Bernadette, having failed to discover the source of the threatening sensation, looked at Alice. That fleeting feeling just now had seemed like a hallucination, but recalling what Alice had said, Bernadette cautiously answered her question. "To advance to Sequence 0, He needs the Beyonder Characteristic of the Mercury Serpent and the Uniqueness of the Wheel of Fortune."
"The Beyonder Characteristic of the Mercury Serpent and the Uniqueness of the Wheel of Fortune..." Alice repeated Bernadette's words, her voice still carrying little emotional fluctuation. "The first thing we can establish is that I can't possibly have the Beyonder Characteristic of the Mercury Serpent."
Bernadette watched Alice calmly analyze the matter and slowly frowned.
"Then... what is the Uniqueness of the Wheel of Fortune?" Alice's gaze fell upon Bernadette.
The threatening sensation whose cause she had failed to find surfaced once more, as though an invisible net had wrapped around her. If her answer proved unsatisfactory, the net would tighten, and then... strangle her to death.
Bernadette could hardly tell whether she feared this more or the Hidden Sage's gaze more. Looking at Alice, she replied as evenly as possible, "For a Sequence 1 to become Sequence 0, they need to accommodate the Uniqueness of that Pathway. The Wheel of Fortune is the name of Sequence 0 of the Fate Pathway you mentioned."
The invisible net vanished without a sound. Bernadette saw Alice furrow her brows, revealing a troubled expression fitting for someone her age. Pouting, she muttered, "So I might be the Uniqueness of the Fate Pathway? Or... or there might be some Connection?"
Watching Alice unconsciously reveal a touch of childishness in her movements, expression, and tone, Bernadette probed, "Don't you think... that something is a little off about you sometimes?"
"What?" Alice looked at Bernadette blankly.
"Divinity is a