Mystery: Lucky One

Last month... Oh, I should have been volunteering at the hospital at that time.

While Klein was thinking, Alice's voice sounded hesitantly:

"last month……?"

Klein looked at Alice expressionlessly.

Alice swallowed the words "He's cleaning the toilet" that were about to come out of her mouth and said:
"Last month, he was contributing to the great cause of our Lord!"

Cattleya's expression gradually became confused.

Klein tried hard to suppress his desire to call Alice a psychopath and stared at her expressionlessly.

"Isn't he here now..." Anderson asked in a daze.

"He's rebelling now," Alice answered decisively.

"Ah?" Cattleya looked at Alice blankly, then at Gehrman Sparrow.

"Uh..." Anderson didn't know what to say for a moment.

“When did this happen?” Klein asked calmly.

"Just now, under my threat, you betrayed the great... uh, can I tell you this?" Alice blinked.

“You’d better stop talking.” Klein advised kindly.

Alice shut her mouth obediently. After a few seconds, she couldn't help but ask:
"Do I restore his luck to normal now?"

As she said this, she looked at Klein and Cattleya.

“Okay.” Klein nodded.

Alice's eyes swept over Anderson, and in less than a second, Anderson heard her say:
"All right."

Cattleya looked at Alice in surprise.

Anderson's expression was also full of doubt, but Alice glanced at the devastated island, turned her head and asked Cattleya:
"Should we go now?"

Cattleya always chose to agree to Alice's questions of this kind. She nodded without hesitation and announced the continuation of the journey.

The "Future" continued to move towards the depths of the ocean. Alice leaned on the side of the ship and looked at the seemingly calm sea around her.

Finally, no longer having to face Alice's gaze in fear, Anderson was like a fish entering the sea, and began to communicate happily with the pirates on the ship.

He successfully got some information about Alice:
"I don't know, she seems to be a demigod..." "I heard that German Sparrow is her follower..." "German Sparrow said she is a sealed object."

Among the complicated news, there is one most shocking one:
"Haven't you heard the rumor? Gehrman Sparrow is being kept by an underage girl..."

When he heard the news, Anderson couldn't help but look at Alice.

Alice was lying on the edge of the boat, staring at the sea in a daze, as if she was on vacation - wait, what is that?
In the sky, a light spot that was getting closer and bigger caught Anderson's attention. He stood there and thought for half a second, then shouted to Alice:

"careful!"

Alice turned her head to look at Anderson in confusion. Just as she was about to ask him what was wrong, a bright light came from above, illuminating her vision.

What... Alice looked up subconsciously, and something fell on her head in a ball of light, and then smoothly wrapped around her body. "?" Alice raised one arm blankly.

——She is glowing.

Bright light emanated from her, like dawn and morning light, illuminating the deck of the "Future".

After the light dissipated, Alice found that the light on her body was no longer dazzling, and the objects falling on her became clearer. It seemed to be a piece of... armor?
Spirituality spread out, and in the divination that was simplified to the extreme, Alice learned the function of the armor.

This armor comes from the "Guardian" of Warrior Path Sequence 5. It has no actual weight, and its shape can change according to the owner's thoughts. It can provide a defense that is quite useless to Alice, and the negative effect... The negative effect is rather strange.

As everyone can see, the negative effect of this armor is that it glows, a light that cannot be hidden, like the morning light, illuminating a range of fifty meters around it, letting everyone know that there is someone here.

Even covering it up with clothes outside wouldn't help - at least not normal clothes.

no……?
The strange effect and the source of the extraordinary characteristics made Alice look at Anderson. She remembered that it was a stone giant without extraordinary characteristics.

Is this considered a Beyonder characteristic given to me...

This was absurd yet reasonable. Alice's mouth twitched twice. She lowered her head, and the armor turned into a silver-gray hooded robe as she wished. Light continued to emanate from the robe and merged into the morning light around her.

What kind of crappy special effect is this... Alice gritted her teeth, calmly took a step forward, and slowly walked towards Anderson.

She stopped, but did not turn around to look at Anderson, and said with a chuckle:

“I think this should be a compensation.”

After saying that, she walked towards the cabin without stopping.

Only after she entered the room did Alice grab her robe and throw it on the bed. She looked at the room that had suddenly become bright and full of hope, and said in a daze:

"Oh no, now I'm the protagonist... No, that's not it. In fact, I'm still missing some background music. After all, how can I be called the protagonist if I don't have some background music when I appear on stage..."

She covered her face with her hands in pain. After more than ten seconds, she raised her head unable to bear it any longer and covered the robe with the quilt.

The morning light was briefly obscured, and after a moment, the beautiful morning light penetrated the quilt and dissipated again.

Alice locked the door silently, left the room, and stood outside the door to add a loop to the room - when the escaping light touched the boundary of the room, the loop would start again.

So Chenxi was locked in this small room. Alice stood up silently and returned to the deck.

It was only at this time that Alice began to feel like doing what she was accustomed to do - naming.

“Although I feel like it might be torn down in the future…” Alice muttered on the deck, “But it won’t be torn down for a while, so let’s give it a name.”

For Alice, naming was a very ritualistic thing. She stood at the edge of the ship's side and thought seriously.

The scene in which the armor is finally transformed into a robe and pretends to be sophisticated in front of Anderson gave Alice a good inspiration - after all, it may not only be the protagonist who appears with special effects, but also the "prophet".

And the one about the Prophet...

Alice looked at the direction the "Future" was heading, put her fingers on the side of the ship, and said softly:

"Since we already have Cassandra, why not call her... Apollo?" (End of this chapter)