Mystery: Lucky One

Alice didn't ask strange questions like "Will I suffer from insomnia?" She already knew that Extraordinary people could fall asleep quickly through meditation. This was an important trick for her to fall asleep at the speed of light.

When Alice woke up from her dream, the first thing she saw was a city frozen in the dusk.

She sat on a towering rock. In front of the rock was a bottomless cliff. Opposite the cliff was a mountain covered with countless palaces, high towers and majestic walls.

Those buildings are magnificent and gorgeous, stacked up and surrounded. Each one is extremely huge, not like a place where humans live. When combined together, there is an indescribable sense of epic, miracle and myth.

The sun hung far in the distance, casting the color of dusk on the city, and the light seemed frozen.

Beside her, Cattleya sat with her knees hugged, her tone sounding like she was dreaming:
"This is a dream shared by all of us..."

The dream shared by everyone... Alice blinked and looked at the magnificent city in a daze.

She had seen that city, in the key in the hands of Admiral Iceberg Edwina.

She remembered that "Sun" Derrick called this city...

Giant King's Court.

……

When he woke up from his dream, Klein looked around blankly, searching for the force that invaded his dream.

"Would you like to go and take a look together?" "Bloodless" Heath Doyle landed from the shadows and invited him who was obviously sober and capable of action.

How come he was in my dream... He invaded my dream? Klein was stunned for a moment and did not respond. Instead, he observed the surrounding situation first.

He was at the top of a mountain, with black monastery-like buildings behind him and on his left and right, and a withered tree and a huge protruding rock in front of him.

At the top of the boulder, "Admiral of the Stars" Cattleya and Alice sat side by side, gazing at the opposite mountain together. The scene was inexplicably harmonious.

...Why is everyone here?

Although Klein didn't show any clues, Heath Doyle gave a considerate explanation:
“This is a dream we all share.

"Let's go, go up and say hello."

Heath Doyle moved toward the boulder, and Klein followed him subconsciously.

……

As Alice was staring at the phantom of the Giant King's courtyard in the distance, an invitation suddenly sounded in her ears:

"Want to come together?"

Alice turned her head and saw Klein, who still maintained the appearance of Gehrman Sparrow, and Heath Doyle, who looked pale.

It was Heath Doyle who invited her to explore together. Alice stared at the two of them and frowned little by little. Finally, she asked Heath Doyle:

"How did you stay awake?"

Alice knew early on that Klein could stay awake in an invaded dream.

No matter whether this is Klein's own peculiarity or the goddess's protection, this is the fact anyway.

So...why did Heath Doyle do that?
Alice glanced at the "Admiral of the Stars" Cattleya next to her, and then looked at Heath Doyle again. Her meaning was very clear - even your captain is still half asleep and half awake, so how can you stay awake?

Alice's question was like a thunderclap, waking Klein up. He suddenly realized that he had never thought about why Heath Doyle could stay awake in his dream. Heath Doyle did not directly answer Alice's question:

"Since you said I'm like a 'protagonist', then you have to accept that... as a 'protagonist', I'm a little special, right?"

Alice was not needed this time. Klein frowned and looked at Heath Doyle, subconsciously moving a little further away from him.

Heath Doyle may have realized that it would be difficult to convince Alice and Klein without some reliable reasons. He thought for a moment and replied:

"This is actually a little adventure of mine. My luck became particularly good, and at the same time, I gained the ability to stay awake in dreams, hypnosis, and similar scenes..."

Klein looked at Alice.

This was barely a qualified reason, but given his previous attitude, Alice was skeptical about its authenticity.

"What do you want to do?" Alice asked with a frown.

Heath Doyle did not hesitate to answer this question:

"I want to explore this dream, but it's too dangerous to explore alone. I need a companion."

"What do you understand by this dream?" Alice continued.

"This is a dream we all share," Heath Doyle replied. "It contains both danger and opportunity."

…It’s all nonsense.

When Alice realized that this was a dream shared by everyone, she knew there must be something wrong with this dream.

After all, the outside world is full of dangers. Is the dreamland a safe place? How can such a good thing come from?

For those who are truly "asleep", dreams may be safe, but for those who are still awake in dreams, it is probably true that the more you know, the more dangerous it is.

Alice didn't know if there were any opportunities in exploring dreams, but exploring dreams was definitely more dangerous than exploring outside. After all, dreams were more easily polluted than the outside world.

If Heath Doyle hadn't invited her, Alice would have originally planned to try to see if she could sleep in her dreams...

Now it seems that she has to give up this plan for the time being.

Alice frowned and looked at him. After thinking for a moment, she pointed at the magnificent buildings frozen in the dusk and asked him:

"Have you seen that building?"

Heath Doyle did not seem to be stingy with his understanding of dreams. He gave a clear yet vague answer:
"It is there, and everyone who enters the dream can see it, but they can never get close to it."

Alice glanced meaningfully at Heath Doyle.

She was not familiar with Heath Doyle outside the dream, and they had never even spoken to each other, so Alice was not sure whether Heath Doyle's personality at this moment had changed from before.

But Alice was sure of one thing - Heath Doyle, who became the "Rose Bishop" because of "luck" and joined the "Admiral of the Stars" pirate group, should not have such a rich knowledge of the Sea of ​​Ruins.

Moreover, information about dreams should be more difficult to obtain... After all, if someone you were traveling with died in a dream, you would most likely not know what happened.

Thinking of this, Alice squatted down and asked Cattleya, the Admiral of the Stars, who was still sitting there with her knees hugged:
"Before today, did you know that your second mate had a strange experience that enabled him to stay lucid in his dreams?"

"I don't know." Cattleya stared at the city and gave an answer. (End of this chapter)