The Wheel of Fortune pathway appeared to be a pathway of chance, fairer than any other.
But in truth, the Destiny pathway was crueler than any other, because once one stepped onto the Wheel of Fortune pathway, how far one could go had already been decided from the very beginning.
Even if Adam told the Serpent of Destiny and the Mercury Serpent about the Wheel of Fortune pathway's peculiarities now, neither of them would choose suicide in order to defy fate by fulfilling the other.
It was due to their personalities. Their sense of self would inevitably make that choice under such circumstances.
With countless people as nodes, such connections wove together into a vast web. As long as one grasped this web, everything everyone would encounter and every decision they would make would leave traces to follow.
This was how fate operated in reality.
Some had not mastered this web, but merely observed a portion of it and named it social engineering.
"There is indeed a problem with the Destiny pathway. Since it has no adjacent pathways, the Wheel of Fortune and the Key of Light have an absolute correspondence."
As Tsuburaya spoke, his eyes briefly turned into the slit-like vertical pupils of a serpent. Yet the light gleaming within them was not cold and sinister, but a detached calm:
"This means that if the Wheel of Fortune appears, then according to the Law of Aggregation of Extraordinary Characteristics, even if the Key of Light is not directly summoned into the Wheel of Fortune's hands, the Wheel of Fortune can still clearly sense the Key of Light's location."
"In other words, once the Wheel of Fortune appears, it is almost destined to immediately take another step forward, becoming endless chaos, the incarnation of fate, becoming..."
"The Key of Light."