So the one who slipped into my dream and used the blood on the ground as a mirror for a question-and-answer game really was the Sealed Artifact called Arrodes's Mirror... Charlotte had suspected as much before, but only when she saw that line of text did she confirm its identity.
Yet confusion immediately swept over her.
Judging by its first two questions, this Sealed Artifact belonging to the Church of the Artisan had first challenged her about whether she had committed any crimes, then asked whether she had attended gatherings held by Mr. Fool. It had clearly treated that as an offense against some of the Machinery Hivemind's rules. Yet now it had abruptly changed its tune, wanting to meet the great being who hosted those gatherings, going on about humility and loyalty as though it had become a mindless fan of someone it had never even met...
Could this mirror, with its living characteristics and a degree of free will, want to use me, a member of the gathering, to infiltrate the gray fog, then help the Church of the Artisan destroy an organization that doesn't look like an evil cult but is still a secret gathering at heart? Or does it have some other motive for approaching the Fool, and its first two questions were only probing my thoughts, when it had already confirmed its suspicions by determining whether I was lying... But how did it learn about the gatherings above the gray fog and Mr. Fool? Through its own divination? Charlotte's thoughts tangled together. She did not know whether she should agree to Arrodes's demand-no, request.
After considering it for a moment, she slowly replied in an ambiguous tone:
"If a suitable opportunity arises in the future, I will ask that great being whether He agrees to