Lord of the Mysteries

Eugh! Eugh!

Klein squatted there, vomiting involuntarily. He was soon done with his puking since he did not eat breakfast.

At that moment, a tin-colored square flask that looked like a cigarette box appeared in front of him.

The mouth which had lost its stopper emitted a mixture of smells akin to tobacco, disinfectant, and mint leaves. It cleared up Klein’s nose and rejuvenated him.

The pungent smell continued to linger, but Klein no longer felt nauseous. He soon stopped vomiting.

He traced the tiny flask up and saw a pale hand that did not seem to belong to a member of the living. He saw the mouth of a black windbreaker’s sleeve and saw Corpse Collector Frye with his cold and dark bearing.

“Thank you.” Klein recovered completely and with his hands on his knees, he stood back up.

Frye nodded without any expression.

“It’ll be fine once you are used to it.”

He put back the flask’s stopper and put it into his pocket and turned around, walking to the highly decomposed corpse. Without gloves, he began examining the old woman. As for Dunn Smith and Leonard Mitchell, they paced slowly around the room, occasionally touching the table’s surface or newspapers.

Old Neil pinched his nose and stood outside the door, grumbling in a muffled voice, “Seriously gross. I’m going to request for additional pay this month!”

Dunn turned his head over and touched the wall beside the chimney with his gloved right hand. While doing so, he asked Klein, “Does this place look familiar?”

Klein held his breath and constructed the silver pocket watch in his mind to calm down.

With him already in his Spirit Vision state, he immediately felt different. A scene that came from the deepest recesses of his memories flashed past his eyes.

Chimney, rocking chair, table, newspapers, the rusty nails on the door, the tin cans inlaid with silver…

The scenes were dark and dull, like a documentary from Earth. However, it was even more blurry and illusory.

The scene quickly stacked against what Klein was seeing. The feelings of déjà vu and having been here before presented themselves clearly. An illusory and ethereal scream seemed to pass through invisible walls:

“Hornacis… Flegrea… Hornacis… Flegrea… Hornacis… Flegrea…”

“It feels a little familiar.” Klein answered honestly while his brain felt a stabbing pain. Thankfully, he quickly tapped his glabella twice.

Hornacis… The Hornacis mountain range that appeared in original Klein’s diary?

That is content that was deciphered from the Antigonus family’s notebook…

The murmurs were very similar to one of the previous ones. It involved the word ‘Hornacis’ Is this a form of enticement?

he did not dare think deeper, afraid that he would

walked to a cupboard. He suddenly reached out

was moldy and there

to get patrolling cops and explain the situation

and left the

opened the door to two

notebook, Frye also stood up. He wiped his hands with a white handkerchief he brought along with him and said, “The time of death was more than

anything?” Dunn turned to look at

longer in Spirit Vision state shook their

in the beginning. As you know, there

few seconds later, Klein and Old Neil sensed something and turned to look at the

grew louder as Leonard walked up with a

smell. He immediately cooperated with his “colleague” from the Special Operations Department and began knocking on the doors of the residents on the second floor to gain an understanding of the situation on the third

corporal with his two silver chevrons looked at the corpse on the rocking

Widow. Has rented this apartment with her

years old and is single. He inherited his father’s trade and earns about one

continued, Klein already knew the critical point

was unknown

could very well

have a picture of Ray Bieber?” Dunn looked at the police officer. He was acting as the

he was indeed a high-ranking inspector on the police department’s roster. His salary and various allowances were also paid according to his rank. Of

I’ll have to return to the station to search for it. It’s not typical for us to

Continue questioning the residents on the first floor. Ask them in detail.” Dunn

he closed the door and turned to

If not, we will have to make all the residents sleep and obtain Ray Bieber’s looks. Yea, I don’t really trust sketches

pocket in his black classic

he pulled out a clump of powder and scattered

not influenced by the nauseating smells in the room. Klein also suddenly noticed that there was an invisible forcefield around him. It separated him from the environment and everyone else. It was

a soft and indiscernible incantation. Without being prepared, Klein vaguely heard the words, “Goddess, give me strength,” “We look forward to

through the windows and blew up

found it difficult to describe. A terrifying “smell” that made him afraid of

he tensed up, unable to relax. It felt as though he had plunged into a state similar to what one would have after

eyes

on a piece of scrap paper on the table. He

with recessed

was done, Old Neil wrote a single line beneath

hair, deep blue eyes. Left of his mouth is a

fountain pen in Old Neil’s hand fell onto

what’s left in the room.” Old Neil whispered as the color of

turned back to his original spot and slowly circled it. The invisible

Lady.” Old Neil tapped his chest in four spots,