Plans.

Loki stared at Luna for a while, his mind still uncertain about sharing his troubles with her but then he decided to talk, not out of annoyance at being followed, he could just lose her and hide using his illusions if that were the case.

But out of his memory about the Mother Pathway, the pathway Luna was a Beyonder of.

A Beyonder of such a pathway was quite important to Loki, especially because if he had such a person by his side earlier this year he wouldn't have had to take such ridiculous risks to get himself rid of corruption.

A Sequence 8 Doctor could very easily cure a person's soul from corruption and other illnesses.

And Luna wasn't even a Sequence 8 but a Sequence 6 Biologist. It was highly likely that in the future when she advanced to the corresponding Sequence 4 her abilities would've strengthened enough to cure him of the direct corruption from a god.

'It's better to have such people on my side. Who knows, perhaps our meeting today is a coincidence arranged by fate.'

'But…if I advance further I'm likely going to be able to cure myself of corruption anyway…'

"Are you going to stay with those glasses on your face the entire time? It makes you look kind of funky, to be honest."

"..." Luna looked at Loki unmovingly as if she didn't care about his most recent comment.

"Fine. I'll talk. You don't need to be so stiff."

"..."

"Or *sigh* I guess that's just how you are. I'm worried about a play I've been writing. There's a character in the play and he doesn't know what to do about the information he was given. He's worried that if he makes one wrong move, a few dangerous people will recognise who he is."

"I see…" Luna said with a soft pause and then she looked back at Loki and spoke with determination. "Isn't that simple to solve? If you can't do something by yourself then you should ask someone else to do it for you."

Loki was about to argue instinctively, asking how he was going to reveal his identity to someone else for them to do such a thing. But then his brain spat back an idea that caused him to think deeply about it.

"...huh. That, I can do 'that' can't I? That surprisingly makes sense?"

"It looks like you've figured it out." Luna said with a soft smile.

"Oh? The Wackspurts are leaving my head?" Loki asked, Luna's smile taking his attention.

"Yes, they are. Would you like to see them before they're gone?" Luna asked.

"Oh! Yes! Sure! Why not. At least I can see the buggers that fed on my confusion."

Luna pulled out another pair of Specterspecs from the pocket in her robes and handed them to Loki who quickly put them on.

"Oh!!!!" Loki exclaimed when he spotted the tiny wispy alterations that happened around him.

There were hundreds if not thousands of small glittering deformations in the space around Loki as they slowly retreated away from his head and flew off into the sky.

Each individual alteration in space felt like glitter had suddenly grown transparent wings and was able to fly.

"They're pretty." Loki praised.

"They are."

"You know what?"

"...what?"

"Just like you helped me out with a problem, I have a solution to yours.", Loki said as he pulled out his wand.

Luna just stared at Loki without any expression as he spoke in exaggeration, "Oh come on! Be more excited! Show an expression or something at least!"

"...." Luna kept giving Loki a deadpan stare while not speaking anything.

From an outer perspective, it looked like Loki was bullying the innocent Luna with his wand out, but fortunately, there was no one around to see it.

Loki shook his head and without worrying about much else, pointed his wand at the stones beside Luna's feet.

The stones soon morphed and folded in on themselves until they finally expanded and formed a sneaker made of strawberry-patterned cloth with white laces and trimmings on them.

Luna looked at the shoes and then back at Loki, repeating the action for a few seconds before she said, "Thanks. Luna has never gotten transfigured shoes before."

"You're welcome. I hope you find me in room 2-21 if you're ever free. It was fun talking to you. Now if you'd excuse me, I have something I need to do!" Loki said and began to walk back to the castle, taking the boat he had tied to the shore and rowing across the black lake.

Reaching back inside the castle, Loki entered the Room of Conveniences and walked up to the book that was on the table just like how he'd left it the last time he was there.

Loki however ignored the book on the table, pulled out his own notebook and began to write down a variety of ideas inside it.

"Do I just follow Klein and make a Tarot Club replica in this world?"

"It would be useful, but I don't need to make a club to gather Mysticism Knowledge, I need it to be more like an adventure's guild so that I can assign its members several missions for them to complete."

"For that, although I could easily pretend to be a 'God' like Klein did and assign the members missions, it wouldn't last long without me giving them proper rewards."

"I could give them money, but that probably wouldn't keep them interested for long. A better option would be if I give them a Beyonder Item that is customised to them."

"I could pretend that the Beyonder items I'm giving them have something to do with the history of this world and that they were used or created by some important people…but if I get any of it wrong or if I'm caught lying-"

"-that would ruin my image as a Mysterious God that has merged with the shadows of History."

"I could make a school for mysticism that is filled with advanced Mystical Knowledge that I gain from the books in this library, but I haven't read enough of it myself this year..."

"Well, I could recreate them in the Sefirah Castle as I read them one by one. That would also keep the expectations of my members in control while also improving my image as a benevolent god that bargains with his members."

"But there might be several 'errors' in the books which would once again question my integrity. But I could explain those off as the writer of the book being biased in their view of the events…"

"Do I just copy Klein then? But to get the participants of the Tarot Club to take part in any of my plans I would need time to earn their trust for them to act as I say, especially if any of them are stronger than me at this point in time."

Loki looked at his book which was now filled with random ideas and closed it, leaving the problem to future him so that he could go back to focusing on Salazar's book which felt slightly more appetising at this moment.

'...I didn't know my wand could do that…'

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