question that had nothing to do with the previous topic, "What does a prophet see that can be called staring into despair?"

Klein frowned and looked at Alice. Although he didn't understand how Alice's train of thought jumped to that point, he still answered:
"…An irreversible ending?"

He chose that word carefully, rather than the end of the world, because he remembered Alice's earlier words - that a prophet should die because of his own prophecies.

He suspected that this statement had come true.

"The ending cannot be changed..." Alice frowned and lowered her head.

How can this be accomplished?
Alice actually knows the answer. She just needs to "predict" an "ending", and then all the people involved in the incident - mainly the dead.

As long as all the dead see this "prophecy" and believe in it without reservation, all of this can be said to be "unchangeable".

For example, everyone in the world who has the ability to fight against the end of the world believes that the end of the world exists...

Of course, at least so far, Alice still believes that the end of the world is real, because this is not news brought by a "prophecy", it is more like some kind of inevitable development.

The topic changed too quickly. Klein glanced at Alice and tried to redirect her attention back to the diary:
"What do you think of Mr. 'Door'?"

"I don't know," Alice answered honestly, "I have never spoken to Mr. Gate, but from Emperor Roselle's description, I remember one thing."

"What?" Klein asked doubtfully.

Alice carefully chose her words and answered:
"According to Emperor Roselle's description, Mr. Men seemed to be a very lonely person - at least that's what he called himself.

"Mr. 'Door' claimed that he hadn't spoken to anyone for a long time and just wanted to talk to someone, so he would answer anyone who came to him and asked questions, right? That's what he said, right?"

Although this included Alice's personal understanding, the general idea was indeed like this, so Klein did not correct it and nodded.

"That's right, that's right."

Alice smiled and said to Klein:

"Like I said, I haven't spoken to Mr. Door in person, but I have chatted with another High Sequence who answered all my questions and had a friendly attitude.

“It should be said that he is the King of Angels—if Mr. Gate is not an ordinary Sequence 1, then he should also be the King of Angels.

"This way, it makes sense. They are both angel kings, and they are both friendly and willing to answer any questions... Do you know who I'm referring to?"

Klein had a vague guess in his mind, but he was not sure. He asked as if to confirm, "Who is it?"

Alice smiled and gave her answer:
"Of course it's my closest friend, the great Angel of Time...

"Amon!" (End of this chapter)