Mystery: Lucky

After taking a big sip of sweet iced tea, Alice successfully forgot about it and thought of Mr. Dwayne Dantes who claimed to be from Dessie.

"I wonder if Klein will hold a party..." she muttered.

The few times she attended parties in Backlund made Alice define the party that was supposed to be used for socializing as "an occasion to eat free ice cream". As for what impact this would have on Mr. Dwayne Dantes... she had never considered it at all.

After taking another big sip of sweet iced tea, Alice started walking home.

When she returned to the door of her house after walking and stopping, the journey that was originally only half an hour had been delayed to nearly two hours.

So, Alice met Leonard who had been waiting for a long time at the door of her house.

To be honest, the purpose of Alice leaving the address was not for Leonard to come and wait, she just wanted to leave an address to send letters - here I have to mention that according to the feedback from the police, this house had been rented out by the landlord again, and all the letters during Alice's absence were taken away.

As for the new tenant... of course it was Miss Selwyn Muggeridge, whom she had only met once, if she was still called that name.

Back to the point, when Alice saw Leonard waiting at the door from a distance, she realized that her words at that time might have caused some misunderstandings.

It was already evening, just after get off work, and Mr. Leonard Mitchell had a particularly eye-catching face. In this moment, Alice had seen quite a few girls passing by and peeking at this gentleman.

- God knows how long he has been waiting here.

Alice shook her head, pulled up the hood of her robe, adjusted the monocle on her right eye, and stood in front of Leonard.

When the pair of anxious and eager green eyes looked at her, Alice thought she would hear something, such as questioning, or concern - there should be something.

But she heard nothing.

Leonard was very quiet, very rare quiet, he looked at Alice and said nothing.

Alice opened her mouth, but also said nothing.

That's great, it looks like he's at least matured a lot... Alice thought so, but she couldn't feel relieved.

Because she realized that this was not what she thought in the past - not only her old friends had changed, but also herself.

She was already looking down on others, even those she knew in the past.

So in the end, Alice just sighed softly, looked up at the sky, and said softly and ethereally:

"Long time no see, Leonard."

At the same time, she added in her heart:

"Goodbye, Leonard."

It was not until this time that Alice finally realized that she and the "mortals", no matter what their relationship was in the past, at least now, they are two species.

Even she herself, in fact, had long had that kind of arrogance and disdain, and it was not even after leaving Tingen City that she was arrogant because of her "luck".

In a way, she had never considered herself to be the same as others, but she had been asking others to do so, but they couldn't make her unhappy when they did so...

...What a bad idea.

When she realized her true mentality, Alice instinctively frowned.

If anyone did this to me, I would definitely hate Him from the bottom of my heart... Alice sighed, glanced at Leonard, and suppressed her mumbling in her heart.

... I'll go talk to Miss Justice some other day.

In her complicated thoughts, time didn't actually pass for long. After Leonard looked at her for more than ten seconds, he asked casually:

"Should I still call you Alice?"

This was a test of her attitude, and Alice understood this, but she glanced at Leonard and inexplicably felt that something was wrong.

- She always felt that if Leonard hadn't been concerned about her being a girl, he would have grabbed her and asked her a lot of questions without even thinking about it.

For example, whether Klein was still alive.

Alice even thought about how to make it up - her hand had already touched the tarot cards in her pocket, ready to take them out for Leonard to draw.

Yes, she was ready to throw the explanation to Klein himself, the great Mr. Fool.

But things had come to this point. Alice thought for a moment, then smiled socially and said to Leonard:

"Of course, at least until now, you can still call me that."

"But maybe in the near future, this name will become a taboo that cannot be spoken, and become... well, it shouldn't be a secret, the name of the night is a secret.

"Shouting my name will probably bring bad luck or something, right?

"Oh no, if you shout it in Loenese, it shouldn't have any effect, right? Maybe we need to use a language that can pry open the power of nature, such as the ancient Hermes language, the dragon language, the elven language, etc...."

In front of the red gloves, Alice called out the disrespectful name "Night".

She has always been like this, calling the goddess in front of the goddess, and calling the night in front of others; in the Night Church, she is the goddess's favorite, and outside the Night Church, the night is her favorite.

If Alice was still a little guilty, after knowing that the goddess would probably look at her from time to time, Alice felt even more at ease when she did this - because the goddess didn't seem to care about it.

But the information revealed in her words was actually more than just such a title.

The true name of the true god carries two pieces of information: power and the existence of Sequence 0. It is not a secret to Leonard, who has an ancient archangel hidden in his body.

Because of this, he understood the hint in Alice's words.

What a god...

Leonard's eyes turned horrified when he looked at Alice, and he was holding a lot of questions in his heart. At this moment, it seemed that nothing was appropriate for him to say.

Alice didn't intend to let him speak. She took out the tarot cards that she had planned for a long time. After unfolding the cards, Alice realized a problem.

"Wait a moment," she said calmly to Leonard.

Next, Alice calmly spread out the Tarot cards in her hand, picked out the twenty-two main cards from the middle, then stuffed the remaining fifty-six cards back into her pocket, and shuffled the twenty-two main cards. After shuffling the cards, he turned his back to Leonard and unfolded them in his hand again, and said to Leonard:

"Pick one."

This calm fussing instantly destroyed his previous temperament. Leonard was stunned for a moment, and an inexplicable sense of intimacy arose in his heart. For a moment, Leonard felt that the Alice in front of him seemed to be from Tingen City. That Alice.

But this is impossible. After all, he has matured a lot. He just woke up after being in a trance for a moment and reached out to the deck of tarot cards.

She wasn't cheating like Klein, who once described how he let others draw the cards he wanted.

Since our great Mr. Fool has never dealt Tarot cards offline, he has always dealt them online, so the twenty-two main cards he manifested can all be the same card.

I don't need to cheat like Klein... Alice muttered in her heart as she increased Leonard's probability of drawing the "Star" card.

She watched Leonard's hand reaching for the tarot cards, and then withdrew the entire deck of cards very quickly. With Leonard's confused look on his face, she pursed her lips and asked:

"I say, Mr. Zoroastrian.

"There's no need to test me on this kind of thing, right?

“Or do you, thieves and liars, just like to provoke others?

"After all, your opponent, the most powerful thief in the world, was raised by the top 'provocateur'~"

No one spoke, and when Leonard, who was sandwiched between the two of them, clearly felt the oppression of the mythical creature, he realized that he might be involved in some struggle that he should not be involved in.

This is not the end. When she saw that the probability of the "Lovers" card increased and the probability of the "Star" card decreased, Alice was really angry, so she used the skills she had just learned not long ago to jump to spirituality, revealing He glared at Pales Zoroaster through the angel's unique vision.

The glance was harmless, but it was clearly enough as a deterrent, and by the time Alice pulled out the deck of tarot cards again, the odds were back to where she needed them to be.

"Pick one." She said to Leonard again.

Leonard didn't dare to move until a faint old voice sounded:

"Take one."

He breathed an inexplicable sigh of relief, reached out and pulled out one of the twenty-two cards and turned it over - the "Star" card without any surprise.

Alice immediately closed the tarot cards in Long's hand, stuffed them back into her pocket, smiled at Leonard and said:

"Welcome, Mr. Star.

“If you have a question, say the name of the Fool.

"I think you should know what the Fool's honorable name is, right?"

Of course Leonard knew what the Fool's honorable name was, but Alice's identity and her words seemed to reveal something. He looked at Alice with some uncertainty and said with a slight hesitation:

"The Fool? You... no, you and the Fool, and the goddess...?"

Alice immediately crossed her hands, made a Z-shaped gesture of rejection, and said firmly:

"I am not responsible for answering questions for newcomers!

"If you really want to ask, then just...just...

"Well, just think that the Night and the Fool are both my favored ones!"

Alice raised her chin and naturally said something that was shocking to the red glove. Then she turned around indifferently and prepared to open the door and go home.

When her hand was placed on the doorknob, her movements suddenly stopped, and she turned around as if she had remembered something. She returned to Leonard's side in a few steps, and took away the hand from Leonard who was still there. A "star" card was stuffed into his pocket.

Next, Alice prepared to leave for the second time as if nothing had happened.

Leonard didn't react until this moment. He ignored the "Star" card that was taken away and asked Alice a question he had wanted to ask for a long time:

"You're Briar Rose too, right?"

This was a question he had prepared after careful consideration, because it was Miss Brielle Rose who told him that the protagonist of the era would push away the coffin board.

He came in such a hurry that he didn't have time or thought to check Brielle Rose's file for the second time. In the files he checked last time, Brielle Rose's identity was not the same as Alice King's. Slily connected - At that time, Alice Kingsley was still dead.

Therefore, Leonard only knew that there was something wrong with this young lady. He only realized this possibility when Alice reported the address belonging to Briar Rose.

Leonard wanted to confirm this, because based on his impression of Alice-if those impressions were credible, Alice would not casually reveal her own identity, she would only reveal the identity of others. , trick others.

For example, let’s trick Klein, who also climbed out of the grave.

Of course, this is based on the premise that they still maintain contact and have a good relationship so far.

Alice didn't think too much about it. For her, Briar Rose's identity was already a secret that was almost out in the open. Klein's secret - since the goddess is watching her, then this kind of thing is not in the gray mist. It is easy to judge whether the secret mentioned above can be revealed.

After all, under the authority of secrecy, secrets that cannot be told really cannot be told.

So Alice easily admitted the matter without making any password. She even emphasized this matter to Leonard:

"It's me.

"What's wrong? Do you want to go back and see if... the protagonist of the era has pushed open the grave and climbed out?"

This was almost made clear. Leonard clenched his fists and was about to say something when Alice left without hesitation.

She closed the door and returned indoors. Then she raised a bright smile, walked to the sofa with steady but quick steps and sat down. She bent her lips and prayed:

"The fool who does not belong to this era,

"The mysterious master above the gray fog,

"The King of Yellow and Black who controls good luck,

"Great Mr. Fool...your secret has been exposed~oh~"

This brisk tone was mixed with unconcealable excitement. After praying, Alice opened her eyes again, leaned on the sofa, and took out the twenty-two cards again.

The reason why he snatched the "Star" card back from Leonard at the last minute was not because of anything else, but because - not to mention that no one in this world sells a single tarot card, they all sell the entire deck. Sell ​​it, even if it is available, Alice does not want to spend money to buy it.

Thinking of this, Alice put away her excitement and sighed heavily:

"I really envy him at times like this...

"Although he does have to cheat to get people to draw the cards he wants, but...

"He doesn't have to let someone draw a card to destroy a deck of Tarot cards!" (End of Chapter)