After Amon "stole" Zaratul's "Fate" and unexpectedly fell into the "Unknown," he only felt his consciousness suddenly being elevated before entering a place that resembled a "cinema."
"Amon, let's play a game!"
As those words reached him, he was involuntarily drawn into the "screen" of the "cinema."
When Amon regained consciousness, his body suddenly trembled, and he froze where he stood.
Without realizing it, he had appeared in a familiar room—the small inn where he had previously waited for the Fool to walk into his trap.
Yet in his line of sight, the image reflected in the Full-Length Mirror belonged to Gehrman Sparrow, the strongest adventurer of the Five Seas.
Furthermore, a figure had appeared in the chair beside him at some point. The man's face lacked flesh, his skin stretched tightly over his bones without a trace of color, transparent as crystal. He wore a dark jacket and woolen trousers.
This was the Marionette he had picked up before, Hell Admiral Ludwell.
At that moment, facing Amon's eyes, which could no longer turn, the Pirate Admiral smiled and said:
"Don't throw Marionettes around. You'll be tracked."
As he spoke, he slowly rose to his feet, casually took a crystal monocle from his pocket, and slowly placed it over his right eye.
Was this the original trajectory of "Fate" for this matter, without Zaratul's schemes and calculations? Amon immediately gained a trace of understanding and swiftly deduced that he was now playing the role of the Fool, while the "Amon" before him was most likely Zaratul...
No, he couldn't be Zaratul! This was an Outer Deity's method! What did he want? To choose someone more "innocent" to become the Lord of Mysteries? Or did this Outer Deity believe that the Fool was more likely than me to suppress the Celestial