Mystery: Lucky One

"...What are you talking about?" Alice's eyes were clear and there was no sign of being tainted by knowledge. "Can you say it again? I don't think I understand... What integral? What dx? What are you talking about..."

Klein breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile:

"It's okay, it's okay, it's normal that you didn't understand.

"I'm afraid you understand."

Having said this, he dismissed the historical projection of the bed and took out a set of tables and chairs and a set of tableware.

Alice tilted her head in confusion, stopped dwelling on the question, and began to squeeze milk into the cup.

While chewing mushrooms, Alice finally had time to recall what she had heard last. She patted her head, shook her head and looked at Klein, and asked him:
"Do you have the key to open the door to the Giant King's Court?"

“In Sephira Castle,” Klein answered.

Alice nodded thoughtfully, then smiled at Klein:
"Regarding my godhood ceremony, I have good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear?"

"Good news?" Klein asked tentatively.

"I'm sure I've found a way. Now the only thing I need to worry about is how to make Will hunt me down." She spread her hands.

"What about the bad news?" Klein was not happy.

Alice's face darkened for a moment, and she answered:
“Bad news… Well, some powers are not so easy to borrow.

"I think I need to go to the Giant King's Court to get something... Oh, Klein."

She looked at Klein, a slight hesitation flashing in her eyes:
"I think this is probably very dangerous, but He specifically asked you to go, and others probably can't do it... I mean, you can refuse, at worst... at worst I don't know what to do."

She put down the mushroom in despair, took a deep breath, and looked past Klein into the bottomless darkness, murmuring:

"...You may be needed to push open the door to the Giant King's Court."

“No one else can do it?” Klein confirmed.

"I'm not sure," Alice looked back at the barrier, "but I'm afraid..."

...It's more likely to be a bad situation.

Klein guessed the answer and was not too surprised. He just reminded:

"I suppose so... Otherwise, Alice...

"How could this ceremony prepared for me be preserved until now? No, maybe it's not for me either. Let me guess...

"It's related to 'Source Castle', right?"

It was clearly a question, but Klein's tone was extremely firm. Alice fell silent and nodded with difficulty. Klein raised his hand and touched the top of her head and asked:

"Did the True Creator tell you?"

"...Yes," Alice nodded, "By the way, the other thing...maybe it can be considered a commission, or compensation."

She squatted up with a strange expression, stretched out a hand to Klein and said:
"Do you have a pen and paper?"

“…I think I should get it for you from Sefirah Castle,” Klein refused. “You seem to need to draw something that can be preserved for a long time.”

Alice nodded slightly, and Klein turned aside to get something from the "Source Castle". Alice looked at the ritual materials taken out from the mist of history in silence. She quietly opened her automatic response program and added a condition that the historical projection did not respond.

...Damn "ancient scholars"!
The "ancient scholar" next to him knew nothing. He took the paper and pen and handed them to Alice. Alice took it and asked Klein to prepare a set of student desks and chairs and a fully charged desk lamp in a very ceremonial manner.

Sitting at the familiar desk and chair, Alice straightened her back, picked up the pen and began to sketch the map in her mind.

This is what she found after she woke up. It was probably a map of the "God-forsaken Land" that the "True Creator" had inserted into her. It had cities of all sizes marked on it, with their names, the time of last contact, beliefs at the time, and other details...

The "True Creator" drew a map with every detail marked. There were also destroyed cities marked on it. Alice pointed them out one by one according to her memory and then wrote down their names.

She did not write the introduction directly next to the name. Instead, after drawing the entire map, she wrote the names of the cities one by one in order from left to right and from top to bottom, and noted the introduction at the back.

To be honest, there are actually quite a few cities in the "God-forsaken Land". The catastrophe came unexpectedly and many people did not have time to evacuate. There are many such cities here.

Alice guessed that the Sun God back then never thought of dragging it out for so long. Thinking about Sasriel in the "Giant King's Court" and the first "blasphemous slab", Alice realized that the Sun God back then should have planned to resurrect on the spot, but he didn't expect... Speaking of which, who started eating this meal first?
An impolite thought flashed through Alice's mind, but she quickly gathered her thoughts and continued to perfect the map.

Klein didn't bother her the whole time. He watched the map gradually take shape and watched her write it down one by one. Klein sighed:
"Most of the cities here are gone..."

"Well..." Alice responded softly, "We have to get out of the city that is still preserved."

“…Ah?” Klein was confused.

"Go to all the cities that may still exist," Alice said, looking up. "You can spread your faith. At present, it seems that the True Creator does not intend to take care of this... His request is to take all these people out of here before the opportunity comes."

“…What opportunity?” Klein was stunned for a moment. “Your opportunity to become a god? But why… is this a battlefield? Even if you and Will Auceptin fight, the True Creator shouldn’t worry too much about this… If you fight, it shouldn’t cause much damage, right?”

"...We don't have obvious destructive power," Alice rolled her eyes, "but our divine power can also make a place uninhabitable... unless you accept that you may die in various strange ways at any time, such as choking on water, falling to the ground, etc..."

“…No need.” Klein took a half step back. “Is He worried about this?”

"I'm afraid it will be even more dangerous," Alice shook her head. "I'm afraid by then it won't even be a question of whether people can live here... I'm not in a position to explain to you, but some... uh, some things will be more effective the fewer people know about them."

Klein nodded to show his understanding.

Alice let out a breath, handed over the paper and said:

"You'd better leave some believers for them, otherwise..."

"Why don't you go by yourself," Klein suggested, "and say you are the Angel of Destiny..."

"......?" Alice looked up at the sky. "...If you don't say anything, I'll take it as your consent?"

No one responded. Alice was silent for a moment, then simply took this as a tacit agreement. She sat on the ground and stretched out a hand to Klein: "You have to give me the 'Staff of Life'."

“That’s no problem,” Klein said without objection, “But I’m curious, how are you going to deal with the effects of the purification?”

Alice gave a polite smile and replied:

"When I see him soon, I will go find the little 'Sun' and bring him here with the cross. I will tell him that he was once a pure white angel under the Lord's throne, but he fell to a lower level due to an injury and is currently trying to regain his past strength..."

“……?” Klein opened his mouth in shock, not knowing how to comment for a moment.

"If Mr. Hanged Man is willing to come, we still have the Wind Angel..." Alice continued counting, "and Miss Justice, the Angel of Illusion. We can ask Danitz or Anderson to come as the Red Angel. The Cherubim are more troublesome. Asking Edwina to come won't end well. Maybe we can ask Bernadette..."

She counted the angel kings under the Creator's throne one by one by counting on her fingers.

The Dark Angel was pushed onto Heath Doyle by Alice, and the Time Angel undoubtedly belonged to Pales. Of course, the premise here is that Pales has the courage to impersonate Amon.

Klein was stunned and horrified to find that as long as Alice's words could convince people, she could really come up with every method. If necessary, some Angel Kings themselves might even be willing to cooperate with her.

"But aren't you working in vain?" he finally asked weakly.

“How can this be a waste of time?” Alice asked in return. “Ouroboros will not dwell on the position of God. If fate leads, I guess He will consider giving up His Beyonder characteristics… In this case, as long as my Lord is still willing to acknowledge me after everything is over, how can I not be the King of Angels under my Lord? Oh no, then maybe I should be called a Subordinate God… A true Subordinate God.”

“…Why did you call my Lord already?” Klein’s eyes widened.

“Don’t worry, Mr. Fool,” Alice patted Klein’s shoulder with a serious expression. “You are my first love... No, I mean you are my first... Oh no, the first god I believed in was the goddess.”

She and Klein looked at each other. After a few seconds, Klein smiled and said:
"It's ok.

“We can still be colleagues.”

"...I don't think it can be forgotten, right?" Alice shook her head. "You've even received the breakup fee..."

“?” Klein glared at her.

Alice blinked innocently and immediately changed her words:

"I'm talking about the pension. You've even received the pension. How can we not be considered colleagues?"

"The one who died was Klein Moretti," Klein shook his head seriously, "What does this have to do with me, Merlin Hermes?"

"Yes," Alice said with a serious expression, "Your name was given by Klein Moretti, and your body was conceived by Klein Moretti...created. As we all know, a name is the first gift parents give to their children, so did you know that it was actually your mother who died?"

Klein didn't say anything. He calmly picked out the largest mushroom from the pile and stuffed it into Alice's mouth expressionlessly.

"Shut up," he said.

……

Of course Alice did not set off immediately. After the great summoning spell that was almost like praying, she finally had the right to walk freely in the "God-forsaken Land". She no longer needed to rely on a car to live a miserable life, nor did she need to test the maximum flying speed of an angel at kilometers per hour.

Therefore, although the entire map looked huge, it was not that troublesome for her. She actually had plenty of time to prepare. For example, she could watch Klein's treatment of Moon City and use it as a reference.

The second arrival of Yuecheng was not far away. They were excited and quickly gathered the first team and rushed to the barrier.

Alice discovered them by making a sharp swallowing sound. She searched among the crowd with a slightly strange look on her face and told them hesitantly:
“If you are hungry, you can come and eat.

"Has your high priest introduced this kind of food to you? They are called mushrooms and have different flavors. This is a..."

Out of respect, Alice habitually introduced the inventor when introducing the Moon City residents, and the high priest Nim replied:

"I want to listen to Mr. Fool's teachings first."

This is Klein's area of ​​expertise. Alice looked over and saw Klein nodded slightly. He turned the barbecue skewer he summoned from the pores of history and spoke:
"You can sit down and listen."

You have to be nonchalant, you have to appear friendly... wait, I'm not a preacher, why should I learn this?

Alice changed her attitude of appreciation. She propped up her chin and listened to Klein's nonsense and deceptions, completing a wonderful storytelling in front of the residents of Moon City.

When Klein finished speaking, Alice was the first to applaud enthusiastically and shouted:

"it is good!!!"

At the same time, she threw the iron stick in her hand forward as a reward, and secretly requested:

"Bake me another one."

The residents of Moon City looked at each other in bewilderment. They just thought it was some kind of custom outside, especially since the high priest Nim had already warned them before they came that they should not be surprised by the strange behavior of Miss Destiny, but just treat it with a normal mind. If it had no impact on them, they might consider cooperating.

This was one of those things that had no impact on them, so the residents of Moon City also applauded and shouted loudly:
"it is good!!!"

The applause was like thunder, and the shouting did not stop for a long time. Klein gritted his teeth and waited for the applause to stop before speaking as if nothing had happened:
“You can give it a try.”

As he said this, he took out a handful of sticks.

It was actually originally a bundle. Klein took it out from the historical projection and spread it out, and they now had a lot of sticks.

Klein distributed the skewers to the residents of Moon City one by one, carefully reminded them of the precautions, and then watched them start grilling.

In the dim firelight, the first person who bit the mushroom shed tears of emotion, sobbing and saying:

“This is the most wonderful, most wonderful food I have ever eaten…”

——The indomitable spirit of life has allowed them to adapt to the taste of monsters through generations of inheritance, but the human body naturally craves sugar and fat, and rejects foods that are filled with madness and toxins.

Or maybe, those can't be called food at all. (End of this chapter)