Alice watched the lightning storm sweep up the snake that had bitten her, then quietly licked her lips.
...Smells so good.
Her nose twitched twice. The charred aroma gradually faded after the lightning withdrew, but Alice still couldn't help swallowing as she looked at Rejoice's corpse with longing.
She subconsciously took a step forward, then stopped warily. Her appetite had mixed with her instinctive craving for Beyonder Characteristics, and Alice no longer had the strength to tell what exactly this was. She knew she had to leave immediately, right now.
As for the Beyonder Characteristic that would be extracted... Heh, wasn't Klein there?
As long as she sent Klein over and had him deliver the thing Above the Gray Fog, then brought him back... Oh right, and that thing that looked like a water pipe... Was that Will's shed snake skin? Never mind, she could have Klein bring it back first...
Before the Beyonder Characteristic was extracted, Alice used the last of her reason to appear in Mr. Fool's bedroom.
This wasn't the first time Klein had helped Alice with this sort of thing, but after hearing her description of how delicious snake meat smelled, he still couldn't help asking:
"...Is stuffing everything into your mouth a personality trait of yours, or an instinct?"
Alice raised her head and stared at the ceiling.
Since she wasn't cooperating, Klein naturally had no way to pursue the matter alone. He helped Alice retrieve the Beyonder Characteristic—it was a sheet of paper covered in scribbles.
With the help of the Gray Fog, Alice stared at the tangled lines on the paper for a while, then felt as though she had gotten up at five in the morning and studied mathematics nonstop for thirteen hours.
Without mercy, she tossed the paper into the pile