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Lin Ruo hadn't actually remembered anything, but he could roughly guess who he was talking to and when the conversation likely took place.
Lin Ruo wasn't particularly sad either. Although his mind had indeed gone blank for a moment, shocked by the fact, and his emotions had been out of control for a brief period, he ultimately had no memories related to Alista Tudor. Once his body's instinctive reaction subsided, Lin Ruo felt no real impact from the matter.
However, for some reason, Lin Ruo still answered Alista Tudor's question in his heart.
No, it's actually the same.
I know how cruel this world is, and I know how insane its underlying rules are. I just can't view those cruel things as natural.
I can understand what you did, but I cannot accept it.
This sounded somewhat irrelevant, but Lin Ruo had a hunch that if Alista Tudor were still alive, this was the answer he would want to hear.
But, sigh, even without feeling it directly, looking at it from an outsider's perspective, this matter is truly heartbreaking—his student, in collusion with his godson and the Creator's divine Clone, killed his best friend. His old friend chose to stand by due to a revelation of fate, and he, while all this was happening, was likely sulking somewhere, completely unaware.
Hiss… Lin Ruo felt he somewhat understood why he seemed to have participated so little in the War of the Four Emperors, such a huge event in the fourth epoch's Late Stage.
Who could bear such a thing falling on their head? Even if Lin Ruo was confident in his resilience and self-regulation, he felt that after Medici's death, he would probably have to isolate himself for a period.
Moreover… Lin Ruo looked at Klein, who was watching him worriedly from the side, and belatedly broke out in a cold sweat.
He hadn't known about Alista Tudor before, so he thought it was perfectly fine to introduce Klein, his student, to Medici.
But looking at it now… cough, it was hard on Little Red. Even after being backstabbed by his student, his attitude towards Klein was only a bit disdainful.
Sigh, what a mess.
Lin Ruo suddenly realized that having too many friends sometimes wasn't good, especially in a world like Mystery where the underlying rules were extremely cruel. Having many friends inevitably led to all sorts of melodramatic events.
"Forget it, it's all in the past. Alista Tudor is long dead. I can't just pull him out and kill him again… Wait a minute." Lin Ruo suddenly thought of something, looked at Will, and asked, "How did Alista Tudor die?"
The original novel didn't explicitly state how Alista Tudor fell; it only vaguely mentioned that the Red Priest uniqueness should have been taken by Death.
It was also after accommodating the Red Priest's non-adjacent pathway uniqueness that Death went mad and became stronger, joining forces with the Primordial Demoness to unleash the Pale Disaster, ultimately leading to a 'gg'.
And the true history of this world, the parts Lin Ruo could find, largely matched the plot description. Even in the Church of the Evernight Goddess's records concerning this period of history, there was no detailed description of Blood Emperor Alista Tudor's demise, only a simple mention that Blood Emperor Alista Tudor fell in a certain year.
Lin Ruo didn't know if the Church of the Evernight Goddess had other more detailed information they hadn't shown him, nor if he had specifically looked into this before. His impression of Blood Emperor Alista Tudor still remained at the original novel's stage, at most adding, "I once beat him."
But if Alista Tudor was once his student… after he severely injured the Blood Emperor and then disappeared, did he ultimately get involved in the Blood Emperor's fall in the end?
"I wasn't involved in the battle where Alista Tudor fell… But as far as I know, you should have been there. I don't know anything more." Will replied, looking at Lin Ruo's pensive expression, then grumbled, "I suddenly feel telling you this was a mistake."
"I don't think so." Lin Ruo pinched his chin, not surprised by this outcome.
He was always soft-hearted towards his friends, but he would never show any mercy to those who betrayed him.
Since Alista Tudor had done such a thing, he was no longer his student, but his enemy.
In such matters, Lin Ruo was always decisive and never dragged things out.
Lin Ruo's only confusion was probably this: he had participated in the Blood Emperor's fall, and it was fine that the Red Priest pathway's uniqueness was snatched by Death, but didn't he snatch a Sequence 1 characteristic back for Little Red?
Lin Ruo was confused, Lin Ruo was puzzled. Lin Ruo thought of the Weather Warlock characteristic in Medici's hand.
"Could it be… that I hid it?" Lin Ruo pinched his chin, deep in thought. He now had two guesses in his heart. The first guess was that he truly didn't manage to snatch anything back then, despite cleaning up his own house, he returned empty-handed.
The second guess was that he did snatch a Sequence 1 characteristic, but didn't give it directly to Medici. Instead, he used the Unshadowed Crucifix to separate the Sequence 1 characteristic, and gave the remaining Sequence 2 to Sequence 9 characteristics to Little Red.
As for the possibility that Medici actually got the Sequence 1 characteristic but chose to deceive him, Lin Ruo immediately ruled that out.
Don't ask why, just intuition.
"Let me think… Hiss, I can't remember!" Lin Ruo furrowed his brow, thinking hard for a long time but gaining nothing. He decided to put it off for later.
If he really had a conqueror characteristic in his hand, given how his past self arranged things for him, it would eventually appear.
Lin Ruo had the patience to wait.
"Hoo…" Letting out a long breath, Lin Ruo, who had already adjusted his mood, looked at Will. He no longer had much interest in teasing the other party and went straight to the point: "I assume you came to see me not just because of me, but you also foresaw something related to Klein, right?"
"I saw an opportunity in him." Will did not deny it, because he knew that since Lin Ruo brought Klein to see him, he must be aware of this.
"What opportunity?" Klein was a bit confused but not surprised, as Lin Ruo had already told him earlier that Will had something to ask of him.
"It should be the opportunity to accommodate the uniqueness." Lin Ruo replied, "The Fate pathway's uniqueness is in Will's hands, but should he be called unlucky or unlucky? Even to this day, he hasn't truly accommodated the uniqueness. This has led to the Fate pathway's uniqueness not only failing to help him but becoming a burden."
"Who's unlucky? I just haven't encountered the opportunity yet… You know how troublesome the Fate pathway is. The right time, who knows when the right time will come!" Will grumbled unhappily. As a Sequence 1, he certainly wouldn't be so unstable, but as a ten-year-old child, Will Auceptin had no idol burden.
Looking at Will like this, Lin Ruo couldn't help but think of the final plot in the original novel, and Will's line, "No, this is a blessing," after refusing Klein's help to accommodate the uniqueness. His lips immediately curved into a smile, and he said:
"Isn't that still unlucky? A true RNG God directly accommodates characteristics and becomes a god! Someone like you, tsk tsk tsk!"
Will froze.
Will was furious.
"Since I'm so unlucky, why are you still looking for me?"
"Because I, the lucky one, am going to bring luck to you, the unlucky one!"
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