Mystery: Lucky

Spiritual world, entrance to Calderon City.

Amon stood at the door and looked at the scene inside. The foggy city was silent and there was no breath of life.

His sight swept across the city inch by inch, and finally whispered like a sigh:

"What should I do?

"I seem to be late."

"This is normal," Will Auceptin's clear voice sounded, "Before His accumulated luck is exhausted, it is normal that we can't find Him-even if we find Him, we can't catch Him."

Amon didn't seem to care about the content of this sentence. He chuckled and asked curiously:

"Is it us now?"

After two seconds of silence, Will Auceptin's low voice sounded:

"What can I do? Now she is my 'mother'. As a child in a mother's belly, I can only trust my 'mother'."

There is nothing wrong with this, but Amon's action paused, and then He hesitated and asked:

"So, who is your father?"

"...I don't know," Will Auceptin was full of confusion and puzzlement, "Maybe it's you too? "

Amon didn't say anything. He scanned the scene inside Calderon City again and disappeared from the spot.

...

After discussing the issue of the Time Worm Spell with Pales, Leonard turned his attention back to Klein's letter and read it carefully.

"Evil spirit possession. The origin and main purpose of the evil spirit...

"I don't have enough knowledge about evil spirits. I don't have any ideas at all..."

After thinking for a few minutes, Leonard took out a box of matches and burned the letter, then frowned and muttered:

"It's a pity that Ms. Daly is not here... and she is on wedding leave."

It's not entirely true to say that she is on wedding leave. Leonard knows that if something really happened to make the "Nighthawks" too busy, Dunn and Daly probably wouldn't mind postponing or canceling the wedding.

Thinking of this possibility, Leonard shook his head and wrote the letter while praying that everything would go well.

Ask Ms. Daly. Hmm, it seems that there are also "Nighthawks" who are good at this in Gurain City... Well, it's a pity that we are not familiar with them, but it should be okay. What we need to be careful about is the wording...

Leonard pondered and considered the wording of the letter, filling in all the questions he could think of, and then pushed the excuse to Alice. He exhaled, frowned, and decided to ask other "Nighthawks" who are good at related aspects.

He didn't need to worry about excuses or anything else. He was familiar with Miss Fate and had a good relationship with her now, which was his best shield.

——This was Klein's suggestion.

...

Luckily, Klein received Leonard's reply before going to bed. He described his gains in detail in the letter, and at the same time lamented that Alice's signboard was really useful.

As the proposer of the suggestion, Klein had no guilt. He skipped this paragraph to read the specific content, trying to get more information from it and pass it on to Leonard.

...

Alice, who didn't know she was being used as a shield, showed up at St. Samuel's Church the next morning and saw the information about the whole incident.

The reason why every parish that discovered this incident chose to report it without hesitation was undoubtedly that honorific name.

Alice's fingertips ran over the honorific name she had seen, and suddenly looked up and asked:

"Have any of you read it?"

Anthony shook his head.

Alice didn't say anything, but frowned a little bit.

This is actually natural. There won't be many people in the official Beyonder who are stupid enough to recite an honorific name of unknown origin. Even if Alice was bold at the beginning, she would not rashly do such a thing now.

Even if "Cassandra" seems to be a "prophet" from Sequence 2 at most; even if "Cassandra" seems to know her and is very familiar with her; even if "Cassandra"...

Maybe she has no ill will towards her.

In fact, Alice even had a guess that she herself didn't want to believe - she suspected that the two "prophet" characteristics behind the Chanis Gate of St. Samuel Church were just a little more autonomous.

But this matter is not true or not true here. The attitude of half-giving up like Ouroboros is different from the attitude of sudden enlightenment like Charlie King at the end. If "Cassandra" is like this guess, it can only be in this mentality from beginning to end, and...

No matter how you look at it, Alice doesn't think that "Cassandra" can exclude extraordinary characteristics and retain consciousness - the result of doing so is certain death.

Moreover, the things it did before... Arrodes said that it was playing the role of "prophet"...

Alice calmly read the results of the whole incident and understood what Selwyn did.

For some unknown purpose, Selwyn spread the news of "the witch who can fulfill wishes" everywhere, in various forms, with the only purpose of spreading this news and attracting more people.

But the people who came to the door never came back - in the places where she walked, the message had become "the witch who eats people".

... Could she really eat people?

Unable to figure out the purpose of Selwyn's behavior, Alice came up with an extremely unreliable guess.

This was too outrageous. As soon as Alice thought of it, she rejected this guess, frowned and put down the file, and asked Anthony:

"Is she still in the last place she said on it?"

"I don't know," Anthony replied frankly, "We haven't sent anyone to look... Moreover, the local Nighthawks contacted the police to block off the area and prohibit pedestrians from approaching."

Alice's eyes widened in surprise and she blurted out:

"It definitely can't be here! Even a fool knows he's been discovered!"

Anthony said nothing. He and Alice stared at each other. After more than ten seconds, Alice made a decision:

"I'm going to see the scene."

"I'll help you contact the local Nighthawks." Anthony did not hesitate.

Alice nodded in agreement. After a pause, she asked curiously:

"No, I remember that this incident involved more than just our church at the beginning. What about the 'Punisher' and the 'Machine Heart'? How did they deal with it?"

As if he had expected this question from her, Anthony replied with a calm expression:

"The news of the 'Mechanical Heart' finally reached Backlund. They activated the Sealed Artifact Arrods - you should know about it?"

Alice nodded, so Anthony continued to explain:

“After questioning Arrods, they reported all the information to the Nighthawks and no longer participated in the investigation.

"As for the 'punisher'..."

Anthony's voice paused before speaking:

“Investigation is not what ‘punishers’ are good at. They often like to use more direct means to solve problems.”

A more direct method...?

Alice looked up at Bishop Anthony with a strange expression, remembering Sequence 8 of the Church of Storms.

"Are you scolding them for being brainless?" Alice asked calmly after looking around to make sure there was no one else.

Anthony denied decisively:

"No, of course not.

"Is that what you think?"

After a moment of silence, Alice lowered her head and pretended to be paying attention to the details of the incident.

She sat quietly for more than ten seconds, and when she felt that the time was almost up, she raised her head and said:

"I'm going to the scene."

Anthony nodded without hesitation: "I will contact the local Nighthawks immediately."

Alice did not refuse, she agreed with this matter, and then said seriously:

"Before we go, I have one more question."

"What?" Anthony asked subconsciously.

Alice kept a serious expression and said, "I don't know what the address on this is."

Anthony opened his mouth and then closed it. Only then did he remember that there was a detailed introduction to Miss Destiny's character in the church's information, which mentioned that she hated studying - judging from subsequent contacts, it seemed that this was indeed the case. in this way.

So, until now, she has been running around the world, does she rely on mystical coordinates...?

Anthony looked at Alice hesitantly, but in the end he didn't say anything, just smiled and said:

"I'll have the local Nighthawks pray to you to orient you."

Alice nodded with satisfaction.

…

Although it took time to pass the news back and forth, it didn't take long. When she heard the sound of prayer ringing in her ears, Alice knew they were ready.

As Anthony said, the scene had been cordoned off by the police and the "Nighthawks". Alice was not in the mood to chat. She ignored the group of people and stared directly at the two-story building in the center of the cordon. road:

"Is it right here?"

"Yes." The "Nighthawk" who prayed to her said honestly.

After hearing the affirmative answer, Alice no longer hesitated. She raised her legs and was about to walk inside, but her steps suddenly stopped and she raised her head as if feeling something.

The woman in a cloak poked her head out from the window sill, lowered her head to reveal her face, and Alice frowned at just one glance.

The originally clean and clear blue eyes were covered with red bloodshot eyes, and it was obvious that she was in poor spirits. The "witch"'s face, which was supposed to be very charming, had been scratched countless times with a knife, and her facial features were blurred with blood and flesh. Alice could only recognize the owner of this face intuitively.

As for the hair…

Alice looked at her hair for a brief moment and then frowned. It didn't look like hair, but had the shape of a snake looming. Several times, Alice almost felt that this person was pushing against a snake with teeth and claws. She looked away and looked at Looking around, I found that no one was staring at it, and everyone looked away.

She felt relieved again and looked upstairs again.

The figure who was probably Selwyn smiled with a bloody face, and the eyes that could barely be identified fell firmly on Alice. Alice heard her hoarse voice:

“Oh hehehehe…

"Are you the one who is here to help me get out of this predicament?"

...?

Alice was stunned for a moment. She couldn't figure out why Selwyn said this. She thought about it and answered decisively:

"Yes, fate guided me to appear at this moment to save you from the pain in front of you..."

"No need!" Selwyn suddenly screamed, "No need! Why didn't you come earlier? Why did you have to come now? Why did you have to come when everything was irreversible?!"

Everything is irreversible...?

Alice still didn't understand, she said calmly and calmly:

"That's not the case. Everything has turned around, but you haven't noticed it yet..."

"Are you saying that you are the turning point?" Selwyn glared at her fiercely from the windowsill, "'Cassandra' said the same thing at the beginning, and now - I have burned it to death!"

"...Ah?" Alice's expression management was out of control.

She really couldn't figure out the progress of the matter this time. Not to mention that "Cassandra" was suspected to be a "prophet" extraordinary characteristic, even if it was just an ordinary magical item, it shouldn't be "burned to death".

——Only angels have the power to crush extraordinary characteristics.

Selwyn seemed very satisfied with this. In Alice's confused expression, she raised her head proudly and crazily, and laughed hoarsely like a winner:

"Haha, hahahaha..."

"I know that you so-called "prophets" are a bunch of damn liars!

"Sylvia is, 'Cassandra' is, and you can't be an exception!

"By the way, you, and you..."

Her laughter suddenly stopped, she lowered her head, stared at Alice with a sinister look, and said with gritted teeth in a hoarse voice:

"I'm going to kill you!"

Alice blinked blankly, looking at Sequence 6 Selwyn with a hesitant expression.

The questioning expression successfully made Selwyn, who had collapsed emotionally, even more excited. She screamed and crawled to the edge of the windowsill, shouting in fear:

"Wait! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you now! I'm going to come down and kill you right away! I'm going to burn you to death like I burned 'Cassandra' to death, and let you and your believers meet the fate you talked about together! "

My believer...?"

Alice was even more confused. She felt that Selwyn's words seemed to contain some incredible news, but before she could ask, Selwyn, who had already climbed to the edge of the windowsill, jumped without hesitation.

Alice's pupils shrank slightly, and then her eyes closed tightly. Her figure flashed without hesitation, disappeared from the spot, and reappeared at the far back.

Bang!

Amid the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, the image of Selwyn's head touching the ground disappeared from her mind. She opened her eyes again, and without looking at the scene blocked by the back of the person in front of her, she only said coldly:

"She fell to the ground with her head, right?"

This was the countermeasure Alice took in the short time just now.

-Although Selwyn seemed to have revealed something incredible, and although Alice was very curious about what Selwyn had encountered to cause such a change, the information was not urgent, and obtaining the information did not necessarily require her to be alive.

Alice did not hesitate at all and decided that her head would fall to the ground when she fell from the second-floor window sill. (End of this chapter)