Alice ultimately chose not to go directly to Aulavy that evening. Instead, she appeared in Klein's bedroom with the painting of the church and asked Klein, who had spent some time in Aulavy:
"Have you ever seen a church like this in Aulavy?"
Dwayne Dantès, who was sitting on the bed reading, was startled. But he no longer had the energy to remind Alice of the difference between their genders. After all, Alice had given that black cat a bath not long ago.
Klein was quite certain that Alice did not care about such things at all. He simply ignored the slight sense of awkwardness in his heart and reminded himself that she was a child. Though she looked like a young girl, her mental age might only be in the single digits. There was no need to argue with a child that age over such matters.
After giving himself some psychological counseling, Klein lowered his head and picked up the painting for a careful look. Of course, he had never seen it before. However, Alice always liked to cut corners when telling stories, yet she herself did not think there was anything wrong with that. Klein believed there might be information in the painting that Alice had failed to mention.
He quickly found what he needed in the painting. The holy emblem of the Lord of Storms was so conspicuous. Klein shook his head and pointed at it as he asked Alice:
"This is a Church of Storms church?"
"Ah..." Alice sat beside the bed without ceremony while Klein examined the painting. "Probably?"
Klein raised a hand to his forehead. He glanced at Alice and gave up on asking her to speak more clearly, saying instead:
"Although I really haven't seen the church and bell tower you drew, if