Mystery: Lucky One

Alice stood there in a daze, announcing that the farce had come to an end. Cattleya took the opportunity to point at the rusty thing in Nina's hand that could hardly be called a metal bar and asked:

"Is this part of those steel buildings?"

"Yes, Captain, you know I don't know much about history and mysticism, so I can only bring some back for you to study. You are an expert in this field." Nina said as she handed over the "metal bar".

Alice was also not good at history and mysticism, but she had other ways to solve the problem. She looked at Cattleya:

"Can you let me try?"

Cattleya handed it over without hesitation.

Alice took the "metal bar" and tried to find its source. Chaotic pictures flashed by, and the last picture that froze was a collapsed and decayed steel building and a well.

The well mouth was not big, but very deep. The dark black seemed to have a strong attraction, leading people to fall. When faint whispers sounded from a place that seemed far away yet close to the ears, the images shattered.

"when!"

The "metal bars" fell on the deck, but Alice had no time to pay attention to them. She subconsciously covered her ears with her hands.

This was actually ineffective and could not stop the whispering from spreading, but Alice was not worried. When the light she had hidden reappeared, she knew she was safe.

After she calmed down, Alice looked up and found that the people present were normal and seemed not to notice what had happened. Even Cattleya, who was most likely to be affected, just frowned and looked at her with worry in her eyes.

It is hard to say whether he is worried about Alice or the "Future" - after all, an angel's loss of control is not a trivial matter no matter where he is.

Eh, she didn't show any signs of losing control just now, did she...?
Alice recalled the ugly flesh buds in her memory and frowned in disgust, feeling very resistant to herself becoming like that.

But, they are all fine...

Alice blinked, the doubt flashed across her mind for a moment, and she didn't dwell on it any further.

After all, this is very normal. Maybe everyone felt uncomfortable in their eyes and rubbed them at the same time, and just missed that period of time.

What's so strange about that? Nothing is strange to fate.

Alice was more concerned about other issues, such as - where did the collapsed steel building come from?

The spirit world did not give any response to this question. She now knew as much about the building as Nina did - no, maybe even less than Nina.

This realization made Alice unhappy. She glanced at Nina calmly and decided to find an opportunity to scare her.

"...As expected," Alice picked up the "metal bar" and returned it to Cattleya. "For questions like this...divination really won't give any feedback."

This was Alice's guess based on the fact that Roselle's diary had not been deciphered - divination would probably not yield any feedback regarding the civilization that existed before the First Age.

The essence of divination is to obtain information from the spirit world, which means that the spirit world does not have information from earlier times...

Alice's eyes flickered for a moment, and then she said to Nina without any emotion:

"continue."

This gesture finally helped Alice get rid of the image of an underage girl. Nina instantly became much more nervous than when she was asked by Cattleya, and in her subsequent answers, she lost the intention to joke.

She pointed to the remaining piece of black soil covered with honeycombs and said:

“Not far from the Iron Ruins, I found the well. It’s really not big, even a child from Nass couldn’t get into it.

"This is the soil inside the deep well. It is so deep that I feel it has no bottom. In the environment there, it is dark inside, as if something is slowly calling me, yes, slowly.

"I found a few stones nearby and threw them in, but there was no response. Anyway, it was full of water." "Summon..." Alice frowned and repeated the word.

She remembered many things in an instant, such as the "Lucky One" Beyonder characteristic that she had no memory of, the tempting "Misfortune Priest" potion, and the dazzling "Winner" Beyonder characteristic...

These are all temptations.

So, what is the summons?
Alice frowned and looked in a certain direction, a direction that she thought belonged to the Western Continent.

Something was calling her there.

Alice closed her eyes, waved away those thoughts, and shifted her attention to the present.

In fact, this is a good opportunity to scare Nina... Alice turned to Nina and suddenly realized this. She said in a soft but emotionless voice:

“You should feel lucky.

"Your sequence wasn't high enough, and you didn't stay there long enough."

"What would happen otherwise?" Alice's rare reliable state caught Cattleya's attention.

Well done, Ms. Hermit!
“Otherwise?” Alice excitedly gave Cattleya a thumbs up in her heart, but glanced at Cattleya lightly with an ethereal voice, “Otherwise, I would probably melt in it, right?”

Well, that's it, let's add some more ingredients...

After a slight pause, Alice turned to Nina again, curled up the corners of her lips, revealed a soft smile and said:
"Just like the potion you drank~"

Nina turned pale in an instant, her legs went limp and she fell to the ground. She opened her mouth, but no sound came out for a long time.

...Why doesn't she scream?

Alice frowned and looked at her for a while, then turned to ask Klein, "Will people not scream when they are too scared?"

…She was really scaring people on purpose again.

Klein did not doubt the truthfulness of Alice's words. He was familiar enough with Alice that he could tell the difference between Alice's lies and her serious words.

She was definitely telling the truth—but she was definitely trying to scare people.

But this was mild enough compared to Alice's previous jokes, so he just glared at Alice and said to Cattleya:

"It seems that going down the well to explore is not a good idea."

As for comforting Nina - that was not his responsibility.

Cattleya obviously agrees with this.

She nodded in response to German Sparrow's words, and the next question was how to comfort Nina.

For a pirate with Feysac blood, this matter is both simple and difficult.

——Nina successfully forgot her fear under the influence of alcohol and even invited Alice to drink with her when she passed by.

...What an amazing ability of self-regulation.

Alice was once again shocked by what she felt about humans. She left the scene with mixed feelings and decided to eat an ice cream to calm her nerves.

(End of this chapter)