This was one possibility Alice had guessed at.
The rituals for every sequence of the Fate pathway carried an incomprehensible air about them, especially Sequence 0—what did it mean to find the right opportunity amid the torrent of fate?
Now, it seemed Fate had used a shared dream to give Them an answer to that question.
Alice had tried to interpret that terrifying dream from the very beginning. Unfortunately, she had been badly frightened at the time and only felt that she might end up as potion ingredients.
But now...
Perhaps she needed to escape that fate, or perhaps, perhaps...
Alice remembered the advancement ritual of the Mercury Serpent.
...My opportunity can't possibly be a destined death, can it? Wouldn't those two rituals be repeating each other?
That said, Alice knew very clearly that this possibility wasn't small—if one wanted to break free from their original fate, then for a Beyonder of the Fate pathway, dying first and restarting after death was undoubtedly the best option.
Setting herself aside, if the scene Will Auceptin saw was him swallowing her, Alice suspected it might have been a misinterpreted revelation.
—For example, Will Auceptin didn't know that she needed to ascend the Fate pathway's peak alone. He only knew that such an outcome was His opportunity.
As for Ouroboros... Ouroboros had honestly shown Alice the dream directly. Judging by His behavior, Alice believed it should be real.
He didn't look like someone who had that many schemes.
And if Ouroboros's dream itself could count as an opportunity, Alice felt that the dream only conveyed one meaning—becoming a god had nothing to do with you, so stop dreaming about it.
After all, it was in the third person... Of course, if one interpreted it a little off-track, perhaps one might take it as