Mystery: Lucky One

Let’s not talk about how Audrey found out her dog was kidnapped. Anyway, after helping Klein solve his “creeping hunger,” Alice fell into a deep sleep.

Dreaming was not normal for angels, but Alice seemed to be dreaming a lot lately - like tonight.

She dreamed of the first time she woke up in Tingen, when she knew nothing about the world, and at the very beginning, she took literacy classes with children who were much younger than her.

Alice didn't like this experience very much because her classmates were much younger than her. The same was true for Alice in the dream. She didn't like this experience and couldn't wait to end this learning experience.

Her wish finally came true. Now that she knew enough words, she could start the next stage of learning, but...

When the teacher and classmates pushed up the monocle on their right eye and looked at her with a smile, Alice jumped out of bed in fright.

When she realized it was just a dream, she breathed a sigh of relief, but then frowned even more tightly. She realized that there were two intentions in the dream that she didn't want to connect together.

——Tingen and Amon.

This didn't seem like good news. Alice clenched her fist and put the blame on Will Auceptin.

There is no doubt that this matter must be related to Him.

She didn't care that it was still midnight, and woke Klein up without hesitation, telling him the news she had received in her dream:

"Amon is going to Tingen!"

This was not the first time Klein had experienced being woken up. He woke up from his dream and frowned the first moment he heard the news.

It was not realistic to continue sleeping. Klein came up from the gray fog and called Alice up. When her figure solidified, he asked:

"what happened?"

Alice then told her dream.

This is one of the rare dreams that Alice narrated in its entirety, and the greatest credit goes to Sefirah Castle, because Alice can project dreams.

After listening to her story, Klein came to a conclusion that was not too far off from hers. However, there was one thing that he couldn't figure out:
"Why is Amon suddenly interested in Tingen?"

"It must be because of Will Auceptin!" Ellie said without hesitation.

Klein fell silent. He frowned and thought for a moment before asking:
"I remember you told me before that Will Auceptin might have made a deal with Amon using my information..."

Alice certainly remembered this, but there was one thing that confused her:

"But why Tingen?"

"I have a guess," Klein said after careful consideration, "Will Auceptin may not have told me all the news. He probably didn't tell me about my current situation, but only mentioned the past."

Alice was stunned for a moment, and soon understood why Will did this:

"He wants to find something for Amon to do!"

This fits the strategy against Amon, because Alice knows that if it were her, she would do the same.

Klein nodded, agreeing with this point of view, and then said:
"So, as long as there's news of me appearing somewhere else..."

Alice blinked her eyes, straightened her back without hesitation and said:

"I see!
"There can be news about you appearing somewhere else. Anyway, you have a 'travel', so you can appear and disappear openly!

"Then, what we have to do is to pass this message to Amon before he does anything..."

Klein shook his head and reminded her:

"But before that, we have to make sure Amon won't do anything."

You're right, this is a big problem. Alice pursed her lips, and after a few intervals, her memory stayed on the one-sided encounter between Amon and Evelyn.

"No," she suddenly calmed down, "Amon doesn't want to be my mortal enemy...so I just need to let Him know that I care about Tingen City enough, and He won't really do anything."

After a two-second pause, she raised her eyes and said to Klein:

“In fact, we don’t necessarily have to let Klein Moretti reappear. Will Auceptin definitely didn’t tell the truth when he faced Amon, at least not the whole truth.

"Perhaps I can try to stir up Amon's anger towards Will Auceptin, and let Amon focus on Will Auceptin first, such as sending Him back to the 'God-Forsaken Land', to His original body..."

……

After chatting with Klein, Alice returned to the real world. After pondering for a moment, she picked up a pen and wrote a letter at the desk.

This letter was different from the letters she had sent to Amon before. Alice only wrote two short sentences in it:
“You know I spent quite a bit of time in Tingen City…right?
"The guy in your belly knows it too."

The letter was delivered to Amon through a ceremony. In the early morning, Amon leaned against the street, looking at the busy figures in the church of night from afar, and smiled.

He raised his head and turned the monocle on his right eye, and a moment later, a piece of paper appeared in his hand.

That was the letter Alice had sent. Amon, holding the letter, smiled and shook his head, then asked the other person:

"What should I do? She doesn't seem to want me to take action in Tingen City."

Will Auceptin was silent for a moment, and couldn't help asking:

"…You care about her feelings?"

"That's only one aspect," Amon said leisurely with a smile, "On the other hand... Will, are you really telling the whole truth?"

He deliberately emphasized “all”.

These words already revealed some problems. Will Auceptin remained silent. Amon smiled and lowered his head and said:

"Perhaps we should ask you something back... Do you really want us to be enemies, Will?"

……

Alice also did not leave Leonard behind.

Her relationship with Leonard was not good enough for her to wake him up in the middle of the night. Fortunately, Leonard was a Beyonder from the Path of the Insomniac and often appeared in St. Samuel's Church at night.

Alice caught Leonard who was still asleep. He was playing "Fighting Evil". It was his turn to play a card, and he was the "evil".

Alice saw that he was about to make a bold move with a bomb - some people might call it a gun, anyway, it was just four of a kind.

After using up the bomb, he only had a 3 left in his hand.

Although she hadn't played this game with others for a long time, Alice still remembered that 3 was the smallest card in the game of Landlord - now it should be called "Fighting Evil".

But Alice immediately noticed that there was a bigger gun outside - if he went out like this, Leonard would definitely lose.

After hesitating for a second, Alice decided to follow the principle of looking at the cards and not talking, and watched Leonard lose.

The game of cards, the outcome of which was already determined, was quickly concluded. Alice appeared beside Leonard while they were shuffling the cards. Without even looking at the others, she went straight to Leonard and said:
"I have something to tell you."

Leonard was slightly stunned, and Alice continued:

"Very quickly! Just one word! I'll let you go after I shuffle the cards!"

Leonard looked at her, then at his poker friends, and then walked out. When they were in a corner where no one was around, Alice immediately said to Leonard impatiently:

"Don't go back to Tingen recently. Amon is over there."

Leonard's pupils suddenly contracted.

Having stayed with Pales day and night, although he was not familiar with Amon, he knew that he was a dangerous and bad-tempered angel king. For a moment, he couldn't help but worry like Alice.

"Tingen City..." Leonard asked with a frown.

“I don’t think He will do anything too extreme,” Alice shook her head. “At least, Amon won’t want to become my mortal enemy before finding a more reliable replacement.”

She didn't say what the replacement was, so Leonard subconsciously asked:

"alternatives?"

Alice smiled but didn't respond.

After all, he was not a young man who knew nothing. Leonard realized that this was not the question he should ask. He took a deep breath, closed his eyes and said:

"I understand."

……

A week passed in a flash, and Alice spent most of the time doing nothing until three o'clock on Monday afternoon when she heard "Justice" Audrey's "Good afternoon" at the Tarot Club. She was shocked to realize the passage of time.

"Good afternoon," she nodded in response.

Audrey did not stop there. After Alice, she still had many people to greet. After she finished greeting everyone, Alice blinked and looked at the "Hermit" Cattleya.

This time, Ms. Hermit finally did not disappoint. She pushed her glasses, stood up, and saluted to the head of the bronze table.
"Mr. Fool, there are three pages of diary this time."

Finally... Alice turned her head curiously and asked her:

"Have you contacted Bernadette?"

"...Yes." The Hermit Cattleya nodded.

Alice leaned back in her chair. It was the Fool's reading time. No one disturbed her, except Alice who felt a little bored.

When he saw the word "hometown" in the diary, Klein had a guess in his mind. After reading the diary, he asked Cattleya:

"What's your question?"

How did Mr. Fool know that I wanted to ask a question instead of making a request... As expected of Mr. Fool... Cattleya changed her mind and spoke respectfully:

“Mr. Fool, the Queen once asked Miss Destiny…”

Alice raised her head.

Cattleya continued without changing her expression:

"…The meaning of 'hometown', at that time, Miss Fate told her that what she could return to was her home, but what she couldn't return to was her hometown."

After she finished speaking, Klein looked at her in silence for two seconds, then glanced at Alice and said:

"She's right."

The Hermit Cattleya exhaled and continued:

"Miss Fate said something about 'hometown'..."

Klein looked at Alice again.

Alice frowned and said to the Hermit Cattleya unceremoniously:
"Speak directly if you have anything to say."

Sensing that her patience had almost run out, Cattleya stopped laying the groundwork and asked directly:

"I want to know, you, Miss Destiny, or someone like that, have you ever met Emperor Roselle in the past?"

Klein was slightly stunned, and Alice kicked the bench leg impatiently:
"do not know."

Klein paused for a moment, but ultimately did not stop her. He realized that letting Alice impatiently fool around might be the best solution—because he had no idea what Alice had said to Bernadette.

After cursing Alice in his heart, Klein smiled and said to the Hermit Cattleya:

"It seems destiny doesn't like this topic."

After that, like Alice, he no longer paid attention to the Hermit Cattleya, leaned back in his chair and said:

"You guys start."

Cattleya paused for a moment, then sat down in silence.

She actually asked... However, it was indeed too offensive, no wonder Miss Fate was angry... "The Hanged Man" Alger turned his eyes away from "The Hermit" Cattleya and turned his head to look at "The World" Gehrman Sparrow at the bottom of the long bronze table:
"Your magical item is almost ready and will be given to you this week."

He was referring to the magical item corresponding to the extraordinary characteristic of "Ocean Singer".

The "craftsman" had previously completed the gloves for Miss "Justice", and the commission for "The World" was postponed to this week.

The World nodded and said, “Not too slow.”

Not too slow... If it takes another two or three weeks or a month, will you teleport over to visit me? "The Hanged Man" thought Alger with an inexplicable sense of vigilance.

Because the initial plan was to obtain the "Disaster Priest" potion from the Storm Church, and he had just started digesting the "Ocean Singer", he did not purchase the corresponding extraordinary materials, returned to silence, and watched the transactions of other members.

Seeing that no one spoke for a while, Emlyn the Moon turned his gaze towards the Sun and asked carefully:

"I need a sequence 5 artificial vampire Beyonder characteristic. What do you want?"

Alice slapped her head and blurted out, "Oh, I forgot about you again!"

Emlyn hated himself for speaking just now. He wanted to slap himself while shouting:
"Miss Destiny..."

He considered it, trying to say it in the least offensive way possible: You've forgotten it so many times, so why not just forget it.

But Alice took the initiative to bring this up:
"Perhaps fate doesn't want me to target you in this way... Well, it seems that I may need your help in the future?"

She looked at Emlyn thoughtfully.

Emlyn the Moon paused for a moment, then quickly realized that this was his chance. He responded immediately:
"Miss Destiny, if you need anything, please feel free to call me!"

"Sun" Derrick looked at "Moon" Emlyn hesitantly, but in the end he said nothing.

"Justice" Audrey kept smiling and turned her eyes away from him without leaving a trace.

The Magician Fors couldn't bear to watch any further. With her rich imagination, she always felt that Emlyn the Moon's expression revealed an inexplicable flattery, so she also looked away.

Alice's mouth twitched, she held her forehead with her hands, and praised with mixed feelings:
"Mr. Moon, you are really... flexible." (End of this chapter)