"The President can see the future. Since you were able to attend the Misery Contest, your future experiences must be truly miserable." At that moment, Pallez was very much like Alger, the Hanged Man of the future Tarot Club. But unlike Alger's respect for Mr. Fool and excessive speculation, Pallez was simply playing along-
What was dignity worth compared to staying alive?
Roselle was a little bewildered. His intuition told him that this fellow called "No Characteristics" was talking nonsense. With the support of the Church and the royal family of Intis, surely he would do well for himself in the future.
Medici was much calmer. A Beyonder of the Cowardly Trio Pathway who also controlled Sefirah Castle could indeed divine some future events once he possessed sufficient strength.
But that only meant divining a limited amount of information. Claiming to "see the future" was rather self-aggrandizing, and his opinion of this "President" dropped somewhat.
Heh, since you want to play, I'll play along.
Chapter 532: A "prophecy" for Roselle
With that thought, Medici folded his arms and said, "I think I've figured out what's going on. We're competing over who's more miserable, right? Then I'll get straight to it."
Facing everyone's gazes, he wore a calm expression.
"During the Second and Third Epochs, I thought my life was pretty good. There was a difficult period of growing pains in between, but it was nowhere near miserable."
He went straight back to the Second Epoch the moment he opened his mouth. Pallez took it well enough. He had worked with Medici, after all, and knew a little about him.
The way Reinette looked at him, however, changed noticeably. Born in the early Fifth Epoch, she counted as an "old fossil" to most people, but compared to this Mr. Not Quite