Mystery: Lucky One

Gift……?
Emlyn briefly came to his senses. He intuitively didn’t really want this gift, so he refused.
"Well, actually, I don't have much courage..."

Alice didn't say anything. She leaned back in her chair and looked at him with a smile, as if waiting for him to finish speaking.

Emlyn was not unfamiliar with this smile, because Alice usually smiled like this when she mentioned her "best friend" Amon and Will Auceptin.

This was obviously not a friendly smile, so Emlyn tensed his muscles and thought in his mind.

But he wasn't too nervous. After all, he could still think normally. If either Cattleya or Alger were stared at like this by Alice, they would probably be terrified. This could be seen from their sympathetic eyes.

This was normal, because Emlyn was different from everyone else present. He thought he was the savior of the vampires. In other words, he thought he was the protagonist.

——He is not humble even to fools.

Alice wasn't someone who could always remind people that she was an angel. If she didn't instill fear in other people's hearts, and on the premise that she didn't really lose her temper without restraint, everyone's way of interacting with her would probably be similar to that of Klein and her—either being pissed off by her or pissing her off to death in advance.

Just like Emlyn now.

——The power gained from hearing about someone is not as powerful as seeing it with one’s own eyes. Emlyn is not the kind of person who likes to go out and listen to gossip. His understanding of Alice is limited to the Tarot Club.

After a few rounds of inspection, Audrey's gaze fell on Alice. She figured it out and inexplicably wanted to laugh.

She realized that Emlyn the Moon's actions were probably not out of courage, but rather the result of ignorance and impulse.

This is really... Audrey looked at Alice, and after considering for a moment, she still didn't speak.

Mr. Fool is here. He won't let Miss Fate go too far. Besides, it's time for Mr. Moon to learn a lesson...

Emlyn thought for a long time and finally thought of what he wanted to say. Just as he was about to speak, Alice, who had almost lost her patience, interrupted him:

"I will give you a gift you will never forget. I promise."

Under Alice's gaze, Emlyn couldn't help but feel uneasy.

Alice didn't say anything else. The Tarot Club ended with Mulin fidgeting. After the others disappeared, Klein skillfully shortened the table, handed her the three pages of the diary, and said to her:
"You...well, you, uh, Alice, I know you're trying hard, but just try not to..."

His voice gradually died down under Alice's strange gaze. Finally, Alice couldn't help but ask him:

"Can you tell me what you thought or saw?"

Klein was a little embarrassed. He pointed to the three pages of the diary in Alice's hand and explained:
“Emperor Roselle wrote in it that after becoming an angel, one will become uncontrollably bloodthirsty, cruel, cold, and crazy. One will uncontrollably want to kill people and devour the Beyonder characteristics around them…”

Alice put her hand to her forehead.

She was not too unfamiliar with the symptoms that Crane described, but it did not seem entirely consistent with her - at least for now, she was not too interested in the extraordinary properties of other pathways.

But she felt like she understood a little bit about Klein's strange attitude just now. She sighed and said helplessly:

"I don't think Emperor Roselle and I are on the same page..."

"Why?" Klein asked doubtfully.

"Because of time," Alice sighed, "even though my memory is fuzzy and confusing, I can at least confirm one thing..."

She paused, looked up at Klein, took a deep breath, and then slowly replied:

“Judging from the events of the past, I first woke up in the Second Era, which is several thousand years ago.

"And as early as that time, I was no longer considered a human being. I seem to have come into contact with the 'Key of Light' before that...

"And I remember I seemed to have told you that the time when I truly 'traveled' was... probably when I was just in elementary school? As for the later period... ha, even what the world in my memory was like and what humans were like were all taught to me by the 'Key of Light'.

"Even if my divinity will gradually pollute my humanity after I become an angel, I should have a complete humanity before it can be polluted, right? Hmm, this statement doesn't seem quite right...

"Well, I should say that even if divinity can affect people's personality and cognition, making them cold and bloodthirsty, I should at least have my own personality and cognition first, right?

"How old is the child..."

She didn't say anything else, but Klein already understood her subtext - for a child of a few years old, personality, cognition, and so on are all unformed and incomplete.

For Emperor Roselle, his divinity would gradually taint him and he would become indifferent. But for Alice...

She could totally grow into an apathetic character.

Her situation did not seem as bad as what Emperor Roselle described in his diary. It was not that the divinity had no influence on her, but that the influence of the divinity often happened to be her own personality...

After realizing this, Klein felt a chill. He looked at Alice, exhaled slowly, and asked:

"…That's not a good thing, is it?"

"Not necessarily," said Alice, with a serious look. "Have you ever memorized a text before?"

What does this have to do with memorizing the text... He looked at Alice in confusion and asked, "What?"

Alice cleared her throat, switched to Chinese, and recited fluently:

“When Heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on a man, it will first test his mind and will, exhaust his muscles and bones, starve his body, and increase his abilities.”

After a pause, she smiled again in front of Klein's blank gaze:
"This just proves that I am the chosen one of the 'Destiny' path. Everything now is a test for me... Ouch, don't hit me!"

She hugged her head and dodged Klein's outstretched hand.

“I understand one thing now,” Klein retracted his hand and looked at her expressionlessly, “I should not worry about you under any circumstances.”

Alice stuck out her tongue and pretended she hadn't heard anything as she lowered her head to read the diary.

"September 11th. Ever since I became an angel, I have had a feeling that my personality has split. In my heart, in my soul, in the depths of my spirit, there is always a voice urging me, influencing me, creating uncontrollable indifference, bloodthirstiness, cruelty and madness. "This does not come from the outside world, nor is it the influence of the gods on their own paths. I can clearly feel that it comes from genes, from the collective subconscious inherited from generation to generation by humans, and from the extraordinary characteristics themselves, rather than the residual mental influence on them.

“It gave me a strong desire to hunt and kill. I wanted to devour all the creatures around me that had extraordinary characteristics. This forced me to spend most of my energy fighting it. Even though I was acting and digesting potions, I didn’t see any improvement.

"No wonder Mr. Door said that sanity is temporary and madness is eternal."

"September 28th. I haven't written a diary for a long time. In the past half month, I seemed to be watching myself being replaced by strangers little by little, becoming colder and more ruthless. Even my daughter Bernadette could only give me a small amount of fatherly love, very little.

“Just when I was about to go crazy, I seemed to hear countless praises. They were my subjects, all the people who benefited from my reforms, and the believers who regarded me as the ‘Son of Steam’. They were praising me, singing praises to me, erecting statues for me, writing stories for me, and creating poems for me.

"Their voices were like an anchor for a ship, helping me to 'position' myself.

"I began to be able to fight against that desire and that cry from the heart, and little by little I came out of it and was able to have normal emotions as a father, a husband, and a man.

"It's just Sequence 2, but there has been such a change. When it reaches Sequence 0, the level of a True God, how terrifying will the madness be that we have to fight against?
“Perhaps they also need ‘positioning’ to fight against extraordinary characteristics and the strong tendency to lose control hidden deep in the collective subconscious.

"I have a rough idea of ​​why they established the church, why they spread faith, why they wrote chapters for the saints of their own faction, and why they left legends for the corresponding angels...

"But why don't they have human forms but are just symbols?

“I don’t understand.

"Next time, ask Mr. Men. He knows a lot about the realm of gods. If he had not been exiled, there might be one more god."

"September 4th. Rereading yesterday's diary, I remembered the rituals corresponding to my Sequence 3, Sequence 2, and Sequence . They all clearly have crazy and cruel connotations, like the kind that only villains in novels would perform.

“The sequential path is likely a path destined to madness and despair.

“And this is the only way for humans to gain extraordinary powers.

“It’s so funny, so ironic.

"We work hard to save ourselves, only to destroy ourselves better and more completely?"

Alice put down the first page of the diary with mixed feelings.

Klein's question had made her guess the contents of the first half of the first page of the diary, so she wasn't too surprised to see that.

As for Emperor Roselle's thoughts on the content of the ceremony... To be honest, the ritual of the "Destiny" path has a unique charlatan style and has little to do with cruelty.

She was indeed somewhat confused as to why the seven gods all adopted symbols at the same time, but compared to what she had seen in those random online novels, this was actually not that difficult to imagine - it was nothing more than a topic such as the impressions of believers would also affect the gods.

But the last few words from Emperor Roselle made Alice feel a little melancholy.

After all, relying on fate is the only way I can fight against fate now... Alice sighed and decided to make Klein angry.

"Klein," she raised her head with a serious face, "Do you know that water is actually poisonous?"

“……?” Klein looked at her as if she were crazy.

Klein's first reaction was actually water poisoning caused by drinking too much water after strenuous exercise. After thinking about it carefully, he thought that Alice should not be at this level, so he did not speak and waited for Alice to speak next.

Alice said to Klein with a serious expression:

"According to statistics, everyone who drank the water died, no one... Ouch!"

She covered her head and glared at Klein.

Klein retracted the hand that had just hit her head, shook his head, and said to Alice:
"If you want to use water to describe extraordinary characteristics, I don't think it's appropriate."

"Then what should I use?" Alice asked humbly.

"Oxygen," Klein replied, "But this is not entirely appropriate, because for most people, even if they don't become Beyonders, they won't die... I just want to say that for us, Beyonder characteristics may be like oxygen."

Alice looked at Klein in surprise. Even she had to agree that this metaphor was quite reasonable. It was difficult for her to find a more appropriate metaphor.

So Alice lowered her head and opened the second page of the diary.

The first half of the second page of the diary was a discussion about the problem of "accommodating" uniqueness. Alice read it patiently and found that Mr. "Gate" did not say in the end which Angel Kings accommodated uniqueness and which Angel Kings only had extraordinary characteristics.

“He’s still trying to gain favor with me…” She muttered, “He’s hiding the news like this, so he’s lucky he’s not being hated, right? Could it be that Emperor Roselle has really gained enough favor from him and released him?”

"Not really," Crane replied, "He just decided to go to the moon to have a baby."

"Huh?" Alice's eyes widened. "He really went?"

"I've just decided to go now." Klein pointed to the diary in her hand.

Alice swallowed and continued reading.

He found Emperor Roselle's decision to go to the moon in the last paragraph. The good news was that Emperor Roselle was still wary and thought that Mr. "Door" might be tempting him.

However, Alice thought this was meaningless. She exhaled, looked up at the dome of the palace, and shook her head.
"I hope there's a maternity ward on the moon."

Klein remained silent. He curiously asked Alice another question:
“If, as Emperor Roselle said, Amon and Adam can be regarded as having taken the uniqueness of the Sequence 1 potion in a certain sense, then can you also…”

Alice knew what he wanted to ask. She had thought about this question a long time ago, so she shook her head in preparation.

"It's theoretically possible, but in reality... don't forget that the three copies of Sequence 1 characteristics of the 'Destiny' pathway all have owners."

After a pause, Alice added:
"Besides, I think whether it is possible or not is not the most important thing. What is important is what kind of potion fate wants me to drink." (End of this chapter)