Mystery: Lucky

Gift...?

Emlyn briefly woke up from his previous emotions. He intuitively didn't want this gift very much, so he refused:

"Well, actually, I don't have much courage..."

Alice didn't say anything, leaning back in her chair and looking at him with a smile, as if waiting for him to finish his words.

Emlyn was not too 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 tightened his muscles and thought in his mind.

But he was not too nervous, after all, he could still think normally. If it was Cattleya or Alger who was stared at by Alice like this, they would probably be scared, which can be seen from their sympathetic eyes.

This is normal, because Emlyn is different from everyone present. He thinks he is the savior of the blood race. In other words, he thinks he is the protagonist.

——He is not humble to fools.

Alice is not someone who can always remind people that she is an angel. If she does not instill fear in others, then under the premise that she does not really get angry without restraint, everyone's mode of getting along with her will probably tend to be like Klein and her - either being angry to death by her, or being angry to death in advance.

Just like Emlyn now.

- The power gained from hearing is not as impactful as seeing it with one's own eyes. Emlyn is not a person who likes to go out and listen to gossip. His understanding of Alice is limited to the Tarot Club.

"Justice" Audrey's eyes fell on Alice after a few rounds of patrolling. She figured it out and inexplicably wanted to laugh.

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

This is really... Audrey glanced at Alice, and after considering for a moment, she still did not speak.

Mr. Fool is here. Mr. Fool will not let Miss Fate go too far. Besides, Mr. Moon should 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 lost her patience at the same time, interrupted him:

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

Under Alice's gaze, Emlyn could not help but feel uneasy.

Alice said nothing more. The Tarot Club ended with Mulin's restlessness. After the others disappeared, Klein skillfully shortened the table, handed over the three pages of the diary, and said to her:

"You... um, you, uh, Alice, I know you've tried very hard, but try not to..."

His voice gradually stopped under Alice's strange gaze. Finally, Alice couldn't help asking him:

"Can you tell me what you thought of 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, he would become uncontrollably bloodthirsty, cruel, indifferent, and crazy, and would uncontrollably want to kill people and want to devour the extraordinary characteristics around him..."

Alice reached out to support her forehead.

She was not too unfamiliar with the symptoms described by Klein, but it didn't seem to be completely consistent with her-at least now, she was not very interested in the extraordinary characteristics of other paths.

But she felt that she seemed to understand the reason for Klein's strange attitude just now. She sighed and said helplessly:

"I think Emperor Roselle and I should not be the same..."

"Why?" Klein asked doubtfully.

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

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

"Judging from the past, the time when I first woke up was probably in the Second Era, thousands of years away from today.

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

"And I seem to have told you that the time when I really 'traveled'...maybe just in elementary school? As for the later...ha, even what the world in my memory is like and what humans are like are all taught to me by the 'Key of Light'.

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

"Well, it should be said that even if divinity can affect people's personality and cognition, making people cold and bloodthirsty, then I should have my own personality and cognition first, right?

"A child of a few years old..."

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

For Emperor Roselle, he will be gradually polluted by divinity and become cold, and for Alice...

She can completely grow up to have a cold personality.

Her situation does not seem to be as bad as Emperor Roselle described in his diary. It's not that divinity has no effect on her, but that the influence of divinity often happens to be her own personality...

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

"...That's not a good thing, right?"

"Not necessarily," Alice said seriously, "Have you ever memorized a text before?"

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

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

"When Heaven is about to entrust a great responsibility to this person, he must first strain his mind, strain his muscles and bones, and starve his body and skin. It will benefit him beyond what he can do."

After a pause, with Klein's blank eyes, she smiled again:

"This just shows that I am the chosen one of the 'destiny' path. Everything now is a test for me... Oh, don't hit me!"

She hugged her head and avoided Klein's extended hand.

"I understand one thing now," Klein retracted his hand and looked at her expressionlessly, "I shouldn't worry about you under any circumstances."

Alice stuck out her tongue, pretended not to hear anything and lowered her head to read the diary.

"On September 11th, ever since I became an angel, I have had the feeling that my personality has been split. In my heart, my spirit, and deep in my spirit, there is always a voice urging me, influencing me, and creating With uncontrollable indifference, bloodthirsty, cruelty and madness.

"This does not come from the outside world, nor is it the influence of gods on my own path. I can clearly feel that it comes from genes, from the collective subconscious passed down from generation to generation by humans, from the extraordinary characteristics themselves, not from the residual spirit above. Influence.

"It gave me a strong desire to hunt and kill, and I wanted to devour all creatures with extraordinary characteristics around me. This made me have to spend most of my energy to fight against it. Even though I was already playing the role and digesting the potion, there was no trace of it. Get better.

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

"On 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 cold and cowardly, even my daughter Bernard Daidu can 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. Those were my subjects, those were all the people who benefited from my reforms, and those were the believers who regarded me as the 'Son of Steam' , praising me, singing my praises, erecting statues for me, writing stories for me, and creating poems for me.

“Their voices were like the anchor of a ship, helping me ‘orient’ myself.

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

"Just in Sequence 2, there are such changes. When you reach Sequence 0, when you reach the level of true gods, how terrifying must be the madness you have to fight against?

"Perhaps they also need to be 'positioned' to combat the extraordinary characteristics and the strong tendency to lose control hidden deep in the collective subconscious.

"I probably understand a little bit why they established the church, why they spread their faith, why they wrote chapters for the saints of their own power, and left legends for the corresponding angels...

"But why don't they have human images, just symbols?

“I can’t figure it out.

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

"On September 29th, when I re-read yesterday's diary, I remembered the rituals corresponding to my Sequence 4, Sequence 3, and Sequence 2. They all obviously have a crazy and cruel meaning, just like the villains in novels would do it. kind of.

"The sequence path is probably a path destined to madness and despair.

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

“It’s so funny, so ironic.

“We work so hard to save ourselves only to destroy ourselves better and more completely?”

Alice put down the first page of her diary with mixed emotions.

Klein's question made her already guess about the contents of the first half of the diary on the first page. She was not too surprised to see that.

As for Emperor Russell's thoughts on the content of the ritual... To be honest, the ritual of the "Destiny" path has a unique magic stick style, which has nothing to do with cruelty.

She was indeed a little confused as to why the Seven Gods unanimously adopted symbols, but compared with what she saw in those miscellaneous online novels, it was actually not too difficult to imagine - it was just that the impression of believers would also affect topics such as gods. .

But those few words at the end of Emperor Russell 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 with a look that looked crazy.

Klein's first reaction was actually water intoxication caused by excessive drinking after strenuous exercise. After thinking about it carefully, he thought that Alice should not be at this level, so he remained silent and waited for Alice's follow-up speech.

Alice said to Klein seriously:

"According to statistics, everyone who drank the water died, not... Oops!"

She covered her head and glared at Klein.

Klein took back the hand he had just used to hit her on the head, shook his head, and said to Alice:

"If you want to use water as a metaphor for extraordinary characteristics, I don't think it's appropriate."

"What should I use?" Alice asked humbly.

"Oxygen," Klein replied, "But this is actually not entirely appropriate, because for most people, even if they do not become extraordinary, they will not die... I just want to say that for us, extraordinary Properties may be like oxygen.”

Alice would look at Klein with some surprise. Even she had to agree. This metaphor was already quite reasonable. It would be difficult for her to find a more suitable 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 on the issue 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 Extraordinary characteristics.

"I just want to gain favor..." She muttered, "It's good that he hides the news like this so that he won't be resented, right? Emperor Russell won't really be favored by him enough and put him Released?"

"That's not true," Klein replied, "He just decided to go to the moon to have a baby."

"Huh?" Alice opened her eyes wide, "He really went?"

"Now I just decided to go." Klein pointed to the diary in her hand.

Alice swallowed and continued reading.

He found Emperor Russell's decision to go to the moon in the last paragraph. The good news is that Emperor Russell is still wary, thinking that Mr. "Gate" may be tempting him.

However, Alice thought this was meaningless. She exhaled, looked up at the dome of the palace, shook her head and said:

"I wish there was a delivery room on the moon."

Klein remained silent and asked Alice another question curiously:

"If according to what Emperor Russell said, Amon and Adam can in a sense be equivalent to the uniqueness of taking the Sequence 1 potion, then can you also..."

Alice knew what he wanted to ask. She had considered this question herself earlier, so she shook her head well prepared and said:

"Theoretically it's possible, but in practice...don't forget, the three Sequence 1 characteristics of the 'Destiny' path all have their own owners."

After a pause, Alice added:

"Besides, I think it's not the most important thing. What's important is what magic potion fate wants me to drink." (End of Chapter)