The next morning, Alice took the newspaper from the mailbox.
As expected, the front-page headline reported on the twelfth victim. Watching the news, Alice recalled the Devil Dog growling as it backed away, then silently turned the page.
Alice went through every page of the newspaper before confirming that the museum theft had only been mentioned in an inconspicuous corner, without even stating what had been stolen.
Realizing that the Church of Steam apparently did not intend to spread the matter widely, Alice put away the newspaper and went to the church after breakfast to complete her daily tasks.
Evelyn appearing from inside the church was no longer enough to surprise Alice. She merely shifted her gaze away without a sound, hid among the crowd, and pretended not to have noticed.
But Alice still secretly frowned.
If her initial encounter with Evelyn had merely been a coincidence between neighbors and girls of the same age, then after Evelyn became bait deliberately released by the Nighthawks, Alice realized that their fates seemed intertwined a little too deeply.
This wasn't a good thing... Alice Let Out a Long Sigh In Her Heart, sighing silently.
Just as the next Sequence of "Lucky One" was "Calamity Priest," unpredictable fate might not threaten Alice, who was too deeply entangled with Fate, but it was Absolutely Not a good thing for those around her.
—Shen Yinghuan alone was proof enough.
Alice was not worried about Klein, because Klein obviously had secrets of his own. It was hard to say which of them had the bigger problem...
But in the end, Evelyn should have been nothing more than an ordinary Young Girl. If not for Alice, she would never have known of the Extraordinary World in her life. And now... honestly, Alice was very worried that if