Mystery: Lucky One

When her mood dropped, Alice's breath leaked out unconsciously, making Xio feel a surge of pressure. She slowed down her breathing and called out carefully:

"Miss Destiny..."

"Ah," Alice came back to her senses, "You said that MI9 asked you to investigate Viscount Stratford?"

Xio nodded, then added:
"At first, I just speculated that he was from MI9. We first met at a party of Mr. A of the Aurora Club. He promised to give me some tasks, and I could get some rewards based on them, and exchange them for potion formulas and potions. My channels, potion formulas, and extraordinary characteristics are mostly in the hands of the royal family.

"In addition, some of the missions he issued made me suspect that he was from MI9. However, he was wearing a golden mask when he contacted me, so I didn't know who he really was. But when he commissioned me to investigate Viscount Stratford, he invited me to join MI9 and told me...

“I can keep my current identity and be active in the East End.”

"Oh~" Alice dragged out the last word, "They need an informant in the East District."

Judge Xio decided to go back and correct some of the information revealed to her by Magician Fors, such as that Miss Destiny might just be disdainful in some aspects, not really ignorant, in order to prevent Fors from suffering losses in this regard in the future.

Alice put away her careless expression and spoke in a warning tone:
“For now, don’t tell the masked man about the strange woman who appeared next to Viscount Stratford.

"Hmm, MI9... Never mind, I'll talk to you after I finish colluding with The World."

Collusion... ?
Alice's choice of words made Xio look confused. After hesitating for a moment, she turned to ask her original question:

"Miss Destiny, Viscount Stratford...is there a problem?"

"What do you want to do?" Alice raised her eyebrows. "Oh no, you said that before. You want to investigate the truth behind your father's death... Hey, then our goals are the same for now."

"What?" Xio looked confused.

Alice smiled and said:

“The purpose of the witch inside is to investigate to whom Viscount Stratford is truly loyal.

“As for Mr. Fool… I’m sorry, I can’t tell you. I can only tell you that the purpose of the ‘world’ is currently just investigation.”

Xio looked relieved.

Alice glanced at her and asked abruptly, "Are you cold?"

"Ah?" Xio was stunned for a moment. He felt a little at a loss as to what to do when he suddenly received such a familiar question.

The human body is peculiar in this respect. When her nerves were tense just now, Xio had no energy to pay attention to whether she was cold or not. Now that she had relaxed, she was surprised to find, when Alice asked, that although the tree sap raincoat, which should only reach her knees, could completely cover her because of her height, this did not prevent the fine rain from penetrating through her uncovered neck and falling into the raincoat, wetting her clothes.

The weather at the end of September had turned cold. When Alice asked him about it, Quinn began to notice the chill that seeped through his clothes, which was especially noticeable in the night breeze.

But this bit of chill was still within her tolerance range. Not to mention that she was an extraordinary person with an enhanced physique, her past experiences had been many worse than this.

"Not bad." She replied.

Alice looked at her suspiciously, frowned and asked:

"Are you sure? Do you have spare clothes? If you can't leave, I can get them for you... You shouldn't have anything you can't leave with, right? Don't you know who that witch is?"

Hugh explains:

"I, I want to find a chance to meet Xie... to meet Sherman.

"She is my friend after all, I want to know why she..."

She stopped talking. Alice looked at her and wanted to tell her that she knew it, but after thinking about it, she gave up and lowered her eyes and smiled:

"How long has it been since you last saw your friends?"

"Several months..." Xio answered automatically.

"Several months..." Alice repeated in a low voice, "After not seeing her for a few months, she has started a new life and is free from the troubles of the past... I'm afraid she may not want to see you, her former friend, again."

The good news is that she won't suddenly call you "Sir". At most, she will just tell you that she wants to maintain the status quo and doesn't want to see you again...

Xio was silenced by these words. After a moment of silence, she finally spoke:

“…I still want to try.”

"What if I tell you this is the future I see?" Alice smiled maliciously.

——This is not a lie, although most of it is speculation, but she just took a careful look and found that among all the possibilities in the future, this possibility is the greatest.

Xio fell silent again. Her eyes gradually became firm as she hesitated and struggled. She spoke clearly:

"Then I should meet her and ask her."

Alice pursed her lips and stared at her. Xio was keenly aware that there was a growing pressure in that gaze. She vaguely realized that Miss Destiny's reaction to her was probably... not very happy?
……Why?
Xio was a little confused. She carefully recalled what had just happened, as well as the introduction of Alice by the "magician" Fors and her own understanding, but she could not find a reason at all.

No, it’s not that there isn’t…

As a descendant of the nobility and now a wild Beyonder, Xiu has sufficient understanding of the styles of the official Beyonders of the three major churches in the Kingdom of Loen.

For example, there are the "violent people" who will fight if they disagree with something, the "craftsmen" who advocate firepower coverage, and...

Sleep well!

The fact that Leonard the Star was an official Beyonder had basically become a consensus among all Tarot Club members except Derrick the Sun. Even Emlyn the Moon was not left behind this time, and in the action of punishing Ernes Boyar, he showed his ability to soothe people. Xio soon thought of him and his ability to soothe people.

If we rule out the role of magical items... and this can most likely be ruled out, because Miss Fate once suggested that he specialize in treating insomnia after retirement... it sounds more like his own ability rather than a magical item.

Then, he is most likely a member of the Church of Night... This also corresponds to his familiarity with Miss Destiny. Before becoming a Saint of the Church of Night, Miss Destiny should have come into contact with the mid- and low-end Extraordinary people of the Church of Night in other ways... For example, she may have a friend who is a "Night Watcher".

I heard from Fors that Miss Destiny had not yet regained her power at that time, and after regaining her power, she started a new life and broke off relations with her friends? No, if you look at it this way, it is not right that she and Mr. "Star" still maintain a relatively good relationship...

It was that friend who took the initiative to break up with Miss Destiny!
Hugh suddenly realized it, but it didn't help her at all, because she really wanted to see Sherman again, and from Alice's words, she realized that Alice was monitoring Sherman, which made it impossible for her to deny it temporarily. She had to try to explain or comfort her:

"But actually, this might just be an excuse...

"After listening to what you said, I really want to see Sherman again and listen to her experience. But as you said, based on my understanding of her, she probably doesn't really want to see me. I insist on appearing in front of her, not entirely for this friendship.

"Miss Fate...Friendship is only one of the reasons. More importantly, I probably want to investigate the cause of my father's death. After all, I rarely have such an opportunity..."

But Alice was not so easy to fool: "You just want to investigate the cause of your father's death? Oh, now that I have told you about Sherman's experience during this period, will you not go to see her?"

Quinn didn't answer right away, but this brief pause was enough for an answer. Alice glanced at her and said:

"Honestly, I think you can tell that I'm upset, but I'm not... well, anyway...

"People always want to protect the things they desire but cannot get, do you understand? Well, if I can still be considered a human being...haha."

She twitched the corners of her mouth, trying to reveal a smile, but gave up in a moment. The look she gave Xio turned into one of cold anger. Xio wanted to say something, but the rain and wind suddenly became heavier, and the rain hit her head on, and after the hood of her raincoat fell off, she felt cold all over.

Across from her, Alice finally smiled brightly as she wished and told her, "Okay, you can go meet your friend."

Xio was stunned in his wet clothes, realizing that this was just Miss Fortune's way of venting her anger.

...Why do you look a bit like a child?

She didn't dare to say this speculation out loud. Although Alice had already updated her new name at the recent Tarot Club, Xio still remembered the original words "the eternally innocent child" - this was of course what Fors told her.

At this moment, Xio finally felt the reality of this honorable name. She was silent for a while before she spoke:

"……OK."

Almost as soon as she finished speaking, Sherman, wearing a dark red cloak, finally came out. She was still hiding herself and got on the carriage. However, Xio felt complicated. She memorized the characteristics of the carriage and tracked the target by walking and running.

Alice stood still. She didn't chase after him. She just shook her head and sighed to herself:

"If it's just Sherman, of course it's fine... Triss won't let anyone catch up with your friends. Your future of being rejected will have to wait until the next time..."

She turned her attention to Klein again. At Sequence 4, Klein was finally able to conceal his peculiarities, making him no longer look like a searchlight in the eyes of higher-sequence beings. Alice guessed that Klein should be safe from the "monster" path at this time.

——Angels below him cannot see through his disguise, and angels above him will not be hurt by it.

“But Amon won’t care whether he has the Sefirah Castle or not…” Alice muttered to herself as she disappeared from the spot. “If He encounters a demigod on an adjacent route, He probably won’t let him go easily… But, this should be relatively safe, right…?”

The place where she appeared again was Klein's Meige Manor - it sounded strange, but she asked Klein for a room here.

Meige Manor is located in the Queens District of Backlund, on the outskirts of the northwest district, built along the Tussock River. It was bought by Dwayne Dantes not long ago. At that time, Klein, who was wearing Dwayne Dantes's skin, excitedly invited Alice to visit and claimed that this place was like a palace.

So, when they actually arrived at the scene, Alice asked Klein if he had ever been to the real palace. After hearing that he had not, she invited Klein to sneak into the palace with her to see what the real palace looked like.

——Then Klein told her to get lost.

Alice didn't leave this time. Being well versed in moderation, she gave up the idea of ​​opening the skylight and asked Klein to open the window. I mean, she asked Klein to leave her a room here.

Next, she got a room in Meige Manor as the "daughter of an old friend".

As for Dwayne Dantès's reputation... Klein said with a self-destructive attitude at the time that with the help of Arrodes, Dwayne Dantès's identity no longer had much reputation to speak of. If Alice didn't mind her own reputation, then he didn't care either.

Alice politely told Klein that no one would bring up certain topics in front of a saint or an angel—unless that person was also a saint or an angel.

This successfully shut Klein up. As Alice said, the status of a demigod is relatively special. There may be some among the nobles, but they are relatively rare. At least Dwayne Dantès has not had any contact with them at the moment.

As for the common people? The world is so big, but what does it have to do with them?
Therefore, these nobles who knew about the existence of Beyonders and Demigods would not ask a saint who was blessed by the gods about her love life, even if they did not know that Alice was an angel on earth.

Even if someone was curious and tried to gossip, the person being gossiped about would be Dwayne Dantès, not Alice.

However, some nobles were very curious about the daughter of their boss whom Bishop Elektra had mentioned during the introduction... Now, they might be curious about who Dwayne Dantès's old friend was.

Of course, Alice still doesn't live here most of the time. She just comes over to play from time to time. For example, now, she stands at the door pretending to be serious and is welcomed in after knocking on the door.

After enjoying a luxurious bath, Alice lay down and had a good sleep. She met Klein the next afternoon. As soon as they met, she brought Klein a surprise:
"Is it convenient for you tonight? Well, I mean, I noticed that the situation at Sherman's place has changed tonight..."

Her gaze stayed on Klein. After a few seconds, she shook her head and said,

"It seems you are quite busy tonight... But maybe you have time."

"What did you see?" Klein looked confused.

"I noticed you have a new puppet," Alice blinked, "a puppet of the demigod level." (End of this chapter)