Lord of the Mysteries

The Antigonus notebook is in the apartment across the kidnappers’!

Although it was very coincidental, Klein believed that his intuition was correct.

He immediately got out of bed and rapidly changed out of the old clothes he usually wore to bed. He picked up a white shirt beside him and draped it on, quickly buttoning from top to bottom.

One, two, three… He suddenly realized that he was “missing” buttons. The left and right sides did not seem to match.

On careful look, Klein realized that he had made a mistake buttoning the first button, causing the shirt to warp.

He shook his head helplessly before taking a deep breath and slowly breathing out, using some of his Cogitation techniques to restore his calm.

After putting on his white shirt and black trousers, he barely managed to wear his armpit holster steadily. He pulled out the revolver he hid under his soft pillow and holstered it.

Without time to tie a bow tie, he draped his formal suit on and with a hat and cane in each hand, he walked to the door. After putting on his halved top hat, Klein gently twisted the door handle and walked into the corridor.

He carefully closed his bedroom’s wooden door and sneaked downstairs like a thief. He used a fountain pen and paper in the living room to leave a note, informing his siblings that he had forgotten to mention that he had to be early for work today.

The moment he was out the door, Klein felt a cool breeze and his entire being calmed down.

The street in front of him was dark and silent without any pedestrians. Only the gas lamps illuminated the streets.

Klein took out his pocket watch from his pocket and snapped it open. It was just six in the morning and the crimson moonlight had not completely faded away. However, there was a hue of sunrise over the horizon.

He was just about to seek out an expensive for-hire carriage when he saw a two-horse, four-wheeled trackless carriage approaching him.

“There are public carriages this early in the morning?” Klein was puzzled as he went forward and waved for it to stop.

“Good morning, Sir.” The carriage driver stopped the horses skillfully.

The ticketing officer beside him had his hand to his mouth while yawning.

“To Zouteland Street.” Klein scooped out two pennies from his pocket and four halfpence.

“Four pence,” the ticketing officer replied without any hesitation.

After paying for the ride, Klein got onto the carriage and found it empty. It exuded a clear loneliness amid the dark night.

“You are the first one,” said the carriage driver with a smile.

brown horses widened their pace as

carriage so early in the morning.” Klein sat near the carriage driver and made idle chatter to divert his attention and relax his tense

a self-deprecating manner, “From six in the morning to nine at night, but

breaks?” inquired Klein

rest once a week.” The carriage

lunch and an afternoon break. Near dinnertime, which is

control of his carriage and it toppled. It resulted in us having shifts… Those bloodsuckers would never become this

Zouteland Street and picked up

He closed his eyes and recalled the experiences from yesterday, hoping to notice if he had forgotten

when the sun was fully up, the carriage finally arrived at

pressed his hat with his left

and arrived outside Blackthorn Security

still closed

found the corresponding brass key and inserted it into the

forward as the door slowly opened. He saw the black-haired, green-eyed Leonard Mitchell

be in a rush?” the poet-like Nighthawk asked in a relaxed and

Captain?” Klein asked instead

at

office. As an advanced Sleepless, he only needs two hours of sleep in the day. I believe it’s a potion those factory owners or

partition. He saw that Dunn Smith had opened the door to

black windbreaker, he held

feeling of déjà vu came to me. It should be the notebook. The Antigonus family’s

Dunn Smith’s expression did not have any obvious

had happened in him. This was possibly a flash

the kidnappers’ room. I didn’t notice it back then

on making huge

as he instructed with a solemn expression, “Get Kenley to replace Old Neil’s watch of

the Nighthawks’ entertainment room.

later, the two-wheeled carriage that came under the jurisdiction of the Nighthawks began

a shirt and a vest. He stood in as the carriage

Old Neil sat on one side. Facing them

a very long while or he had a severe blood deficiency. He looked to be in his thirties with black hair and blue

situation again in detail.” Dunn adjusted

from their mission commissioning until the dream. By the

notebook.

was no indication of hidden factions of mysterious powers at play from the preliminary investigations of Elliott’s

It was too coincidental!

his ideas as he was in deep thought. Likewise, Corpse Collector Frye maintained his silence in his black