"There's such a secret?" Jodeson asked in surprise, "I've never heard of it..."
He looked at Alice in astonishment, then looked around, and finally his gaze fell on Bru Walls's monocle.
"Really," Alice took out her own monocle with a serious face and handed it over, "Do you want to try it on?"
Jodeson curiously reached out his hand to take the monocle from Alice's hand: "Good... ah?"
His hand suddenly stopped, just hanging in mid-air, and his voice paused for a long time before stiffly uttering the final syllable.
Jodeson looked at Alice who was still confused and hesitant, and only recovered his normal speaking ability after taking several deep breaths:
"That monocle... is it a magical item? A very dangerous one?"
After being stunned for two seconds, Alice silently withdrew her hand and looked at Jodeson with a strange expression and said:
"No, it's not dangerous. On the contrary, it can be said to be completely useless...
"It enhances the ability to steal, and at the same time, the wearer can't taste food while wearing it... I think it doesn't meet the definition of dangerous in any way."
Jodeson frowned in confusion.
"However, I probably know why you feel it's dangerous..." Alice glanced over Jodeson and Bru Walls, stroking her chin as she answered, "The owner of this monocle is also a 'Thief'..."
She looked at Jodeson's thoughtful expression, suddenly adjusted her own expression to make herself look full of piety and solemnity, then placed her right hand on her left chest and said in a recitative:
"He is the king of 'Thieves', the embodiment of fraud and mischief, a Time Angel born in ancient times!"
He... hearing this pronoun from Alice's mouth for the second time, Bru Walls and Jodeson, who were at the center of the event, suddenly had a flash of understanding. Jodeson's face turned pale: "He is a 'Thief' angel?"
An ordinary angel can't beat Amon... at least I can't.
Alice's gaze flickered for a moment, then she looked at Bru Walls and Jodeson again, and also glanced at Danitz, stroked her chin and said: "On your ship, you have a first mate who likes to wear a monocle, a third mate who is a 'Thief', and a crew member who is a 'Provocateur'...
"Does this count as breaking Amon into three parts...
"After all, together you would be a complete Amon... Ah, it sounds like I'm playing a game called Synthesizing the Great Amon.
"It would be even more fitting if all three of you were Amon's avatars..."
No one could appreciate Alice's joke. Even without understanding the parasitic abilities of high-sequence 'Thieves' and Amon's personality, Jodeson quickly connected the logic from Alice's words.
—High-sequence individuals of the same pathway will influence those of lower sequences. If he wears a monocle of the same style as an angel of this pathway, he would easily become an avatar of this angel.
And this angel's avatar has the strength of a demigod.
Jodeson had to admit that, according to this logic, Alice really didn't... tell a single lie.
At most, she just didn't tell the whole truth.
This way of concealing part of the truth, avoiding the important and dwelling on the trivial... Jodeson frowned suddenly and curiously asked: "Have you ever considered becoming a 'Fraud' before?"
Alice recalled what Amon looked like when he invited her to become his follower, and the tone Amon used when saying "I really like you," and shuddered in horror.
She righteously rejected this proposal: "Don't say my pathway was predetermined from the beginning... Even if it wasn't, I would rather die, jump off the ship, than ever become a 'Fraud'! "Otherwise, otherwise... given His level of interest in me, I would either become a demigod, or become a demigod."
Alice said "either become a demigod" twice, but Jodeson felt he understood Alice's words—one was a real demigod, the other was an angel's demigod avatar.
In comparison, the predetermined pathway from the beginning didn't attract anyone's attention.
Though being a natural half-extraordinary person wasn't common, as well-informed pirates, plus with Edwina often teaching them, they weren't unfamiliar with it.
They naturally took Alice to be such a case.
Alice looked at Jodeson, sighed and then continued: "However, in this respect, you can't compare to our great Time Angel.
"After all, His praise for me is that I'm very suitable to be a 'Provocateur'..."
Jodeson looked at Alice and began to think about what exactly she had done to receive such praise from an angel.
Most importantly, and still not dead.
Danitz, who had never received such praise, was stunned for a few seconds, and suddenly felt that being angered to death by Alice was what he deserved.
After all, he could really imagine why Alice would receive this level of praise.
Although theoretically, she might have helped provoke others, like angering enemies to death or something similar, based on his understanding of Alice from two meetings, Danitz had no doubt...
She must have almost angered that angel to death! Hmm? Wait, the enemy of an angel... can't be an ordinary person, right? Oh right, she said she had killed a demigod... Could it be that they were angered to death? Danitz fell into contemplation.
Not knowing what kind of reasonable inference Danitz had made, Alice continued:
"I think, for a Time Angel who has existed since ancient times until now, this is definitely a double affirmation of my courage and wisdom! "This must be the highest praise He could give!"
What a double affirmation of courage and wisdom... Jodeson felt he understood everything and chose to keep quiet.
Originally feeling it was a pity she didn't become a "Fraud", now it seems... indeed "Provocateur" suits her better.
But from the description, that angel seems to have a very active personality... Thinking of this, Jodeson instantly recalled Alice's remarks about "Disassembled Amon" and "Synthesizing the Great Amon".
He glanced discreetly at Bru Walls and moved a bit further away from him, then as if remembering something, looked at Danitz, thought for a moment, and gave up.
Jodeson believed that compared to Alice's naturally born provocative methods, Danitz, who only knew how to give the middle finger and curse "shit", still had plenty of room for improvement.
Alice regretfully watched the three-part Amon gradually separate, completely losing the possibility of synthesizing the Great Amon. She disappointedly pouted, then suddenly curiously approached Danitz and asked: "You should actually be Sequence 7, right? I remember it should be called... 'Arsonist'? "Hmm, sounds like a sequence that causes trouble everywhere... bringing Amon over should also count as causing trouble, right..."