Mystery: Lucky

Reinette Tinichole did not respond to Klein's roar. He told what Alice had done in an unchanging tone:

"He asked me if I could put a fake head on my neck and click on that when I nod."

It is indeed something Alice can do... Klein looked at Reinette Tinichole with a painful expression and apologized for Alice:

"Don't take it seriously, she...well, He is just a little, a little..."

Klein tried hard to find an excuse for Alice, but found that there was no particularly suitable excuse except age. But if age is used as an excuse...

Klein uneasily reached out and touched his lower abdomen. With the ability of the "Faceless Man", there was no abnormal bulge there, not even any fat.

He let out a relaxed breath, looked hesitantly at Reinette Tinichole, who neither continued to speak nor planned to leave, and tried to continue explaining:

"Children, it will be fine when they grow up..."

His tone was full of uncertainty.

Reinette Tinichole's four pairs of red eyes swept over Klein, and finally turned into one sentence:

"She..." "Didn't..." "Pay..." "Gold coins."

At this moment, Klein finally briefly sympathized with Reinette Tinichole's anger. He coldly paid a gold coin and continued to clean the toilet.

That night, Alice received a video of Reinette Tinichole's visit edited by Klein, as well as a voice message:

"Alice, you are going too far."

Alice was silent, Alice hesitated, and after hesitating again and again, Alice finally replied:

"...You are going too far. Are you referring to what I said, or did you mean that I didn't pay you?"

——She stared at Renette Tinichole's last move of asking Klein for gold coins and thought for a long time, and finally found that the "Joker"'s extraordinary ability was particularly useful in hiding inner thoughts.

Their exchange finally took place above the gray fog, and Klein was the first to ask: "What are you looking for Reinette Tinichole for?"

Alice thought for a while, organized her words and said:

"I'm looking for Sequence 4 potion materials... Well, you should know this, right?

"I went to entrust the church to borrow the Arrodes you mentioned from the 'Heart of Machinery'... Ah, yes, I almost forgot!"

Alice patted her head and remembered the commission from Arrods that she had forgotten:

"Arrods wants you to take it away from the Church of Steam... Well, this must be very troublesome, let's talk about it later.

"Mainly, it gave me a symbol..."

Alice embodied the symbol of secrecy and voyeurism and explained:

"Arrods said that as long as Backlund writes this symbol on the paper, it will be equivalent to informing him to come over."

Regardless of whether it was useful or not, Klein memorized the symbol. At the same time, he also realized that Alice had probably seen Arrods' strange attitude.

He looked at Alice with some shame and asked tentatively: "Did Arrods say anything to you?"

"What do you want Arrodes to say to you?" Alice asked, "My great master, the mysterious master above the gray mist, respected... hmm!"

Klein quickly jumped up and covered Alice's mouth. Under Alice's stunned gaze, he gritted his teeth and said:

"Shut up!

"The great Li Yingshang, Angelina Ying Xueyu... what's behind?"

"I don't remember," Alice took off Klein's hand and replied frankly, "It was just a combination of those words..."

Then, she paused, stuck out her tongue and licked her lips, looking at Klein's hand hesitantly.

It’s all on my lips, otherwise...

Before she could put her thoughts into action, Klein withdrew his hand at lightning speed.

"Did you just want to bite me?" he asked.

"It's all on my lips..." Alice defended in a low voice.

The corner of Klein's mouth twitched, and he realized that Alice didn't know which muscle was missing. He decisively ignored the matter and brought the topic back to the original question:

"Forget it, why are you looking for Reinette Tinichole? I remember you didn't finish what you just said..."

"Ah, yes," Alice also remembered the topic they had not yet finished, "I asked Arrods for clues about the Shadow of Doom, and one of them was Reinette Tinichole, plus He once tried to ask me for help..."

"Wait," Klein interrupted Alice, "trying to ask you for help?"

Alice nodded and said:

"Yeah... it should be considered asking for help, although I actually rejected him without telling him his true purpose...

"Anyway, he promised to help me kill one, and after that, I would help him make a charm that could temporarily restore him to his state... Hey, didn't he ask you about the content of the ceremony?"

"...You left this kind of thing to me again?" Klein asked with some uncertainty.

"This is my trust in you," Alice sat up slightly, "This kind of thing is usually left to the Beloved!"

"Whose god would be like you..." Klein rolled his eyes at Alice, "I doubt he was so angry that he forgot."

Alice lowered her head silently.

Klein looked at this scene and shook his head, and took the initiative to change the subject for her: "Is there anything else you need to tell me?"

Alice began to think carefully about her experiences during this time.

There seems to be nothing special except Cassandra... Ah, that's right!

Alice raised her head suddenly and asked hesitantly:

"Tell me, who will receive the pension after my death...

"If no one picks it up, can I go back and pick it up?"

An unimagined road, Klein opened his mouth in surprise and asked hesitantly: "Why didn't you take it before?"

"I didn't expect it before..." Alice hesitated.

"What did the goddess say?" Klein then asked.

Alice was silent for two seconds, and then said cautiously: "I don't know... I don't dare to ask."

"Then I don't know," Klein spread his hands, "But the pension..."

Alice's words successfully brought their memories back to Tingen City. Compared to Alice, who was like a rootless duckweed in this era, Klein has never forgotten his family here.

He knew that he would never be able to recognize Benson and Melissa again - that would only bring endless danger to them.

The depressive atmosphere gradually spread, and even Alice bit her lip in a rare move. Klein looked at Alice who suddenly became quiet, but slowly smiled:

"ha.

"Looking on the bright side, at least my pension was not wasted." (End of Chapter)