Audrey's body stiffened slightly.
What had Miss Fate just said?
Before... before death?
For a moment, Audrey wished she were deaf, or at least not a Mind Reader.
Even if Miss Fate were a Beyonder who countered the Spectator Pathway... at least then Audrey would not have heard something so outrageous and realized it was the truth!
Audrey did not even have the mood to consider who the name Alice had nearly blurted out belonged to. She simply sat there stiffly.
Alice looked at Audrey in confusion and asked, "Why do you look so scared?"
Looking into Alice's utterly sincere eyes, Audrey fell into deep thought.
Alice's manner of speaking at the Tarot Club the day before surfaced in her mind. "For High-Sequence Beyonders, resurrection is not even that difficult..."
Seeing that Alice had not noticed anything wrong with what she had said, Audrey cautiously asked, "Before death?"
"Ah..." Alice suddenly realized, then became puzzled again. "Is that so scary?"
Audrey remained silent.
It was not actually difficult to infer. She was simply worried that Miss Fate had accidentally let something slip. In other words, she was worried about being silenced.
After all, it sounded like exactly the kind of thing Miss Fate could do.
Alice tilted her head and reflected seriously before saying, "Sorry. I've run into several angels recently, so I almost started thinking this was normal."
Audrey opened her mouth, suddenly not knowing what to say.
"So, is it true that a prince fell in love with a common girl and so on...?" Alice blinked twice.
"It's true," Audrey replied with complicated feelings. "And it also involved the death of a noble descendant."
Alice blinked her eyes and asked hesitantly, "Did they... fight a glorious duel for that girl?"
"?" A question mark slowly appeared above Audrey's