Chapter 128: Thousand Paper Cranes
Alice decided not to answer the question.
Anyway, Klein was already on the gray fog. If she started the sacrifice directly, could he refuse to accept it?
Regarding this question, Klein indicated that he didn't really want to talk.
Klein speechlessly allowed Amon's corpse to pass through the sacrificial door and then pulled Alice up.
Alice blinked at Klein and pointed at Amon's corpse, saying, "Look, it seems like he isn't dead."
"?" Klein stood up in shock.
Seeing Klein's expression, Alice asked in confusion, "Why are you so scared?"
"?" Klein glared at Alice.
"Well..." Alice touched her chin, "Have you ever seen a shell without a soul?"
"A shell without a soul?" Klein repeated in confusion and began to carefully observe Amon's condition.
"I don't know what he stole... maybe my fate? Who knows, anyway, after stealing it, he became like this." Alice shrugged.
"Well..." Klein pondered.
"Anyway, this is my body now!" Alice puffed out her chest.
"?" Klein felt his brain freeze, "Wait, what do you mean?"
"Literally," Alice began to explain more seriously, "In short, this Amon avatar has lost contact with the main body, becoming a soulless shell."
After a pause, Alice continued, "If you like, you could probably have an out-of-body experience and play around in it..."
"…Aren't you worried that Amon will come after you again?" Klein asked sincerely.
"Ah..." Alice seriously considered the possibility, "You know, Amon actually left me a souvenir..."
"A souvenir?" Klein asked in confusion.
"A bottle of 'Provocateur' potion," Alice said with a strange expression, "He said I was very suitable to become a 'Provocateur'..."
Klein pondered and asked, "So, what exactly did you do?"
Show him the high-definition CG of you two... Alice answered in her heart while propping her chin and scrutinizing Klein.
This strange look made Klein's hair stand on end. He shook off the goosebumps and hesitantly asked, "What is it?"
"Nothing," Alice quickly denied, thinking it was best if Klein never saw such things in his life.
... Showing him that strange article was one thing, but he must never know I drew those things!
Alice firmly made this wish and sincerely prayed that it would remain a secret between Amon and herself.
Klein looked at Alice's expression and felt she seemed a bit guilty.
He stared at Alice for a while, seeing her determined not to speak, and finally just placed a thousand paper cranes in front of her.
"Gift..." Alice picked up the paper crane in confusion, wanting to ask Klein what it was about, but her spirituality lightly jumped, and she stopped questioning.
She frowned at the seemingly ordinary paper crane and asked, "How did you get it?"
"It does have a problem?" Klein's eyes lit up.
Alice looked up at Klein without answering his question and asked again, "How did you get it?"
Realizing Alice's rare seriousness, Klein also became serious:
"I met Dr. Allen at the Cragg Club. You've seen him.
"He told me he had another nightmare, dreaming of Will Auceptin.
"In the dream, he saw a tall, pitch-black spire with a writhing silver-white giant snake coiled around it, staring at him with red eyes.
"Then, he walked into the spire, sometimes going up, sometimes down the stairs, passing through wall after wall, and through one locked door after another, finally finding Will Auceptin in a dark corner. He hopped a few steps on one leg, curled up against the wall, with tarot cards scattered around him.
"Then, Will Auceptin, both scared and happy, shouted...
"'Doctor, there's a snake trying to eat me!'
"The day before he had this dream, Dr. Allen found this paper crane.
"Supposedly, it was given to him by Will Auceptin, who said...
"'This will bring you good luck.'"
"'This will bring you good luck...'" Alice murmured, looking at the paper crane, "A snake trying to eat him..."
"So, the one who forced him to that point was another 'Mercury Snake'?" Alice muttered thoughtfully.
Klein frowned at Alice and asked in confusion, "To what point?"
"...It seems he has reincarnated." Alice answered with a strange expression.
"?" Klein felt he couldn't quite understand Alice's wording.
"In short, he is now in his mother's womb," Alice pondered, putting down the paper crane, "Is Dr. Allen's wife pregnant?"
Klein began to think, "I divined that Will Auceptin was in a dark, watery room, that is..."
"The womb!" They said in unison.
"There seems to be something left on this paper crane," Alice reminded finally, "If you don't want Will Auceptin to find you or spy on you through it, be careful not to carry it with you."
Klein said he remembered, then asked again, "What about Amon..."
"..." Alice stared at the paper crane for two seconds before looking up and saying, "Maybe next time we meet, I can give this paper crane to Amon."
"Huh?" Klein looked at Alice in confusion.
Alice said meaningfully:
"Although it can't be said that Amon didn't intend to get something from me... it can't be denied that his main purpose in finding me... seemed to be for fun.
"Since it's all for fun, why not change playmates?
"After all, I can't run away."
"Fun?" Hearing this word, Klein suddenly had a bad premonition, "Is Amon's personality... similar to yours?"
"..." Alice opened her mouth, feeling a sense of helplessness, not knowing how to refute.
Seeing her expression, Klein suddenly began to sympathize with the "Mercury Snake" he had never met.
...
The day after this conversation ended, Alice habitually went to the ice cream stall.
The original stall was gone, and the owners of similar businesses were dividing the freed-up customer flow, with no one wondering about the missing ice cream stall.
Alice sighed and became one of the dispersed customers.