Part 1 The Joker Chapter 110 Confirmation
Thinking for a moment, Klein decided to go home first and confirm something.
And he was sure that if the Doom Muppet’s actions last night hadn’t been purposely done so that he could see the pattern on the paper, then the Captain and his follow up inspection would surely have picked up on the trail, and whether or not he reported it himself wouldn’t affect the bigger picture.
The opposite would be worthy of discretion.
That was what Klein wanted to confirm next.
He took a trackless public carriage back to Daffodil Street, and when he returned home, his brother Benson and sister Melissa, who were in a Sunday state, had not yet gotten up, and the living room was peaceful and dim and silent.
Klein boiled a kettle of water, threw in some tea, and ate a loaf of oatmeal bread with it before heading for the stairs with his coat, hat, and cane.
He subconsciously lightened his steps to not make any noticeable noise.
Just as he ascended to the second floor, he saw the door to the lavatory burst open and Melissa, dressed in an old cloth gown, emerged with a sleepy look on her face.
”You’re back ……,” said Melissa, still a little dazed, rubbing her eyes.
Klein covered his mouth and yawned:
”Yes, I need a nice dream, don’t even wake me up until lunch.”
Melissa let out a “hmmm” and suddenly said as if remembering something:
”Benson and I have to go to St. Selena’s in the morning to say our prayers and participate in mass, so we might be a little late for lunch.”
As not too devout followers of the Goddess of the Night, she and Benson maintained the frequency of going to church once every two weeks, while Klein, who was on night duty, surprisingly had never entered a church again, except for that time when he was followed by the members of the Secret Society.
No, I am in the church every day, only the ground floor of the church …… Klein subconsciously defended a sentence in his heart.
He was currently very worried that the goddess had abandoned herself as a false believer, and if the ritual magic failed to obtain a response at the moment of crisis, the joke would be a big one ……
However, thinking about the old Neil, the goddess is still quite tolerant of the night watchman, well, that’s right! Klein said, puffing himself up.
These fugitive thoughts flashed by as he looked at Melissa and nodded with a smile:
”No problem, I happen to be able to sleep longer.”
Crossing over to Melissa, he entered his bedroom and locked the door behind him.
Immediately afterward, he steeled himself and took out his ceremonial silver dagger, creating a sealed wall of spirituality.
Then, taking four steps against the grain, Klein murmured an incantation against the frenzied hissing and entered above the gray mist.
He was the only living being in this illusory and sprawling world, seated at the head of a long, ancient, patinated bronze table.
After a few dozen seconds of calm, Klein materialized the parchment and wrote down the divination spell:
”The pattern shown by the Muppets of Doom.”
At that instant last night, although Klein had a clear view of the mysterious pattern on the paper, due to his nervousness and haste, he only remembered it roughly and couldn’t recall the specific details, but that wasn’t a problem, for diviners, as long as they had seen it and remembered that there was such a thing, they could reproduce it!
–According to occult theory, spirituality remembers every single thing it sees, and with the right method, it can make the scene of a specific moment reappear.
At this point, Klein even thought that “psychic” Daley described the theory of psychological alchemy, human memory is just an island on the surface of the sea, can not carry too much, so the spirit remembers the vast majority of the information has become the subconscious mind, become the main body of the island underwater.
And the spirituality itself, if not the entire ocean, contained the entire sea around the island.
After silently reciting the divination incantation, Klein leaned back and used his meditation to fall asleep.
In the hazy, distorted, branched world, he once again saw Zaza’s open Charnis door and heard the heavy scraping sound.
The muppet in the long, black, classical court dress clung to the half-door that was open to the outside and unfolded the paper she held in her hand.
Above the paper, a multitude of mystical symbols were depicted, which together formed a vertical eye.
Klein looked deeply at the pattern, voluntarily withdrawing from the dream, and then with the help of the special above the gray mist, expressed the memories that had not yet faded:
On the brown parchment, the vertical eye “looked up”, evil and mysterious.
Klein thought for a moment and wrote below this eye:
”This is the key to the treasure left behind by the Antigonus family.”
Placing the pen away, he unclasped the silver chain wrapped inside his cuff and held it in his left hand until the citrine pendant hung steadily above the divination statement and the mysterious vertical eye, no longer wobbling noticeably.
Klein closed his eyes and recited the statement in ethereal calm.
After seven times, he opened his eyes and saw that the citrine pendant was spinning clockwise in small increments with its silver chain.
And this indicated affirmation in the Spirit Pendulum method.
”The vertical eye pattern is really the key to the treasure left behind by the Antigonus family ……” Klein nodded slightly as if in thought.
He tapped his fingers slowly on the edge of the long bronze table and muttered silently to himself:
”Because the descendants of the Antigonus family were cut off by the death of Riel Bieber, that notebook regards me, a ‘diviner’ who has touched it and is still alive, as the inheritor?”
”It influenced 3-0625 to leave the key to the treasure for the other side to show me during my turn at the Charnes Gate?”
”There’s no problem with that logic, but it still doesn’t convince me.”
”How does that notebook confirm that the bloodline descendants of the Antigonus family are extinct?”
”And I’m a completely unrelated person ah …… If I also had the bloodline of the Antigonus family, the original owner wouldn’t have been suicided in the very beginning.”
”Well, it doesn’t seem to matter whether or not I tell the captain and the others about this, I’ll look into it again.”
Next, Klein divined the location of the Antigonus family’s treasure, but undoubtedly did not get detailed information, the only thing he could be sure of was that, as Cyrus had guessed in the letter he had written to Mr. Z, the treasure was related to the main peak of the Hornerchis Mountains, and to the ancient Land of Night.
After divining these things, Klein noticed that the crimson star that had had a prayer before had produced another faint fluctuation.
He touched the illusory star with an answer to the prayer, and once again saw the tan-haired teenager in the distinctive black tights.
The boy was still on his knees, still facing the pure crystal ball, and still whispering something.
At this point, Klein, who had specialized in learning a small amount of Giant language, finally barely understood one of the phrases:
”Pray …… to save …… father and mother.”
What a giant language …… Is there any place that uses giant language nowadays? This is all old-fashioned in terms of millennia …… Unfortunately, I, the mysterious lord above the gray mist, am only an empty shelf, and I can’t afford to save them even if I want to …… Klein shook his head and sighed, deciding to observe for a while longer.
Let s talk about it after I have mastered enough words in the Giant language to understand exactly what happened to his father and mother …… Klein withdrew his spirituality, wrapped himself, and plummeted downward.
Returning to his bedroom, he disarmed the wall of spirituality, changed into outdated but comfortable clothing, laid down on his bed, and began to catch up on his sleep.
Klein slept through this until twelve-thirty, until Melissa, who had made lunch, came knocking on the door.
After a fairly hearty lunch, he saw that Melissa had grabbed the sarong that went with her new dress and looked like she was going out again.
”What else do you have to do this afternoon?” Klein asked suspiciously.
Benson, who was sitting on the sofa, frowning and studying his grammar books, answered helpfully without looking up:
”Mrs. Schauder next door told Melissa that there’s a lecture on family matters in the municipal chapel this afternoon, and Melissa is planning to go and listen to it to learn how to deal with everyday problems in the family.”
Melissa nodded along:
”I got Selena and Elizabeth to accompany me.”
”Good, I hope that lecture teacher told you that families like ours need to employ at least one handyman maid.” Klein said with a smirk.
When Melissa tried to speak up and retort, he immediately added:
”We need to devote our limited time to more valuable things.”
Melissa was stunned for a moment, and only pursed her lips for a long time before she put on her sarong and opened the door to go out.
……
At two in the afternoon, Klein reappeared at Blackthorn Security.
”Didn’t you go back to rest?” Roxanne and Dunn Smith, who happened to be in the reception hall, asked at the same time.
Klein smiled and laughed:
”I was going to go to the Divination Club, but I always remembered what happened last night, so I came here first, did the Holy Church reply?”
Dunn glanced at Roxanne and turned in silence, walking towards the partition and into his office.
Roxanne made a face at his back and whispered fiercely:
”Captain really ……”
Well done! Klein gave a dark praise and stifled a laugh as he followed Dunn into his office.
Seeing the door to his room close, Dunn sniffed his pipe and said:
”The Holy Church has confirmed that it was that Antigonus family notebook that was the problem, and repositioned it as a ‘1’ level seal, unfortunately, that makes you not classified enough to flip through it.”
”Class ‘1’, Highly Dangerous Class, where only the Bishop and the Captain of the Night Watchers Squad above that class can know the specifics? That means the captain can’t figure out what’s going on either …… Highly dangerous, no wonder …… Klein thought with a slight sense of regret and relief.
Dunn glanced at him and continued:
”The Sanctuary also asked us to troubleshoot whether any other items behind the Charnis Gate were infected by this notebook, and after confirming that only ‘3-0625’ appeared to be anomalous, we have replaced its seal.”
”Any other findings?” Klein asked, feigning curiosity.
Dunn shook his head:
”No.”
Klein nodded thoughtfully and didn’t talk about it any further, exchanging a few pleasantries before excusing himself and heading to the Divination Club to continue his own “digestive journey”.
……
Inside the Municipal Auditorium.
Melissa, Selena and Elizabeth were sitting near the door, waiting for the lecture to begin.
”If she doesn’t speak well, we’ll sneak out.” Selena suggested excitedly.
Elizabeth instantly agreed:
”Go shopping at Harrods.”