Part 2 The Faceless Man Chapter 210 The Wind Rises
”Yeah, over a month ago.” Alan pushed up the gold-rimmed glasses perched on the bridge of his nose and replied in the affirmative.
Over a month ago? Wasn’t that when you were plagued by nightmares related to Will Onsettin? Klein was surprised and puzzled, but didn’t let the emotion show on his face.
In an instant, he associated himself with the two divinations he had done:
Will Onsettin was in a dark room with the sound of running water clattering outside.
Could that be a sign of amniotic fluid or blood? Something suddenly dawned in Klein’s mind.
When he looked at Dr. Allen again, his eyes had become rather complicated.
He suspected that the other wife was carrying Will Onsettin, a serpent of mercury!
In occult symbolism, the head and tail of the serpent of mercury, devouring its own tail, has the implication of an implied cycle of destiny …… Will Onsettin actively and prematurely and stealthily opening a new cycle in order to avoid his enemies? Klein made a guess based on the knowledge he currently had.
Dr. Allen, completely unaware of the abnormality he was trying to conceal, smiled and said:
”He’s going to be a lovely fellow, and when he’s born, I’ll throw a party to celebrate his arrival, Sherlock, so don’t refuse my invitation then.”
”Maybe her.” Crane responded with a smile.
Frankly, he was a little curious to see just what state the newborn Mercury Serpent was in.
However, he was also a bit afraid and worried, after all, the Mercury Serpent was Sequence 1 of the Destiny Pathway of the Monster, and involved in the competition for the position of the gods, no one could be sure that the following would be a straight path, stable and happy.
Fortunately or unfortunately for Dr. Allen …… Whether or not Will Onsettin is kind is one thing, and whether or not the other Mercury Serpent will find out is another …… And Will Onsettin hasn’t done anything so far, and it seems a bit cruel to tell the Night Watchers that he’s not a monster. I’ve always been able to understand the Wild Extraordinaires …… It’s best to be quiet and watch the developments from the sidelines first, not getting involved or taking advantage of them …… Maybe I’m misinterpreting things and overthinking things? Maybe Will Onsettin isn’t a mercury snake at all! Maybe the baby Dr. Allen’s wife is carrying is normal! A multitude of thoughts flashed through Klein at once.
”She? That’s even better.” Allen said rather expectantly.
Klein pondered and asked again:
”Have you had any more nightmares lately?”
”Occasionally, but they’re normal nightmares, no more Will Onsettin, Sherlock, thanks for the enlightenment.” Alan said sincerely.
No, no, no, that’s what’s not normal, as a keyboard powerhouse, my limited common sense in psychology tells me that subsequent occasional dreams of Will Onsettin is what’s normal, it comes from the standard reaction to being stimulated, since the other person caused you so much distress and left such a deep impression, it must have been mapped into your dreams, so the correct change would be to still have occasional dreams of Will Onsettin, but the The dreams were no longer so clear that he had forgotten exactly what they were about even just after getting up, only that there was something …… Crane was a little more certain.
It was then that he heard the sound of ooh-la-la.
He subconsciously looked beyond the hall, only to see that the dimness of the midair was blown away by a fierce wind, and the thin yellowish mist was then cleared away.
Leafless branches swayed as the gale dragged out a distinct trail straight to the southeast.
A few seconds later, everything was back to normal, calm as ever.
”It’s hard to see a gale like this in the winter in Berkland, at least I don’t have any recollection of it.” Alan also looked out the window and lamented.
This is not a normal wind …… What happened? Klein suppressed his doubts and made an excuse to go to the washroom to do a normal divination, which did not result in a valid revelation.
He temporarily put the matter behind him and prepared to go to the underground shooting range to practice shooting.
But at this time, the attendant in the red vest crossed the warm spring-like hall and came to his side, saying respectfully:
”Mr. Moriarty, your friend is looking for you.”
”Who?” Klein asked rhetorically, slightly startled.
”Mr. Iconser Bernard.” The red vested attendant replied.
That often passive “haircut” deacon …… What is he suddenly looking for me for? What’s he doing here all of a sudden? Klein immediately walked to the club’s reception hall.
Iconser pressed his hat, which was lifted by his fluffy hair, and greeted him, lowering his voice and saying:
”The vicarious punisher has found Patrick Jason Bellia.”
”Found him how?” Klein asked, half-surprised, half-curious.
According to the revelations he had gained from his divination, Jason Belial had always worn a human skin, and it was almost impossible for him to be found so easily when his true looks and scent were not what had been determined!
Ikonser looked around the room and said:
”I’m not sure, I just got this message.”
He pointed to a small, clean white bird resting in a tree outside the door.
The little bird was leisurely cleaning its feathers with its beak.
Without waiting for Klein to ask any more questions, Ikonser roughly described what had happened:
”The vicarious punishers found clues to determine Jason’s whereabouts, but this demon sensed the danger in advance and snatched the two vicarious punishers to escape before the siege closed in, which made the Storm Church’s top brass very angry, and ‘God’s Songbearer’ Ace Sneak personally carried out a chase, and just now you should have seen A gale, that was caused by him, he is the Archbishop of the Storm Church’s Bakerland Diocese, and one of the Cardinals of the entire Storm Church.”
Sounds normal, but it feels strange …… According to Mr. Eisinger’s and my guess, this can also be interpreted as Jason, the “Apostle of Desire”, luring away the high sequence of powerhouses …… Klein asked with deliberation. asked with deliberation:
”Are you sure it was Jason Bellia who was found?”
Ikonser’s expression became grave for a moment, and his tone was rather odd as he replied:
”I’ll try.”
He signaled for Klein to follow him outside and into a spacious carriage parked on the street, with two members of the Mechanical Mind inside.
Ikonser took a breath and removed the ancient silver mirror with its demonic pattern from a special pocket on the inside of his clothing.
After doing the preliminaries, he said with a dark face:
”Honorable Aroldus, my question is the current location of Patrick Jason Belial.”
There was a sudden distortion in the light around them, as if they were lights after a rain, while a scene quickly emerged from within the silver mirror:
It was a river-boat with its sails hoisted, and Jason Bellia, with high cheek-bones, blue eyes with gray, and neatly back-combed hair, pressed his duck-tongued hat and put up the collar of his coat, and hastily entered the cabin with his head covered.
”He’s really trying to escape from Berkland! ‘God’s singer’ seems to be heading to the dock area ……,” said a female member of the “mechanical heart” indistinctly.
This is too easy to expose, isn’t it? Klein was puzzled.
Ikonser didn’t pay any attention to this, all his attention was focused on the surface of the silver mirror.
This time, the only option was to answer the question, and mistakes or lies would be met with terrible punishment.
Soon, the mirror outlined a single word as bright red as blood:
”If the man you liked was covered in pimples, or had faded away his skin and was nothing but flesh and blood, or had turned into a monster but could communicate, would you still like him?”
What a shameful question …… Wait, men? Klein nearly turned his head sideways to look at Iconcer.
Ikonser exhaled slowly and said:
”Will, but I will kill him myself.”
”Very honest.” A new combination of words surfaced on the surface of the silver mirror.
…… This quiz game is practically a public execution …… Klein was tempted to reach up and cover his face.
He looked at the other two members of the Mechanical Heart who had no unusual, or pretended to have no unusual, expressions, and hesitantly said:
”I always thought it was too easy, maybe that wasn’t the real Jason Bellia?”
”But it’s him that Jason Bellia is pointing to.” Iconser intended to put the silver mirror away.
Klein thought for several seconds, organizing his words:
”No, what I’m really saying is that we have to throw out some of the inherent judgment that we’re looking for that ‘Apostle of Desire’, not Jason Bellia, and the two aren’t necessarily equivalent.
”That’s a point I have to make as a detective.”
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A luxurious carriage left the Kingdom House on King’s Avenue.
The carriage was carpeted and furnished with reclining beds, sofas and tables, like a mobile room.
Duke Pallas of Bendenegan, who was wearing a dark blue admiral’s uniform, was holding a glass made of polished crystal and drinking blood-like Ormil wine.
As he savored the wine, he said thoughtfully:
”Invite Earl Hall as a guest tomorrow, I would like to talk to him about raising the pay of factory workers, improving their labor hours, and revising the Relief of Poverty Act, these are all bills he has been pushing hard for lately, and he should be very interested in them, heh, why does the Church of Darkness suddenly care about this aspect of things?
”The invitation can start by revealing to Earl Hall what I wish to discuss, the property limit for elections is a must and cannot be lowered, otherwise those who drive large numbers of workers are bound to take up more seats, as well as squashing the recent attacks on invalid gerrymandered districts …… ”
Brushing, the secretary next to him flew to record Duke Negan’s commands.
After finishing, Duke Negan sighed and said:
”I did this for the sake of the nobility’s status, but there are more and more useless guys among us, and there are even quite a few who owe money to those rich people.”
At this point, the carriage did not turn towards Queens and headed straight ahead.
As the largest landed noble outside of the king, Duke Negan had quite a few mistresses, but in the Rune Kingdom where the morals were relatively conservative, it was an easy place to be attacked by political opponents, so even as a noble duke, he had to be sneaky when he went to his mistresses’ place, but it seemed to give him more fun.
Today he was going to the mistress he had favored the most in the last two or three years, a young girl who had just turned twenty.
Taking out a bottle of potion made from mummified corpse powder and drinking it, Duke Negan couldn’t help but touch the trinket hanging around his neck, a dark blue thumb-sized conch.
It was a magical item specially provided by the Storm Church after the last assassination incident of Zilingus, as long as Duke Negan blew it, the “God’s singer” Ace Snake in the Cathedral of the Holy Winds would be able to hear the movement and lock his position.
In order to protect himself, Duke Negan even replaced the residence of several mistresses to the Joe Wood District, replaced to the Holy Wind Cathedral is not far from the place.
The carriage traveled slowly and came to an extremely luxurious house, and at a glance, there was a glass greenhouse in the garden filled with bright red roses.