Alice lowered her head and reflected deeply, then looked up and said:
"I remember now!
"I can just kill him once too..."
That, that made so much sense... Klein choked on her words and realized the key issue:
"Alice, have you considered that after you kill Ince Zangwill once, he should really be dead..."
I know, but what does that have to do with me? If he can't come back to life, that's his own problem... Alice retorted twice in her heart, but when she looked up at Klein, she changed her wording:
"Mm... then, shall I leave him to you?"
Alice's unconventional way of thinking left Klein somewhat speechless. He looked at her, carefully choosing his words as he considered how to make her understand the real point.
Alice, who actually understood what Klein wanted to say, saw his Hesitated to Speak expression and realized that playing dumb like this was not a Good Idea. She chose to finish acting out the scene she had started:
"Just kidding... I know what you mean, but, but if he's an enemy, there's No Need To care about his feelings..."
What if he wasn't an enemy? Had she ever truly cared about anyone... No, that wasn't right. She really did seem to care quite a lot about my feelings.
Klein glanced at Alice, recalling how he had jokingly called her Miss Fortune before, and suddenly felt a trace of unease.
—Could this be called Fate's favor?
But they both knew that there had never been any free gifts in this world, especially not from Fate.
Fate's favor might not be a good thing.
The lingering unease brought their conversation to a hasty end. It was not until she left the Gray Fog and saw the letter she had tossed onto the Coffee