Part 1 the joker chapter 99 the red chimney
At mid-afternoon, back at home, Klein drew the curtains together, leaving his bedroom in dimness.
He turned out a pen and paper and thought for a long time before he finally wrote down a sentence:
”Elliot’s abduction was guided by a supernatural factor.”
As a “soothsayer”, Klein had actually divined whether there were unnatural developments in those coincidental events, and the results proved that he had overthought it.
This time, influenced by the Aztec instructor, he took this issue seriously again, and absorbed the lesson of the tuxedoed clown, carefully designing the “divination statement” to exclude some vague and confusing descriptions from the beginning.
”Well, break down the three coincidences and divine each one ……” Klein nodded thoughtfully and slowly unclasped the citrine pendant from his cuff.
Holding the pendulum in his left hand, he let the pendant dangle above the “divination statement” on the paper, nearly touching.
Collecting his mind and entering into meditation, Klein closed his eyes and began to repeat the words:
”Elliot’s abduction was guided by a transcendent factor.”
……
Over and over again, he opened his eyes and looked to the spirit pendulum, only to see the citrine pendant spinning counterclockwise in small increments.
”Negative ……” Klein whispered, and redesigned the “divination statement” several more times, but the result was still that there was no coincidence in that case.
He also divined “Rielle Bieber’s stay in Tingen” and “Selena’s magic mirror divination incident”, and the answer was “normal”.
I’m a real soothsayer, and I was fooled by Mr. Azteca’s fake god? Besides, the captain and the others did not feel strange ah …… Klein shook his head in amusement, but still with a cautious mind, ready to use “dream divination” to make a final confirmation.
Thinking for a moment, he changed his “divination statement” to suit a different method.
”The real cause of Elliot’s kidnapping.” The pen brushes across the page, Klein pausing occasionally to weigh his words.
After a few repeated readings, he tore off the paper, got up, walked over to the bed, and relaxed.
Holding the “Divination Statement” in his hand, Klein fell fast asleep with the help of his meditation.
He regained some of his senses and wandered in a hazy, distorted, fragmented world.
Gradually, he saw the kidnappers, saw them lose their last chip at the gambling table, saw them get guns from underground sources, saw them stomp around several times and temporarily rent the house across the street from Rielle Bieber’s house as a hideout ……
It wasn’t exactly coherent, it was a flashback of images, but Klein couldn’t find anything halfway out of place.
And it largely matched what he had learned about the kidnapper’s confession.
Exiting the dream, Klein divined two other things separately, and the results were the same; the development was in line with the law, and the coincidence was really just a coincidence.
”Indeed I overthink, Mr. Aztec is just a divination enthusiast ……,” Klein wrapped the spirit pendulum steadily and shook his head and smiled bitterly.
He was about to pull open the curtains to let the afternoon sunlight into the bedroom when his fingertips suddenly paused.
”From the original owner’s impression, Instructor Aztec is a calm, reliable and trustworthy gentleman who almost never says unfounded things, and even if he often argues with his mentor, it’s limited to academic issues, each with their own reasoning …… If it was just a simple divination enthusiast, he wouldn’t be in such a way of communicate with me …… And the original owner simply doesn’t remember that he loves divination …… Of course, it’s also possible that the corresponding memory fragments are missing …… “Klein frowned, still not feeling reassured enough, always looking for another way to confirm it.
He suspected that Mr. Aztec had stumbled upon some insider information and reminded himself of it under the pretext of divination.
”What should I look for to make another confirmation?” Klein paced back and forth in the dimly lit bedroom where he could only barely see the text of the book, recalling the other divination methods at his own disposal.
One step, two steps, three steps, and he stopped abruptly with a thought.
”Let’s assume for a moment that there is indeed something wrong with the coincidences, and that my inability to divine them is because the sequence isn’t high enough, and that it’s due to external interference, then we can change the environment, for one that is more mysterious and more difficult to comprehend than these things!” Klein’s spirit lifted, pulled open a drawer, and took out a silver knife.
Then, he built up his spirit and let the spirituality flow out from the tip of the silver dagger, connecting with the nature around him.
As he did, the wall of spirituality gradually sealed the entire bedroom.
Klein’s intention was to go to the Gray Mist above to divine the mysterious world!
……
Above the boundless and hazy gray mist, in the midst of the lofty and magnificent ancient temple.
Klein’s figure was seated at the top of a long bronze table, with a freshly “materialized” parchment in front of him.
He lifted up his round-bellied fountain pen and wrote down a “divination statement” as he had tried before:
”Elliot’s abduction was guided by a supernatural factor.”
Pendulum in hand, pendant lowered, Klein allowed his spirit to settle quickly, quiet and ethereal.
With his eyes half-closed, he recited the “Divination Statements” seven times, allowing his spirituality to connect with the spirit world above all else.
Feeling a slight tug on the silver chain, Klein opened his eyes and looked at the pendulum.
At this look, he froze in his tracks:
The citrine pendant was making a clockwise rotation!
This meant that there was a transcendental factor guiding Elliot’s abduction!
And this was the complete opposite of Klein’s divination results in the outside world!
Without a trace of guidance …… Such power, or means, is simply terrifying …… What is the purpose of the person behind the curtain? Antigonus Family Notes and my fated entanglement? Klein was horrified in his mind and lost his serenity, causing the spinning of the spirit pendulum to be confused for a moment.
He put the citrine pendant away and pinched his brow for a moment, his expression unusually grave.
After a few seconds of consideration, he didn’t try to divine the other two things, but wrote down a new “divination statement”:
”The true cause of Elliot’s kidnapping.”
Holding the paper in his hand and reciting it seven times, Klein leaned back in his chair and fell into a deep sleep on top of the gray mist.
Soon, he saw a sprawling, illusory, gray fog.
The fog slowly parted to reveal colorful flowers and a green and blue lawn.
Behind the flowers and lawn, space twisted and overlapped, as if it had turned into living monsters.
Klein looked as hard as he could and barely saw a dark red chimney hidden there.
Just then, everything collapsed and shattered before his eyes, and the dream disintegrated.
In the midst of the magnificent temple, Klein popped upright, only to feel his heart thumping, thumping for no reason.
”Phew …… it feels like I’ve spied something terrible ……” He took two deep breaths, calming his messy emotions.
”The Red Chimney …… garden …… lawn …… This is a place connected with the man behind the curtain? But those coincidences don’t yet see his purpose, or even the presence of malice ……”
Between thoughts, Klein had a pang of alarm, for himself and for his companions such as the captain and Frye:
Himself and others are like marionettes on strings, being manipulated to perform, and what’s even more frightening is that also feel good about themselves ……
”Hey …… this matter still don’t know how to mention it to the captain, old Neil’s divination results are exactly the same as mine in the outside world …… If I were to do a confirmation on site… …There’s no way to confirm it at all …… “Klein rubbed his temples like he had a headache.
After a few seconds of calm, he began his divination of the “Riel Bieber’s stay in Tingen”, and again, used the Pendulum method first.
This time, Klein was shocked to see his citrine pendant resting there, motionless, neither positive nor negative.
”Something odd ……” he whispered, his thoughts diverging as he speculated as to the cause, “Has the one behind the scene sensed my divination and responded?”
Next, he tried “dream divination”, but he could only see incoherent, broken and hazy gray fog, and found nothing else.
The result of “Selene’s Magic Mirror Incident” was the same.
Klein almost confirmed what he had just thought, and with no good opportunity to remind Captain Dunn Smith, he had an unprecedented urgency to improve himself.
”Continue to go to the Divination Club later, and try to ‘play’ successfully as soon as possible to digest the ‘Diviner’ magic potion …… Also, confirm that the ‘Joker’ magic potion is the successor of ‘Diviner’ and find clues to it …… Also, get in touch with Mr. Aztec more and see if you can dig out any insider information that he knows about …… “Klein held his forehead with his right hand and quickly formulated his next plan with a clear focus.
After some thought, he materialized another piece of parchment in front of him and put pen to paper:
”Sequence 9 ‘Diviner’ corresponds to Sequence 8 which is ‘Joker’.”
–With the experience he just had, at this moment, Klein was fully confident that his level of divination could be augmented and sublimated above the Gray Mist.
”It’s the same as running a group that always rolls a big success …… This is reigning in good luck?” He murmured wordlessly and picked up the Spirit Pendulum again.
It didn’t take long for Klein to get a positive answer:
Sequence 9 “Diviner” corresponds to Sequence 8 “Joker”!
Immediately afterward, he wrote:
”Sequence 8, Sequence 7, Sequence 6, and Sequence 5, corresponding to ‘Diviner’, will each gain at least one new, non-uniform ability.”
Exhaling, Klein tried the “Spirit Pendulum Method” once again.
However, he saw the Citrine Pendant stop there again, not making any rotation.
”There’s not enough information to complete the divination and obtain a revelation?” As if he was thinking to himself, Klein put down the silver chain and began to consider the phrases needed for “dream divination”.
After ten seconds or so, he lifted his pen and solemnly wrote:
”Clues to the ‘Joker’ potion.”