"After my family suffered its misfortune, my teacher took me to meet a friend of his, an Ritualist skilled at composing fate."
"He said that my family had met with catastrophe, and I alone had survived. That must have consumed a great deal of my fortune."
"At that time, I was in a gap in my fortune. If I did not immediately rebuild a new foundation of fortune, misfortune could very likely rebound against me."
"So, my teacher obtained a purified four-leaf clover sacrificial relic from him, to serve as the foundation for rebuilding my fortune."
During the years he studied under his teacher, he wore that four-leaf clover sacrificial relic almost every day.
Although Kaia had never truly sensed the effects of "fortune," those years of his life had indeed been relatively peaceful. At the very least, no other calamities had befallen him.
But whether that had anything to do with the crystallized four-leaf clover, Kaia himself did not know.
Afterward, his teacher disappeared.
Kaia did not take off the four-leaf clover sacrificial relic either. It was only after he discovered his teacher at the God-Slaying Bureau, during the period when he tried to infiltrate the God-Slaying Bureau using the blood child's aura and often disguised himself to deliberately get caught by the enforcement team, that he took it off.
He had only removed it to play different identities.
Even then, he had locked it away in a treasured box.
He had never expected it to be stolen this time...
"But it doesn't matter. Though it holds some commemorative value for me, it has no other practical use beyond that."
Kaia paused. "So, you don't need to care too much about it. Let's get back to..."
Before Kaia could finish, Mud Duke cut him off.
"Did you lose anything