Only after Alice had disappeared for quite a while did Klein swallow and pinch himself hard.
"Hiss... This isn't a dream. She hasn't really gone mad, has she?!"
Alice, who had already left, naturally had no way to answer that question. Klein shook his head, gave up probing Alice's mental state, and muttered:
"Forget it. She's always been like this anyway. Let me think... I should ask Arrodes about how to obtain the Sequence 3 potion, and also..."
He frowned slightly, his expression somewhat strange.
After his previous attempts, Klein had basically confirmed that scaring people was indeed the correct way to act as a Trickmaster. However, opportunities to frighten high-level existences did not come at every moment, Alice was not that easy to scare, and doing it once or twice was one thing, but truly angering her would be quite troublesome...
Klein sighed, realizing that he would probably still have to... play ghost.
That left plenty of room for maneuver. The existence of Anchors gave him an idea. In Klein's view, perhaps he did not need to genuinely frighten that many people. He only needed to frighten a few people, then spread the news afterward—yes, he meant ghost stories.
Besides, there was already a bestselling writer in the Tarot Club. He had even read Miss Magician's Storm Manor, a novel about Lady Daly Sisi, who was five feet five inches tall and weighed ninety-eight pounds, entering Flewse Manor as a governess.
Although the premise resembled an alternate-world version of Jane Eyre, the story was full of twists and turns.
At first, Klein had assumed it was a romance novel. Then an Evil Spirit appeared in the book, and he thought it was a supernatural novel. Then Miss Sisi suddenly revealed that she was a detective and launched into an