章節 154: Chapter `154: You Didn't Used to Act This Way Around Me
Chapter `154: You Didn't Used to Act This Way Around Me
"He just wants to see you?" Alan looked at Alice in disbelief.
When he fled his home, he thought the other party had sensed something was amiss. He almost believed he was going to die. Then someone told him—oh, his life was merely a tool for their communication? Alan found this utterly unacceptable.
But Alice's focus seemed perpetually strange. She examined Alan's attire with a frown, then asked seriously, "Is this how you dressed when you left the house?"
Alan hadn't yet recovered from his emotional state. He looked at Alice with momentary confusion.
"Um... don't you think your current appearance is a bit inappropriate for going out?" Alice asked as tactfully as possible.
Alan glanced down at himself, asking with difficulty, "Why are you still concerned about this?"
Alice hadn't given up on persuading him to change clothes: "But your current look really isn't suitable for going out..."
After staring at Alice for a moment, Alan closed his eyes wearily and said, "If He wants to see you, shouldn't you come with me to meet Him first?"
Alice considered this carefully. On one hand, she felt it inappropriate to visit like this. On the other hand, Alan's behavior suggested that objecting might be even less appropriate at this time.
Alice decided to accept Alan's suggestion: "Alright, if you say so."
...
As a surgeon, Alan's home was not much different from most middle-class households of this era.
When Alan nervously pushed open the front door, Wilma was not in the living room.
Alan instinctively looked at Alice, saying urgently, "Wilma should be here. She was here when I left."
Alice gave him a strange look and asked, "Did you expect her to just sit here doing nothing?"
Alan fell silent.
Alice pushed open a partially closed door curiously. She could sense that Will Anstin should be here.
Alan instinctively wanted to follow, but Alice suddenly turned back and said to him, "Don't come in, and don't let anyone else in either."
"But..." Alan wanted to argue for his right to observe, but Alice had already closed the door unceremoniously.
After Alice set up a spiritual barrier, she heard a childish yet clear voice: "We meet again, sister."
Alice turned around. She was in a bedroom where Wilma lay sleeping on the bed. The source of the voice was the full-length mirror in front of the bed.
She slowly walked over and stood before the mirror. Reflected in it was a black baby carriage, its interior shadowy and indistinct. One could only make out a child wrapped in silver silk.
Alice gazed into the mirror as a childish, crisp voice suddenly rang in her ears: "Perhaps I should give myself a name that suits your style... Hmm, I've decided. Just call me Alice!"
She had never heard that voice before, nor learned the language it used. In fact, she couldn't even distinguish what language it was.
Yet she understood the voice's meaning effortlessly, realizing—it was her, or at least some version of her.
She seemed to see a vague figure, but even as the blurry image faded, she could barely make out that it was a person, likely a man.
But Alice instinctively associated that image with the indistinct child in the baby carriage.
After a while, she chuckled softly and said, tilting her head:
"Long time no see, Will.
"You didn't used to act this way around me."
The image in the mirror quivered suspiciously, and that clear voice instantly changed tone: "You remember? No, how could you possibly remem—you're bluffing!"
The uncontrollable smile at the corners of Alice's mouth revealed the truth, making Will's voice angry and shrill.
Exposed, Alice dropped the pretense. She sat on the bed, one hand clutching her stomach, the other pounding the bed as she burst into laughter.
The image in the mirror shook again, and Will's angry voice rang out once more: "Alice!"
Alice tried to stop laughing long enough to say something, but as soon as she uttered a syllable, laughter uncontrollably swallowed her voice. She had to wait until she finished laughing to speak.
"Hey," Alice asked, struggling to hold back her laughter, "Was I really that scary before?"
"...If it were the previous you, I have no doubt Ouroboros would already be on his way here," Will explained the reason for His momentary terror earlier.
"Why do you think I wouldn't do that now?" Alice asked, tilting her head in confusion.
"Of course because... Wait, you know who Ouroboros is?!" The image in the mirror shook violently again.
Alice looked thoughtfully at the shaking image and replied, "The Angel of Destiny, 'Ouroboros' the Tail-Eater, another 'Mercury Snake' that's been hunting you down."
"...Let me confirm something," Will's voice became cautious, "You do know that bringing Him here wouldn't be good for either of us, right?"
Alice considered seriously before answering, "But it seems it would be a bit worse for you."
"It appears you haven't told Ouroboros about my existence yet," Will sighed in relief, "In that case—let's talk."
"What is there for us to discuss?" Alice asked puzzledly, "Aren't we in a life-or-death relationship?"
"...I've always wondered," Will paused before asking, "Is there any difference between those two?"
"Hmm... there should be a slight difference," Alice thought for a moment and said, "If I'm alive, you don't necessarily have to die."
"Do you expect me to voluntarily cough up my extraordinary characteristics for you?" Will asked, perplexed.
"Why not?" Alice chuckled softly, "When did we first meet? After all this time, you still haven't managed to become a god?"
Will clarified, "When we met, I wasn't even at Sequence 1!"
So He wasn't even at Sequence 1 back then... Alice silently noted this fact, raising an eyebrow, "So what? How long have you been at Sequence 1? You couldn't become a god in all that time I was gone, and now that I'm back you think you can?"
Will was left speechless, silent for a good while before saying, "...Then what makes you think you can?"
Alice pondered for a moment, then pulled out a dagger from her person and asked with a sincere expression, "What do you say I cut you out of Wilma's belly right now to help you be born early?"
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