Mystery: Lucky One

Admittedly, this inference sounds much more reasonable than Amon just wanting to have fun, but Klein still has a question:
"How did you come to this conclusion?"

Alice looked at Klein doubtfully and tried to explain:

"He, He wants to play, so of course he has to become more powerful so that he can play without any scruples...

"Hmm? Now that I think of it, it seems that everything He does is really for this purpose..."

Whether it was looking for Paleus or looking for the Fool, the two things Amon did were to become a god and to become the "Lord of Mysteries" - Alice realized that her guess might be correct.

What she said made sense. Would she really run into him? Klein did not comment on Alice's inference. He glanced at Alice and asked,

"But what does this have to do with you?"

“Hmm…” Alice blinked. “If you analyze it from this perspective, it means that I have something that can help Amon become a god.”

It makes sense, but this is not the point, nor the difficulty. Klein nodded and asked:
"What is it?"

What Amon wants is the real key point.

But for Alice, the answer to this question was easy. With just a little thought, she knew what was the most special thing about him that was related to becoming a god.

"Ritual," she replied. "Do you remember what my godhood ritual was?"

Ceremony of becoming a god…? Klein quickly recalled the answer. He frowned and asked:
"Find the right opportunity in the torrent of fate..."

Alice nodded and put a spoonful of ice cream into her mouth.

This is a simple yet difficult ritual, because judging from Alice's description and attitude, the right opportunity cannot be predicted and can only be waited for.

When the time comes, you will naturally know when the right opportunity is.

As early as when he first heard about this ceremony, Klein found it incredible, but the question that shocked and puzzled him was not the ceremony itself. He frowned and asked:

“But what does this have to do with Amon?
"Could it be possible that Amon could steal your godhood ritual?"

“……” Alice put down the ice cream spoon and remained silent.

"?" Seeing Alice's hesitant gaze fall on her, he swallowed and asked uncertainly, "... Can you really steal it?"

“No,” Alice shook her head and looked at Klein solemnly, “The ice cream has melted.”

"?" Klein put away the complicated and changing expressions on his face and looked at Alice expressionlessly.

Alice looked at Klein with innocent eyes and shouted in a sweet voice:
"Can you change it, Mr. Dantes?"

“No.” Klein rejected her coldly.

Alice instantly put away her previous expression and glared at him fiercely.

It was useless. After staring at Klein, who had no expression on his face, for several seconds, Alice waved her hand and restarted the ice cream.

Now, she had a cup of ice cream she had never tasted before.

"..." Klein looked at Alice, hesitant to speak.

Alice seemed not to notice Klein's expression. She ate her ice cream while analyzing seriously:

"Look, the known Amon's path, from low to high, is either stealing or cheating, stealing things, stealing time, stealing fate...

"Since they stole all the way up, then the ritual of becoming a god is to steal someone else's ritual. Doesn't that make sense?"

Klein was speechless.

This was an undeniable inference. It was both far-fetched and extremely reasonable. After much thought, Klein found that he could not find a suitable reason to deny this logic, because there was no logic at all.

This is similar to how Amon’s goal is actually to become a god—Klein found himself completely clueless about why Alice came to this conclusion.

After thinking for a long time, he finally found a point to refute from Alice's shaky but impeccable logic:
"But how can an opportunity that can be stolen be called the right opportunity?"

To Klein, this was the biggest flaw in Alice's logic, because if an opportunity could be stolen, it meant that it was not the right opportunity at all.

In fact, this was also Alice's point of view. Just as she said at the time, no matter what, the fact that she was sitting here now meant that she was lucky.

——If all those with bad luck had died, how could Sequence 7 of the Destiny Path be called the “Lucky Ones”?

But Alice had a different opinion about her deification ceremony. She shook her head and said, picking out the parts she could tell Klein:
“Because I’ve always felt that… No, this should be the truth.

“I have always felt that as long as I can obtain the Beyonder Characteristics that follow, I will not lose control even if I swallow them directly.

"It's not like I'll go crazy or anything... How should I put it? It's just that if I do this, I might become a different person.

“It’s a bit like the feeling of being immersed in a role and unable to get out, but it’s also different, because I’m not immersed in the role… I’m really becoming that person.

"Became... the master of the remaining will in the Beyonder characteristics."

Klein was stunned for a moment.

This was a question they had discussed at the very beginning - to whom did the will remaining in the extraordinary entity belong? In other words, who were the castle's guards and the castle's owners?
At that time, they did not come up with a clear answer. Klein only had a guess - the will of the Beyonders of the same path to fight against the Beyonders' characteristics would be helpful to the gods of that path.

In other words, if this will has a master, then its master should be the enemy of the gods.

And now, the implication of Alice's words seemed to indicate that his guess at that time was correct.

Alice was also in distress.

The knowledge above the sequence cannot be told to Klein because Alice cannot tell Klein her reasoning process.

This is actually a relatively simple process.

Become a god, then contain the corresponding source substance, and then devour the "uniqueness" and Sequence 1 extraordinary characteristics of the adjacent path, so that you can become the Old One - this is the standard process the goddess told her, and it is also the safest route.

For less safe routes, you can first try to accommodate the "uniqueness" of adjacent pathways and the characteristics of Sequence 1 Beyonder. If you are lucky enough and accommodate enough adjacent pathways, then you will usher in the final fate of every Beyonder. - The awakening of the old will.

As a single-path olden day, the "Key of Light" does not have this worry. She does not need to hesitate like others about which step to take first. She only needs to become a god and then accommodate the source material. This is enough.

Because as long as she becomes a god, the will of the "Key of Light" will have all the necessary conditions to revive in her.

The worst thing is that Alice knows very well that she has a very deep connection with the "Key of Light". Although she doesn't understand what is happening to her, just as Song Shu said in her dream, they are inseparable.

She doesn't need to do anything, and similarly, the "Key of Light" probably doesn't need to do anything either, because if she wants to rebel, she must become a god. Once she becomes a god, it will be uncertain who she is.

When she realized this, Alice had an inexplicable intuition - this might be the gamble that Song Shu mentioned, and this was probably why Song Shu was so confident about the outcome.

She had no choice at all.

Even, considering the deification ritual of the "Destiny" path, Alice doubted whether she won or lost had any impact on the outcome.

——What is the right opportunity?
If all the extraordinary people in the "Destiny" path are the resurrected backup in the "Key of Light" plan, then...

Is it true that whoever the "Key of Light" chooses to revive in will have the right opportunity and become a god?

It sounded as if she just happened to be unlucky enough to be chosen - there was something about her that attracted the Key of Light and made it choose her, but it could have chosen someone else.

According to the theory that high-sequence will affect low-sequence, Alice thinks this reason is very likely to be true - the "Key of Light" may just feel too bored and go to sleep.

He hasn’t gotten enough sleep, so no one can become a god through the path of “destiny”.

Of course, this was just Alice's speculation based on her own personality, according to the theory that low-sequence elements would be affected by high-sequence elements. If she were to be honest, she had a more vicious wish.

After all, keys can be used to open doors. She was able to enter Sephira Castle by herself. When she was promoted to Sequence 4 "Mage of Doom", she saw a gray fog on a tributary of the long river of fate...

Maybe the “Key of Light” is kept as a figurine in the cabinet of the “Lord of Mysteries”?
Based on Alice's understanding of herself, she thought that the "Key of Light" might have "voluntarily" become this figure.

But there was no way she could tell Klein about these thoughts. Alice could only scratch her hair in pain and mutter:
"So annoying... When will you be an angel?"

Klein didn't dare to answer this question. He had no way to answer it. He just lowered his head to look at the half cup of ice cream that had been gone without knowing when, and changed the subject to something he cared about:
“Actually, I think you don’t need to explain the reason to me, because even if you explain it, I still won’t understand it.

“Although you explained how you came to such an answer in the previous two questions, to be honest, I don’t understand it at all. It seems that you came to such a conclusion very suddenly.

"But damn, these answers seem reasonable at first glance - in fact, because they came from your mouth, I think they are likely to be correct.

“Alice, honestly…it’s a good thing you didn’t choose to become a detective.

"You should never become a detective again."

"Why?" Alice asked in confusion. "Isn't that a good thing? I can come up with answers quickly. Isn't that very suitable for being a detective?"

Klein glanced at her and shook his head.
"Do not.

“While you do get answers very quickly, which helps you get to the bottom of something, the problem is, it’s too quick.

“To be honest, I think when I was a detective, some of my reasoning was already far-fetched, because I had the help of divination, and I could get some information that other people couldn’t get.

“After getting this information, I will use this answer to find the process and find a way to tell others the information…yes!
“Alice, you are not reasoning at all!
“Your reasoning process is like someone who is not good at reasoning trying to stuff the answer into your head!

"If you were a detective, other detectives would probably be pissed off by your reasoning."

Alice blinked, put down the ice cream in her hand, propped her chin with one hand, stared at him and asked:
"So……

"This person who is not good at reasoning and is trying his best to stuff information into my head...

"Who is it?"

Klein paused for a moment, remembering the joke they had made long ago.

When Alice claimed that she was the protagonist of a book, he once joked that now they were in a new book and Alice was the new protagonist.

So to say……

Klein gave a reasonable answer with a slight hesitation:

"…the author of this book?"

Alice was stunned for a moment and also remembered the joke they had made at that time.

It seems... there's nothing wrong, huh?
Faced with this answer, Klein and Alice looked at each other in bewilderment, speechless.

They were not sure whether they should be horrified by this joke, just as Alice had been terrified before. Perhaps their current doubts and fears were also pre-written?
So Alice chose to give up.

She raised her hand, picked up the ice cream scoop she had just put down, picked up the cup of ice cream, and scooped out the remaining ice cream and ate it bite by bite.

Next, Alice put down the empty cup and spoon in her hands, licked her lips, and said to Klein:
“The ice cream tastes good.

"Any new ones?"

Klein looked at Alice in a trance. He was a little slow to react to the change in topic. He was stunned for a moment. At the moment his brain froze, his consciousness instinctively followed Alice's words and gave an answer:
"Should I ask someone to get it for you?"

Alice nodded in agreement.

So Klein stood up and prepared to go out to ask someone to bring Alice ice cream. When his hand fell on the doorknob, he suddenly realized that this was not a suitable time to go out.

——Otherwise, Backlund will spread rumors tomorrow that Dwayne Dantès is a pedophile and has a mistress.

Oh, maybe it's not that exaggerated. Considering that Alice is now a saint of the Church of Evernight, after the new ceremony is compiled, this rumor will become...

Dwayne Dantès is so charming that even the saints of the Church of Night are attracted by him and secretly visit his bedroom during his nap.

As for Alice's age, it can be ignored. On the one hand, the strength and status of the saints are ranked before her. On the other hand...

No one would believe such an absurd fact that a minor could become a saint. (End of this chapter)