"It's just an accident, isn't it a 'surprise'?"

The ridicule of the "lover" made Klein's heart chill, and at this moment, he almost had the feeling that it was not Zoya who was sitting there, but Esther.

But how could Esther usurp the power of the Grey Mist and hide herself in a tarot meeting where the members gathered? If Zoya is deliberately "imitating", this is a blunt provocation for Klein.

The "Fool" no longer relaxed in his sitting position, and gradually straightened his body, and the gray mist that swirled around the side of the seat became more and more intense:

"Surprise? Are you sure? ”

"Listening to your tone, it's a shame that I'm not very popular."

The "lover's" smile was very gentle, which made Klein's heart feel more disobedient, and he looked at the figure cautiously, and tapped his finger on the long table, as if hesitating which "blasphemy card" to fall on.

"If you're not willing to talk about why you're here, there's not much for us to say." Crane no longer concealed the hostility in his words, and his hand stopped on the edge of the "Tyrant" card.

The "lover" supported the side of her face with her hands, and her figure gradually became solid: "As I have mentioned many times, deal, Mr. 'Fool'." ”

"You're a little different." Crane said this, his finger already on the face of the "Tyrant" card, but he hadn't yet integrated it into the spirit.

The light turned from virtual to dense, and a faint gray mist was attracted by it, gradually seeping into the body of the "lover", so that her figure was fully revealed—just like the "fool".

The shining circular imprint in the eyes of the "lovers" is particularly bright.

Has her grip on this place become stronger? Zoya seems to have escaped her bondage......

Without the cover of the gray mist, Crane looked at the familiar face and smile, and gradually frowned, and a more uneasy chill appeared in his heart: "You're different, Zoya. ”

"Change is just change, for better or worse. What are you anxious about, Mr. Fool? "Lovers" asked rhetorically with a smile.

Klein slowly stood up from the "Fool's" chair, propped his hands on the top of the long bronze table, and the gray fog obscuring his face also dissipated: "Esther, what is wrong with her?" ”

At this moment, there was no need for him to hide his face anymore, Zoya knew who he was, and he should also know the secrets of the souls in those light cocoons.

"Not much."

"Do you think I'll believe it?"

The "lover's" playful gaze made Crane even more uncomfortable, and although she kept laughing, her gentle and indifferent demeanor was very similar to the gaze that Zoya had looked at with Esther's body in the resurrection square where Ince had killed Ince.

The "lover" sighed softly, "Don't you want to see me?" I thought that if you were so calm and face-to-face, you would be more willing to agree to my request for a trade. ”

“…… I can't accept it. ”

While answering this sentence, Crane touched the blasphemy card in his hand with his spirit, and the "tyrant" card merged into the spirit body.

A terrifying majesty of oppression emanated from Crane's body, his silk top hat turned into a heavy and gorgeous triple crown, and the clothes on his body were also instantly transformed into robes with a sense of religious design, the color was dark blue and almost black, like the deep sea.

Perhaps it's because of the pent-up anger in Klein's heart that fits this card even more at the moment, and this time he exudes much more coercion than when he fused the "Tyrant" card.

Crane raised his hand, and the papal robe he was wearing suddenly lifted, hunting in the surging wind.

The "Seagod Scepter" in the gray mist was summoned and quickly flew to the palm of his hand, and the gem at the top of the white bone scepter shone brightly, releasing a mixture of blue and silver light, and the surging electricity swam away like a python.

The "lover" was obviously stunned for a moment, but the surprise on her face had no credibility for Klein.

The moment the scepter spun around and aimed at the bronze high-backed chair, she disappeared into the chair shattered by lightning with a helpless smile.

Klein knew that she was not leaving, and that spiritual intuition gave a clear hint that there was another "person" here.

At the moment when the coin appeared on his fingertips and flicked the coin, the divination result given by the flip had already entered his consciousness, and Crane flipped the bone staff in his hand and aimed it at the gray mist that permeated the temple.

The Tyrant's anger instantly turned into a silver-white electric light, pointing directly at the little light hidden in the gray mist.

Thunder roared, shattering the bronze table and all the high-backed chairs, causing them to crumble into a flowing gray mist.

The sigh was muffled by the roar of thunder, and the location of the sound had changed again, but the "Seagod Scepter" in Crane's hand had also changed direction, as if he had seen this shift a long time ago.

At the moment when the lightning storm penetrated the gray fog and was about to catch up with the target in the next moment, the "lover" spread his hand towards the gray fog around him, and grasped it simply.

The gray filaments immediately appeared, as if they had been brought to life in the palm of her hand, and as the "lover's" wrist twisted, the threads automatically joined end to end, forming a gray Möbius ring.

The "lover's" fingers hooked the ends of the circle, and the moment the silver-white lightning tore through the ring in her hand, everything in this grand hall was distorted, as if someone had splashed water and scattered the ink.

Crane had lost his sense of time, and even if he sensed that his control over his spirit was sluggish, he could not take any action, and all he saw in front of him was the constant gray mist and whispering in it.

Crane was no stranger to such babbles, and he heard them every time he climbed the gray fog.

The next moment, the "lover" took the initiative to hook her fingers, and the gray twisted ring was not straightened, but shattered inch by inch between her hands.

The staggered light of thunder reappeared, but it retreated towards the place where it had attracted them, and the long bronze tables and high-backed chairs that had been shattered quickly returned to their places, recondensed from the mist.

The Poseidon Scepter flew upside down into the pile of debris deep in the gray mist, the crown and robes dissipated into shadows, and the blasphemy card flew out of Crane's spirit and returned to the long bronze table that had been recondensed.

By the time Crane regained contact with the gray fog around them, "The Fool" and "Lover" had already sat back in their respective places, leaving aside the expressions on their faces as if nothing had happened before.

Although the "lover" sat upright, but the hand under the table moved slightly, Crane looked down, saw that there was a blasphemy card missing in front of him, his face gradually calmed down, and looked back at the participant who should not be here.

The "lover" flipped over the things in his hand, and after casually scanning a few recipes, he saw the "Sequence Zero" on the front, but subconsciously tilted his head back because of Russell Gustaf's face in the papal robe, and then casually threw away the blasphemous card, leaving it to lie on the full bronze table.

"Now can we talk?" The "lover" looked at the "fool" and asked.

"Okay."

The "lovers" seemed relieved by the answer, and Crane withdrew his hands from the table, and manifested a coin, which bounced up and down lightly, and thus performed divination in front of the other.

However, the divination feedback he can get is very small, and the revelations he receives are all vague, regardless of whether Klein's divination subject is "Zoya" or "Esther", there is a hazy light covering it.

And the "lover" didn't react much to this, not caring at all about the movements of Klein's hands, and Crane was very suspicious that she had deliberately interfered with his divination.

The "lover" got up from his chair, put his hand to his heart, and bowed respectfully to the first seat: "Like the previous times, I have a request for a deal...... According to the principle of tarot equivalent exchange, this should be allowed, Mr. 'Fool'. ”

"In the same way, I can refuse you." Klein replied calmly.

"You're curious about the truth of the 'crossing', and you're wondering what exactly is here, the answer you've been seeking, and ...... The way to go back. ”

Klein tilted his head back and leaned back in his chair: "You know our world very well. ”

When he said this, he was thinking about the deep sea dream and the people who were trapped in it.

"Of course I know you, and I know you too."

The "lover" scratched at the air in front of her, and she had an extra tarot card in her hand, and Klein could see that she deliberately flipped the card in her direction, the puppy running behind, and the fannyly clown carrying his bags, with the same cheerful smile on his face as the "lover".

The "lover" just like that, smiled and said: "Do you believe in fate?" ”

Before Klein answered, the "lovers" had already said to themselves: "Individuals, groups, and the world are all under the flow of fate, including those unspeakable existences, from the beginning ......"

With a slight rub of her fingers, the "Fool" card was reduced from one to two, revealing the "World" card that was covered behind it.

"To the end."

Klein's brow gradually furrowed: "I believe that fate can be determined by choice. ”

“”

——

The last time Klein was so embarrassed but unavoidable, it was the "Mysterious Queen" who revealed the identity of the "Black Emperor", causing him to be chased by Esther and ask what was going on.

The current embarrassment is not the same, and his calm mood just now is turbulent again: "If this is what you want to say, then I ......"

Hearing Klein's impatience revealed in his tone, the "lover" quickly interrupted him: "This is just a corroboration, you went to reality from here, of course, this is not accidental. ”

"Do you want to say that this is also fate?" Klein smiled, "I don't think the Goddess of the Night or Russell the Great would believe such a statement. ”

The "lover" also laughed: "Of course I say it differently to everyone, it's just a change of situation." I have provided Amani with the will she had in the first place to avoid extraordinary madness, so that she always remembers herself as a 'human', and now, they call this tug-of-war 'anchor'. ”

Klein lowered his head and looked at Russell Gustav on the chariot: "Is the blasphemy card too?" No, according to the diary, you didn't have any direct contact with him at all. ”

"This problem is because of Amon's small actions." The "lover's" face suddenly turned cold, and she nodded her right eye socket with her backhand, "I have always regretted that I failed to fulfill my responsibility and guide him to choose the right path, otherwise there would be no need to be so troublesome." ”

"Guide him?"

The "lover" hung a mocking smile:

"Yes, I'll welcome new players and tell them it's a life of conquest of new worlds and opening up different worlds! With the character of 'Huang Tao', there is no doubt that there is an extra 'system' in his brain that is responsible for guiding him to become a god, because for the 'system', no matter how much help is given to the host as the protagonist, it is reasonable.

"Here, it will become the golden finger given to him by the 'system'. I could even warn him of the dangers in advance, and the sources of pollution in the starry sky were unlikely to affect my anchoring to him......

"But it's a pity that because of Amon's relationship, there is no such if. When Huang Tao entered the Northern Continent, I was pulled to the Eastern Continent by the aggregation effect and fell on the head of some unlucky clone. ”

Klein didn't speak for a while, he didn't know what to say, it was because he had read those early diaries of Russell that he knew what kind of character Huang Tao was.

This man who single-handedly promoted the development of technology and navigation has a very strong ambition and action, and Klein believes that such a design will make Huang Tao unsuspecting, until he sells himself to realize that the "system" has its own purpose.

"So, everybody hanging on that door......"

"There's a plan for everyone, because I have a long time to plan for it. It is not difficult for me to find out the pattern of action, personality and destiny of each candidate. ”

Klein was starting to feel tired of the conversation, and he couldn't see exactly what the "lovers" were trying to do: "I see. ”

The "lover" was silent for a while before raising his head slightly: "Yes, everything is for trading." I need a true God who can control this place and be influenced by me, and only then can He cut me off from my destiny connected to the Source Castle. ”

True God, what a fluttering word came out of her mouth.

"Why are you telling me this?"

"When you get to Sequence Three, you'll know the truth, and this is my last chance to communicate with you honestly."

"So this palace is the Source Fort."

The "lover" didn't show the slightest surprise on his face, just nodded slowly: "I can't tell you more about it, you just need to know that it is the apex of the three adjacent pathways of promotion, and you are currently in control of it, and that's enough." ”

Klein subconsciously remembered the word: "But I still don't understand why...... I? ”

He's been wanting to ask this question for a long time.

"You're ordinary."

"yes, I don't think there's anything special about me...... I don't know the goddess of the night, but I can be sure that I don't look like Huang Tao at all. ”

The "lover" stood up with a smile, and she tossed the "tyrant" card in her hand, causing it to spin and slide across the table, stopping right in front of Klein.

The gray fog around him suddenly rolled up, not from Klein's control, but from a strange movement that felt familiar to him, and some instinctive defense mechanism was touched.

The "lover" let out a long sigh: "Sure enough, it still failed......"

As her sigh fell, several soft rays of light scattered in the gray mist around the hall, which were crushed by the boiling gray mist in the flow, and as they lost the target of the counterattack, those gray mist gradually became thicker, rolling towards the source of the light, that is, the location of the "lovers".

"What did you do?" Klein asked subconsciously.

He tried to suppress the change in the mist, but it had no effect, at least his current control over the gray mist was not enough to suppress such a violent reaction, and more and more gray mist gathered and gradually condensed into tentacle-like phantoms.

"I've been procrastinating and trying to cut off contact with here, but now it seems ......"

The "lover's" brow gradually furrowed, but soon regained his composure:

"Since I don't have much time, let's answer your previous question. Yes, ordinary, this is the reason why the previous master of Source Fort chose you, and it is also the reason why I chose you.

"In the end, it turned out that he was wrong, and his arrogant nature made him take it for granted, so he made the biggest mistake, Zhou Mingrui.

"Including me, who made the exact same mistake."

The "lover" stood up from the bronze table, and the gray mist that was ready to go suddenly surged, poking out the chain-like gray tentacle phantom, which ran through the "lover's" body one after another, making her figure gradually turn into a faint light.

But the "lover" was unaware, and she stretched out her arms towards Klein, who was in the first seat, as if inviting him to witness the scene.

A buzz echoed in the voice of the "lover":

"Ordinary makes greatness.

"Under the dice of fate, everything ends up being a miracle."

Her voice grew more and more ethereal, and the meaningless hum filled the syllables of every word, making every word spoken by the "lover" feel like an aria.

She was still smiling, even if a shadow of gray mist penetrated her cheeks, it didn't make the smile fade by half, but her eyes were a little sad, and Crane couldn't see what the source of that emotion was.

The voice of the "lover" continues to sound:

"If you remember where you came from, you won't forget what it felt like to be on the ground. You're going to care, you're going to care, you're going to be vulnerable, you're going to feel threatened.

"From Zhou Mingrui to Klein, welcome your fate and responsibility."

"What if I still refuse?" Klein's voice trembled with forbearance, "I don't want to, I don't want to bear you at all-"

The "lover" did not seem to hear his protest: "Everyone will die." ”

The heart was clogged in his throat, and Klein couldn't breathe a word.

"What you know, what I know, everyone will die." "Lovers" repeated, "Actually, I know some people don't care about this kind of thing, but you're different, and you do." ”

The surging gray fog completely drowned the figure of the "lover", and points of light continued to emerge and dissolve, scattering the last faint sound:

"I'm sorry, I'm really just a liar."

"Wait, wait! Dawn Star - Esther! ”

The gray mist sank suddenly, crashing directly into the ground and filling the air, blurring the "fool's" vision.

The place of the "lover" is empty.

(End of Volume III)

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