Coward... Alice shot Roy King a glance, pouted, and muttered:
"Honorific name and doctrine... Hmm, ah, my new honorific name!"
She suddenly became serious, turning her eyes toward Roy King with a slight frown.
—No matter how bizarre Roy King's reason for coming to her door was, he at least looked like a devout believer, perhaps even a missionary.
So shouldn't she come up with a more proper honorific name...?
As she paced in place, Alice clasped her hands behind her back and spoke as slowly as possible:
"Creator of Happiness and Miracles...
"Ruler of Misfortune and Calamity...
"...Future Unknown...
"...Soothsayer."
The first two lines undoubtedly came from Klein, while the last one had been thought up on the spot, rounding up—though perhaps it had not been quite so spur-of-the-moment.
Claiming to be a "Soothsayer" was something Alice had done from the beginning, so using it to refer to herself was perfectly normal. But "Future Unknown" had indeed been a flash of inspiration.
Looking at it in a bad direction, Future Unknown could, in a sense, be considered a bleak future. That was an indisputable fact. What lay before her was the Key of Light, and becoming a True God also meant facing the Key of Light directly. This was the unparalleled honor unique to a Single Pathway Great Old One.
Looking at it in a good direction, among the authorities Alice could sense, the Wheel of Fortune contained not only Fate's "chaos," but also Fate's "predetermined." The Extraordinary Ability of a Soothsayer was enough to explain the problem, and Future Unknown at least meant that what lay ahead of her was not "predetermined."
Then there was still room to struggle...
In fact, this was the source of Alice's contradictory behavior.
On one hand, lazy as she was, she would