Inside a residence in Backlund, a certain Mercury Serpent was wholeheartedly pretending to be a baby, lying there with his eyes closed, babbling to amuse himself.
Suddenly, a shadow fell over him, blocking the sunlight shining down on him.
Will Auceptin stiffened, smacked his lips twice, mumbled a few "aba aba" sounds, then began snoring.
Didn't dare open my eyes. Hopefully this was just a hallucination.gif
"You are not the Fool. Deceiving yourself is not a good choice."
Well, Adam had meant that the Fool wielded the authority of Fooling, but why did that sentence sound like he was taking a jab at Klein...
Will Auceptin kept babbling "aba aba," looking as though he were saying, What are you talking about? I don't understand. I'm just an ordinary little baby.
Adam glanced at his genuinely infant body. Rather than picking him up, he simply spoke on his own:
"At present, there are two Giant Serpents. One is the Mercury Serpent—you. The other is the Serpent of Destiny, Uroboros."
Giant Serpents were Sequence One of the Monster Pathway. There were three portions of Extraordinary Characteristics in total; Uroboros held two, while Will Auceptin possessed only one.
At the same time, Will Auceptin possessed the uniqueness of the Wheel of Fortune, though he was unable to accommodate it.
Therefore, overall, Uroboros always held the upper hand in clashes of fate, yet he had never truly been able to kill Will Auceptin and seize the Extraordinary Characteristics and uniqueness.
Adam withdrew his hand, a milky-white die pinched between his fingers.
This was the Probability Dice, the uniqueness of the Wheel of Fortune.
Will Auceptin could no longer keep pretending. He opened his eyes and looked at Adam, froze for a moment, then looked at Adam again... The next instant, his body shuddered, and