Part 1 the joker chapter 48 heinas vanzant
NORTHERN TINGEN, Hauerstrasse 13, the Divination Club on the second floor.
Klein once again saw the pretty lady in charge of reception.
She was still wearing her long brown hair, looking mature and elegant, and it was hard to tell her exact age just from her appearance.
”Hello, Mr. Grassis is not here today, would you like to change your diviner?” This beautiful lady said with a smile.
Hearing these words, Klein, who had just put back on the silk bowler hat he had taken off, was instantly surprised:
”You still remember me?”
It was five days ago!
The brown-haired lady pursed her lips:
”You were the first guest to seek divination from Mr. Grassis, and until today, the only one, so it’s hard for me not to be impressed.”
The impression of being greedy and losing out, right? Klein spat to himself and asked ponderously:
”When was the last time Mr. Grassis was in the club?”
The brown-haired lady glanced at him and answered as if in thought:
”Honestly, we can’t keep track of the patterns of our members coming, they have free will and all sorts of affairs, well, I don’t think Mr. Grassis has been back to the club since that day, after giving you your divination.”
I wish him good luck, and may the Goddess bless him …… Crane prayed, and, without further question, turned and laughed:
”I’m not here for divination this time, I want to join the club.”
”Really? It’s our honor.” The brown-haired lady duly showed her surprise, “To become a member for the first time, please pay an annual fee of 5 pounds, after that it is 1 pound per year, the details do not need me to reintroduce them again, right?”
Crane pulled a newly collected £5 bill from his inside pocket and looked at the head of Henry Augustus I away from himself.
Carefully checking the security watermark, the brown-haired lady solemnly collected the bill, pulled out a form, and handed it to Klein:
”You fill out the details and I’ll issue you a receipt.”
Is there an invoice? Heads up Blackthorn Security …… Klein was amused by his own thoughts, picked up the dipped fountain pen on the table, and with just the blue and black ink, filled in the information such as name, age, street and company name.
However, he intentionally left out the date of birth, which for a “soothsayer” is a spiritual number that relates to his own mysteries.
After opening the receipt and registering the membership, the brown-haired lady extended her right hand and said:
”Welcome to the Tingen City Divination Club, I’m Angelica Barehart, your diligent servant, and this is your membership cufflink, with our unique inscription on it, which can prove your membership status.”
”Hello, Ms. Angelica.” Klein shook the other’s palm lightly for a moment and accepted the dark gold cufflinks.
He realized that the unique inscription on it used the root of a word in the Hermetic language, which was “Diviner”.
Angelica withdrew her left hand and thought for a few seconds:
”I don’t know what kind of divination you specialize in, or what kind of divination methods you would like to learn at the club? We will consider inviting the corresponding well-known diviners to teach you, and we will also introduce you to members who are similarly good at it, so that you can have a pleasant exchange.”
”I know a little bit of each divination technique, there’s no need to consider me in particular.” Klein replied with a slight modification and inquired, “Can I do divination for someone right now? I’m not a rookie just starting out.”
He was here to play the role of a “diviner”, not to learn divination methods that were accessible to ordinary people.
Angelica kept her polite smile and said:
”You are free to help people with divination at the club at any time, just until we confirm your caliber, we won’t put in a good word for you when a customer asks, how much do you wish to charge for divination?”
”Tuppence.” Crane intended to win on price when he had little reputation.
”We’ll take a quarter of a penny at the rate of one-eighth of the total price ……” Angelica went over the various rules before putting Klein’s information in the “Diviner” book that was available for customers to select from. The Diviner’s Atlas.”
With that done, she smiled and pointed to the conference room at the end of the hallway:
”Mr. Haynes-Vincent is explaining astrological divination, you can quietly take a seat and listen, or raise your hand to ask a question.”
”Okay.” Klein walked towards the conference room with considerable interest, wanting to hear what difference between what Linus Vansant and Old Neil were talking about.
At that moment, Angelica caught up and lowered her voice:
”Mr. Moretti, would you like coffee or tea? We offer Sibel Black Tea, Southwell Coffee, and Dixie Coffee free of charge.”
Crane, who had been reading the newspaper a lot lately, knew that these coffees and black teas were of a medium to low caliber, but understood that they were certainly better than the inferior types at home, so he thought for a moment and said:
”One cup of Southwell coffee, three spoons of sugar, no milk.”
Southwell County in the Kingdom of Ruin was most famous for its beer and wine, and quite a few big shots were quite fond of them, while coffee was relatively less famous.
”Okay, I’ll bring it in for you later.” Angelica reached out and pointed towards the conference room.
Klein eased his way to the half-hidden doorway and heard the exposition with a thick Ahova County accent say:
”Astrolabe divination also belongs to a rather complicated one among all divination arts ……”
This is only relative to the common man …… Klein silently added in favor of the other man, and saw the conference room’s five or six long tables in a semicircle, clustered around a middle-aged man in a classical black robe, Heinas Vansant.
This gentleman had obvious dark circles under his eyes, and his brown hair was thick and stiff, and they stood up stubbornly one by one, as if he was playing the role of a hedgehog.
Other than that, there was nothing distinctive about him who explained astrological divination.
Seeing Klein enter, Hainas Vansant nodded slightly, not interrupting the lesson, but slowing down his speech only slightly.
With one hand in his pocket and his staff in the other, Klein leaned back comfortably as he found a seat on the edge and looked around the room in the still-bright afternoon sunlight, seeing that there were six members here, four men and two women.
Some of them were intently taking notes, some exchanged something in a low voice, and some returned a bitter smile to Klein.
Placing his cane in place, Klein pressed his half-height silk bowler hat and flexed his fingers to tap his brow twice.
His gaze went to Hayners, seeing the other man’s aura, seeing the different colors, brightnesses, and thicknesses.
”Dark red, a bit anxious emotionally …… All other parts are healthy, just a bit of a problem there, I don’t know what’s going on ……,” Klein muttered to himself silently as he leisurely listened to the lecture.
At this point, he formed his right hand into a fist and pressed it against his mouth, lest his laughter leak out, as he suddenly felt like an undocumented old herbalist.
For the ability of spiritual vision, he was now quite satisfied, although he could only judge the general situation with it and couldn’t distinguish the specific details, it was enough to obtain a lot of useful information.
Looking around again, he once again tapped his brow twice, as if he was thinking about what Hainus had just said.
Astrological divination belongs to a kind of astrology, but ordinary people can also try to interpret, for example, the most basic “birth astrolabe”, according to the inquirer’s position at the time of birth of the sun, the moon, the blue star, the red star and so on, respectively in the sky, their symbols marked in the right place on the astrolabe, and attach the corresponding situation of various constellations, and finally use this to interpret the other side. conditions of the various signs, and finally use this to interpret the fate of the other person.
This requires the diviner to know how to calculate the state of the planets and constellations backwards, and is rather complicated; of course, there are those who publish tools for people to consult, and there are those who simplify it outright, and only use the constellations, etc., for the vaguest interpretations.
Klein listened quietly, not interrupting, not asking questions, occasionally rubbing the citrine pendant in his cuff, occasionally taking a sip of the Southwell coffee Angelica had brought in.
After a long time, Hynas rubbed his brow and said:
”You may need to try and map your own astrolabes, and if you have any questions you can come to me, I’m in the White Crystal Room.”
As he watched him leave, a young man with a white shirt and black vest smiled and got up, walking over to Klein:
”Hello, I’m Edward Steve.”
”Hello, Klein Moretti.” Klein got up and returned the favor.
”The astrolabe is so complicated that every time I hear it, I can’t help but want to start a dream.” Edward Steves laughed to himself.
Klein chuckled:
”That’s because Mr. Vincent always can’t help but teach us all the knowledge he has, it’s like giving us a feast of Intis all at once, it’s too bad for digestion.”
”If it were me, I could finish a table of Indis feast, they always serve a little bit of food on a very large plate.” Edward laughed and sat down smoothly, asking curiously, “You’re a new member, aren’t you? I haven’t seen you in the last two years.”
”Just joined the club today.” Klein answered frankly.
”What are you good at? I’m best at tarot and poker divination.” Edward asked casually.
”I know a little bit of both and only a little bit.” Klein used the previous description of himself.
He wasn’t being modest because there was indeed too much ungrasped mystical knowledge in the field of divination.
Just as the other members wanted to come over to exchange astrolabe divination, Angelica walked into the conference room:
”Mr. Steve, someone is looking for you for divination.”
”Okay.” Edward Steve smiled and got up.
”It looks like you are an excellent diviner.” Klein said as he looked at the other man.
”No, it’s only because I have the best price.” Edward laughed lowly, “When an ordinary person comes to divination, he would never pick the most expensive ones straight away, and unless his head has been kicked by a donkey, he certainly wouldn’t be assured of the cheapest ones either, the ones with the price in the center are the most likely to get the chance.”
I am what you say head was kicked by a donkey …… Watching the other party leave, Klein suddenly shook his head and smiled bitterly:
His own price positioning seems to have a problem ……
He stood up, took his cane, and walked out of the conference room to find Angelica again:
”I wish to change the price of divination, uh, eight pence.”
Angelica gave him a deep look and said:
”We will honor your request, but we will also tell our customers that you have just joined our club.”
”No problem.” Klein didn’t mind nodding his head.
Sometimes, mystery was also an important element in attracting customers to the Diviner.
After correcting the information, Klein turned back and walked towards the meeting room.
At that moment, he saw Linus Vicente coming out of the White Crystal Room, holding a silver-plated mirror.
The renowned soothsayer addressed the five members, three men and two women, in the conference room:
”I have just recently mastered a new divination art, Magic Mirror Divination, do you wish to learn it?”
Magic mirror divination? This is not a safe divination method ah …… Klein, dressed in black formal attire, stopped outside the conference room and frowned.