Mystery: Lucky One

Alice flashed and appeared in the room where the girl was. This should be a study. She was sitting in the study with a book in front of her, but she was not reading it at all. Her eyes were looking out the window, as if she was thinking about something.

She had the same dark green wavy hair as Liana, and bright dark brown eyes. Judging from her age, Alice guessed that she was the daughter of Senator Macht.

She’s an Extraordinary… Alice narrowed her eyes and frowned.

For the aristocratic group, the existence of Extraordinary People is not a secret, especially since Senator Macht is from the military. Alice noticed a lot of Extraordinary People bodyguards in Senator Macht's home.

But it is very strange that a noble lady is an extraordinary person.

Alice looked at the girl. Although she was daydreaming, her movements unconsciously revealed arrogance, as if all the books in the study were nothing worth her attention.

Alice blinked and thought of Audrey.

Miss "Justice" at the Tarot Club was also a girl from an aristocratic family. Alice knew her name was Audrey Hall. Her father was a big banker, and she was also an aristocratic girl who was very interested in the mysticism.

But this Miss Justice did not feel arrogant because she was a Beyonder, nor did she look down on other knowledge because of her knowledge of mysticism. And the girl in front of her...

Alice frowned and looked at the girl. After confirming that she was only at Sequence 9 and had only one Sequence 6 magical item on her, she suddenly laughed and removed her cover.

The sudden laughter was particularly noticeable in the study. The girl came back to her senses instantly and turned to look at her. Alice read panic in her eyes.

Hazel Macht was startled.

The blonde, blue-eyed girl wrapped in a white robe leaned against the door, looking at her with a smile. Her voice was gentle and soft, and it didn't sound like there was any malice in it:

"Um... let me introduce myself first. You can call me Miss Destiny. That's what everyone usually calls me - can I know your name?"

As she spoke, Alice straightened herself up at the door and walked towards her step by step, as if she really wanted to make friends with her.

She did not let go of the oppressive feeling belonging to the angel, so Hazel was only frightened by the sudden appearance of the stranger, but not to the point of being unable to react.

Despite her lack of experience, Hazel's reaction was not slow. She poured all the spiritual power she could control into the top chain around her neck, and also drew Alice's attention over there.

The necklace is strung with seven emerald green, transparent stones that are placed at equal distances from each other and are surrounded by a circle of tiny diamonds. A subtle fluorescence flows through the necklace.

Suddenly, one of the stones lit up, and in the emerald green light, Alice sensed a force that seemed to want to steal something from her.

To be honest, after having Amon steal her thoughts, abilities, and various things many times, Alice was no stranger to similar experiences.

But Amon's movements were often fast and violent, and she often couldn't react in time, or was too lazy to resist - perhaps more often she was too lazy to resist.

Let Him steal, he won’t die.

But the girl's movements were different. They were too slow and too weak. Alice could feel them clearly, just like a baby a few months old trying its best to pull at an adult. Alice realized that the girl couldn't even hold the corners of her clothes or her fingers. She could only feel her soft, nailless palms.

She was too weak, and so was the item on her body.

The considerate Alice thought for a moment, took the fleshy hand, put it on the power related to misfortune, and broke off a small piece for her.

But Alice forgot that the baby's hands and arms were weak. Although that little bit of authority was actually weightless to her, Hazel did not have the ability to hold the authority, and the item on her body could not hold the authority.

Then the heavy weight collapsed the container and hit its owner. Everything went out of control. Alice saw the gems on the necklace light up one by one, and the green light seemed to be contagious, quickly spreading throughout the necklace.

Next, Hazel showed an expression of great pain. Alice saw buds constantly appearing on her face and body. Those buds seemed to be wriggling faintly, like worms that were about to crawl out of her body.

It's broken, something went wrong...

Realizing this, Alice quickly put away her playful intention, and the shadow of a snake circled around the room. When the snake's head bit its tail, everything returned to the way it was when Alice had just finished speaking.

Hazel didn't notice the illusory snake. She only felt the pain of her soul being torn apart when her spiritual energy was exhausted, and then everything returned to normal.

Hazel stared blankly at the blonde girl standing in front of her with her eyes lowered. What happened just now seemed like a dream. Only the girl's voice told the truth:

"Oh, I didn't know that what I did would have such serious consequences. You won't be mad at me, and you won't tell anyone, right?"

Hazel didn't say anything, she just looked at the girl, her eyes were beautiful and pure blue, without any apology, only pure curiosity.

As if shocked by the purity, Hazel was speechless for a while, which made Alice anxious. She approached Hazel, frowned slightly and asked:

"You don't want to keep it a secret?"

Maybe I should answer her question first... A vague thought flashed through Hazel's mind. Just as she was about to answer the question according to this thought, she saw Alice lower her eyes and mutter to herself:
"Maybe I should erase your memory..."

Absurd...Hazel opened her eyes wide in astonishment. Although she didn't understand how the miraculous scene just now happened, she still maintained the greatest respect or fear for Alice and hurriedly said:
"I won't tell anyone!"

"Great!" Alice raised her head happily, looked around, and sat down on the desk in front of her surprised eyes, "Then we can get to know each other now!"

"......?" Hazel looked at her with a puzzled look.

"You can call me Miss Destiny," she repeated her initial self-introduction, "You should be the daughter of Senator Macht, right? Can you tell me your name? Um... or a nickname will do."

"Hazel." Hazel answered subconsciously.

"Hello, Hazel," Alice smiled and leaned closer to her, "Sequence 9, 'Thief'..."

As Hazel's pupils suddenly shrank, Alice reached out and pushed her monocle and asked her:
“Have you ever seen a mouse that liked to wear a monocle?
"Don't lie, I will...oh, it seems you have seen it?"

Alice looked at Hazel in surprise.

Perhaps because she was frightened just now, this girl was even worse at hiding her emotions than she was. Alice got the answer from Hazel's panic. She couldn't help but sigh and said with emotion:

"If only Mr. Fool could see you like this... He would definitely praise me." "Amon... No, forget it, Amon. It's useless for me to hide my emotions in front of Him."

"He...?" Hazel looked at Alice a little dazedly.

Although she lacked common sense about the extraordinary world, she was not unfamiliar with this pronoun. Hazel vaguely realized that this girl, who seemed younger than her, had just mentioned two gods for her own protection.

She seemed to be very familiar with them.

Teacher, what on earth is going on...Hazel took a deep breath in her heart, and the fear on her face became more obvious.

She did not consider the possibility that this familiarity was actually pretended, or even that the title of the god was made up. After all, she had just suffered a big fright.

Alice had no interest in explaining to Hazel. She glanced at him, chuckled, and asked:

"Won't you explain it?"

After a pause, she glanced at Hazel, who was clearly panicking, and asked hesitantly:

“Well…if you need it, maybe the Church of Night can make you feel safer?

"Well, if you go to church, maybe you can get some comfort, and that will calm you down."

It was not until this time that Hazel felt a slight sense of security and a clear sense of reality.

But unfortunately, her past life did not teach Hazel to be a wise man in the face of the current situation. She looked at Alice and did not answer the previous question. Instead, she asked politely:
"Who are you? Why did you suddenly appear in my study? Why do you want to know about the teacher?"

"Teacher?" Alice looked at Hazel in surprise, "You call Amon teacher?"

This was the second time Hazel heard the name Amon from Alice. She was about to ask who this person was, but Alice quickly denied her words to herself:

"No, it can't be Amon, otherwise it should be Amon who greets me right now... Are you Amon?"

As she spoke, Alice suddenly turned her head and looked at Hazel without her being prepared.

"Who is Amon?" Hazel asked in confusion.

"The greatest thief," Alice shrugged. "So, your teacher is a mouse who loves to wear a monocle?"

Hazel finally realized that she had let the cat out of the bag. She widened her eyes and was about to speak when Alice reached out and patted her shoulder, soothing her:

"Don't worry, I'm not interested in your teacher, as long as you're not really calling Amon teacher... oh, wait.

"If you look at it this way, you might really call Amon teacher in the future..."

Alice glanced at Hazel with pity, realizing that she was genuinely worried about the so-called "teacher", and couldn't help but laugh out loud again.

"What are you worried about?" She looked at Hazel in confusion, "Are you worried about your teacher's safety? You should know that even if you don't say anything, I can easily find out your teacher's location in front of me."

As Hazel's panic intensified, Alice casually added to what she had just said:
"Ha, if I want, I can not only know where your teacher is and who he is, but I can also know what you said and did to each other.

"When you stand before me, your fate is clear to me. Although the future is uncertain, the past cannot be hidden from my eyes."

She looked down at Hazel, who half tilted her head back to meet those blue eyes, and saw her own reflection clearly in them.

But she didn't take me seriously at all...Hazel thought sadly.

At this moment, she finally understood Alice's attitude. It all seemed like a new game. The girl in front of her was a game player. She respected the rules of the game and did not intend to crack the game violently, but she did not take her playing companion seriously.

If Hazel had come into contact with modern games, she would probably find a more appropriate word to describe herself - mission NPC.

But Hazel didn't know this, nor did she know how people usually treated the NPCs on the mission. After realizing Alice's inherent arrogance, the spoiled girl angrily decided to cause some trouble for the lady of destiny.

"In that case," she said with her eyes wide open, "since you are so capable, then go find it yourself!"

Alice didn't say anything, the corners of her lips turned down slightly, her eyes half-narrowed, and then the smile disappeared and turned into cold anger.

The spirit screamed to warn her, and Hazel instinctively knew it meant danger. She realized that she might have angered the mysterious Miss Fate, and the extinguished fear rose again.

This expression pleased Alice. She suddenly laughed, moved closer to Hazel, stretched out her hand and lifted Hazel's chin without any hesitation, and said thoughtfully:
“If I kill you now, the Goddess and Mr. Fool… well, I don’t know if the Goddess will be mad at me for this, but Mr. Fool will definitely be. He hates me for doing something like this…

"But it should be okay to teach you a lesson."

In the face of Hazel's uneasy and doubtful expression, Alice tilted her head, leaving a hint of misfortune without any direction, and said softly:
"Normally, this won't affect you... But in the future, you will probably encounter something very, very bad...

"Let me think about it. You might be involved in some high-sequence struggle. As a tool in it, you will most likely not die, but it's not certain...

"Anyway, you'd better be careful. It won't last long, just the next one or two months - okay, bye~"

Alice let go of her hand, sat up straight again, and disappeared before Hazel could come to her senses.

Hazel sat there blankly. After a few seconds, the girl reappeared in that position. She heard the blonde girl apologize to her in a brisk tone:
"Oops, sorry, I forgot to remove the barrier for you. Okay, now other people can enter this room!"

Having said this, she disappeared again.

Hazel continued to stare at the place where she was just now, and until she was sure that no one would appear again, she hesitated for a moment and her eyes fell on the books on the table as decoration.

She picked up the book and started reading. (End of this chapter)