"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool, and everyone~"
Following Miss Justice's lively greeting, everyone rose to pay their respects to the Fool before today's Tarot Club gathering began.
Naturally, they started with the traditional presentation of diary pages. Once again, only Cattleya the Hermit, who had the backing of Queen Mystic, brought two pages. The other members had come up empty-handed.
Angel felt tremendous pressure beneath Mr. Fool's faintly directed gaze. She believed the others felt the same.
Fortunately, the Fool said nothing about it. He simply finished reading the two diary pages in silence, then asked the Hermit in a low voice:
"What would you like to know? Roselle's situation?"
Despite having her intentions exposed, the Hermit spoke steadily, as though she had prepared her answer long ago:
"Yes, esteemed Mr. Fool. I would like to know whether there is any possibility that the emperor is still alive."
Emperor Roselle, the Emperor Caesar who was assassinated in his own palace late in life, might still be alive? As expected, even without acquiring the ability to decipher Chinese, Queen Mystic Bernadette is doing her best to use the Hermit to decipher Roselle's Diary in her possession, hoping to uncover the secrets of her father's final years. And as his daughter, she would naturally be able to select the most appropriate pages to give Mr. Fool... Angel looked toward the Hermit with a complicated expression.
The other members exchanged glances, then turned together toward the figure at the head of the long table, awaiting his answer.
Roselle, a great man who had died nearly two hundred years ago, had no direct connection to their present lives. But everyone was curious, especially when satisfying that curiosity cost them nothing.
"Perhaps, but I'm afraid it would not be in the form she hopes for."
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