Mystery: Lucky One

Alice frowned and sat there without saying a word when she got no response.

She had long suspected that the goddess was spying on her, and maybe Adam was there too - now she was not so confident that she could detect Adam's gaze.

The good news is that Alice thinks that Amon is not here, or at least not as often as the two above - if Amon is watching, it is probably only for certain specific things.

As for the two above... Considering that the goddess has just admitted that she is a time traveler, these two are not taking turns, right?

...It shouldn't be that exaggerated.

Alice shook her head, threw away the unrealistic ideas, took a deep breath, and chose the simplest way to verify.

She put her hands to her lips and opened them into a trumpet shape, then took a deep breath and shouted:

"Adam! Are you spying on me again!"

No one spoke, and no neighbors came to complain about her disturbing the public - the latter was as it should be, since the sound did not get out.

However, the fact that the sound was confined to this small room did not contradict the fact that the sound could be transmitted thousands of miles away. Alice put down her hands and shook her head, feeling a gaze briefly appearing and disappearing on her.

Alice lay down calmly.

There was nothing she could do about it, because she couldn't defeat either Adam or the goddess. To a certain extent, the goddess was still her supporter.

What could Alice do? She had no other choice but to collapse on her chair, raise her right hand, and shake it vigorously to express her excitement. Then she said feebly:
"It's ok to call her goddess, Adam... never mind, just call her that for now.

"Adam, you have to remember the difference between men and women. You can't look at them while they're taking a bath!"

This time no one answered her, and Alice didn't care. She stood up and prepared to leave, but her eyes caught sight of the box she had casually thrown on the table, and she stopped again.

"Isn't it appropriate to put this box here..." Alice murmured absentmindedly.

She then remembered that the box contained an extremely dangerous "0" level sealed object, which should not be thrown on the table like this.

But, if not on the table, where else can I put it?

Alice subconsciously thought of Klein's Source Castle. She had always used that mysterious space above the gray fog as a storage space. She always threw important things into it.

But Alice soon realized it was inappropriate.

She didn't fully understand "0-34". She didn't have any information from the Church of Knowledge, and her understanding of "0-34" was almost nothing. And Klein was only Sequence 5 - she couldn't throw this level of trouble to Klein.

However, thinking of Klein, two thoughts popped into Alice's mind at the same time.

One was about the "0-34," and she thought of a perfect place to store it - she could throw it behind the Chanis door.

However, this may be a long process...

Alice shook her head, worrying about the second question.

Strictly speaking, this is not a question. It is something that needs to be confirmed. Alice cleared her throat and asked:
"Ahem.

"Goddess, can you tell me your story?"

She wanted to tell Klein that the goddess was a time traveler.

The goddess did not reject Alice, or rather, the goddess ignored her.

After asking the question, Alice waited for a long time without receiving a reply from the goddess before she realized what had happened. She curled her lips and decisively interpreted this as a tacit agreement.

……

After calming down, Leonard returned to the hall.

As expected, Soest was talking to others about the "lucky man" who had fallen to his death and the Megose incident in Tingen City - even though he only knew about it from the records.

Leonard was not unfamiliar with this kind of scene, because his new captain Soster was such a person. He seemed to be incompatible with the "Sleepless" path, and the whole person was exaggerated and ostentatious.

In Leonard's impression, he especially loved to do this in front of Ms. Daly, even if nothing changed after learning about what happened between Ms. Daly and the captain - now it's time to call Bishop Dunn.

Soest saw Leonard walking towards them from a distance. He waved his hand from a distance and changed the subject:
"Come to think of it, I remember that more than one person died in the Evil God's Offspring incident..."

Yes, more than one person died, the other one was...

Leonard's footsteps suddenly stopped.

If Alice from Tingen City is a little girl who can do nothing and has nothing except good luck, then Klein's peculiarity is actually very obvious.

Compared to Alice, who became an ordinary person after accidentally swallowing a "Lucky One" Beyonder characteristic, Klein's specialness has never been hidden, and his connection with the "Fortune Teller" path is almost obvious.

More importantly, Leonard once talked to Klein about the topic of "protagonists of the times". He once said that the two of them were the protagonists of two different times that met...

...?
Leonard thought again of Alice, whom he had met not long ago, and an absurd idea popped into his mind.

Was it also determined that Klein's Beyonder characteristics at the time were taken away by Ince Zangwill...?
The person who pushed open the grave and climbed out...is Alice really the only one?
Leonard suddenly had a desire to return to Tingen City.

At this time, Soest turned his attention back to him and shouted at him:

"Leonard? What are you doing standing there? Come here!"

Leonard reacted immediately. With a smile on his face, he walked over and replied:
"I was just wondering when I would have the chance to go back to Tingen City and visit the grave of my former colleague."

"Hahaha!" Soest laughed out loud. "That's a good idea, but I'm afraid it'll be a little difficult to realize... No, not necessarily."

"Hmm?" Leonard's mind moved and he raised his eyebrows to look over.

"You can go find the person just now," Soest pointed in the direction of the door, "If you had a good relationship before, she might be able to help you get a leave or something - or help us arrange a mission there."

After a pause, Soest added:
“But this is more difficult.

"After all, there are too few extraordinary events over there."

This was true, but Soest's reminder made Leonard realize another way - he could actually ask Alice directly. Even if Alice had a secret, she could freely go in and out of the church basement, which showed that the church trusted her. The old man did not find any problems with her, which just showed that the goddess also trusted her and was helping her hide everything...

So, she is still believable!
So, I can just ask her directly. If it is a secret that cannot be told or something that does not meet my confidentiality level, she will naturally tell me...

Thinking of this, Leonard relaxed and returned to his previous seat.

Now, Leonard is troubled by a new problem - where to find Alice's current address?

The good news is that this incident did not bother Leonard for too long. Alice, who lost the Holy Book, came to the basement of the church again the next day. This time, she did not appear directly in Archbishop Anthony's office. Instead, after thinking for a while, she showed up and walked in.

As expected, Leonard, who was playing cards, noticed her, and this was exactly what Alice wanted - she guessed that Leonard must have a lot to ask her.

Their eyes met in the air. Alice was much calmer than the day before. Before Leonard could speak, she asked:
"Do you have anything to ask me?"

Leonard stopped talking and nodded.

After that, no one of them spoke, and no one took the initiative to look away. The awkwardness of meeting again after a long separation was fully displayed at this moment. Alice gritted her teeth and took the initiative to speak:

"Later... I have something to do right now, is that ok?"

After a pause, she slapped her head as if she remembered something and changed her words:
"By the way, I can give you the address.

"Ah, if only I had a messenger..."

Alice, who was used to calling her honorific name as a phone number, swallowed back the words that were about to come out of her mouth. After all, even if she didn't consider anything else, the three-part honorific name did represent different meanings.

At least not something a saint would possess.

After leaving her address to Leonard, Alice walked into Anthony's office with a desire for the messenger and raised a huge problem.

"You said you were going to leave it behind the Chanis Gate?" After listening to Alice's statement, Archbishop Anthony looked at the hot potato on the table and asked with a frown.

Alice nodded.

Archbishop Anthony frowned at Alice and shook his head.
“This is not something I can decide.”

This was not a lie. After all, "0-34" was also a "0" level sealed object. Even if it was temporarily stored, it should be reported to the Holy Temple. Alice was not surprised by this result. She said naturally:

"I know, you can report first, I can't just run around with this thing, right?

"If it's a Chaos Walker Beyonder characteristic, it's fine. If I swallow it accidentally one day, it's fine. It's not the first time anyway, and I've completed the ritual...

"'Prophet'... I don't want to cross-level swallow it... Hey, I remember that the extraordinary characteristics of 'Prophet' should also include the extraordinary characteristics of 'Chaos Walker', right?

"Is it possible that the Chaos Walker Beyonder characteristic accidentally fell out and was swallowed by me by mistake?"

This assumption was too fantastic. Archbishop Anthony looked at her in amazement, as if he didn't know how to start.

Alice probably knew that there was something shocking in this sentence, but she didn't think that what she said was wrong. She stood there and waited for Archbishop Anthony to speak first.

It took Archbishop Anthony half a minute to regain his ability to speak. He opened his mouth and tried to persuade:
“Normally speaking, a Sequence 2 Beyonder should indeed contain Sequence 3 and below Beyonder characteristics.

“However, if you have this idea, it is best to take the initiative to find extraordinary people or magical items with relevant abilities.

"Of course, if we really find it, the Beyonder can send it to the church."

"Is there really such a power?" Alice's eyes widened. "But why do we just send extraordinary people to the church after we find them?"

Archbishop Anthony glanced at Alice and, without explicitly answering her second question, introduced her first question:
"Sequence 4 'No Darkness' of the 'Sun' pathway has a very strong purification ability.

“They can purify the spiritual pollution within the Beyonder characteristics, and can also extract the Beyonder characteristics within the Beyonder’s body. Of course, they can also extract the low-sequence Beyonder characteristics.

"However, the Beyonder characteristic you have here is Sequence 2, and it has even formed a seal. If it is simply 'No Darkness', it may be a bit far-fetched..."

Alice understood everything when she heard the "Sun" path.

This path of spreading faith, which Alice had the impression of being a pyramid scheme, finally revealed its true power in Sequence 4 - purification.

It also purifies faith.

Of course, now is not the time to criticize this. After listening to the abilities of the "No Darkness", Alice realized that she really needed a "No Darkness" now, or a higher one, or a magical item would also be fine.

As for why they sent people to the church? This was not the responsibility of the "No Darkness" but a problem of the "Sun" path. You know, in Loen, believing in the "Eternal Blazing Sun" was considered paganism.

Judging from the level of activity of the Aurora Society and the Witch Cult in Backland, Loen's punishment of pagans is more severe than that of cultists.

In this case, as a favored one of the goddess and a saint of the church, is there anything wrong in sending such a being who is more hated than a cultist to the church?

Alice accepted this with pleasure. She nodded, but then felt something was wrong and asked with a frown:
"If I found it somewhere else, uh, the Sun, the Saint of the Sun Path, I would of course hand it over to the local church, but if I found it in another country... uh, then I might be a cultist... No, I, uh."

Alice boldly imagined the future, then silently retracted her idea and swallowed back the words "I am the evil god" that were about to come out of her mouth.

Archbishop Anthony answered as if he knew what she was going to say:

"If there is no church in your area, you could consider bringing him here, or..."

He scolded her for a moment, glanced at Alice, and said carefully:

"…develop him into an informant or a believer?"

Alice blinked blankly at Archbishop Anthony. For some reason, she subconsciously felt that this was not what Archbishop Anthony wanted to say.

This matter was basically confirmed. After a few words, Alice ended the topic and walked out, holding the box containing "0-34".

Before leaving, Alice subconsciously glanced at where Leonard was just now, but found that there was no one there.

...where are the people?
Alice frowned and walked home. (End of this chapter)