Klein, having received the news from the mirror, immediately passed it on to Alice.
After reviewing the memories Klein had sent over, Alice gradually furrowed her brow.
What did it mean that Hazel still wasn't pregnant?
Her fingertips shifted uneasily twice, and she quickly reached the same conclusion as Klein.
It should have been Hazel, but... what had gone wrong in between? In any case, it seemed something was still missing?
Alice frowned.
Not being able to understand the full situation made her uneasy, especially regarding leaving Will Auceptin with Hazel. Deep down, Alice wanted to refuse.
—Hazel was someone Klein couldn't avoid socializing with.
Although she didn't see Klein as a flower in a greenhouse and had no intention of shielding him from every danger, Alice also didn't want him to face such an outrageous level of danger, especially when it wasn't something he should have had to bear.
Thus, Alice sincerely hoped that Hazel not being pregnant meant Will Auceptin could still find another "mother," or that she might simply miscarry... Well, the latter wasn't very realistic, but another "mother"...
Alice blinked.
She thought of someone who might be interested in this matter.
—Amon.
But asking Amon for help... The moment that thought surfaced, Alice trembled and extinguished the impractical idea in terror.
Alice knew perfectly well that ordinary pleas and transactions couldn't make Amon help. Even if Amon agreed, he might very well go back on his word halfway through, unless he already wanted to do it himself.
—Did Hazel have something Amon would be interested in?
Alice pinched her brow and remembered someone she had nearly forgotten.
Right, she had a teacher. That rat called herself Flora Jacob, said she was a descendant of the Jacob family, and had come to Backlund to search for the