Sixteen Years (Four)

Despite being unable to forget the goddess's wolf fur, Alice had no intention of seeking her out.

The goddess might not do anything to her, but with the River of Eternal Darkness in her hands, she really could knock Alice out and hand her over to Ouroboros.

Then the game would be forced to end.

As she passed a travel agency bearing the Fool's holy emblem, Alice remembered another proposal Klein had rejected.

Opening a travel agency had been her idea, but it hadn't been her first idea.

At first, she had suggested that Klein open a merchandise shop and sell goods based on himself...

Selling a god's own likeness was out of the question, but Klein had so many aliases. Gehrman Sparrow, the Five Seas Wild Rose in Miss Magician Fors's books, had a huge readership for his love stories with several female pirates at sea.

Alice had once suggested that Miss Magician include male pirates too. If that was too much, she could genderbend them. Fors had stared at her, dumbfounded, then promptly reported the matter to the Fool. Alice had been dragged back.

After the war with the Outer Deities ended, the people of the Western Continent had more contact with the outside world, and many of their ideas and fields of knowledge spread here. Fors was inspired several times to write stories based on them, but she never put pen to paper.

Then Alice pulled Fors aside, told her about the cultivation novels she had once read, and asked whether she could write a book with a similar premise...

Fors wanted to refuse, but the threat in Alice's eyes was too clear. In the end, she gave in and began writing cultivation novels in this postwar New World.

With a god who governed Fate among her