Alice was flipping through Roselle's Diary.
"So these clean streets were all thanks to Emperor Roselle... I misunderstood him. He did do some good after all." Alice shook her head and sighed, then began thinking about the taste of roast swan.
...That used to be a protected animal!
Alice shook her head and turned to the second page.
Compared to the first page, which was full of daily life and useless aside from being funny, the second page was far denser with information.
"So an 'Alchemist' can imbue objects with souls? But this ritual..." Alice frowned slightly.
The ritual of the "Winner" possessed a quality perfectly suited to the Fate pathway, while Klein needed to consume the potion amid Mermaid's Song to advance to Marionettist.
Neither of those rituals was inherently good or evil, but the "Alchemist" was entirely different. Merely hearing the ritual's contents made one sense chaos and evil.
Extract all life force from a certain area, and the soil would turn to sand, the lakes would dry up...
Thinking of the Law of Conservation of Extraordinary Traits and the Beyonder Characteristic Conservation Law within neighboring sequences, Alice realized that the underlying nature of this world seemed to carry an air of madness and despair.
That was still far too distant a matter for Alice. She merely sighed over it before turning to the third page, then fell into deep thought.
"April 23rd. These nobles are truly a mess! I thought Madame Karen seduced me into bed because she appreciated my depth, but who knew that her husband, the Earl of Champagne, was peeping next door? He was even excited, and damn it, he wanted to fuck me too!
"I'm sorry, but I really couldn't accept that, so I could only kick him out of the room.
"Compared