Let's turn back time a little. Just as the preliminary round ended, on an island not far away, a little girl was also filled with joy.
"One, two, three, nine!"
She gazed joyfully at a Light Orb, practically bouncing with excitement as though waiting for a birthday present.
"Wishing Time!"
And apparently, that was exactly what she was thinking—and exactly what she did.
"Can I ask now?!"
Eve happily swung a mirror back and forth. With the end of the first preliminary round, the properties of the "Fate Beacon" had begun to unlock.
".Yes, please ask. As long as it concerns the fate entanglements of My Lord within His Inner Domain, I can provide an answer. However, if you want an accurate answer, the fewer the interfering factors, the better. The more vague the 'keywords,' the better."
Eve understood this to some extent. Among her sisters were experts in this field.
If you asked a prophet, "What should I eat today?" she would often give a vague, strange answer, such as, "The spawn of a fallen thing from the sky (an egg), along with the Root of Earth of a greedy beast from the land of evil (ham)," giving such roundabout answers instead of simply saying eggs and ham.
But if you asked whether today's cafeteria meal was "eggs and ham" or "something else," she could immediately give you a definite answer.
Fate was a web of intertwined threads. The fewer ripples and pulls involved, the clearer it became.
In practical terms, the more a question could be judged with a simple "yes" or "no," and the more direct its target reference was, the fewer interfering and fluctuating factors there would be. The lower the cost of obtaining an answer, and the more likely one was to receive a true