"The Fool Not Belonging to This Era,
"Yellow-Black King Who Holds Good Luck,
"Mysterious Ruler Above the Gray Fog,
"..."
After Bernadette disappeared, Alice relaxed her stiff body, closed her eyes, and prayed to Klein.
Deep red light enveloped her. When she opened her eyes, she had already appeared in the space Above the Gray Fog.
In reality, Alice's body sat upright on the sofa, remaining stiff and motionless.
In the complete silence of the darkness, Bernadette's figure emerged once more. After watching Alice for a while, she draped the blanket from the sofa over her before vanishing back into the darkness.
Above the Gray Fog, Klein had just deciphered the incantation for the Card of Blasphemy—the Ancient Feysac word "Bernadette." Upon receiving word that Alice had arrived home, he casually pulled her up.
"Look." Klein pushed the unsealed Card of Blasphemy toward Alice.
Alice picked up the Card of Blasphemy, which had once been disguised as a bookmark. The first thing she saw was Emperor Roselle, transformed beyond recognition.
He sat upon an ancient stone throne, wearing a black crown set with all kinds of gems. He was clad in pitch-black armor, draped in a cloak of the same color, gripping a scepter as he gazed coldly ahead.
In the upper left corner, a line of text identified the card's sequence: "Sequence 0: Black Emperor!"
Alice reached out and flipped the Card of Blasphemy, which resembled a miniature book. A new page emerged, showing Emperor Roselle in a new form, wearing a white hood, with an annotation beside him: "Sequence 9: Lawyer."
So many low-Sequence Potion names were job titles... Alice silently remarked as she looked at the Lawyer's description.
"Skilled at discovering and exploiting loopholes in rules and an opponent's weaknesses, possessing outstanding eloquence and logical reasoning."