Alice suddenly snapped awake. She sat blankly in her chair, terror and confusion layered across her face.
When the wind blew past, Alice instinctively shrank back. Only then did she realize that her clothes had been soaked through with cold sweat.
That was only natural, wasn't it?
She truly could not understand what she had done to make the Calamity Priest potion digest directly. Even if it had been external acting, she should at least have acted the part before!
Because of Shen Yinghuan?
No, if that were the case, then the Lucky One potion should not have required her to digest it herself either.
Alice suddenly remembered what she had said to the Hanged Man.
"I seem to have had a very long dream. When I first awakened from it, I didn't remember who I was or where I came from..."
Remembering the blank stretch of memory before and after she swallowed the Sequence 7 Lucky One Beyonder Characteristic, and the reason for her unconsciousness that she could not recall after drinking the Sequence 6 Calamity Priest potion, Alice suddenly began to doubt the truthfulness of her words back then.
Perhaps the lie she had casually spoken was precisely the forgotten truth?
Only after a long while did Alice sigh and murmur, "Perhaps... this is fate..."
Alice remembered the origin of the name Briel Rose, that story called Sleeping Beauty, and her gaze gradually dimmed.
If she had once slept like the protagonist in that story, then where exactly had she slept? Had she always been asleep? Had she ever awakened midway, had she... once walked the world under another identity?
When a second chill wind brushed over Alice, she awoke from her train of thought and decided to take a bath and change her clothes while she was