This painfully edgy passage made the corner of Alice's mouth twitch. Considering that Old Neil was still watching her, she quickly skipped over Emperor Roselle's edgy remarks, romantic exploits, and various musings, searching for anything useful.
"January 3rd. My choice back then was still too hasty. Looking at it now, whether it was 'Apprentice,' 'Diviner,' or 'Marauder,' any of them would have been better. Unfortunately, there was no way to turn back."
Alice silently noted down these three pathways, temporarily suppressing her urge to think about why they were better.
"January 4th. Why were my children so stupid? I told them ten thousand times not to be fooled by those charlatans. No, perhaps those charlatans had been fooled themselves. The key to potions was not mastery, but digestion! Not excavation, but acting! And the names of potions were not merely core symbols—they were concrete imagery, and even the 'key' to digestion!"
Digestion and acting. Potion names were keys... Alice briefly considered her own sequence name, but with Old Neil still there, she immediately reined in her Train of Thought and returned the diary to him.
"Is that all we have?"
"There aren't many incidents involving mysticism to begin with." Old Neil then shook his head. "Your case was already the biggest Supernatural Event in Tingen City over the past few years."
Alice chose to keep quiet.
"Where were we? Oh right, I remember you should have already learned meditation and Spirit Vision?" Old Neil asked.
Alice nodded, then shook her head. "A Monster's eyes can often see even more than Spirit Vision."
Old Neil nodded in understanding, then said to her, "I think that, as a Monster, you should fully understand the importance of restraining your curiosity."
Alice nodded. Even though she did not take it seriously—after all, without experiencing it personally, no amount of warning from others could make someone grasp its horror. In fact, hearing too much about it had stirred a subtle rebelliousness in Alice, who was not that old to begin with.
Of course, it was not that Alice doesn't understand how to restrain herself. Her principle was that as long as her spirituality gave no warning, she could mess around as much as she wanted...
"I'll first teach you how to conduct divination..." At this point, Old Neil Sighed deeply. "Originally, you should have been learning together with Klein. Why Exactly did Dunn separate the two of you?"
"High Probability the captain thought learning with your eyes Closed Her Eyes wasn't a Good Idea." Alice also put on an act and Sighed.
"What did you mean?" Confusion appeared in Old Neil's eyes.
"When Klein came near me, my spirituality warned me like crazy, telling me not to look at him..." Recalling her spirituality's frantic screaming that morning, Alice could not help but Rubbed His Temples.
This had clearly exceeded Old Neil's expectations as well—after all, his Mystic Seer eyes had not seen anything. But considering that Mystic Seers peeped at knowledge, while a Monster's eyes, influenced by spirituality, mostly saw things related to Fate, he found it understandable again.
After all, Klein was also a Lucky One who had survived an incident from which no one should have escaped alive. It was impossible to say whether he had truly escaped that incident—from Alice's reaction, there was a High Probability he had not.
After leaving Nighthawks Headquarters, Alice returned to her bedroom. Following the posture of prayer from the girl in her memories, she arranged herself and recited in Ancient Hermes, "The Fool who does not belong to this era, the Mysterious Ruler Above the Gray Fog, the Yellow-Black King Who Holds Good Luck..."
Mr. Fool was startled.
He looked toward the Crimson Star that had made the sound and saw Miss Alice praying beneath the holy emblem of the Goddess of the Night.
Of course—Mr. Fool had not Realized there was anything wrong with that behavior. The main reason he was startled was that Miss Alice, who had asked him over lunch who The Fool was, had recited a prayer that even he Didn't Even Know could point to him!
"Could there be another Fool?" As Mr. Fool pondered this, he pulled Alice, who had casually prayed to a Great Being she had Never heard of, up Above the Gray Fog.
Deep Red light surged forth like a tide. Alice calmly allowed it to engulf her. When she Opened Her Eyes again, she had Appear Before Above the Gray Fog, within a magnificent Divine Palace.
Alice was about to Looked Towards the seat of honor when her spirituality's scream made her stop. She hesitantly Closed Her Eyes, Turned Her Head to look over, and said, "...Klein?"
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Mr. Fool was very frightened now. He had no idea how this Miss Lucky One knew the prayer, or how she had linked him to The Fool. But he probably never expected that his helpless silence would instead make Alice certain of her guess.
"So, you are Zhou Mingrui, and also The Fool."
Those soft words, like a verdict being pronounced, instead calmed Klein down—so his identity had been exposed. At least Alice was his fellow countrywoman and colleague. Maybe she could help him keep it hidden for a while. That was better than being discovered by a stranger...
After temporarily fobbing Alice off with "I'll explain in person later," and having her draw a Wheel of Fortune card from the Tarot Card deck, Mr. Fool pulled The Hanged Man and Justice up.
"Good Afternoon, Mr. Fool~, eh, this is..."
Miss Justice, or rather Audrey, had been about to greet Mr. Fool and Mr. The Hanged Man when she suddenly noticed a girl sitting beside her, leaning against the back of her chair with her eyes tightly shut.
"This is Miss Fortune," Klein introduced Alice to Justice and The Hanged Man. Then he looked at Alice, whose eyes were closed, and suddenly Realized something. "Miss Fortune... Hmm, you can Try To manifest a pair of glasses in front of your eyes."
So Alice Tried To manifest a pair of glasses as Klein instructed. Her screaming spirituality stopped screaming. She Opened Her Eyes and looked at Klein for the first time—only to find that she could not see his face clearly.
"..." Alice fell silent for a moment. Then she looked at Justice and The Hanged Man, who had stood up, decided to maintain formation with them, and stood up as well.
"These two are Miss Justice and Mr. The Hanged Man."
After Klein finished the introductions, Miss Justice cheerfully began greeting her. "Good Afternoon, Miss Fortune~"
Alice Blinked Her Eyes and Replied in roughly the same tone, "Good Afternoon, Miss Justice~"
After briefly looking at each other, they turned toward The Hanged Man with perfect tacit understanding and spoke in unison: "Good Afternoon, Mr. The Hanged Man~"
Not very old, Female, Looks like she came from a family that Didn't Need to worry about making a living, but she probably was not a noble...
Alger, who had been observing Alice, was startled by the two Young Girls' "Good Afternoon" duet. He withdrew his gaze and returned the greeting.
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