"I think we're about to find Him."
A clear voice sounded. The young man wearing a Monocle stopped in his tracks, gently adjusted his glasses, and said:
"Why would you say that all of a sudden?"
"A feeling," the voice replied frankly. "Just a feeling... In fact, I seem to have started feeling this way several days ago."
"Several days ago..." The young man smiled faintly and said nothing.
These two were Will Auceptin and Amon. After a round of false heart-to-heart conversation, Amon truly began demonstrating his sincerity to Will Auceptin—He had genuinely begun searching for Ouroboros.
Of course, it was not very useful. Even after Ouroboros had gone through immense hardship to kill the former God of Fortune, only for the Sequence 1 Characteristic to be picked up by the Will Auceptin of that time, and even after failing to find Will Auceptin for over a thousand years, Ouroboros's luck remained unchanged.
And now, with the positions of pursuer and pursued reversed, that luck finally came into play. Neither Amon nor Will Auceptin could find Ouroboros.
Most of the time, Ouroboros stayed by the True Creator's side. Amon did not dare to come knocking at His door, and when Ouroboros occasionally went out...
Sometimes they truly received news, sometimes it was a revelation of fate, sometimes it was a perception of ripples in fate. In short, they followed all kinds of leads in search of Ouroboros, only to always just barely miss Him.
—Clearly, fate still acknowledged His luck.
After walking a few more steps, Amon chuckled and said with a sigh:
"Sometimes, I really think the two of you are like gifts carefully selected by fate. It keeps picking between you two, unable to decide which one to give away... Now it seems the chosen one is