The two of them strayed further and further from their original topic, until they ended up complaining about the food in this world and reminiscing about the cuisine of the great foodie empire they had once known.
They only stopped when Klein felt his Spirituality running dry.
Before sending Cyrin away from the space above the Gray Fog, he asked curiously:
"When did you start suspecting my identity?"
Cyrin replied, "From the very beginning."
The expression on Klein's face stiffened slightly. Then he asked, "Why?"
"Do you remember Antigonus?" Cyrin asked in return. Without waiting for an answer, he continued on his own:
"I know far more about the Fool than you do."
"The closest beings to the Fool still in this world are Zaratul and Antigonus. Before them was Flegrea, the Annihilation Demonic Wolf, but that ancient god was primarily of the Darkness Pathway."
"You can think of it as the true Fool never having appeared—not at least in the limited history we know."
"At the same time, the Beyonder Characteristics of this world's High Sequence are finite in number. So it's difficult for an unknown Fool to exist, even if he's only close to the Fool."
"Under these circumstances, the fact that you dared call yourself the Fool was enough to show that you were most likely a newcomer who had only recently learned about the mystical world."
"But among countless titles, you chose the Tarot Cards, and you chose the Fool. Perhaps that was itself a manifestation of Fate."
"It meant you had an extremely strong connection to the Fool. That connection might come from the past, or it might come from the present."
He paused, lowered his head, and glanced at the boundless Gray Fog flowing quietly beneath his feet. Only then did he continue:
"Or