Alice had been mourning their fragile friendship when Klein suddenly seemed to remember something and said:
"Right, Bernadette asked me to thank you."
"Huh, you met?" Alice was surprised for a moment. "Thank me? For what?"
"It was that drop of blood..." Klein explained. "Bernadette said that although Mythical Creature Blood from any pathway could be used in a Mysticologist's advancement ritual, the best choice was still blood from the Fate pathway. It would make her advancement to Sequence 3 much easier."
"Huh?" Alice blinked. "So it was for a ritual? Why would it be easier... Is her Sequence 3 related to Fate?"
Klein showed off his newly acquired knowledge. "Sequence 3 of the Mystery Pryer pathway is Peeking into the Secrets of Fate. The potion is called Clairvoyant."
Before Alice could think deeply about it, Klein asked curiously:
"Quite a few pathways seem to have prophecy-related abilities, but your Sequence 2 is called Soothsayer... The Fate pathway puts it at such an important Sequence 2 position. What makes a Soothsayer's prophecies different from the others?"
Alice paused.
All this time, she had never told Klein the true nature of "prophecy"—was that really prophecy? It was clearly a scam!
Without question, the one thing scammers feared most was people finding out they were scammers. Alice chose to bury this matter deep inside her, while in the past, Key of Light had made an even more decisive choice—it had even deceived the scammers themselves, leaving everyone unaware that they were scammers.
Alice shook her head, looked back at Klein, and smiled with a sigh.
"Do you remember the story I told you? The one about that Soothsayer who committed suicide."
Klein nodded, and Alice continued:
"Compared with things like Clairvoyants, I think the greatest peculiarity of Soothsayers is that we can