...?
They all fell silent.
Will Auceptin's hostility toward Alice had never been concealed. Now that he had confirmed Klein's relationship with Alice, it wasn't impossible that he might make a move against Klein.
But after seriously considering it, Klein chose to question that speculation:
"If he wanted to make a move, what had he been doing from the time you got the Dice of Probability until now?"
"Maybe," Alice said, folding her hands beneath her chin as she seriously considered the grave question, "he thought I was too weak back then, so fighting me wouldn't be interesting."
Klein began looking at Alice with a strange expression. At last, Alice could no longer endure it and screamed as she denied what she had just said:
"I know that reason isn't reliable!
"But you can't conclude from that alone that Will Auceptin won't hurt you, can you?"
Klein looked at Alice, shook his head, and brought up something seemingly unrelated:
"Do you think Ouroboros intentionally harmed Anderson?"
"Of course not," Alice denied without thinking. "It was very obvious that he accidentally brushed against him, right? If he had intentionally harmed Anderson, then..."
Alice's voice suddenly stopped. She abruptly understood why Klein had mentioned Anderson.
—If Will Auceptin's goal had included Klein, he wouldn't have lived until now.
Alice lightly frowned. After sizing Klein up and down, she asked with some curiosity:
"Hmm... putting my side aside, could Will Auceptin be trying to curry favor with you?"
Klein looked at Alice in confusion. Meeting her innocent eyes, it took him quite a while to vaguely understand her bandit logic.
—Will Auceptin could easily crush him to death, but hadn't done so. Therefore, that counted as goodwill.
Klein fell silent after hearing that. He didn't know whether that claim was correct, but at