Time to return

"...What do you mean?" Klein instinctively studied Alice, hoping to find a more detailed answer in her expression.

Alice pressed her lips together. Really, this only meant her suspicions had been confirmed—she had already suspected that she might be the product of various influences, crushed together and pieced back into a whole, with the newly molded personality simply being more stable.

There was naturally nothing difficult to accept about the revelation of something she had long suspected. Yet as Alice looked at Klein, an inexplicable sadness came over her. She reached out, caught his sleeve, and asked tentatively:

"Klein...

"Will you one day become Mr. Fool, become the Lord of Mysteries?"

Klein looked at Alice and said thoughtfully, "So, who is the Lord of Mysteries?"

Alice paused. She withdrew her hand and said in realization:

"Oh, right, you're an angel now... Let me think about how to explain this.

"Well, first... Have you ever considered bringing adjacent Pathways together... Oh, no, you've already thought of that.

"Have you ever wondered what would happen if you put all 22 Pathways together?"

"What?" Klein asked obligingly.

"You'd summon a divine dragon." Alice's expression was solemn.

"...Alice." Klein's brows drew together, then relaxed. His voice was gentle. "Please don't try to make me laugh right now, all right?"

To be fair, he had been very gentle, without a single harsh word. Yet tears instantly welled in Alice's eyes. Klein instinctively reached out to take her hand, but Alice leaned back and turned her face away, answering in a nasal voice:

"All right."

After a pause, she looked at Klein with an expression of barely concealed sorrow. She stopped fooling around and explained the secrets of above the sequence in full.

Through their questions and answers, Klein gained an understanding of above the sequence