Mystery: Big Alarm Clock Ghroth Path

Chapter 101 Miss Alice's Secret
As an extraordinary person with the ability to understand fate, Roger's intuition is very sharp. He immediately felt that Miss Alice seemed to have some signs of her fortune being disturbed.

"The intervention of extraordinary forces?"

Roger thought quickly in his mind, but remained calm on the surface.

He had a conversation with Miss Alice, who asked about the situation of Faye and others. After learning that they were all fine, she showed a relieved expression.

Then came the first morning rehearsal. Roger got the role of one of the two attendant knights who guarded a princess who was forced to wander because of a coup. Overall, his role was not too many, but he needed to sing a rather high-pitched and passionate battle cry, which was also one of the climaxes of the whole play.

Miss Alice's rehearsal time did not overlap with Roger's, so she stood in the audience and watched the latter's entire performance.

"Mr. Jeffrey, Baleno is indeed an excellent singer."

She was also quite surprised by Roger's performance. She thought that her singing skills were still quite far behind Roger's.

"Yes, that's why I said the 'Desert Island' bar was my lucky place. I unexpectedly discovered two excellent actors there."

Jack Jeffrey laughed.

After the rehearsal, Roger took the initiative to find Miss Alice and started chatting with her.

"Miss Alice, did you study vocal music in Ahowa County?"

Roger asked tentatively, he was very curious about Alice's sense of destiny disturbance.

When he spoke, he had already used his "trouble-stirring" ability to slightly influence Miss Alice's thinking and strengthen her desire to talk.

"Yes, I graduated from the Academy of Arts at Tingen University... To be honest, I originally wanted to study a technical field, but my family thought I had musical talent, so I studied vocal music."

Alice nodded, not hiding anything.

Tingen University is the largest university in Tingen, and is one of the two major institutions of higher learning in Ahowa County, along with Hoy University, where Klein graduated.

However, her words made Roger feel a little strange.

Because in this era of explosive industrial development, ordinary people generally do not choose art as their major of study.

At Runeterra, most of those who are able to enter university will give priority to engineering or science majors with relatively higher incomes, while a few will study liberal arts majors based on their interests or career plans in order to teach or engage in clerical work in the future.

Majors like art, where the future career development path is not very clear and the expenses are quite high, are generally only chosen by children from wealthy families.

The situations of Hannah, Kennedy and Tuckerman are different. The parents of these three are either music teachers or they accidentally came into contact with musical instruments while doing odd jobs in the theater troupe, which gave them the opportunity to become musicians.

Judging from what Alice said, she probably didn't originally intend to develop in the direction of music.

"I see. It seems like it's a family tradition."

Roger thought of this and tried to flatter.

"No, I swear to Goddess, my family is not actually in this business."

Alice explained, and then she seemed to remember something and sighed:
“It’s my brother, he’s the clerk of the Ahowa County Court and makes a decent income.

"He thought the family didn't need me to earn money, so he insisted that I pursue my own dreams."

Roger heard something strange in her words, because it was different from what he knew.

When he was singing in the "Desert Island" bar, he learned some things about Miss Alice from Mr. Faye.

According to Faye, Miss Alice seemed to be very short of money, so she sang in his bar.

Fortunately, she was lucky and was discovered and came to Backlund to develop her career not long after.

This undoubtedly did not agree with what Miss Alice said, but Roger consciously did not ask any further questions.

"It's already noon, Miss Alice. I'd like to invite you to dinner, is that okay? I hope you'll take good care of me in the future."

Roger stood up with a smile and extended an invitation to Alice.

"Okay, let's eat in the company restaurant. The eel soup and Fenebot noodles there are quite good."

Alice didn't refuse, but she took the initiative to suggest a place to eat. This was a prudent move, after all, she and Roger had just met for the first day, and eating at the company would not only protect her personal safety, but also prevent competitors from making up rumors.

Roger naturally had no reason to refuse, and the two of them had dinner together in the restaurant of Dwork Music Company. However, Roger took advantage of Miss Alice putting on makeup after the meal and quietly took the napkin she had used to wipe her mouth.

“I feel like a pervert…”

On the way out of the company, he muttered to himself.

After returning home, Roger found Klein sitting in the living room on the first floor, petting his cat while reading the report in the Backlund Post.

"Wow, even the great detective reads tabloids."

Roger joked that the Backlund Post was a tabloid in the news industry, often containing unverified rumors or gossip, and its authenticity was difficult to guarantee.

"Only detectives would look for clues in the tabloids. After all, the major newspapers won't report those shameful things."

Klein closed the newspaper and said seriously.

"Please do me a favor."

Roger took out the napkin from his pocket and handed it to Klein.

"Help me divine the recent experiences of the person who used this napkin... well, focus on family changes."

He thought about it and said.

Since Roger himself does not know how to tell fortunes through dreams, it is best to leave such matters to a "fortune teller".

Klein glanced at the lipstick mark on the napkin and smiled teasingly.
"I didn't realize you were such a pervert."

"Shit."

Roger waved his hand: "I'm investigating an extraordinary incident."

Seeing Roger's serious attitude, Klein stopped joking.

"Wait a moment, I'll be right up."

He took the napkin down to the basement and used it to enter the "dream divination" state.

Soon, the picture emerged.

The first thing that caught Klein's eye was the hem of a nightgown and a pair of female feet.

The foot was shoeless and was walking aimlessly on the wooden floor of a house.

"That's a bit strange... Who in their right mind would stare at their feet while walking in their own home?"

This made Klein feel very strange.

But soon, something even stranger happened.

Klein, who could only infer the woman's surroundings from the situation under her feet, saw three scenes switch in succession.

From the wooden floor, to a tiled area, and then the scene changes to a gray cobblestone road.

At this moment, the screen suddenly shook, and the first scene disappeared.

The switching between these three scenes was seamless and abrupt. Klein didn't see any of them passing through any doors.

This made him think of Bandit and frowned.

"Through the wall?"

　The second update will be coming soon.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)