Mystery: Lucky One

“Eh?” Alice raised her eyebrows. “Am I not good enough for you, Mr. Fool? I thought you had already agreed to be my ‘mother’…”

“You mean…” Klein frowned, “Your previous help to me was actually just a reward for me?”

"No," Alice blinked. "Of course it was help between friends, but..."

She paused, the smile disappeared from her face, her tone became serious and sad, and she said softly:

"Mr. Fool... Gods and mortals cannot be friends. Haven't you realized that yet?

"That's not a good thing for anyone."

Klein fell silent. He knew why Alice said that, so he didn't know what to say. Instead, Alice took the opportunity to break the deadlock:
"Oh, I almost forgot... I'm still waiting for you to transform into a true mythical creature and give me two spirit bugs to play with?"

Klein's face darkened and he glared at her unhappily: "Are you still thinking about this?"

Alice looked at him innocently again. Klein choked and asked, “What’s the use of this?”
"so……

"Did you pay the goddess in this way?"

"Huh?" Alice looked back in confusion, as if she didn't understand why he asked that.

"I'm very curious," Klein's mouth twitched. "You said you were the one who invested, and the goddess was actually 'paying off the debt'... So, does the goddess know how much 'debt' she owes?"

Alice gave him a brilliant smile without saying a word, but Klein already knew the answer. He asked hesitantly:
"...Alice, you don't even know what counts as a reward, do you?"

“How should I put it…” Alice tilted her head, “When I’m in need, everything I give out is my reward…”

Klein was silent for a while, and finally said in a serious tone:
"Thank you.

"I will remember not to deal with your 'fate' path in the future."

"You don't stand a chance," Alice shook her head. "There aren't many demigods in the Path of Destiny..."

That's because of you... Never mind, she wasn't quite sober before...

Klein shook his head and said sincerely, "No wonder the goddess doesn't want to pay attention to you."

Alice held her forehead and said tactfully: "I don't think this is necessarily the main reason..."

They discussed the reason why the Goddess of Night ignored Alice. Alice thought that the goddess just didn't want her fur to be touched, but when Klein asked why the goddess agreed to such an unreasonable request, Alice couldn't refute it, because at this moment, the two reasons overlapped.

——The gift of fate that I received at some unknown time appeared at this moment, demanding a price that I didn't want to pay.

Although the reason for not wanting to pay is different from what everyone thinks.

……

The copper-green cross was finally placed above the gray fog. Its level was roughly equivalent to the "No Darkness" of Sequence 4 of the "Sun" pathway.

It is worth mentioning that this thing also has the effect of making objects praise the sun. Since Klein had thrown the items into the pile of junk before and came down without even looking at them, he currently has several paper figures praising the sun. After experiments, Klein found that these paper figures can be used to perform the "Angel's Embrace" named by Fors, which is very effective in purification.

Alice refused to comment on this behavior. She asked a paper man to go down to serve as an alarm clock, and then threw the extraordinary characteristics of "Punishment Knight" and "Witch" into the gray mist - these came from Viscount Stratford and Sherman respectively.

At this time, Dwayne Dantès's hunting activity had ended. Alice and Klein had finished talking about their experiences. After listening to the way to positively push destiny, Klein asked a question curiously:
"If I become an angel in the future, can you let me have the power of an angel for a short time now?"

"What a genius idea," Alice sneered, "To be honest, it's theoretically feasible."

"What's the reality?" Klein had a bad feeling.

"Actually..." Alice blinked, "The outcome of fate is not predetermined, and the goal of an angel is too dangerous. If you don't anchor the future outcome in advance, you might accidentally walk into a fork in the road, and that fork in the road may be a dead end..."

She paused and said with a slightly serious expression:
"In other words, you might die... and it's a death that's very hard to save you from - because it's a death of fate. Your tributary converges into a dead end. You either have to find a way to continue on that road, or find a way to jump to another road, or find a way to go back to the fork in the road and walk it again...

"Otherwise, even if you are resurrected, you will still die."

Klein swallowed his saliva, gave up his previous idea, and asked again:
"So, do you have a way to anchor the future outcome? I mean, if you anchor the other party's death, then isn't that..."

"It's just what you think," Alice shrugged. "As for what you said... well, I do have a solution."

"What method?" Klein asked
Alice tilted her head, leaned forward, and beckoned for Klein to move his head closer. Klein cooperated and displayed the proper posture for whispering - he even turned off the lights in Sefirah Castle, leaving Alice speechless for a moment.

"Like this," Alice gave the order, "you shine another beam of light on our faces, right here, to make it look like a flashlight..."

She placed her hand under her chin.

Klein's mouth twitched, but he was already halfway through the show, so he just played along. Alice then held up a non-existent flashlight, raised a mysterious smile, and said softly:

"The prophecy will come true in some form."

……

At three o'clock on Monday afternoon, Alice held her new toy and watched the figures take shape on the high-back chair in no particular order.

Audrey, Justice, stood up as usual, facing the head of the bronze table, lifted her skirt and saluted:
"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool."

Hmm, she's in a bad mood... Is it because of the king? Hmm... Alice turned her head to look at Audrey.

Audrey's depressed mood did not affect her actions. After the Fool responded, she greeted the Tarot Club members one by one. Alice observed her for a while, gradually felt relieved, and then looked at "The Sun" Derrick.

After everyone had greeted each other, she was the first to ask Derrick:
"Why are you looking at me? Oh no, why are you looking at this cross?"

She held up the copper-green cross in her hand, her eyes confused.

"I feel like it's attracting me," Derrick explained. "Miss Fate, is this a high-level seal of the 'Sun' pathway?"

“Ah!” Alice reacted immediately. She looked at Derrick and frowned slightly.

"Perhaps I should tell you..." She began with a sigh, "There is a drop of blood of your Creator in this."

Derrick's face suddenly changed. He suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked at the cross. Alice generously showed it to him and said:
"This is His relic... Well, speaking of which, if you pay an equal price, I don't mind exchanging it with you... Oh, by the way, it should be useful to you." Its level is not too high, and it only corresponds to the 'No Dark One'. It has two main functions. One is to clear the mental pollution within the extraordinary characteristics, and the other is to help people who take too much magic potion to extract excess characteristics.

"It also has some of the abilities of a demigod of the 'sun' path. As for the side effects... besides being careful not to lose levels, you also have to be careful not to praise the sun...

“For you, it may have another use—when you plan to become a demigod, you can take out that drop of divine blood and use it as the main ingredient for your potion.

“This is a gift from the Son of the Creator.”

Son of the Creator…?
Xio and Fors, who knew the origin of the cross, looked at each other with confused eyes, not understanding how Viscount Stratford was related to the Son of the Creator.

As for which specific son of the Creator he was, no one had any doubts - their Miss Fate never called Amon that.

The surprise in the eyes of "Sun" Derrick could no longer be concealed. His ideal was to free all the residents of Silver City from the curse, return to the sun, and no longer endure madness, pain, and torture. At this moment, the child of the Creator they believed in delivered the Creator's relic to Miss Fate, and this relic happened to help them get rid of the curse!

How, how...

Alice stared at Derrick the Sun and reminded him faintly:

"I know you're excited, but I don't want you to say something like 'The Lord really hasn't abandoned us', even though I told you that at the time."

Derrick calmed down a little. He smiled with tears in his eyes and said with a trembling voice:

"Of course, I understand. Thank you, no, thank you, Miss Fortune, praise you..."

"Stop," Alice interrupted his incoherent thanks, "you should still feel grateful that your Lord has not abandoned you."

Audrey lowered her head and pursed her lips, feeling that her mood had improved a lot.

The others were probably already used to it and were trying to endure it, so there was an unusually abrupt sound: "Puff."

Alice looked at Leonard the Star coldly. After he gave her an awkward smile, she suddenly asked:

"Are you close to Sequence 5?"

Leonard nodded subconsciously, and Alice said slowly:
“If you don’t learn to shut up, I will fill you with a bottle of ‘Witch of Despair’ after you reach Sequence 5, and let you realize your long-cherished wish…”

Leonard was horrified. He tried to stop her, saying, "I'll go crazy!"

“No,” Alice shook her head. “Although it can’t be considered an adjacent path, you can turn into a witch. I’m not crazy… I’m just afraid it will be a bit difficult to continue to advance.”

Not a pathway adjacent, but not crazy…?
The "Hermit" Cattleya looked at Alice with curiosity, then quickly closed her eyes and lowered her head.

This strange behavior certainly attracted attention. The Fool chuckled and said:

"Don't worry, this pair of glasses can seal your 'Eye of Prying Eyes'."

"Wow," Alice exclaimed, "You're a demigod!"

"Yes, Miss Destiny." Cattleya said calmly, breathing a sigh of relief.

Then, she stood up, bowed to the Fool, and thanked him respectfully: “Praise you, great Mr. Fool.”

"No diary this time either?" Alice continued.

The Hermit Cattleya did not raise her head, but continued:

"The Queen sent me the entire Roselle diary. Due to the length of the diary, I cannot memorize it. I hope to get your permission to sacrifice the entire diary to you."

The whole book!

Now everyone was alert, even Klein was no exception, but he still remembered the character of the Fool, so he said steadily:
"very good.

"What's your problem?"

Cattleya continued to lower her head and said:

“The Queen wishes to use this as a price to ask you to revive Emperor Roselle when circumstances permit…”

Klein was unhappy. He felt himself sweating coldly. He looked at Alice in the gray fog. Alice looked up at him and blinked as she said,
“Mr. Fool, I’ve already given Bernadette my word. You won’t refuse to give me this face, right?”

Klein felt relieved and said with a smile:
"of course not."

Alice then turned to Cattleya and said, "What are you standing there for? Why don't you kneel down and kowtow to express your gratitude!"

After a moment of stunned silence, Cattleya hesitantly lowered her head and tried to figure out how to kneel. Klein couldn’t bear it anymore and stopped her:
"destiny."

Alice silently covered her mouth with her hand.

“You guys get started.” The Fool said coldly.

Cattleya immediately sat down, and "Justice" Audrey was the first to raise her hand and speak:
"Ms. Fate, can I ask how to change paths when they are not adjacent paths? I am willing to pay the price."

"Well," Alice paused, "theirs can't be said to be non-adjacent, but they're not that adjacent..."

Audrey looked confused, but Alice shook her head and said:
"You don't have an angel, so I can't tell you in detail... unless you want to seal this memory through hypnosis before you leave today."

Audrey stopped asking, and the others also gave up the idea. Alger, the Hanged Man, immediately asked:

"Miss Fate, can I rent your cross for a day or a few hours for a certain price?"

"Sure," Alice nodded with a smile, "You can rent it until Mr. Sun offers suitable exchange conditions... After that, you have to ask Mr. Sun."

Alger nodded to show that he understood. Alice looked around and saw that no one wanted to ask about the cross anymore, so she said:
“I have two items for sale.

"One is the Beyonder characteristic of 'Punishment Knight', and the other is the Beyonder characteristic of 'Witch'. As for the price, just follow the market price."

She was looking at Hugh when she said this. (End of this chapter)