Mystery: Lucky

After exchanging their respective experiences and some mystical knowledge, Klein estimated the time and remaining spiritual energy and announced:

"That's it."

"Follow your will." "Justice" Audrey still took the lead and stood up to salute. Alice, who was hiding behind a few figures, planned to take the opportunity to run away, but was stopped by a light cough.

She glanced at the "world" where the sound came from, but did not stand up. Instead, she sat on the chair with peace of mind.

After she was able to leave Origin Castle on her own, Alice never participated in the final salute. She usually left directly when "Justice" Audrey stood up, or sat while others disappeared from the gray mist.

——Why should I salute? !

When only she and Klein were left above the gray fog, Alice turned to Klein and said before he spoke:

"I can explain!"

Almost at the same time, Klein's doubtful voice also sounded:

"Did you pretend to be Ourolius under the watchful eye of the 'True Creator'?"

…I really can’t explain this.

Alice was speechless. After pondering for a moment, she raised her head and asked seriously:

"If I said that this was actually my plan, would you believe it?"

"No," Klein answered in the affirmative, "When did you have a plan?"

Alice began to think seriously about this problem.

Alice, who was bowing her head in thought, gave the answer from another angle. Klein glanced at her helplessly, but did not argue with her, but asked:

"Are you sure you have no problem there?"

"I think," Alice put her chin on her hands and looked Klein up and down, "instead of worrying about me, it's better to worry about yourself... I might, maybe, know what the opportunity is for me to become a god."

"?" Klein looked at her confused, "What does this have to do with me? What does opportunity mean?"

Alice half leaned back on the chair, sighed and said:

"Well... because the ritual of becoming a god in the 'destiny' path is to find the right opportunity in the torrent of destiny and take the magic potion..."

"...?" Klein looked at Alice blankly, remembering her ridiculous Sequence 5 promotion ceremony.

——He remembered Alice jokingly saying that if she drank it in one gulp, the ceremony would be completed if she was promoted, and if she lost control, the ceremony would fail.

"You can feel what is the right opportunity, right?" Klein tried to confirm.

"Hmm... But there is a problem," Alice reached out and pinched her eyebrows. "I have a guess... I'm not sure yet. After all, Sequence 0 is still far away from me - I, I may need to be born again. That’s when you become a god.”

"Huh?" Klein frowned and looked at her.

"Death, or in other words, completely getting rid of the original fate and being reborn... I think that is what that dream means," Alice continued, "That is to say... I need a 'mother'."

She took a deep breath and raised her head to look at Klein. Before she could speak, she heard Mr. Fool's sharp blast:

"There's no way I could do such a thing! Don't even think about it!"

"...You don't have to be in such a hurry," Alice advised him tactfully, "It's still early for this matter. If we go by that dream, I will at least complete Sequence 4 to Sequence 2...strictly follow the process. That’s it.”

She paused, frowned, and said with a slightly strange expression:

“It sounds like a different kind of ‘restart’, walking the entire path from scratch… No, I didn’t actually start from scratch, I missed two sequences.

“And actually I’m not doing a lot of things, or at least it’s not what I’m doing now…

"But no matter what, you don't need to be in such a hurry. Firstly, it's still early. Secondly, although 'restart' does not require you to be pregnant, you must at least have a uterus... By the way, 'Secret Puppet Master' What are the capabilities?”

Alice suddenly remembered the question she had forgotten to ask.

The topic changed a bit quickly. Klein, who often chats with Alice, has initially adapted to this change. He recalled their conversation just now, and after making sure that he didn't miss anything, he picked up Alice's topic:

"The 'Secret Puppet Master' can..."

He focused on describing the ability of the "Puppet Master" to transform others into marionettes by manipulating the spiritual branches, and Alice was amazed by this:

“Oh my god, it’s really a puppet show!

"But in this way, as long as you have a few animal marionettes, you can even perform animal performances...

"Your Sequence 4 is really not called..."

There was a feeling of falling, and when her eyes regained consciousness, Alice found that she was still in the camp next to the afternoon town.

She stomped on the ground angrily and muttered: "Stingy guy... Such a big reaction must have hurt your feet from being stepped on!"

Not far away, the chief watched her expression suddenly become angry after getting up from the ground, and she fell into deep thought.

...He had a quarrel with the "Fool"?

No, we cannot use common sense to infer that Miss Destiny...

After driving Alice away, Klein was not in a hurry to leave. He shook his head slightly, looked at the place where Alice disappeared, and murmured with a little worry:

"You can't really call him a name like the circus leader..."

Thinking like this, Klein suddenly felt uneasy. He materialized parchment and a round-belly pen. After pondering for a moment, he wrote:

"My hope of being promoted to Sequence 4."

Putting the pen away, Klein took the parchment and leaned back in his chair. He closed his eyes, entered a meditative state, and silently recited this sentence.

After seven times, he fell asleep quickly and came to the dream world.

The gray sky and earth split open, and he saw a towering mountain that towered into the clouds.

At the top of the mountain, there was a collapsed and decaying palace. The walls were covered with leather and moss, and there were obvious holes.

In the hall of the palace, at the top was a huge chair carved from stone. It was inlaid with dull gold and gems, and was mostly mottled and damaged.

This didn't look like a chair prepared for humans. Countless transparent maggots huddled together. They were densely entangled, slowly wriggling, and growing continuously.

Around the seat, there were whispers that penetrated the long time and history, illusory, ethereal, and endlessly echoing:

"Honakis...Fregola...Honakis...Fregola...Honakis...Fregola..."

Klein woke up suddenly when he heard the whispers, and frowned - this was exactly the whispers he would hear every time he was promoted in the past.

It was like a fate that had been arranged long ago, as if everything had been destined from the beginning... Ha, it really makes people not want to go at all... It makes people rebellious.

Wait a little longer, wait for Mr. Azik's letter... I don't even know the name of the potion yet, there's no need to be too anxious.

...It shouldn't really be called something like circus director, right?

In strange worry, Klein tried to divine the information of the five "original moon" believers commissioned by "Moon" Emlyn.

As soon as he wrote down the divination sentence, a crimson star began to stir violently. Klein was stunned for a moment, and spread his spirituality towards the star, and a picture emerged in front of him.

——It was Bernadette who was reciting the honorific name devoutly.

...How to solve this situation?

Klein almost dragged Alice, who had just left the gray fog, back to let her see the trouble she had caused in person - Bernadette, who could not find any way out with Miss Fate, really came to try to persuade the Fool!

Fortunately, Klein, who had pretended to be a god for so long and had already reached Sequence 5, at least had some experience.

He did not panic, but first carefully observed the scene and listened to Bernadette's prayers.

The complete ceremony and honorific name, the process followed according to the regulations, and the final content... Klein looked at the familiar card and frowned slightly.

He had seen that card in his dream. At that time, Bernadette was going to use it as a bargaining chip to trade with Alice, but now...

And now, she was asking to sacrifice this card to herself, to the "Fool".

She obviously learned her lesson in front of Alice and did not mention her request at all.

After a brief thought, Klein decided not to respond to this matter. If nothing else happened before the next Tarot meeting, he would hint to Cattleya at the Tarot meeting.

After all, no matter how he responded, the result would not be very optimistic after Alice knew about this matter...

-The last person who thought that there was no difference between giving things to Mr. Fool and Miss Destiny was "Magician" Fors, and even though Alice's temper was much better than it is now, she was very concerned about this.

Klein shook his head and returned to the real world.

Thinking that he had promised "Sun" Derrick to provide the "Notary" potion formula within three days, he put on his coat and top hat and prepared to go out to find the target.

Opening the door and coming to the stairs, Klein saw Anderson Hood turning his deerstalker hat with his hands, humming a country ballad, and walking up step by step.

This guy has a strong ability to recover mentally... He was taught a lesson by the demigod this morning, forced to apologize, and agreed to the request. Now he doesn't have any shadow on him. His mental quality is as good as Alice's... No, forget it, it sounds like insulting.

Klein gave up the evaluation system based on Alice and nodded slightly to Anderson as a greeting.

"Good afternoon, Gehrman." Anderson smiled and waved his hand. "I got the bounty and the special money. I will give you the balance right away."

As he spoke, he took out bills of varying thickness from different pockets.

"It went very smoothly." Klein commented without emotion.

Anderson immediately laughed:

"Yes, it went much more smoothly than I expected!

"Those guys whose brains should be full of granite are surprisingly kind, efficient, and polite. I even doubt whether I am blessed by the goddess of luck! "

Klein glanced at Anderson, remembering the bad luck Alice had left on him, and mercilessly exposed:

"It's hard to say about the goddess of luck, but there is a goddess of bad luck."

Anderson stretched out his hand to push the monocle on his left eye with some uneasiness, and smiled again:

"Don't be so serious, life is like that, relax a little, relax a little."

Anderson handed over the balance of 1,200 pounds, and then continued:

"In fact, I know very well what happened. It must be that gentleman who didn't want me to waste time, so he secretly "instructed" those people."

Klein glanced at the banknotes, squeezed them with his hands, and asked casually:

"Have you confirmed which pirates caused the problem?"

He was asking which prey attracted the "manipulator" last night.

"I can't confirm it." Anderson said with a bitter smile, "Do you think I didn't confirm it beforehand? Although I acted nonchalantly in front of you, in fact, I investigated the background and situation of the prey in advance to avoid causing unnecessary trouble. Who knows who he provoked... Well, it can only be attributed to the bad luck."

This guy is much more cautious than I thought... Also, his previous sequence was called "Conspirator", not "Lucky One"...

"The Land Abandoned by Gods", Alice, who serves as a negative teaching material, is currently glaring at the chief.

She was trying to convince the chief to send a team directly to find what she needed instead of asking her to follow them.

After all, there isn't much she can do, just add reverse divination, add luck, add bad luck... In short, they are all things she can do without being present.

——You can’t really use the form of a mythical creature to pounce on it and bite it!

Although this hopeless method is not impossible, if she needs to do this, it is very likely that everyone who goes with her will die.

Faced with this situation, Alice felt...should she run away quickly?

——How can you take matters into your own hands when it comes to destiny?

Could it be that when she and Will Asceptin fought in the end, they just used the form of mythical creatures to bite... No, this is a bit... Isn't this a bit too strange? !

Alice shook her head and raised her head to try to convince the chief again, but suddenly she felt a strange feeling.

It was as if something was suddenly broken, and her spirituality was suddenly touched. Alice realized that this feeling was actually very familiar to her - it was feedback from the digestion of the potion.

Most likely it has not been fully digested, only part of it, but...

Alice looked at the chief in front of her in confusion, and asked with a slight hesitation:

"Is it possible that the magic potion will be digested in advance?"

The chief shook his head and gave the answer frankly: "I don't know."

But even so, Alice had the answer in her heart. After all, the potion she drank had already been digested.

This can only be digested in advance.

Mage of Doom, Walker of Chaos, Prophet, Quicksilver Snake, Wheel of Fortune...which sequence is this in the end?

Alice blinked and suddenly remembered what Klein told her about Anderson's experience - he choked to death while drinking.

"The Mage of Doom..." Alice murmured thoughtfully, "Hmm... the magic potion can be digested by bringing bad luck?"

This is a question, and at this moment, if you want to verify it, it is actually very simple.

Alice glanced at the chief who suddenly became vigilant, then turned slightly and looked at the well-organized afternoon town camp. (End of chapter)