While Mr. Fool, disguised under various identities, knocked out pirates still caught in the aftermath of the Beyonder clash one by one, Mr. Sno, now back in his usual attire, was in an empty room, secretly opening a door to Black Swan Castle.
He could guarantee that it was absolutely secret. The Holy Emblem of Night in his hand could prove it.
"Study properly with Maria. If you want to go out, keep up basic human clothing standards. Pay for food. Hmm, this is your pocket money..." Sno pulled a stack of banknotes from his wallet—enough for Klein to slaughter everyone in the Intis embassy—and stuffed them into Lily's hands. Lily obediently accepted the money, calculating how many fish dishes she could buy while nodding like a woodpecker.
Only after Helene dragged her heavy suitcase through the doorway with Lily and vanished did Sno breathe a slight sigh of relief. But as soon as he took a step, he suddenly felt that something was off and sighed helplessly.
"Looks like I'll have to find a chance to meet Miss Justice. I seem to be getting used to this kind of female stride..."
Muttering internally about this minor aftereffect, Sno began urging the monkeys to write scripts for the future. The external digestion of the Demoness of Affliction potion had now been completed. What he lacked was the ritual... or rather, the right time to drink the potion.
In terms of its conclusion, the Lorenz Butterfly ritual could be divided into two steps: the "First Cause" and the "Infinite Fruit."
The First Cause referred to determining the "source" of the self. Under normal circumstances, at the Zeno's Turtle stage of the Paradox Path, the soul would completely split into countless fragments, with the self evenly distributed across every fragment, becoming a