No one knew what exactly Mr. "World" and Miss Destiny talked about, but judging from Miss Destiny's expression, this quarrel between a kindergarten child and an adult finally ended with the kindergarten child winning.
After Alice, no one else proposed a transaction, and they naturally entered the free communication phase.
During the free communication phase, "World" introduced several rituals directed toward Alice, such as prayer, such as sacrifice and requesting bestowal, and also introduced the related herbs.
Obviously, Miss Destiny herse—this god did not raise any objections, so the members of the Tarot Club silently wrote down these rituals and swore not to use them unless absolutely necessary.
After leaving the Tarot Club, Alice only then remembered to check her future teacher's reply letter.
Alice quickly realized that this letter should not be read by her.
This was clearly written to the student's parents… Alice quickly skimmed Edwina's letter, and without hesitation decided to hand it to Klein.
Edwina agreed to the matter of an extra number of students quite easily, but did not follow Klein's suggestion in the letter to use a personal item as a positioning tool, and only gave a time and place.
Bad news, she only had one night of free time left.
For a moment, Alice gave birth to the idea of hiding this letter.
Since it's like this, why don't I just give the letter to Amon, and if Klein asks, just say Amon stole it… Eh, speaking of which, has Amon found suitable "ingredients" yet?
Her thoughts wandered for a moment, and Alice soon remembered the diary stolen by Amon, and Ian.
Hmm, and the taste of the Faceless Man is really not bad…
Alice showed a malicious smile and sent Edwina's reply to Klein through a sacrificial ritual.
Out of caution, Alice was not in a hurry to create "The Taste of the Faceless Man is Really Not Bad"—what if someone bought that diary page in advance and ruined the surprise she prepared for Mr. Fool?
Eh, speaking of which, when is her birthday?
A long-forgotten question was brought back to the table again. Alice picked up a pen and wrote "My Birthday" on the paper, then put down the pen and attempted a divination.
The first scene in the dream was one she was extremely familiar with—that alley.
She saw herself waking up in the alley, saw that "Lucky One" fall down in fear, saw herself uncontrollably take that Extraordinary characteristic…
Everything was familiar to her.
What about further back?
She and Song Shu were huddled in a room, Song Shu held a tablet in her hand, on which was a bronze seat shrouded in mist. The seat had four Chinese characters—Lord of the Mysteries.
She saw Song Shu reach out and lightly tap it, the white mist dispersed, revealing a clear bronze seat, which then rapidly enlarged, brightened, and transformed into a gate of light.
After opening the gate of light, a line of text appeared on the interface: Choose your birthday.
"This interface is really not bad…" Song Shu murmured and turned her head to smile at her, "Huanhuan, you pick?"
Shen Yinghuan naturally agreed to this request, reached out and touched the screen, a scrolling interface appeared, with year, month, and day, of which the year was fixed at Year 1334.
Shen Yinghuan reached out and scrolled, finally selecting February 5 as the birthday.
"This one then," Shen Yinghuan said to Song Shu, "Wasn't it you who wanted to create a character, why am I the one choosing?"
Song Shu reached out and hooked Shen Yinghuan's arm, then showed an exaggeratedly sad expression and said:
"Heavens, I thought we had long ceased to distinguish between each other, didn't expect you to be so distant!
"I see you as a part of my life, and you—you actually try to separate from me!"
Shen Yinghuan thus moved her gaze away with a headache, perfunctorily said: "Okay okay okay, it's all my fault, let's quickly continue."
Saying that, she reached out and tapped the screen again.
The next interface was face customization, Shen Yinghuan glanced at Song Shu's expression and immediately understood that this burden had also been pushed onto herself.
She rolled her eyes and simply used the face recognition function to take her own face as the template. According to her personal preference, she selected brilliant gold and pure blue as hair and eye colors, then left the rest to AI auto-generate.
The next interface, however, made Shen Yinghuan somewhat puzzled. She looked at the popped-up "Choose Initial Sequence" and then the following words, falling into thought.
[Sequence 9: Monster] [Sequence 8: Machine] [Sequence 7: Lucky One] [Sequence 6: Calamity Priest]
Note: Sequences requiring rituals to advance are currently not available for selection.
"Shouldn't it be… choose the pathway first?" Shen Yinghuan asked with some hesitation as she turned her head.
Seeing this, Song Shu smiled in surprise and said:
"Ah, you still remember.
"But although there are 22 pathways, in this place… I think the initial interface should have been drawn as the Key of Light.
"Hmm… just treat it as a tribute to that book, after all, art deserves respect, even though this story… hmm, anyway, this should be a homage."
Shen Yinghuan didn't quite understand what she meant, but roughly realized that the initial pathway was likely destined. She looked at the four names, hesitated slightly, then selected the one that sounded most reliable—Lucky One.
"Once it's decided it can't be changed, okay?" Song Shu confirmed when she saw her decision.
Shen Yinghuan shrugged and said:
"Mm… let's go with this one.
"Although normally speaking it feels like the higher the initial sequence the better, but 'Calamity Priest' sounds like something like a 'cursed star' kind of thing… doesn't feel like a good word.
"Just 'Lucky One' then, that one sounds the most normal."
Saying that, Shen Yinghuan reached out and pressed the "Start Game" button.
The dream shattered with a loud crash, and Alice opened her eyes with a pale face.
"February 5th, Year 1334… Lucky One…" she bit her lip hard, not saying a word.
That memory of creating a character—before this, she had no impression of it—maybe it had been erased.
Alice was very sure of this answer, because…
She took a deep breath, got up and went to the bedroom, standing in front of the full-length mirror.
The girl in the mirror had brilliant golden hair and pure, exhibition-like blue eyes. She closed her eyes, recalled the face of Shen Yinghuan in her memory, then opened her eyes and compared it to her own face one feature at a time.
All along, she had felt a sense of familiarity from this body's face. When she finally retrieved Shen Yinghuan's face from memory—one that had somehow been ignored—Alice then realized the source of that familiarity.
It was precisely a Ruen-modded version of Shen Yinghuan's facial features.
Thinking of how, after she got "Matilda," she modeled Briel Rose after Song Shu's features, and Song Shu's words of "no distinction between us," Alice suddenly felt a wave of chills.
After all, the last time she heard something similar, it was when the ancient sun god's child Adam inherited His father's will…