"I wanted to know if you could make a life-sized body pillow or a standee of a real person..." Alice admitted.
"...Can we talk about the actual matter?" Klein asked weakly.
Alice obediently gave up on touching the World any further. She sat down and asked, "Oh, all right. What did you want to tell me... Oh, right, why didn't you reply to my messages?"
"Did you see the news about Ambassador Beckland's assassination?" Klein asked.
Alice nodded.
"Well, some time ago, I hired a bodyguard..." Starting with Maric and ending with Rosago's death, Klein recounted the entire attempt on his life.
"Wow, there's even a Sequence like that?" Alice exclaimed.
"I had about the same reaction when I first saw her," Klein said.
"And then?" Alice tapped the table twice and waited for him to continue.
"After Rosago died, I divined the Potion Formulas up through Sequence 5..." Klein said with a frown.
"Hm? What's your Sequence 7 called? What can it do?" Realizing her friend might soon stop being useless in a fight, Alice grew worried.
"Sequence 7 is Magician. From what I've seen, its main abilities include firing bullets with a snap of the fingers, turning paper into soldiers, and Flaming Jump," Klein recalled.
"...I have a question," Alice said, looking at him seriously. "Are you sure there isn't a Sequence on your Pathway called Circus Master?"
"...Enough." Klein, who had made the same joke himself, glared at her. "I said we're talking about something serious!"
"All right." Alice behaved herself again. "I'll be serious... Look, according to Madam Daly's theory, some Sequences might grant one ability at each stage, then combine them at Sequence 4. Sequence 9 is Seer, Sequence 8 is Clown, and Sequence 7 is Magician. If the next few are circus jobs too,