Mystery: Lucky One

Chapter 709 Chapter 101 Sixteen Years (End)
Roy King sat back down after watching Alice walk out the door. He knew very well that leaving through the door was a strange ritual of the goddess. In fact, the moment she walked out the door, she was no longer in the real world.

But just as his butt touched the seat, Roy King stood up again in shock. He saluted respectfully and said:

“The Pope.”

The figure of a man with long silver hair appeared in front of him. He looked around and said directly without responding:
"She's gone?"

"Just left." Roy King replied.

Ouroboros nodded and disappeared without hesitation.

Roy King waited for a while before he straightened up. He looked around and made sure that no one was looking for him again before he sat down and picked up the novel.

……

Alice found Melissa Moretti in a church belonging to the Church of Fools.

She had black hair and brown eyes, a pretty face, and was wearing a dark skirt. When Alice sat down next to her, she subconsciously turned her head to look at her, then glared at her and was about to scream.

Alice quickly came over to cover her mouth and warned:

“Keep your voice down!

"I ran away secretly!"

Seeing Melissa nodded, Alice let her go, took back her hand and sat back, smiling:
"haven't seen you for a long time."

“…Your Majesty,” Melissa looked at her with complicated eyes, “You skipped class again?”

Alice blinked twice innocently and smiled, "It's not my fault. How can they expect an angel to listen to the class obediently?"

She and Melissa knew each other. When Miss Alice Moretti appeared in public as the Saint of the Church of Light, Melissa and her brother Benson noticed her last name.

Their first reaction was to inquire about the origins of this saint. The newly established Church of Light had a small number of members, but the management was not loose. Moreover, most members did not know what Moretti represented, so no one knew anything about her. Melissa only found out that she lived in Meige Manor.

Melissa found the manor nervously, but after just one look from a distance, she felt that this was not the place for her. She was about to leave when she saw a little girl climbing up the wall. Then her figure flashed and was about to fall down. There happened to be no one else around.

Melissa rushed over without thinking, but the girl steadied herself and flashed before appearing face to face in front of her. She then stretched out her tender little hand to cover her scream that was about to utter.

"Keep your voice down," she said. "I'm playing hooky, miss...wait, you look familiar, you, uh, no, you are--"

She lifted up Melissa's face and looked at her carefully as if she had discovered something. Melissa was so frightened that she dared not speak. At that time, she was already a Sequence 7 "appraiser", but she had been in the laboratory for many years and had not seen many real extraordinary events. The little girl floating in the air frightened her so much that her scalp numbed and she was terrified.

Alice noticed her condition, took her hand back, and said soothingly:

“You don’t have to be afraid.

"You are... um, you are Klein's sister, right? I remember your name should be Melissa, right?"

This statement, which was like exposing her identity, was like thunder from a clear sky. Melissa suddenly opened her eyes wide and looked at the girl. She had already fallen to the ground. Her not-so-tall stature and childish face, coupled with her silver hair and the red mole between her eyebrows, confirmed her identity. She blurted out:

"You are the Saint of the Church of Light!"

"Yes." Alice nodded with a smile.

Melissa quickly relaxed. The identity of the Orthodox Church made her trust them. So she quickly remembered Alice's question and her purpose, and couldn't help asking:
"Do you know Klein?"

Alice just glanced at Melissa quietly at that time, then chuckled and said:

"My last name is Moretti."

This was nonsense, but Melissa took it as if she had received affirmation. She immediately asked:

"He's still alive, isn't he?"

Alice thought about Klein's attitude. Klein, who had become a god at that time, no longer cared about exposing the truth in front of his former relatives, so Alice nodded with ease.

Melissa seemed to relax completely. She didn't even continue asking questions and was about to turn around and leave. Alice hurriedly shouted:
"Don't you want to ask about his current situation?"

Melissa paused, looked at Alice, and asked her a question:
"Is that something I should know?"

——After becoming a Beyonder, she already knew about the existence of confidentiality levels.

Alice smiled and replied:
“In terms of identity, no.

“But he wants you to know, and then no one can object.

“Like me - if I wanted to hide it, I shouldn’t have told people my last name was Moretti in the beginning. The last name itself is a hint.

"and……"

Her eyes fell on Melissa, and she asked thoughtfully, "You seem to have noticed something?"

Melissa was silent for a moment before she replied, "Are you...are you and Klein related by blood?"

Alice hummed and organized her words:
"Well...how can I explain it to you?
“We don’t have a blood relationship in the mortal sense. The connection between us comes from mysticism and fate.

"In terms of fate, we are mother and daughter - well, if you can't accept it, you can also think of us as father and daughter. This also needs to be more in line with your past cognition."

So, after hearing this, Melissa made a reasonable guess:

“He is now…”

She raised her hand and drew a scale symbol on her chest.

Alice fell into a brief silence. She sat on the ground, holding her stomach and rolling on the ground with laughter. Melissa stood there, neither moving forward nor backward. After a long while, she carefully shouted:

"...Your Majesty the Saint?"

"Hmm?" Alice stopped laughing instantly and sat up.

There was not a speck of dust on the ground that stuck to her, but Melissa did not find it strange. Having already entered the extraordinary world, she certainly had some understanding of the levels of extraordinary people. In her opinion, the Saint of the Church of Light was probably an angel of the Goddess of Light.

……goddess?
Mother and daughter...

Thinking of a possibility, Melissa's face looked a little ugly. Alice raised her hand and said:

"Can you squat down and talk to me? Keeping your head tilted up like this is not good for a child's physical development."

Melissa squatted down obediently.

Alice stopped laughing for a moment and got up from the ground and told Melissa:

"I'm going to tell Klein about this... Ha, but you can't go back with this understanding, otherwise he won't let me go.

“Well, let me give you a hint…Have you read the holy text of the Church of Light?” Melissa nodded without hesitation.

Alice laughed and gave a hint:

“You’re right about one thing. He has indeed reached that level. However, Ms. Melissa, you should broaden your horizons.

"According to the Holy Scriptures of our Lord, He has three 'mothers'... guess which one is your brother?"

Melissa's pupils suddenly contracted. Her mind was not on the Saint of Light in front of her, so she had no idea about the Saint of Light's identity. She just remembered the relevant records in the Holy Book of Light:
"The Creator is His first Mother. In the eternal darkness and chaos, the Creator announced to the world: 'Let there be light.'

“Thus, the first ray of light in the world was born. It illuminates the world and brings brightness and hope to life.

"The goddess of the Styx is his second mother. The obsession of the dead souls surges into a whirlpool in the depths of the Styx. Those unfulfilled wishes turn into silver fish chasing the light and swim upstream. The veil of the goddess of the Styx brushes over the most persistent wandering souls, giving them the strength to move forward.

“The Fool is his third mother. The mysterious ruler above the gray fog watches the life that leaps out of the Styx. He carries the misfortune from the Styx. Without the guidance of luck, he will be knocked down by the turbulent waves of the Styx again.

“So, the fool bestowed luck upon him, and he finally grasped the original light and became one with it…”

The Creator... The Goddess of the Styx... The Fool...

The three gods flashed through Melissa's mind one by one, and she found the answer almost immediately. She stared at Alice and said,

"...The Creator is the god believed in by the Aurora Society. He has existed for a long time. The Goddess of the Styx is actually the former Goddess of Night. My family are all believers of the Goddess of Night. Only the Fool... I have never heard of this god before.

"But the fool..."

"A fool who does not belong to this era," Alice laughed. "Don't worry, I assure you, he is your brother, not the other possibility you thought of."

Melissa wanted to say something, but Alice suddenly looked back and said:

"If I don't run away, I will be found soon.

"Melissa, if you have more questions, ask them yourself - this is where my responsibility ends.

"Well, you are already a Beyonder. You don't need me to teach you the rituals of the occult, right?"

This was the first time Alice and Melissa met. The content of Klein's plan that required slow planning was completely completed by Alice in one meeting. As for the follow-up, that was a matter between Klein and Melissa.

Alice rarely went to look for Melissa afterwards, but Melissa would come to Alice from time to time to find out about Klein's experience.

Seeing Melissa now, Alice thought she was going to ask about Klein again. She watched Melissa quickly ignore the topic of skipping class and organize her words, but she heard an unexpected question:

“Your Highness, do you know of other ways to advance to Sequence 4?”

"Uh," Alice paused, "I know, what's wrong?"

"They are all so..." Melissa frowned, and hesitated, "Are they all so evil?"

Alice was stunned for a moment, then realized that she was about to be promoted to Sequence 4. However, the promotion ceremony for Sequence 4 of the "Generalist" path was to "extract all the vitality in a certain area, causing the soil to become desertified and the lakes to dry up."

Melissa is not going to like this ceremony.

But there are many ways to solve this problem, so Alice said:

"If it were you, you would still have many options. After all, the essence of a ritual is just to ask about a stable state.

"Even if we don't consider alternative rituals, there are simple ways. For example, find a planet without any living things. For another example, you can consider...

"Well, have you heard of 'conferring'?"

This was something new that came from the Western Continent. Most ordinary Beyonders didn’t know about it. Even Melissa wouldn’t have received the news when she didn’t need it. So she just asked in confusion:

"what is that?"

Alice shook her head and replied:

“Oh, actually I’m not sure how to explain it to you, because I don’t know how.

"But I know that if you use this method to get promoted, the requirements for the ceremony can be greatly reduced. Maybe you don't even need a ceremony... Of course, it's better to have a ceremony, but at that time, the ceremony shouldn't make you so uncomfortable.

"You can think about it first. After all, you are not in a hurry. Well, if it doesn't work after trying it, you can look for a lifeless planet. That should be possible.

"Want to try?"

"How should I try it?" Melissa asked again.

"I can introduce you to a teacher," Alice raised her eyebrows. "Of course, if you go to the Church of Steam or the Church of Fools, I don't think they will reject you."

Melissa nodded thoughtfully, her expression seeming to be in deep thought.

Alice stood up and left quietly. She looked around and then her eyes fixed on a figure with long silver hair in the corner.

It seemed that He had already arrived here, but was just standing there quietly, not actively disturbing her.

Alice was stunned for a moment, then walked over and asked in a low voice:

"how did you find me?"

The silver-haired angel glanced at her, pointed at Melissa who was sitting in deep thought, and explained calmly:

"Your mother passed on to me the images of you with her."

...Damn Klein!
Alice gritted her teeth, then sneered, "Let's go back!"

The silver-haired angel, Ouroboros, shook his head, followed her, and reminded her softly:
"Your Majesty, your mother also mentioned something to me."

Alice frowned and looked back at Him. Ouroboros said:

"You are already sixteen years old this year, and you will be an adult in two years. Your mother hopes that you can experience a complete mortal life. She hopes that you can enter a university..."

"......?" Alice gasped and took two steps back in fear. "Are you kidding me, Ouroboros?"

Ouroboros shook his head regretfully and replied, "Perhaps you should ask your mother."

"..." Alice bit her lip. After a few seconds, she laughed again, "You... forget it, you are not suitable. Um, has Amon ever been to college?"

“…Probably not,” Ouroboros thought for a moment and replied, “No, I’m not too sure. Maybe one of His clones went to college…”

"Tell me," Alice tilted her head, "If I invite Amon to go to college with me, would He agree?"

“…I don’t know.” Ouroboros replied calmly.

(End of this chapter)