Chapter 7: Tarot club Meeting 

Chapter 7: Tarot club Meeting 

After the greetings were exchanged, Audrey couldn't help but curiously look at Alice and asked the question that the Hanged Man was also very curious about: "Miss Destiny, why were your eyes closed at the beginning?"

"Because my spirituality told me that if I accidentally saw something, I would die," Audrey's light-hearted voice made Alice feel pleased, and she responded just as cheerfully.

Saw? Could she be a Seer? Alger pondered upon hearing this answer. But such a decisive restraint of curiosity didn't seem like that of a Seer…

"So, Miss Destiny is an Beyonder !" Obviously, this statement came from the "understanding" Miss Justice.

"Ah…" Alice subconsciously glanced at Klein, her spirituality didn't tell her whether she should speak or not. Unaccustomed to making decisions on her own, Alice instinctively turned her gaze to the only acquaintance here.

Klein… no, Mr. Fool was also puzzled by Alice's behavior—because that glance triggered a chain reaction, and Audrey and Alger looked at Mr. Fool as well.

…How to maintain the image I've set up for myself? Then, the other three saw Mr. Fool tap his brow pretentiously and responded with an unfathomable tone: "Miss Destiny is a very lucky Fortuneteller."

This response, laden with clear implications, made Audrey and Alger look at Alice again, and they easily noticed Alice's odd expression.

So Audrey blurted out: "Miss Destiny, do you understand what Mr. Fool means?"

"If I said it, it would reveal who I am," even Alice, who lacked awe for the supernatural and still carried an innocent naivety, didn't think it was a good idea to let a stranger "net friend" discover her real identity, "I can only tell you that I can't look at Mr. Fool because I am an Beyonder on the path of the monster."

The path of the monster? Is Fortuneteller the name of a certain sequence? Just don't know which sequence… What does very lucky mean? With such thoughts, the focus of this Tarot meeting finally shifted away from Alice.

After Alger and Audrey completed the transaction of the audience's potion formula, and Mr. Fool took the opportunity to disguise himself with a [beep——] and issued the task of collecting Roselle's diary, Alice heard Alger's long classic speech that "the audience will always be just the audience."

Alice then remembered the content she saw in the diary—the name of the potion is Key.

Just as the audience potion requires the taker to be an absolutely neutral observer, so she must also play the role of… monster, machine, and Fortuneteller? But…

The perceptive Alice sensed something was amiss.

"Mr. Hanged Man," Alice turned her head and posed a question, "Miss Justice's character is obviously not that of an absolutely neutral observer. If she keeps playing the role of an observer and gets too deep into the act, will her personality change? Will she forget who she is and really think of herself as an observer? If so, is she still herself?"

Audrey and Klein, who was considering whether to play the role of a fortune-teller, were both startled, and as for Alger… after a moment of shock, he stood up and bowed solemnly to Alice.

"Thank you for your reminder, Miss Destiny."

"You're welcome?" Alice responded tentatively. She obviously hadn't realized the critical nature of the content she had pointed out, but that didn't prevent her from rightfully accepting the thanks. So Audrey, like Alger, thanked Alice, and as for Mr. Fool… Mr. Fool's lack of reminder was certainly not due to ignorance!

After Mr. Fool, who was just starting his business as an evil god, announced that his funds (spirituality) were running low, Alice returned to her room, and another matter began to trouble her.

"Should I remind Captain Neil about this… Ugh, it's so annoying, why are there no hints for so many things?" Alice, unaccustomed to making decisions on her own, pinched her brow in frustration. She preferred to rely on intuition rather than think, but without intuitive reminders, Alice clearly lacked the ability to decide on her own.

After failing to come up with a solution, Alice took out a coin, doing what everyone likes to do when faced with a choice—flip a coin.

A copper coin was taken out by Alice and flicked with her thumb. After flipping several times in the air, the coin was steadily covered by Alice's hand.

Alice slowly lifted her hand, and the copper coin appeared before her—it was the number symbolizing "not to speak."

Well, this result is actually what I got from flipping a coin.

(End of Chapter)