"So, Shade, this is why you came to see me?"
It was still a seemingly ordinary Saturday after the disaster, and the time had come to eleven in the morning. In the divination room on the second floor of the Prophet Association on Silver Cross Avenue, Shade was sitting face to face with Luvia, holding the well-behaved cat.
The association was very cool. The purple-eyed fortune teller had a teacup in front of him and in his hand was the fortune-telling commission form that Xia De had just filled out at the front desk. He asked in annoyance:
"Do you want me to emphasize it again? Shade, I already said it last time. Your cat is really a normal cat."
"Meow!"
The soft orange cat squirmed happily in Xia De's arms. It liked being held by Xia De, especially when they went out.
"No, divination Mia is still an excuse."
Looking a little annoyed, Shade shook his head.
"So why did you come to see me? I thought you would go home and hide for a few hours after shooting the city's police chief."
Luvia joked and put down the paper in her hand.
"Two things. First, the doctor asked me to inform you that your studies will be suspended for a week. As you know, the doctor's bulimic patient became a vessel for the evil god. Now the doctor is under investigation, so your studies will be suspended."
Luvia nodded and lifted the hair beside her ear:
"I'm glad that the doctor's action was successful this time. It turned out to be the right decision to let you follow him. Then you should go and inform the others. Seeing your distressed expression just now, I thought you knew something about the evil god again."
The Prophet's Association is also very busy now. As an official ring wizard organization cooperating with the Church of the Five Gods, the Prophet's Association is also involved in the investigation of the "Second Coming of the Evil God in the Summer of 1853 in the Universal Calendar" because they have the most and best fortune tellers.
Luvia is very busy now. The association has given her some jobs that do not require her to appear in front of the Orthodox Church. She is much busier than Shad, who is nominally a detective but more like a "freelancer".
"Don't be ridiculous, Luvia. You know, I just left Queen Mary Street before I met you."
"Why, are you feeling guilty about murder or arson? Do you need me to comfort you?"
The purple-eyed fortune teller laughed and joked.
"Oh, Luvia, who do you think I am? Here's the thing..."
Shade waved his hand, took out the Genesis Balance from his pocket, and then knocked away the cat's outstretched claws and mixed the cards into his own Rhodes deck. After asking Luvia, who didn't understand what was going on, to help shuffle the cards, he tapped his fingers on the first card, and then suddenly turned it over. It was the Genesis Balance.
Luvia frowned:
"Have you encountered another ghost with a story?"
The fortune teller who had heard of the Moon Dance Festival card asked, then shook his head and added:
"This is no joke."
"It's not that I encountered a ghost, it's that I suddenly had this ability. And..."
He held the Genesis Balance in his left hand, and the card suddenly flew out from his fingertips, flying up and down in the room, and then drew the infinite symbol around the two people with a difficult move. Then it flew back to Shade's hand again. The whole process was very smooth, as if the card itself had intelligence:
"This is not moving objects with magic, but I have gained the ability to manipulate this card. It's like a physical instinct. I can control my hands and feet, control my speech, and control the movement of this card."
The fortune teller looked at him hesitantly:
"Shadow, you actually found a way to use the Vientiane Card? How did you do it?"
"Of course not. I don't know what happened... Listen, Luvia."
Xia De looked at the purple-eyed fortune teller very seriously. The latter blushed slightly and seemed a little embarrassed when Xia De looked at him:
"you say."
She lifted the hair beside her ear again, and the cat on Shade's lap looked at her hair, as if wanting to stretch out its claws to touch it.
"Luvia, what are the conditions for being chosen by 'Balance'?"
"Three conditions: understanding balance, possessing an artifact of the power of the ancient gods, and completing the upside-down judgment ritual of sacrificing the eyes."
She said quietly, not sure what Shade was trying to say.
Xia De asked again:
"So Thursday night is the night of the God's Advent. Do you remember what the White God, oh, that is, what this body of mine did?"
"Of course I don't know. I can't look God in the face. All I know is what you said, but you were too vague."
The fortune teller answered immediately.
"Oh well."
So Shade once again described his experience of becoming a god, of course, using the third-person perspective. To sum up, the god happened to have the card of Genesis and Balance, which possessed the power of the ancient god, on that night, and performed actions that fully met the requirements of "praying to the ancient god and voluntarily offering an eye. In an upside-down state, under the witness of people with special destinies, he fairly judged the enemies of fate":
"So, is it possible that I..."
After saying this, Xia De hesitantly pointed at himself and then at the card.
Luvia shook her head and laughed:
"Impossible. One identity can only correspond to one chosen one. Moreover, someone like you who is not from the destiny can never be chosen... According to what you said, the god you called from the past used the Impermanence·Balance. Maybe it is because of this reason that you can borrow some of the power of this card."
But this is impossible, because Shade also used the Founding Silver Moon. He told his opinion to Luvia, who insisted that Shade would never be the chosen one. Although the current situation cannot be explained, it must have nothing to do with the great prophecy of "Whispering Poems".
"You have seen the power of the chosen one. What kind of power did Iluna get? What kind of power did you get? If the power of the chosen one is just to manipulate a card, can you believe it? Shade, the reason for the current situation is that your body was once a vessel for God's descent, so I can understand what happened."
Luvia stood up as she spoke, and after confirming that these were the only things Shade wanted to ask, she prepared to leave:
"If you don't need me to divine your cat again, I'm leaving. We're going to be very busy these next few days."
Xia De also thought that Luvia's statement made sense. Maybe he was overthinking it. However, he did have one more thing:
"Oh, I would also like you to look up information about an old god called the Gate of Brilliance from the Prophet's Association. Here is a list of books, all of which are ancient books. If you have time, please help me find them."
So he handed over the translated book list. Of course, Xia De did not forget that Miss Feliana and the other two were still waiting for him in the Thousand Trees Forest.
"No problem. I'll send it to you directly once I find the information."
"Goodbye then, Luvia, you go first, I'll leave after I finish my tea."
"Goodbye, Shad. I wish you all the best today. Just to remind you, it's already the weekend of the third week of this month. Please don't forget that next week is the exam week."
After saying that, he really left in a hurry.