Part 5. The Red Priestess Chapter 59: The Fourth Movement

　　Amon, wearing a monocle and the image of Nyuni the Winner, seemed not to be an infiltrator or an assailant, but a visitor, and spoke expressively of the preparations he had made in advance and of the origins of Aroldus, the Mirror.

　　Before he finished his sentence, he suddenly stopped, only to see the opposite Dawn Dantes brushed into a gray rat with dirty fur.

　　The rat raised his right front paw and pressed his eye socket.

　　Meanwhile, in the garden of 160 Birklund Street, Germaine Sparrow, whose face was slim and angular with dark hair and brown pupils, appeared in the center of a pile of moonbeams.

　　Just now, while talking about attractive topics, Amon had secretly split a “Worm of Time” and tried to invade Klein’s body to “parasitize” him, but Klein had been on high alert, and through the “Spiritual Thread”, he had been able to “parasitize” Klein’s body. However, Klein had been on high alert, and through the changes in the “Spirit Body Thread”, he realized this matter, and at the critical moment, he switched his position with one of the secret puppets that he had quickly created!

　　Without a sound, the hybrid youth-like Amon once again appeared in front of Klein.

　　Behind K, a small transparent worm with twelve links fell from the third floor and returned to K’s body.

　　And this instant, the earthworms in the garden soil, the bugs and insects within the trees and plants, and the rats in the shadowed corners, burrowed out and either surrounded the place where Germaine Sparrow and Amon were confronting each other, or moved away from the area.

　　A large part of the reason why Klein had patiently listened to Amon earlier was because he was grasping the time to create the secret puppets!

　　For a “Trickster”, a Secret Puppet would be complete!

　　Amon still didn’t rush to do it, pinched the monocle that was caught in his deep eye socket, glanced around, and said with a smile on his lips:

　　”Your behavior tends to reveal your problems, and for a tutor in the field of fraud, what you just did is enough for me to catch your weakness.

　　”In such a tense and dangerous situation, you only transformed rats, bugs, birds, and earthworms into your own secret puppets, not considering those butlers, maids, and male servants in the house, what does this show? It shows that you have excellent moral standards and still see yourself as a human being, unwilling to harm them.

　　”Grasping this, even if this alter ego of mine is not as good as you at this level, I can still play you until you collapse, and you can’t even do anything if you want to die.

　　”Ah yes, you can stop your attempts to secretly manipulate my ‘spiritual body threads’, because you are manipulating my stolen ‘spiritual body threads’, they belong to your butler, your maid, your carter, and if you continue any further. I’m afraid you’ll blame yourself deeply.”

　　You can even steal “spiritual body threads”? No, it’s more like a diversion …… Klein’s face stared slightly, interrupting his manipulation of Amon’s “spiritual body thread”.

　　He has been so patient, let the other party nonsense, but also because there is secretly will Amon split into his own secret puppet idea.

　　For a “Trickster”, this kind of battle, in which they stall each other for time and exert influence covertly, should have been the type of battle that he was the most skillful at and the one he liked the most, but unfortunately, the one he encountered was the “Blasphemer” Amon, who was currently located at the top of the “Stealer” pathway. Unfortunately, he met Amon, who is currently at the top of the “Stealer” path, and even if it’s just a doppelganger, it’s still a bit of a problem for him.

　　–Klein actually suspected that Amon’s words were a fraud, but he had no way to tell and did not dare to bet.

　　At times like this, it was necessary for the “audience” to cooperate!

　　”You said so many words? It shouldn’t be purely for the sake of figuring out how to ‘parasitize’ me, right? You should understand that it would be very difficult for you to parasitize a ‘Trickster’ who can see the ‘Spirit Body Thread’ before you hit me hard.” The Germaine Sparrow lookalike Klein looked at Amon and suddenly spoke calmly.

　　Amon laughed at once:

　　”You finally realized it.”

　　”You’re stealing my destiny?” Once again, Klein switched places with the secret puppet, making the main body keep flashing in all corners of the garden.

　　”No.” Amon shook his head and stuck his hands in his pants pockets as he laughed leisurely, “The fact that this ‘Magic Mirror’ of Aroldus is willing to do your bidding and deliberately curry favor with you shows that you’re by no means as simple as I expected, and it’s not like I’m a ‘Tyrant ‘ pathway extraordinary, surely I wouldn’t be so reckless as to just steal your destiny, huh, I suddenly have a premonition that something I don’t want to see will happen by directly topping you.”

　　”How do you know that Arodes is trying to curry favor with me? Flora Jacob should have none of those things in her destiny.” The Germaine Sparrow look-alike Klein appeared in the tree with a brush.

　　His different secret puppets continued to change position.

　　Amon drew out a hand and cupped his chin:

　　”Didn’t I just say that? It took me some time to discern and find the source, well, I went inside the Church of Steam and talked to Arodes, it wasn’t too forthcoming, it preferred to undergo my torture rather than disclose your true origins, unfortunately, it was inside the Church of Steam, otherwise, I would have known everything if I had just ‘parasitized’ it. ”

　　”Parasitize” even a living seal? If Arodes strictly adheres to the rules, then its past answer indicates that it is not too clear about my real situation, but only has a certain guess …… Klein’s eyes dilated slightly, and just as he was about to open his mouth, he heard Amon let out a laugh and said:

　　”You really aren’t in a hurry at all, what exactly are you waiting for?

　　”Aren’t you aware that the sequence 2 corresponding to my pathway is called ‘Trojan Horse of Fate’? Although I’m just an ordinary doppelganger right now, there are some abilities that can still be applied initially, such as, tampering with your destiny to make it make certain mistakes for a certain period of time, just like right now, no matter how much you call out for help, no one will notice.

　　”Oh, that is to say, even if you inspire that Darkness Badge in your hand, you can only lend it a covert influence, and can’t pass on the intention to call for help, no matter how you agreed on it. Also, even if you shout ‘help’ or create an explosion, the pedestrians passing by and the servants in the houses won’t be able to hear it.

　　”That’s why I said so much just now; for an ordinary doppelganger, this kind of operation takes enough time.

　　”Well, it’s your turn to answer the question I just asked.”

　　Kraven didn’t answer directly, and kept swapping positions with the Secret Puppets, but always kept one of them in front of Amon as a way to “talk” to the other.

　　At this time, he let that secret puppet ask:

　　”Now that you’ve finished manipulating the domain of fate, why haven’t you done it yet?

　　”You also seem to be waiting ……”

　　Before the words of Gelman Sparrow, who had elongated into a thin piece of “paper man”, fell, there was already a fierce sound of wind in the distance.

　　Leonard, dressed in a black trench coat, was pulled by a cane inlaid with silver-white metal and flew at high speed to Birklund Street!

　　Klein, who had flashed to the side of Amon, spoke at once:

　　”This is what I was waiting for!”

　　As he said that, he was already energizing the Darkness Crest that he held tightly in his hand.

　　And at the same time, he snapped his left palm and ignited the tallest tree in the garden, causing crimson flames to soar into midair.

　　It was so stark, like a giant torch, that it was an instantly recognizable anomaly in the entire neighborhood, yet neither the maid who was cleaning the first-floor windows nor the pedestrians strolling under the Indies sycamore trees noticed a thing, and even Leonard Mitchell, who was halfway across the sky, ignored the scene and approached his intended destination of 39 Birklund Street at high speed.

　　At that moment, the Red Glove’s voice rang out in the head of Palles Zoroaster’s slightly older voice:

　　”Turn, go to 160.”

　　Although …… Leonard was puzzled, he had a lot of experience in extraordinary events, did not ask why, and immediately tugged on the “Word of the Sea” cane and changed direction.

　　In the garden of 160 Birklund Street, Amon raised his head and pressed his right hand against the crystal monocle, while laughing:

　　”That’s what I was waiting for.”

　　Without bothering to look at Germaine Sparrow, the smile on his face became progressively more pronounced, and he could hardly contain his surprise as he continued:

　　”Surprisingly, I was able to spot the anomaly of fate in this area ……

　　”It’s k, Palles!”

　　As he spoke, the “blasphemer” changed the action of his press and straightened his monocle.

　　By this time, the whole neighborhood was clouded with a strange spectral darkness, as if it had been isolated from reality and had become a secret.

　　Inside the sitting room at 39 Birklund Street, Hazel looked out the window and whispered in a slightly puzzled voice:

　　”Is it going to rain?”

　　It wasn’t anything important, and she whirled around to withdraw her eyes and reach for the three-tiered tray that held her afternoon tea.

　　Then she saw her father, Councilor Macht, strangely spread out his right hand.

　　A little bit of light coalesced out of nowhere and transformed into a crystal monocle in the center of that palm.

　　Councilor Macht then put this monocle onto his right eye.

　　This …… Hazel had clearly sensed that something was wrong and looked at the others in the room in slight alarm.

　　Her mother, Mrs. Liana, removed the ornament on the bridge of her nose and put on a monocle that she had taken out from somewhere, and the men and women servants and maids who stood next to her also took out monocles of the same form and put them on to their right eyes at the same time.

　　Clang!

　　Hazel instinctively stood up and stepped back, knocking her chair to the floor.

　　The sound startled everyone in the room, and Councilor Macht, Lady Liana, and the manservants and maids turned their heads in unison to look at Hazel.

　　The corners of their mouths showed a little smile.

　　”Ah!”

　　Hazel collapsed at once and let out a mournful scream.

　　The scream traveled out of the house, penetrated the garden, and drew the attention of pedestrians on the street, while Amon had lowered the right hand of his positive monocle, looked at the silhouette in mid-air, and let out a laugh and said:

　　”Palles, it’s already 1350 years into the Fifth Era, the technique of relying on the gathering of doppelgangers in order to raise the level is long outdated.”

　　At the back of K’s side, Klein stopped talking nonsense and reached into his pocket as if pulling out a gun, while making the “Creeping Hunger” transparent, and condensing a transparent book in front of his body.

　　And Amon just gently raised his hand, the human skin glove disappeared.

　　However, along with the human skin glove, there was also the figure of Germaine Sparrow.

　　Snap!

　　What fell into Amon’s palm was not a glove, but a mouse, a mouse that had died due to the revocation of Secret Puppetization.

　　On Amon’s other side, Klein, who was wearing a shirt plus vest without a bowler hat, flashed out and threw the thing he had just pulled out at his target.

　　It was a thousand paper cranes.