Mystery: Lucky One

"Mysterious Queen" Bernadette gently led the way and said:

"Then I can let him be corroded accordingly, but in this way, your secret puppet will basically be surrendered. At the beginning, it can be used normally, but as time goes by and the corrosion deepens, he will gradually fall into a dormant state and will never wake up again."

Klein paused and turned to look at Alice.

Alice understood what he meant. She wanted to say that she could do it, but then she remembered that the goddess might intervene, so she shook her head and said:

"I can't guarantee that. You'd better treat it as if you will lose the secret doll."

No guarantee...? Klein glanced at Alice, but he was not familiar with the authority of angels. Alice was the only case he could bring up anytime and anywhere. Although he felt something was wrong, he couldn't think of anything.

He suppressed his distress and asked, "Can the time for complete erosion be extended as much as possible?"

The secret puppet of "Admiral of Blood" Senior is the most valuable of all his properties!

Bernadette said calmly, "Two months at the longest."

Klein struggled internally for two seconds and replied expressionlessly:
"Ok."

He immediately put his hand on his chest and bowed: "Thank you for your help."

"Why don't you bow to me like that?" Alice asked, sitting on the vine chair.

Bernadette paused for a moment. Klein was already used to it, and he immediately had a response:
"Because I have no way to repay you for your kindness to me. I can only repay you in the next life."

Alice was silent for two seconds, and then asked Bernadette with a sincere look on her face, "Do you think resurrection after death can be considered the afterlife?"

Bernadette didn't say anything. She looked at Alice, then at Gehrman Sparrow, and began to wonder whether she should speak.

“…I don’t think it counts.” Klein chose to answer quickly.

"Why?" Alice insisted.

Klein glanced at Alice and shook his head.
"At least we should completely cut off contact with our previous life before we can call it the next life, right?"

Alice lowered her head in thought. Klein turned to Bernadette and signaled her to take the opportunity to start.

Bernadette withdrew her gaze, stretched out her right hand, and hooked out words in the air that were different from the giant language, dragon language, elven language, and ancient Hermes language.

Those words glowed like stars, interweaving into strange symbols, as if opening a secret door leading to the depths of the spiritual world.

The "secret door" opened, a gust of wind blew out, and the upper body turned into a man wrapped in white cloth.

"The horn of sleep." Bernadette said in a soft but majestic voice.

The man with a human upper body and wind lower body responded respectfully and took out a human skull from a white cloth.

The eye sockets of this skull are deep and dark, with the bottom difficult to see. The rest of the skull is dotted with holes of various shapes, with cracks all around, and is as white as jade.

Bernadette took the "Sleeping Horn", glanced at German Sparrow and said:
"You retreat at least 50 meters."

Klein didn't ask why and stepped back obediently. Bernadette looked at Alice. While she was still hesitating, she had already jumped down and hid far away, fearing that she would be affected.

After running away from the vine path with Klein, a distant, quiet, sad and dark song was heard.

Alice looked up and saw Bernadette sitting with her back slightly bent in the shade of the pea vines. Her chestnut hair moved slightly and she lowered her head. She put the "human skull" to her mouth, letting air blow out of the holes, interweaving into a night melody.

The music spread out little by little with its calming power and a touch of sadness, but it did not alarm the soldiers guarding the bridge outside the pea vine forest.

Alice suddenly recalled some very distant memories, such as the ice cream that fell on the ground, the birthday cake and the birthday song.

“…I want to go home.” She suddenly turned her head and said to Klein.

Klein didn't say anything. He sighed softly, then closed his eyes and listened to the music quietly.

Alice felt a breath stuck in her heart. She pursed her lips and glanced at Klein. The previous question popped up in her mind again.

...Does she come from the past Earth civilization, or from another world?

If she came from another world, maybe...she could really go back?

Alice suddenly longed for her original guess to be true - because she did not belong to this world, and her fate was unpredictable, so the "Key of Light" longed for her.

If I could go back... If I could leave the things that belong to this world here... Beyonder characteristics... Source essence... Uniqueness... Klein...

……No.

Alice suddenly hesitated for a moment. She looked at Klein uncertainly, and another idea popped into her mind.

...Or, wait until he becomes a god before going back?

But even if I go back...can I really be an ordinary child now?
Alice pursed her lips and stopped thinking. She closed her eyes with Klein and listened attentively.

When the melody finally disappeared, Alice opened her eyes and looked up. Bernadette was handing the "human skull" with holes in it to the "servant" with the upper body of man and the lower body of wind.

"Okay." Bernadette's soft and calm voice sounded.

“Thank you for your help.” Klein bowed again and controlled the Wrathful Spirit, Senior, to walk back to his side.

Alice didn't say anything this time. She just watched the pea vines shrink upwards and gradually fade away. The green forest soon disappeared.

They landed at the entrance of the bridge at the same time. It was quiet and deserted, except for a group of soldiers guarding the bridge not far away, with their backs to this side, which was no different from before.

Alice stared at Senior without blinking, observing the difference between him and before.

She soon discovered that Senior looked more like a dead man than before, with a pale face, cold breath, and a distinctly eerie feeling.

Alice watched Klein put away Senior and asked him:

"Shall I take you back?"

Her voice was lower than usual, but Klein didn't think there was anything wrong. He thought it was due to the song. He sighed to Alice and said,

"Usually it seems like you're the one who comforts me at times like this."

Alice blinked, and Klein continued:

"Let me think about how you comforted me before?

"Oh, that's right...

"After you restart, should I take you to school?"

"..." Alice instantly forgot the vague sadness she felt and stared at Klein expressionlessly.

Klein asked hesitantly, "...I'll go back by myself?"

Alice rolled her eyes at him, then she was nice enough to send him home, and then she left without saying a word to him. …

When Alice returned home, the room was brightly lit and a gentle man wearing a monocle was sitting on the sofa, looking at her with a smile.

Alice hesitated for two seconds between running and waiting to die. After realizing that it was just a clone, she walked forward, sat opposite, and asked calmly:
"How is it? Is the dish I recommended to you delicious?"

"Haha," Amon laughed softly, "Not rich enough."

Alice looked at Amon hesitantly and said sincerely:
"If you mean the Time Worm, I don't think there is a more sumptuous dish in the world than yourself."

"..." Amon pushed his monocle and the atmosphere became dangerous.

Alice's muscles tensed and her hair stood on end. She instinctively wanted to run, but she forced herself to stay where she was and smiled:

"I can apologize, really."

"I don't want it," Amon said in a willful tone, "I want you to come and play with me for a few days."

"?" Alice opened her eyes wide in alertness and jumped up on the spot.

Amon's expression did not change at all. He raised his head while sitting in his original position. Alice sat down quietly with a smile on her face, then stared at him and said:

"You are just a clone."

This should actually be a threat. Alice was afraid of Amon's real body that she met in the "God-Forsaken Land". The clone in front of her was stronger than the most common Sequence 4 and could reach Sequence 3, but it was far inferior to the real body. Alice was not that scared. If she really had to say she was scared, it was because she was afraid that the real body would suddenly come over or she would have a hard time explaining herself when she saw the real body next time.

Amon nodded and said:
“I know, so this sentence is just literal.

"I really only came here to invite you to play - I stole a manor."

“…Ah?” Alice looked at Him in confusion.

Amon stretched out his hand, and Alice hesitated for two seconds before taking it. Within a few seconds, she appeared in the manor and saw a group of Amons.

Yes, a whole estate of servants.

Now, Alice was really panicking.

……

Hazel Macht always went to the suburban estate on Saturdays or Sundays to report on her experiences of the week, and this week it was Sunday.

After falling into a coma at the party that night, she woke up the next day. The family doctor probably couldn't find anything wrong and finally told her parents that she was under too much stress and overworked.

Hazel had reservations about this.

Congressman Macht and his wife observed her for two days, and after confirming that she was fine, they felt relieved and no longer restricted her from going out.

So on Sunday, she arrived at the manor at eleven in the morning, got off the carriage, a servant wearing a monocle led the horses, and another servant wearing a monocle came to meet her.

A sense of uneasiness rose from the bottom of her heart and then disappeared. Hazel walked inside and kept meeting servants wearing monocles who nodded to her, but their eyes did not fall on her face, but on her lower abdomen with a little interest.

Doubts kept rising and disappearing until she arrived outside Flora Jacob's room and knocked on the door.

"Come in." A familiar voice sounded from inside.

Hazel exhaled, pushed the door open, and shouted nervously:
"teacher……"

She subconsciously glanced at the mouse's right eye, and when she found that it was not wearing a monocle, she inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed completely.

What happened next was the same as usual. Mouse listened to her talk about this week's progress, then looked at her abdomen and chuckled, saying:
"I'm a little curious.

"Did you know she was pregnant?"

"What...?" Hazel looked up in confusion.

It seemed that these words were not directed at her, and in fact, it was true. In her eyes, the mouse just now turned into a man wearing a monocle, with a wide forehead and a black windbreaker. He looked aside with a playful smile. Hazel followed his gaze and found a familiar face.

"It's you!" Her pupils constricted and her body tensed.

“That’s not the right attitude to ask for help…Little Alice,” the man on the sofa pushed his monocle and smiled at the girl next to him, “Besides, you should have made it clear—the clone’s strength is not enough to help you deal with Him. It’s only enough to alert the enemy.”

Alice, who had been caught playing cards with Amon for two days, ignored him and turned to look at Hazel's abdomen, her eyes slightly drooping:

"…What if you are particularly lucky?"

"Hmm?" Amon raised his eyebrows slightly.

Alice turned her head and pursed her lips.

"I know what you want from me... In fact, it's exactly what I need."

Amon stared at her with narrowed eyes. Alice took a deep breath, glanced at Hazel, and lowered her eyes in thought.

Will Auceptin's condition was as bad as she had expected. He had "restarted" in a hurry and dropped a large amount of blood of mythical creatures, but he still had not been able to completely complete the process - to put it in easy-to-understand terms, Hazel's pregnancy was not stable, and even if she did nothing to protect it carefully, she could miscarry at any time.

What's more, Hazel goes to the sewer every night.

Will couldn't even stay awake for a long time, but that was not the point, because Amon's cover-up was not thorough. To be precise, after Hazel, who was pregnant with Will Auceptin, stepped into the manor, Amon immediately sealed off the manor with great force.

——He even resorted to the power of authority.

This certainly awakened Will Auceptin in Hazel's belly, but Will Auceptin had not made any move until now. Alice guessed that He must be looking for an opportunity, and it seemed that He did not want to waste energy arguing with them.

But no matter what Will Auceptin was planning, Alice knew that she absolutely could not let him go today, and the culprit of all this...

She raised her eyes to look at Amon and said without any emotion: "I had other ways to deal with Him, but you alarmed Him."

"...Very good," Amon laughed, "As a reward and compensation, I have to help you solve this trouble, right?"

Alice didn't say anything, her expression showed her attitude, but Amon didn't seem to be willing to give in. He planned to bargain again:

“…Little Alice.

"I just don't believe that you didn't mean to mention Flora Jacob's student in your letter.
"And you know why you sent me the news about Flora Jacob."

"But I didn't ask you to do it," Alice answered clearly. "After all, it's you who has to do it..."

Before she finished her words, Amon raised his hand to interrupt her, and looked at Hazel beside him with a smile, or to be more precise, at Hazel's lower abdomen, and said leisurely:

"How about this.

"How about you also put forward your own conditions, and I will consider standing on your side?" (End of this chapter)