Mystery: Lucky

"The trigger word of this spell is the ancient Hermetic word 'light'," Klein stretched out a hand from behind Leonard and handed Alice a spell, "When we rush out, you will throw this spell at Megose and the child in her belly..."

"What about the captain?" Alice suddenly interrupted Klein.

"The captain told me that as a night watcher, you must not only believe in yourself, but also believe in your teammates." It was Leonard who answered her question. Alice looked at Leonard. Leonard had already put away his casual look and his expression was rare and serious.

"...Okay." Alice agreed, closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and then signaled that she was ready.

So they walked out together, Leonard wrapped an extraordinary item that Alice didn't recognize around his hand, opened his five fingers, and Klein held a metal sheet of the same type as Alice's in his hand.

Dunn noticed their figures appearing together and seemed to understand something. When the three of them attacked together, Dunn also rolled behind the chair with agility, avoiding their direct attack, and retreated to their side after the storm.

Alice stared blankly at the sunlight passing through the ceiling, merging with the golden flakes, and expanding into a ball of light.

With a loud "boom", Alice could feel the house shaking, and she could hear the glass groaning under the heavy load, but she stared at the center of the dazzling, flame-surrounded ball of light until tears fell.

As the light gradually dissipated, Alice saw the soaring flames and the black ashes floating in the middle of the flames. Everything seemed to disappear without a trace in the fierce light just now.

However, Alice knew that this was not the case. The fear that had been transformed from the long-suppressed restlessness seemed to have a channel for venting at this moment. Reminded by the strong sense of crisis, Alice did not care about thinking and instinctively rolled to the right. A sharp white bone knife as long as an arm fell heavily on the place where Alice had just stood, leaving a deep mark on the ground.

No one needed to remind them. Everyone noticed the figure at the end of the white bone knife. It was Megose, who should have turned into ashes.

Her clothes did not survive the explosion. Her skin became charred and was still falling off. The head on her head turned into a sphere wrapped in a layer of charred skin. There was still a flame in her eye socket.

And her left arm was transformed into the handle of the white bone knife just now, which was weird and holy.

In the still shaking room, Megose raised the bone knife again. This time, her target was Klein.

"Submit!" Leonard made a sound with strong blasphemous meaning. It was the power that he had just stolen from Megous.

Megous was controlled by her own power without any surprise. She bent down slightly, her legs trembling, and Klein took the opportunity to dodge the knife.

But - it was meaningless.

They both realized that they lacked strong enough means to deal with the child in Megous's belly, and once the child was born smoothly, they would definitely die.

And Megous didn't even want them to struggle before death.

Megous's head suddenly exploded, and blood plasma and brain tissue mixed with charred skin splashed, and Megous's body was also freed from control.

Then, Megous's body turned into a cannonball, and with a loud "bang", it rushed towards Leonard, who was temporarily stopped because of the blasphemous words.

Dunn, who happened to be standing by, wanted to stop them. So, they shared the force of the collision and were knocked against the wall by Megose. Blood flowed out of their mouths and they fainted.

"Wow!"

In the silence, the cry of a baby suddenly came from Megose's belly.

Alice and Klein, who were still awake, felt dizzy at the same time. Their trachea contracted and breathing became difficult.

A blood-red shadow appeared in front of Alice. Her ears, face, nose, and many parts of her body were covered with a warm, wet and sticky feeling. Alice knew that this must be the blood flowing out of the blood vessels.

In the semi-transparent red shadow, Alice saw that Megose's headless body stood up, turned around, and walked towards them step by step.

Megose's knife swung fiercely at Klein. This time, there was no one to help and protect him. Klein, who was still dizzy, had his clothes slashed and his body was almost cut in half.

Then, Megose ignored Alice's futile harassment and slashed at Klein, who had temporarily lost his ability to move, and split him in half.

Then, Megose turned his headless body towards Alice.

Am I... going to die? Alice thought in despair as she watched Megose approach her.

"Gulululu--"

Alice's brain was buzzing, but suddenly a sound rang in her ears, as if it came from a very far place. Before Alice could tell what the sound was, she saw Megose rushing straight towards her.

- Then, she was strangely tripped and fell to the ground.

What was even more strange was that when she fell to the ground, the bone knife transformed from her left arm was across her waist and abdomen, cutting herself and the child in her belly in half.

...For the second time.

Alice stood stiffly in place, watching Megose fall to the ground and stop moving-how familiar was this scene?

The last person to die in this way was a "lucky person".

"Pah, pah, pah." Slow applause came. Alice turned her head stiffly, and a figure in a windbreaker walked in, clapping.

Alice recognized this face - it was Ince Zangwill who escaped with 0-08.

Alice finally figured it out. It turned out that he was the mastermind behind the scenes and the source of all coincidences.

Is this what 0-08 is for? Create a coincidence?

"This is not the luck that a lucky person should have - but how long can you be lucky?"

Ince Zangwill's voice came together with his attack. Facing Ince Zangwill, Alice realized her powerlessness for the first time.

Ince Zangwill didn't even need to drive the undead to attack her. As an Extraordinary who lacked the ability to fight head-on, she was helpless in front of Ince Zangwill. Even if she was lucky, at this moment It's useless.

At the end of the story, Alice only had time to see the pale hand belonging to Ince Zangwill reach into her chest and take out a still beating heart.

Then, there was a deep, dead darkness.

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