Chapter 30: You Are Just Playing a Role

Chapter 30: You Are Just Playing a Role

Alice woke up with confusion written all over her eyes.

The paintings were for that unknown friend—this was the only thing Alice was sure of.

So, she not only knew about the "monster," the Fool, and Klein, Zhou Mingrui, but also...

Alice's expression twisted for a moment. She shook her head violently, trying to drive out the images of those few unclothed paintings from her mind and restrain herself from showing them to Klein.

Even so, Alice couldn't help but start thinking about who the other man in the pictures was... Klein's lover?

...That didn't seem right either. Alice silently suppressed this guess, pushing down these absurd and strange memories, and began to ponder what would happen if she asked Klein if he was gay.

No, she couldn't jump to conclusions like that. Maybe he was bisexual...

With a head full of chaotic thoughts, Alice rejoined the crowd. Sija noticed Alice and smiled at her, "Hi, Alice, do you have one of those paintings you gave to Rosanne for me?"

"Yes," Alice replied, pushing the chaotic images to the corner of her mind and smiling, "Actually, I drew those chibi characters for everyone. If you like, I can cut one out for you?"

"Then I won't be polite!" Sija responded immediately, "So they're called chibi characters? I saw the one you drew for Rosanne, it's so cute. I almost want to ask you to illustrate my work!"

Illustrations... The chaotic images Alice had forcibly suppressed began to resurface. She quickly stopped herself, "I, I think this style isn't quite suitable for illustrations, haha."

But the style she saw earlier was actually quite good... Oh no, stop thinking about it! Stop, stop, stop...

Muttering to herself in her mind, Alice quickly fled from Sija. For some reason, she had a premonition that the content she was recalling wasn't the most absurd yet. She feared that if she continued talking with Sija, she would remember even more outrageous things.

Thus, in the following time, everyone at the Blackthorn Security Company noticed that Alice was always avoiding Klein. Although Alice had always avoided Klein, recently, even hearing Klein's name made her look like she had done something wrong.

But Alice was surprisingly tight-lipped about this matter. No matter how much everyone probed, Alice refused to reveal a single word, and no one knew the reason behind her strange behavior.

By restraining herself from thinking about related matters, Alice naturally ignored the answer that should have already shown its traces—she seemed to have indeed entered a book.

...

"The preparations for finding and taking away Megose went too smoothly. Although they encountered official Beyonders during the process, Mr. A keenly noticed that the other party wasn't seriously trying to stop them, which made Mr. A suspicious."

"After investigation, Mr. A confirmed that the official Beyonders of Tingen City were luring him to take Megose to Backlund. Considering the strength of the official Beyonders in Backlund, Mr. A finally decided to have Megose give birth to the divine child in Tingen City and use this to summon the True Creator."

...

"Mr. A's stay made the official Beyonders of Tingen City anxious. They realized that Mr. A might have become wary, and with their plan failing, they decided to send someone to distract Mr. A and directly deal with Megose."

...

As the new plan was set, the time came for the next Tarot meeting.

In Backlund, Audrey, after completing a round of greetings, immediately looked at Alice, "Miss 'Destiny,' the offspring of the Fallen Creator..."

"Mr. A and the official Beyonders have both changed their minds. He shouldn't appear in Backlund for a while." Alice shook her head, giving Audrey a reassuring smile while becoming increasingly worried inside—if he wouldn't approach Backlund, it meant that the bomb might explode in Tingen!

Audrey breathed a sigh of relief, also noticing Alice's hidden worry, but she didn't ask further. Over the past week, she had speculated that Alice might be near the offspring of the evil god or even one of the official Beyonders responsible for the matter—this also explained her source of information.

Not asking further was Audrey's respect for the members of the Tarot Club.

The Hanged Man, who also had some guesses about Alice's identity, felt relieved by this answer. At least it meant thatQilangos's matter wouldn't be disrupted by another issue in the short term.

So Audrey smiled at Klein, "Mr. Fool, I have another page of Emperor Roselle's diary."

After Mr. Fool finished reading, Audrey quickly looked at Derrick, "Mr. 'Sun,' did you get the formula for the 'Mind Reader' potion?"

"I have obtained the formula for the 'Mind Reader' potion." Little Sun, who had exchanged everything he had for the potion formula, replied.

Under Klein's guidance, Derrick held the feather pen beside him and successfully wrote down the formula for the 'Mind Reader' potion, handing it to Audrey.

With Klein's thoughtful translation, Audrey also received a formula she could understand and praised, "Mr. Fool, you are truly knowledgeable."

Then, Audrey proposed to give 300 pounds as compensation to Mr. Fool's non-existent favored one. Alice, who was eagerly watching Klein to see how he would gracefully mention "Backlund Bank" and "anonymous account," was disappointed to find that Klein simply materialized the relevant content in front of Audrey.

Next, Klein smiled at Derrick, "What compensation would you like to receive?"

Derrick thought seriously for a moment and said, "I don't have any urgent items I want to get recently... I should be able to digest the 'Singer' potion soon. The compensation can be accumulated there, hmm, for the corresponding Sequence 8 formula or necessary materials."

Alice keenly noticed the word "digest" and frowned slightly: he knows the acting method?

Audrey had already started to ask cautiously, "Mr. 'Sun,' do you know the acting method?"

Derrick looked at Audrey in confusion and answered frankly, "This isn't something strange. The general education course in Silver City teaches the acting method."

The general education course teaches the acting method... The inexperienced Alice, Audrey, and Alger looked at each other.

"Did your general education course tell you the precautions for the acting method?" Alice asked, blinking.

"Yes." Derrick nodded without hesitation, "Our general education course makes it very clear that there is only one precaution for the acting method: 'Remember, you are just playing a role.'"

(End of Chapter)