Mystery: Lucky One

Alice found it difficult to describe how she felt right now.

In a sense, her promotion along the way can be described as smooth sailing. Putting aside the process of the ceremony, at least the step from taking the potion to completing the promotion can be described as painless.

——At least, Alice had never experienced the kind of soul-tearing pain that Klein described.

In fact, there was none this time.

The erosion of fate was much gentler and more silent. Alice even felt comfortable and warm here before she realized that she was dissolving in this long river of light.

When Alice realized this, she should have been terrified, but she didn't have time to be terrified. She knew she had to find a solution before she was completely dissolved. Otherwise, she would disappear silently like all the tributaries that flow into the main trunk.

and so……

Amon, hurry up!
——This is a joke.

The moment Alice took away the "blasphemous stone tablet", the focus of her ritual was no longer on Amon, but on the "blasphemous stone tablet" and the "Sea of ​​Chaos".

In front of the "Giant King's Court", when Alice saw Klein being affected by the "Chaos Sea", she tried to help Klein fight against this influence without thinking. She undoubtedly failed, and the "Chaos Sea" even left a mark in her own tributary.

But is that a bad thing? At least at this moment, Alice found that it was a good thing.

That brand is like the best anchor point. No matter how the waves of the long river of fate rise and fall, they cannot wash away the brand and the "blasphemous slate" connected to it.

This allows Alice to use this as the core and continuously gather her dissolving self back together.

But this is not enough, Alice knows that she must find something to "hold" herself, just like when she first stepped into the long river of fate many years ago, she needed something to protect herself from dissolving in it.

……what is it then?

It was unrealistic to expect to use the "blasphemous slate" as driftwood; it was too heavy. Alice pulled it twice, and when she found that it didn't move at all, she knew she should change her target.

She soon found the second thing.

It was a "net" wrapped around her, full of loopholes.

The "water" of the long river of fate continued to seep in through the holes of the "net", dissolving her, but the "net" itself had no effect. When Alice noticed this scene, she naturally thought of the origin of the "net".

——This is the “web” woven by the destinies associated with the “prophet” during her promotion ceremony!
This is the "net" that suffocates her and also guides her.

However, it has many "holes". If I don't fill these "holes", I will... wait, if I fill these "holes", I will suffocate, right?

A seemingly unsolvable problem arose, but Alice often had unexpectedly good ideas at such times.

——Since it will dissolve if it is not filled, and will suffocate if it is filled, then fill it with a material that will not dissolve and can help her breathe!
Alice thought of the frog.

She was impressed by this creature because it had an ability that shocked her at the time - the frog could breathe through its skin.

So, could she have a "skin" that can breathe, like a frog's...?
Spread out these "ropes", let them blend together, and add a little bit of myself to form a finer and denser "net"...or should I say, skin?
In addition, I must retain enough dominant consciousness...

For this step, the difficulty seemed to be just to think of the solution. Alice was surprised to find that when she had the idea, all operations were not difficult at all. The "net" that was originally full of loopholes was thus bridged with a part of herself, becoming a bridge for her to communicate with the long river of fate, but also separating her from the long river of fate.

Seeing this scene, Alice realized that her crisis had been resolved, and what she had to do now was to leave the river and return to her body!

Oh, in a sense, she no longer has a body... Even if she hasn't been completely dissolved, she can now truly be said to be a part of the long river of fate.

With messy thoughts, a roulette wheel that gradually changes from silver to dark black rises from the river of fate and then disappears into thin air.

In the material world, a flash of silver appeared where Alice had disappeared, and then a giant silver-white scaleless snake emerged completely, connected from head to tail.

A black spot appeared in the center of the circle. When it was about to spread, the cold and indifferent blood-red pupils caught a glimpse of an illusory figure.

“He” has a young face, wears a pointed hat, a black robe, and is playing with a monocle in his hand. His figure is changing from virtual to real, and at this moment, this semi-virtual figure is looking at the new “Wheel of Fortune” in front of him with a look of curiosity and thought.

Then, He stretched out a semi-illusory hand toward the newly born "Wheel of Fortune".

He clearly had the face of Amon, but Alice instinctively felt a sense of crisis, which was something Amon would never give her. Almost instinctively, she obeyed another will, and a huge gray-white slab of stone popped out from the deep darkness that was about to spread in the middle and smashed towards the person in front of her.

Then, Alice disappeared in a flash, leaving behind only a piece of snake skin that had finally taken shape.

The hand that was stretched out to her did not have time to stop it, because at this moment, the stone slab was obviously more eye-catching. It seemed to have sensed something, and before it could struggle to jump out, a sticky and illusory dark ocean came as a response and enveloped the figure in front of it.

The ground of the "God-Forsaken Land" began to tremble, and a deep black illusory ocean continued to surge out from the ground, as if it was hunting something. Invisible screams rose from this area, and the owner of the hand that reached out to the "Wheel of Fortune" was eventually submerged by this ocean.

……

Chernobyl.

In the illusory deep darkness, only this gray-white building hidden underground was unaffected.

A dry hand once again reached the edge of the cliff, pulled his body up, and then sat on the shore, panting, and muttered to himself:
“Finally I made it up… Hey, but this time, I really can’t seem to feel my original body and other clones… Am I really free?
"No, the original body must have cut off the connection between me and the other clones, intending to defraud me... Ha, I won't be fooled!"

He stood up from the ground and was about to take action, but suddenly stopped and looked back.

There was an illusory, sticky, dark ocean there. At this moment, the ocean was surging, as if it had sensed some dangerous aura.

"It's broken..." He muttered to himself, "It seems to be true..."

...The "heart-stirring" escape of the three people in the "God-forsaken Land" lasted a short time, but also a long time.

Miss Fate missed the first Tarot Club after Mr. Fool was revived. Facing the puzzled and worried eyes of the other Tarot Club members, Mr. Fool glanced at Alice who was running wildly in the "God-Forsaken Land" and decided to save some face for Alice.

"He is participating in a special gambling game," he told the others. "The dealer is fate, and the gamblers are him and two other competitors."

Although he said so, Klein was actually still quite worried about Alice. When he noticed the three people gathered together, Klein realized that Alice probably didn't have to worry about how to get Will Auceptin to hunt her down.

But judging from Alice's expression, Klein felt that there must be something wrong with her deification ceremony.

But here, Klein found that it was difficult for him to help. In the past few days, he had handed over all the matters concerning the residents of Silver City and other "God-forsaken Lands" to Danitz. He would only deal with them when they were really unsolvable. As for the rest of his time, he spent most of it on "Source Castle".

This escape game was very boring, but Klein was more worried that if he didn't pay attention, Alice would suddenly disappear at some point, and the one who came back would no longer be Alice.

This day was the same. He ate his meal as usual and prepared to return to Sefirah Castle to continue observing Alice's situation. He stood up and said to himself:
“I actually thought about what to do if Danitz’s meal delivery was unreliable, but it didn’t work out in the end. Really…”

He turned and walked towards the room, but suddenly stopped after a few steps, his eyes blank for a moment:

"Why am I walking back? Didn't I come here to eat? No, that's not right, I've clearly already eaten... I forgot..."

Klein's inspiration was touched, and he "looked" toward the outside world. The people on the street were in a similar state to him. Some had forgotten what they had just done, some had not done something but remembered that they had done it, and some grabbed the people around them with a look of horror, saying that they had just seen themselves die...

Klein didn't look any further. His heart sank slightly, knowing that he didn't need to go to Sefirah Castle anymore. He just needed to wait for the result.

……

Daly leaned back in the chair, raised her hand to press her lower abdomen, and looked at Dunn with an inexplicable expression.

"What's wrong?" Dunn looked at her puzzledly.

"I think..." Daly lowered her head thoughtfully, "I think I'm pregnant just now."

“???” Dunn’s eyes were filled with confusion. “How is this possible? Clearly…”

When Sequence 5 and Sequence 6 Beyonders have extra Beyonder traits in their bodies, they will be passed on to their children uncontrollably, and the children will become born half Beyonders.

Therefore, Extraordinary people at this stage have a sense of whether they have left behind offspring.

But not to mention that he and Daly had no feelings at all, at this time - they didn't do anything?
Daly also shook her head and said puzzledly: "Maybe we should ask the goddess... My intuition tells me so."

“Ask the goddess?” Dunn was startled, frowning. “Tell me, is it possible that…”

He paused, looked in a certain direction as if in a trance, and said with a sigh:

"yes……

"…What was I about to say?"

He looked at Daley blankly. Daley pressed his head and was in a trance for a moment. Then he seemed to remember something and said:
"I think I was going to ask the goddess... Oh, I remember now."

She turned to Dunn, her expression serious again: "I think I'm pregnant."

……

As an angel who had initially mastered the power of destiny, Klein was surprised to find that the target of the "restart" ability was not his body - such as the uterus, but his destiny.

However, this also means that this ability may not require such high physical requirements, perhaps...

“Could your ‘restart’ really make a man pregnant…?” Klein muttered.

“…?” Alice, who had just landed, fell into deep thought upon hearing this question. “Don’t you consider yourself a man anymore, Mr. Fool?”

"...I mean the man before the angels," Klein tried to explain. "Can you make a man before the angels get pregnant?"

"...'Witch'?" Alice put forward a wonderful idea.

During the brief conversation, Klein felt relieved in many ways. Judging from Alice's stubborn answer, it was probably not realistic to make an angel's ex-man pregnant.

Another reason for him to relax was that he was basically sure that this was still the Alice he knew. As for why it was basically...

"I want to ask you a question," Klein suddenly became serious, "∫(1/sinx)dx=?"

The surroundings suddenly became quiet. After more than ten seconds, Alice gave an answer in a very mechanical voice:
"ln|tan(x/2)|+ C or ln|cscx - cotx|+ C."

Klein was completely confused. He didn't understand why Alice knew that, but this answer made him feel that this must be Alice - even if she had become another person, she should know that her previous incarnation was illiterate, right?
In fact, this is what Klein thought when he first asked this question. Alice definitely doesn't know the answer, but it's not the right reaction for Alice to openly say that she doesn't know.

The correct reaction should be to wonder what that sentence meant - that's right, he felt that Alice probably didn't understand his question at all!

It’s like if someone asks you if you have drunk Meng Po soup, saying “no” is definitely not the correct answer, but saying “yes” is not right either - you have already drunk it, how can you still remember it?
Alice understood Klein's confusion very well. After she answered, she explained:
"First of all, I think you probably forgot that Loen also has mathematics... Although I haven't learned it, Loen does have it. I can exchange this knowledge for divination.

"And... I am a 'machine'! If you don't want me to learn these things myself, but just want the calculation results, even if I can't divine the answer, I can just divine the calculation method and process, and then put the formula in directly - you just gave me a formula, not asking me to prove a theorem or something like that!

"I, I just didn't react before. If I think about it, I will definitely know the answer..." (End of this chapter)