This was actually Alice's unique way of thinking and speaking. Alice felt nothing when she did it herself, but when Klein put it that way, she suddenly felt a little stifled inside.
"...Your smile looks awful." Alice raised her head and shot Klein a quick glance before lowering it again.
He seemed sad... Hmm, what should I do?
Alice realized she had absolutely no experience in this regard—normally, her only experience in similar situations was clutching her stomach and bursting into laughter.
Alice felt that she should comfort Klein, but the line closest to comfort had already been said by Klein himself—and had even had the opposite effect. This left Alice completely at a loss, so after hesitating for a moment, she tried to change the subject:
"I-I have something I need your help with.
"I need to change my honorific name before Will Auceptin is born... Help me think of one?"
Although she had originally planned to dump this matter on Klein, Alice had thought she could put it off a while longer. After all, Will Auceptin's due date was at least sometime in june or july...
Eh, could I change His birthday?
In mysticism, a date of birth carried great significance. Let alone the fact that the date Will Auceptin had chosen for His own birth must have been carefully selected.
For a Mercury Serpent, changing something like this would not be enough to completely lock anything in place, but it would definitely be enough to disgust Him.
What had begun as a casual suggestion made Alice suddenly start considering whether it was feasible.
Changing her honorific name before Will Auceptin was born... Alice's words successfully pulled Klein back from his tangled train of thought. He calculated the likely due date and found that it really would be