Alice had always been clear about one thing.
She had never accepted either of her past selves, not for a single moment. Even if she had said so when talking to others, to her, Shen Yinghuan was one person, the one with the Goddess was another, and the one with Will Auceptin was yet another...
She had never considered any of them to be herself.
But now that she was before Klein, Alice did not want something that had basically become a foregone conclusion to affect her mood. She urgently brought up another matter to Klein:
"By the way, you said that island disappeared. What exactly happened?"
So she still wasn't willing to talk about it... Klein glanced at Alice. He was already familiar with the way Alice changed the subject. The problem was that he wasn't sure whether he should follow her lead or keep pressing the original question.
...Was Miss Justice good at this sort of thing?
Klein sighed inwardly, then said to Alice:
"If you don't want to talk about it, then forget it for now. As for everything else... how about we talk later?"
"Are you short on spirituality again?" Alice asked instinctively.
"No," Klein denied. "It sounds like you won't be able to resolve Will Auceptin's issue anytime soon. Out of courtesy, I should visit the two ladies who were injured at my banquet."
Alice froze for a moment, then realized that Dwayne Dantès was different from her—this identity had social obligations.
Alice could not help but start worrying. Even now, she was not sure how Will Auceptin viewed Klein, because Klein had not encountered Will Auceptin in a long time—at least, not since she had retrieved the Dice of Probability.
"I think," Klein said soothingly, as though he knew what she was worried about,