185 Recognition
At this moment, Leonard suddenly exclaimed and asked, "Witch? Captain, do you mean that the lady who escaped was Tris? He became a woman?"
With that said, he suddenly paused before coming to a realization. "So that's how it is. This can perfectly explain Instigator Tris sudden disappearance. It also matches the characteristics of the upper echelons of the Demoness Sect."
"What?" Frye blurted out in surprise, as though he didn't hear what Leonard was saying.
Klein, who was still considering how he should explain the information he had obtained from the Tarot Club in a reasonable manner, was taken aback. He then looked at Captain Dunn, wanting to hear what he had to say. If there was anything lacking, he could find an excuse to add on.
It was just like when he had wanted to answer Miss Justice's question at the Tarot Club, but had been beaten to it by the Tower or The Hanged Man.
"According to Daly, after a Beyonder of the Demoness pathway becomes a Sequence 7, they will indeed become female." Dunn first nodded, acknowledging Leonard's guess. Then, he pointed at the puppets with names written on them and said, "However, I can't confirm if it's Tris… Trissy. After all, it might be another member of the Demoness Sect."
"The potion can actually accomplish such a thing!" Frye sighed in disbelief.
"Combined with the person cursed on the puppet, I believe it should be her. After all, the three of us were the ones who foiled her plan of instigating Joyce to kill someone. It's reasonable for her to seek revenge on us," Leonard judged matter-of-factly.
"Don't jump to conclusions without concrete evidence…" Dunn criticized Leonard's frivolousness before solemnly saying to Klein, "I'll leave it to you."
Hearing the trust in the captain's tone, Klein nodded. After thinking for a moment, he quickly set up the ritual and placed a mirror that had shattered due to the witch's use of the Mirror Substitution Technique in front of him. Then, he chanted in Hermes,
"…I pray that this mirror can be restored for a short period of time. I pray that it will reflect everyone that has been reflected for the past month."
…
As the incantation was recited, the mirror began to glow with a dark light. Immediately after, a figure was reflected.
It was a young lady. She had soft black hair, a round face, and gentle and sweet temperament.
"Indeed, she's very similar to Instigator Tris. It should be her," Leonard said with a smile when he saw this scene.
Dunn nodded solemnly as well. He turned to look at Klein and said, "Try divining the target's current location."
"Alright." Klein placed his cane on the clothes Trissy hadn't destroyed in time. Then, he recalled the target's facial features and corresponding information as he recited the divination statement.
"Tris, no, Trissy whereabouts."
After repeating it seven times, the silver-inlaid black cane actually failed to topple in the midst of swaying. Instead, it remained firmly in place.
The divination was disrupted.
…
In the dark night, Klein and Leonard walked about five hundred meters before they saw the public carriage stop.
After waiting for a while, they returned to Iron Cross Street. One of them went to the nearby police station and asked the police officers to help seal off the dock and train station, while the other returned directly to his home in Daffodil Street.
After parting with Klein, Leonard looked at his colleague's back and tilted his head as though he was listening to something. He then muttered to himself,
With that badly damaged mirror as a medium, it's impossible to present the figure so clearly?
Does Klein seem to have secretly used some techniques that are passed down within the Sanguine?
"As expected, he is a 'protagonist' who hides secrets just like me!"
…
After returning to the terrace house at 2 Daffodil Street, Klein quickly ran to the second floor and entered his bedroom.
After locking the door and sealing the room with a wall of spirituality, he calmed his emotions and took four steps counterclockwise. Following that, he appeared in the towering palace above the gray fog amidst crazy ravings.
Sitting on the high-back chair belonging to The Fool, Klein prepared to respond to the reliable companion recommended by Mr. Tower and let the matter enter the examination process.
He reached out his hand and pointed at the circle of light that was constantly rippling because Xio was reciting her true name to establish a connection.
Immediately following that, the mysterious space above the gray fog trembled slightly for a few seconds.
When everything calmed down, a blurry figure appeared at the edge of the long bronze table.
Xio opened her eyes sleepily and saw the boundless gray fog, an ancient high-back chair, and a black figure looking down at her.
Klein carefully sized up Xio before severing the connection according to his plan.
The petite figure with a hazy face disappeared, but there was an illusory crimson star in the grayish-white fog.
When Klein saw this scene, he frowned slightly because he felt that the girl was strangely familiar.
Faced with an inexplicable sense of familiarity, other Sequence 9 Beyonders might try their best to recall or ignore it, but Seers were different. Klein directly conjured a pen and paper and wrote a divination statement:
"The source of that sense of familiarity."
Right on the heels of that, he held the piece of paper and leaned back, silently reciting the divination statement.
After seven times, his eyes darkened and he fell into a deep sleep.
In the blurry and distorted world, Klein saw a petite girl shoot Instigator Tris, who was about to retreat into the shadows and kill him on the spot.
Besides the girl was a young man wearing a military uniform, a triangular hat, and a pair of copper-framed glasses.
…
This is the dream I saw when I was divining Joyce's dream. Does it seem to be hiding something terrifying?
Mr. Tower's reliable friend is the girl who killed Tris in the dream?
In that case, the young man beside the girl… could he be Tower himself?
That was highly possible! To be able to take risks in such a magical place meant that they were close enough!
However, if that youth was really "Tower," then he should have disguised himself every time he participated in the Tarot Club? At the very least, he never wore glasses after coming above the gray fog…
Heh heh, the lively thoughts I observed from "Tower" were indeed faked. He didn't trust The Fool as much as he appeared!
For some reason, Klein, who had come to this conclusion, heaved a sigh of relief.
…
Cherwood Borough, in the garden villa at 28 Kingst Street.
After the banquet ended, she sat upon his bed.
She had been worried about the hidden danger of chanting The Fool's honorific name. Not long after she fell asleep, she dreamed of a mysterious space and the gray fog figure looking down at her.
This dream was so clear that it scared her once again.
She had already relaxed a lot when she felt that Ebner's attitude wasn't too serious.
Xio got up and put on her clothes. She put on the Ring of Prejudice and held the triangular blade in her hand as though it would give her courage.
Still, she thought, trembling a little.
Is it a nightmare caused by fear, or is it because of the attention of a hidden existence? Is there an evil spirit haunting me?
Could there be monsters attacking in the dark?
Hmm… Should I find Ebner to exorcise the evil right now? There's no need to wait for the ritual. I'll get him to help me simulate Holy Light first?
"But it's already so late… It doesn't seem too good…"
Xio struggled for a few seconds and looked at Fors, who was sleeping soundly beside her. She thought to herself, To be able to sleep so soundly means that I didn't see the mysterious space or the gray fog… In other words, I'm the only one being "watched"…
With this in mind, Xio heaved a sigh of relief. However, this also strengthened her resolve to find Ebner to exorcise the evil.
At the very least, she couldn't sleep with Fors tonight, or she might be implicated.
…
In the master bedroom on the third floor, the gas lamps were still lit even though it was almost midnight.
Ebner was feeling a headache over the teasing of Mike and his friends after the banquet when he suddenly felt his spirituality stir. He hurriedly activated his Spirit Vision and immediately saw an illusory monster appear from the void.
Its body was made of white bones, and its eye sockets shimmered with pitch-black flames. It was nearly four meters tall.
This was Jane's messenger, suspected to be one of the legacies inherited from her ancestor's mausoleum.
Furthermore, the messenger's appearance was very similar to the original description of Mr. Azik's messenger.
The skeleton messenger looked down at Ebner, then took out a mirror and handed it to him.
Puzzled, Ebner took the mirror, but he soon heard Jane's voice coming from inside:
"Ebner? This mirror can share my vision, but it can't be used for communication…
"Yes, the time is just right. A sea battle that might be recorded in history is about to begin."
