Mystery: Lucky One

Renette Tinicole ignored Klein's roar and continued to tell what Alice had done:
"He asked me if I could put a fake head on my neck so that I could nod that head whenever I nod."

Sure enough, this is something Alice would do... Klein looked at Renette Tinicole with a painful expression and apologized on Alice's behalf:
"Don't take it seriously, she... uh, 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 other than age. But if he used age as an excuse...

Klein nervously reached out and touched his abdomen. Under the ability of the Faceless Man, there was no abnormal bulge there, not even any fat.

He let out a sigh of relief, looked hesitantly at Reinette Tinicole, who had no intention of continuing to speak or leaving, and tried to continue explaining:

"It's just a child, he will be fine when he grows up..."

His tone was filled with uncertainty.

Renette Tinicole'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 empathized with Renette Tinicole's anger for a short time. He coldly paid a gold coin and continued to clean the toilet.

Alice received a video of Renette Tinicole's visit edited by Klein that evening, as well as a voice message:
"Alice, you're taking this too far."

Alice was silent, Alice hesitated, and after hesitating for a long time, Alice finally replied:
"…You're going too far. Are you referring to what I said or the fact that I didn't pay you?"

——She stared at Renette Tinicole's final move of asking Klein for gold coins and thought about it for a long time. In the end, she found that the extraordinary ability of the "Joker" was particularly useful in hiding her inner thoughts.

Their conversation finally unfolded above the gray fog, and Klein asked first, "What do you want to do with Renette Tinicole?"

Alice thought for a moment, then organized her words and said:
"I'm looking for Sequence 4 potion ingredients... Well, you should know this, right?
"I asked the church to borrow the Arrodes you mentioned from the Mechanical Heart... Oh, I almost forgot!"

Alice slapped her head and remembered the request from Arrodes that she had forgotten:
"Arrodes wants you to take it away from the Steam Church... Well, this must be troublesome, let's talk about it later.

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

Alice materialized the symbol that combined secrecy and voyeurism, and explained:

"Arrodes said that as long as we write this symbol on a piece of paper in Backlund, it will be equivalent to notifying 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 Arrodes' strange attitude.

He looked at Alice with some embarrassment and asked tentatively: "Did Arrodes say anything else to you?"

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

Klein quickly jumped up and covered Alice's mouth. As Alice stared at him in shock, he gritted his teeth and said:

"Shut up!
"The great Li Yingshang Angelina Ying Xueyu...what's behind it?"

"I don't remember," Alice pulled Klein's hand off and answered honestly, "I just arranged and combined those words..."

Then, she paused, licked her lips with her tongue, and looked at Klein's hand hesitantly.

It's already at my lips, or...

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

"Did you want to bite me just now?" he asked. "It was right at my lips..." Alice said in a low voice.

The corner of Klein's mouth twitched. He realized that Alice was out of her mind again. He decisively ignored the matter and brought the topic back to the original question:

"Forget it. Why did you want to find Renette Tinicole? I remember you didn't finish what you said just now..."

"Oh, yes," Alice also remembered the topic they had not yet finished, "I asked Arrodes for clues about the Shadow of Doom, one of which was Renette Tinicole, and He once tried to ask me for help..."

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

Alice nodded and said:

"Yeah... I guess it's a request for help, although I rejected Him before He even told me His real purpose...

"Anyway, He agreed to help me kill one, and after that I made a spell for Him that would allow Him to recover temporarily... Hey, didn't He ask you about the content of the ritual?"

“…You’re leaving this kind of thing to me again?” Klein asked uncertainly.

"This is my trust in you," Alice sat up a little straighter, "This kind of thing is usually left to the followers!"

“Whose god is like you…” Klein rolled his eyes at Alice. “I suspect He has forgotten His anger.”

Alice lowered her head silently.

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

Alice began to seriously recall her experiences during this period.

There doesn't seem to be anything special except Cassandra... oh right!

Alice raised her head suddenly and asked Klein hesitantly:

"Tell me, who will collect the pension after I die...

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

This was an unexpected path. Klein opened his mouth in surprise and asked hesitantly, "Why didn't you go get it before?"

"I didn't think of it before..." Alice stammered.

"What did the goddess say?" Klein asked.

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

“I don’t know about that either,” 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 had never forgotten his family here.

He knew that there was no way he would be able to meet Benson and Melissa again - that would only bring them endless danger.

The depressing atmosphere gradually spread, and even Alice bit her lip, which was rare. Klein looked at Alice who had suddenly calmed down, and slowly smiled:
"ha.

"Look at it from a bright side, at least my pension wasn't wasted." (End of this chapter)