Mystery: Paradox Path

In Queens Backlund, the home of Viscount Grelint, Miss Audrey Hall, who had just reached adulthood, walked into the mansion where a banquet was being prepared, followed by a maid.

Although Miss Audrey often attends the ball or salon held by Viscount Grelint, as the second social ball after the bar mitzvah, Audrey's choice undoubtedly makes some people think.

This made Grelint feel a somewhat piercing gaze.

After all, that was Audrey Hall!

However, the anxiety in Grelint's heart at this time did not come from those jealous eyes. He would rather Audrey really use himself as a shield, but the problem is...

He came to see that person!

Although Earl Hall doesn't seem to realize that his daughter is frequently interacting with the lady killer, but...

"Oh, Grelint, it's a little rude of you to be so distracted!"

Audrey's brisk voice rang in Viscount Grelint's ear, and Viscount Grelint sighed slightly, but out of the instinct of the nobleman of the old Ruen Mizi Banner, he still showed a social-only smile, After passing the hand that Audrey handed him, he gave a false kiss before saying with a smile:

"Oh, Miss Hall, it's your beauty that distracts me."

After he finished speaking, he whispered:

"Audrey! I didn't send an invitation to that guy today! You know, this is your first dance as a social adult, and many people will be watching!"

"I didn't come for this." Audrey showed a perfect smile and said softly:

"Remember the surprise I said earlier?"

"As long as it's not frightening." Grelint felt his heart twitch, for fear of hearing Audrey's shocking request.

However, Audrey did not intend to speak immediately, instead she blinked mischievously and said:

"See you in the study later."

"..."

Grelint watched Audrey start to walk around other people of the same age, and suddenly felt that he, the pharmacist, should probably try to prepare a few medicines related to the heart.

...

After two dances, Grelint and Audrey left the dance floor respectively and came to the small study where Fors and the others met, looking at Audrey who was casually flipping through a book of noble history. , Grelint felt a bit of a toothache - this eldest lady is actually reading aristocratic history? What a joke! The book "Mysterious Search: One Hundred Rituals of My Friends and Me" next to it is the book you can read, right?

"Okay, Audrey, I'm ready, what are you going to say?"

Grelint asked with the realization that he was about to be shot by Earl Hall and his two sons for half an hour.

"Don't be so nervous." Audrey clearly sensed Grelint's inexplicable mental fear at this time. Although he didn't know what he was worried about, Audrey didn't continue to scare him. In the small bag, a small box about the size of a matchbox was taken out and placed on the desk——

"It's a very interesting magical item, and I'm sure you'll love it."

"Mysterious item? Just mystical item?" Grelint let out a long sigh of relief, and was then occupied by curiosity.

He opened the "matchbox" and saw two arrowheads engraved with Roselle in it, slightly puzzled:

"How to use this? What ability does it have?"

"Have you read Mr. Snow's latest "Stardust Crusaders"?" Audrey didn't answer directly, but instead asked a question.

"Look, is this something similar to a stone ghost face?"

Although Tigrelint has a headache when he hears Snow's name, as a nobleman, following the trend is a must. Snow's novels are very popular in the circle nowadays, so even if he doesn't like seeing Snow I don't want to think about the existence of this person. In order to have enough topics with those young ladies and ladies, I must also read the previous part.

Audrey shook her head and said:

"The stone ghost face is out of date! This is the arrow of the substitute! As long as you hold it for a while, you can get a substitute!"

"Substitute? It's like the Platinum Star? Which arrow is this? The green emperor or the red magician? I think Justice's substitute is super powerful!" Grelint looked at the arrow in his hand, and immediately lost his interest in Snow. He just looked up, only to find a strange expression on Audrey's face...

"Audrey, what's wrong?"

...

"Crack!"

Feeling the disintegration of the potion in his body, Snow slightly raised the corners of his mouth, although he was not sure whether it was Klein who finally gave up his luck after the Tarot Club and decided to make the Moretti brothers and sisters Beyonders, or Audrey. The preaching over there has paid off, or simply jojo's "distortion" of readers' aesthetics has reached a critical point.

In short, the potion that corrupted the baron was completely digested.

But this time, Snow obviously couldn't directly swallow the potion of Sequence Five, because the paradox pathway also required rituals to take potions above Sequence Five.

And the promotion ceremony of Shakespeare's Ape in Sequence Five is "a coincidence" that "completes" a "sufficient intensity"".

This "sufficient intensity" is not an exaggeration. It is probably the level of winning the second prize in the lottery, or encountering someone in an unfamiliar city with millions of people.

In fact, for Snow, the focus of this ritual is on "completion" and "coincidence". Completion means that the "event" must be the one that he voluntarily designates the target, rather than anyone who encounters it as a completion; coincidence means It cannot be guided by any power (including extraordinary abilities).

To put it simply, Snow must set a goal for himself, and achieve this goal "accidentally" without using his extraordinary abilities.

Take chance encounters, if Snow wants to meet an original character by chance, then he can't choose a target for whom he knows the exact location. Nor can you choose those that are "inevitable" to appear.

Similarly, he cannot conduct prior investigations, and he cannot lock the scope of the other party through various channels.

In a sense, this is a very simple ceremony, because it does not have any special risks. You only need to designate a person, and then just meet him without deliberately investigating the other party's position, even if the goal is achieved, You don't need to fight against powerful extraordinary creatures, you don't need to sell your morals and beliefs, and you don't need to search for those rare ghosts and corpses.

But this ritual also has the same urination as the fate pathway of its characteristic origin, that is, if the luck is not good enough, it is very possible that it will not be completed in a lifetime.

After all, the easiest way to do this ceremony is to buy lottery tickets. As long as you buy enough tickets, it is very easy to win a prize that meets the requirements of the ceremony. But Roselle, this bastard, copied so many things, but he didn’t copy lottery tickets. ...