Mystery: Lucky One

The spirit world, the entrance to Calderon City.

Amon stood at the door and looked at the scene inside. The foggy city was silent and there was no sign of any living thing.

His gaze swept across the entire city inch by inch, and finally he whispered like a sigh:
"what to do?
"I seem to be late."

"This is normal," Will Auceptin's clear voice sounded, "Before His accumulated luck runs out, it's normal that we can't find Him - even if we find Him, we can't catch Him."

Amon didn't seem to care about the content of this sentence. He chuckled and asked curiously:
"Is it us already?"

After two seconds of silence, Will Auceptin's low voice sounded:
"What can I do? You are my 'mother' now. As a child still in your mother's belly, I can only trust my 'mother'."

There was nothing wrong with this, but Amon paused for a moment, then hesitantly asked:
"Who is your father, then?"

"...I don't know," Will Auceptin was full of confusion and puzzlement, "Maybe it's you too?"

Amon did not speak. He scanned the interior of Calderon City again and disappeared on the spot.

……

After discussing the issue of the Time Worm Spell with Pales, Leonard turned his attention back to Klein's letter and read it carefully.

"Possessed by evil spirits. The origin and main purpose of evil spirits...

"I don't have enough knowledge about evil spirits, and I don't have any ideas at all..."

After thinking for a few minutes, Leonard took out a box of matches, burned the letter, then frowned and muttered:

"It's a pity that Ms. Daly isn't here... and she's on wedding leave."

It's not entirely true that they were taking a wedding leave. Leonard knew that if something really happened that made the "Nighthawks" too busy, Dunn and Daly probably wouldn't mind postponing or canceling the wedding.

Thinking of this possibility, Leonard shook his head and started writing while praying that everything would go well.

Ask Ms. Daly. Hmm, it seems that there are also "Nightwatchers" in Gurain City who are good at this... Well, it's a pity that we are not familiar with them, but it should be okay. What we need to be careful about is the wording...

Leonard pondered while considering the wording of the letter, filling it with all the questions he could think of, and pushed the excuse onto Alice before he let out a breath, frowned, and decided to ask other people in the Nighthawks team who were good at related matters.

He doesn't need to worry about excuses or anything else. The fact that he was once familiar with Miss Destiny and still has a decent relationship with her is his best shield.

——This is Klein’s suggestion.

……

Fortunately, Klein received a reply from Leonard before going to bed. In the letter, he described his gains in detail and expressed his admiration for the usefulness of Alice's signboard.

As the one who proposed the suggestion, Klein had no guilt at all. He skipped this paragraph and read the specific content, trying to get more information from it and pass it on to Leonard.

……

Alice, who didn't know she had become a shield, showed up at St. Samuel's Church the next morning and saw the entire incident.

The reason why every parish that discovered this incident chose to report it without hesitation was undoubtedly that honorable name.

Alice's fingertips traced over the honorific names she had seen before, and suddenly raised her head and asked:
"Have any of you read it?"

Anthony shook his head.

Alice didn't say anything, but just frowned a little bit.

This is actually natural. Among the official Beyonders, few people would be stupid enough to recite a name of unknown origin. Even Alice, who was bold in the past, would not rashly do such a thing now.

Even though Cassandra seemed to be a prophet from Sequence 2 at most; even though Cassandra seemed to know her and was very familiar with her; even though Cassandra...

Maybe there was no ill will towards her.

In fact, Alice even had a guess that she herself was unwilling to believe - she suspected that the two "prophetic" characteristics behind "Cassandra" and the Chanis Gate of St. Samuel Church were just a little more autonomous.

But this is not true, the reason why it is not true is because the attitude of half-giving up like Ouroboros is different from the attitude of sudden enlightenment like Charlie King. If "Cassandra" is like this speculation, it can only be that she has this mentality from beginning to end, and...

No matter how she looked at it, Alice didn't think it was possible for Cassandra to expel her Beyonder characteristics and retain consciousness - the result of doing so would be certain death.

Moreover, the things it did before...Arrodes said it was playing the role of "prophet"...

Alice calmly read through the results of the entire incident and understood what Selwyn had done.

For some unknown purpose, Selwyn spread the news of the "witch who can fulfill wishes" everywhere in various forms, with the sole purpose of spreading the news and attracting more people.

But the person who came to the door never came back - wherever she went, the message had changed to "Man-eating witch".

...Could it be that she really eats people?

Unable to figure out the purpose of Selwyn's behavior, Alice came up with an extremely unreliable guess.

This is too outrageous. As soon as Alice thought of it, she rejected this guess. She frowned, put down the file, and asked Anthony:

"Is she still where she was last mentioned up here?"

"I don't know," Anthony answered frankly, "We haven't sent anyone to check... and the local 'Night Watchers' contacted the police to block off the area, prohibiting pedestrians from approaching."

Alice's eyes widened in surprise, and she blurted out:

"This can't possibly be here! Even a fool would know he's been discovered!"

Anthony didn't say anything. He and Alice stared at each other for more than ten seconds before Alice made the decision:
"I'm going to see the scene."

"I'll help you contact the local 'Nightwatch'." Anthony said without hesitation.

Alice nodded in agreement, and after a pause, she asked curiously:

"No, I remember that our church wasn't the only party involved in this matter. What about the Mandated Punisher and the Mechanical Heart? How did they handle it?"

As if he had expected her to ask this question, Anthony answered calmly:
"The news about the 'Mechanical Heart' was finally reported to Backlund. They activated the Sealed Artifact Arrodes - you should know about it?"

Alice nodded, so Anthony continued to explain:

"After questioning Arrodes, they reported all the information to the Nighthawks and no longer participated in the investigation.

"As for the 'Made in Punishment'..."

Anthony paused for a moment before speaking: "Investigation is not what the Mandated Punishers are good at. They often prefer to solve problems with more direct means."

A more direct approach…?
Alice looked up at Bishop Anthony with a strange expression, and remembered Sequence 8 of the Church of Storms.

"Are you calling them stupid?" Alice asked calmly after looking around and making sure there was no one else around.

Anthony denied it decisively:

"No, of course not.

"Is that what you think?"

Alice was silent for a moment, then lowered her head and pretended to be looking at the details of the incident carefully.

She sat quietly for more than ten seconds, and when she felt the time was about right, she raised her head and said:

"I'm going to the scene."

Anthony nodded without hesitation and said, "I will contact the local Night Watchman immediately."

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Alice did not refuse. She agreed to this matter and then said seriously:
"Before we go, I have one more question."

"What?" Anthony asked subconsciously.

Alice kept a serious expression and said, "I don't know what the address is."

Anthony opened his mouth and closed it again. Only then did he remember that the church's information contained a detailed introduction to Miss Destiny's personality, which mentioned that she hated studying very much - and from subsequent contacts, it seemed to be true.

So, up to now, she has been running around the world, relying on mystical coordinates...?
Anthony looked at Alice hesitantly, but in the end he said nothing and just smiled:
"I will ask the local 'Nightwatcher' to pray to you and provide you with the location."

Alice nodded with satisfaction.

……

Although it took time for the message to be transmitted back and forth, it was not too long. When Alice heard the prayers ringing in her ears, she knew they were ready.

As Anthony said, the scene had been cordoned off by the police and the Night Watchers. Alice was in no mood to greet them. She ignored them and stared directly at the two-story building at the center of the cordon and asked:
"Is it here?"

"Yes." The Night Watcher who prayed to her said honestly.

Hearing the affirmative answer, Alice no longer hesitated. She raised her leg and was about to walk inside, but her steps suddenly stopped and she raised her head as if she sensed something.

The cloaked woman poked her head out from the windowsill and lowered her head to reveal her face. Alice frowned at the first glance.

The originally clean and clear blue eyes were now filled with red bloodshot, and it was obvious that she was not in good spirits. The face that should have been charming and belonged to the "witch" was now covered with countless cuts with a knife, and her facial features were a bloody mess. Alice could only recognize the owner of this face by intuition.

As for the hair…

Alice looked at her hair for a brief moment and then frowned. It didn't look like hair, but rather a snake shape was faintly visible. Alice almost thought several times that this person had a snarling snake on her head. She looked away and around, and found that no one was staring at it. Everyone had turned their eyes away.

She felt relieved and looked upstairs again.

The figure that was probably Selwyn smiled with its bloody face, and the eyes that could be barely made out were fixed on Alice. Alice heard her hoarse voice:

"Oh hehehehe...

"Are you the one who is here to help me out of this predicament?"

...?
Alice was stunned for a moment. She couldn't figure out why Selwyn said this. She thought about it and answered decisively:
"Yes, destiny has guided me to appear at this moment to save you from the pain you are facing..."

"No need!" Selwyn suddenly screamed, "No need! Why didn't you come earlier? Why did you have to come now? Why did you have to come when everything was irreversible?!"

Everything is irreversible...?
Alice still didn't understand. She remained calm and said:

"That's not the case. Everything has turned around, but you haven't noticed it yet..."

"Are you trying to say that you are the turning point?" Selwyn glared at her fiercely from the windowsill. "'Cassandra' said the same thing at the beginning, and now - I have burned it to death!"

“…Ah?” Alice’s facial expression went out of control.

She really couldn’t understand how things were going this time. Not to mention that “Cassandra” was suspected to have extraordinary characteristics of a “prophet”, even if it was just an ordinary magical item, it shouldn’t be able to be “burned to death”.

——Only angels have the power to crush extraordinary characteristics.

Selwyn seemed very satisfied with this. In Alice's confused expression, she raised her head proudly and crazily, and laughed hoarsely like a winner:

“Haha, hahahaha…

“I know that you so-called ‘prophets’ are a bunch of damn liars!

"Sylvia is, 'Cassandra' is, and you can't be an exception!

"Oh, you, and you..."

Her laughter suddenly stopped, she lowered her head, stared at Alice viciously, and said in a hoarse voice with gritted teeth:
"I am going to kill you!"

Alice blinked blankly, looking at Sequence 6 Selwyn with a hesitant expression.

The questioning expression succeeded in making the emotionally broken Selwyn even more agitated. She screamed and crawled to the edge of the windowsill, shouting in fear:

"Just wait! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you now! I'm coming down right away to kill you! I'm going to burn you like I burned 'Cassandra', and let you and your followers meet the fate you've been talking about!"

My believers...?
Alice was even more confused. She felt that Selwyn's words seemed to contain some incredible news, but before she could ask, Selwyn, who had already climbed to the edge of the windowsill, jumped without hesitation.

Alice's pupils shrank slightly, and then her eyes closed tightly. Her figure flashed without hesitation, disappeared from the spot, and reappeared at the far end.

boom!
Amid the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, the image of Selwyn's head hitting the ground disappeared from her mind. She opened her eyes again, but did not look at the scene blocked by the back of the person in front of her. She only spoke coldly:

"She landed on her head, didn't she?"

This was the strategy Alice took in the short period of time just now.

- Even though Selwyn seemed to have revealed something incredible, and even though Alice really wanted to know what had happened to Selwyn that caused such a change, there was no rush for information, and she didn't necessarily have to be alive to obtain it.

Without hesitation, Ai Li decided that her final outcome would be that her head would hit the ground when she fell from the second-floor window sill. (End of this chapter)