"I like this story," Alice muttered to herself. "No matter what the truth is, I like this story."
The stolen Marauder Potion, the swindled Swindler Potion, and the Cryptologist Potion that had narrowly slipped past because of an erroneous interpretation—oh, she'd better get to take a look at her dying wish before she died.
That would be a perfect ending.
"Then..." Alice looked up at the ceiling, a new question arising. "For a story like this, an ending like this, was it something 'Cassandra' brought about unintentionally, or deliberately?"
It was a question, but Alice's tone was actually very certain.
He hadn't forgotten that High-Sequences influenced Low Sequences. By that logic, Cassandra had at most chosen this ending without realizing she was influencing it.
But regardless, she must have made that choice of her own accord. Only then would the nature of this matter seem sufficiently vile.
—Whether or not Cassandra was truly acting as a Soothsayer, Sylvia was a "toy."
The serious thought lasted only an instant before Alice quickly began letting her imagination run wild again:
"If we follow this line of thought, does every god in this world have a fixed personality template?
"The higher the Sequence, the closer they get to that personality template, until everyone ends up with roughly the same personality...
"Ah, looking at it this way, this world is really strange...
"In the beginning, it was like a massive puzzle, with countless pieces scattered everywhere.
"Becoming a god means making yourself more and more like one of those puzzle pieces...
"If we put enough puzzle pieces together, we can easily tell what the missing pieces look like. In other words, the beginning would find it easier to revive...
"But a puzzle is still too simple. Maybe it's one of those building-block games, the