The fact that Alice had let such a rumor spread gave Alger a peculiar sense of security. It never occurred to him that neither Alice nor "the World" might know about it.
It would be understandable if "the World" didn't know, but how could Miss Fortune, who had reclaimed her authority, not know?
In any case, that was the end of the matter. At Mr. Fool's signal, the Tarot Club meeting officially began.
Alice raised a hand and asked the question she'd been wanting to ask all along:
"Have any of you seen an honorific name like this? Or a book like this?"
Alice conjured an image of Cassandra, along with the incomprehensible honorific name.
"I think she qualifies as a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact," Alice said into the silence, introducing Cassandra. "She should have come from a Soothsayer—a Sequence 2 Angel."
After a pause, Alice added, "Oh, if you've seen any other Sealed Artifacts from a Soothsayer, you can tell me about those too."
The thought had only just occurred to her. Finding potion ingredients wasn't why she wanted to investigate Cassandra, but if she got hold of her, that would indeed take care of the main ingredient for Sequence 2.
The auxiliary ingredients might be even more troublesome by then, though.
But that wasn't something Alice needed to worry about now. It had simply struck her that she might as well ask... Hmm, hadn't she still not gathered all the main ingredients for Sequence 4?
Alice blinked innocently twice.
Surprisingly, information about this was easier to find than information about Cassandra, who was running around everywhere. Cattleya raised her hand.
"I once saw a Sealed Artifact called the Eye of the Prophet.
"It was a bloodshot eyeball. By meeting its gaze, you could glimpse anywhere from one to