Lord of the Mysteries

Half past seven in the evening, around the Moretti family’s dining table.

“Klein, why do you need to be at work so early as a consultant? Would emergency matters at the security company be more dangerous?” Benson forked a potato from a dish of potato-stewed beef as he raised the matter in concern.

Klein carefully spat out the bones from a pan-fried dish and gave his prepared answer.

“A batch of historical documents needed immediate shipping to Backlund. I had to be present to handle the handover and make sure there was nothing missing. As you can guess, the bunch of fist-swinging bastards don’t know any Feysac.”

Upon hearing his answer, Benson, who had finished chewing his food, could not help but sigh.

“Knowledge is truly important.”

Making use of this opportunity, Klein took out the remaining five-pound note and handed it to Benson.

“This is my additional payment I received today. It’s time you get some decent clothes too.”

“Five pounds?” Benson and Melissa said in unison.

Benson took the note and looked at it repeatedly. He said in both shock and doubt, “This security company sure is generous…”

His weekly salary was one pound ten soli, which meant six pounds exactly every four weeks. He only earned one additional pound from this additional payment!

And with that salary, he had managed to support his siblings, giving them a decent place to stay and allowing them to eat meat two to three times a week. Every year, they could get a few new clothes!

“Are you doubting me?” Klein deliberately returned with a question.

Benson chuckled. “I doubt you have the ability nor the guts to rob a bank.”

“You aren’t someone who can lie,” Melissa answered seriously after lowering her fork and knife.

I-I’m now someone used to lying… Klein immediately felt a little ashamed.

Although it was a result of the circumstances of his reality, his sister’s belief in him left him melancholic.

“It was relatively urgent and important today. I also played a crucial role… which is the reason for the five pounds,” Klein explained.

In a way, what he said was the truth.

As for the five pounds that he would be reimbursed with—the one he would use to join the Divination Club—he planned on concealing it. Firstly, if he brought five pounds home again, he would truly scare his siblings, making them suspect he was doing something illegal. Secondly, he had to save to buy additional materials to practice being a Seer and to grasp more mysticism knowledge.

Benson bit off a mouthful of wheat bread in satisfaction and thought for more than ten seconds.

“The work I’m at doesn’t need any decent clothes. Well, to be precise, the clothes at home are sufficient.”

this additional income, we would truly have savings. I plan on buying a few books on accountancy and studying. Klein, Melissa, I do not

opportunity to steer the conversation. “Why don’t you read some of the grammar books in my room?

the civil servant examinations will appear in

eyes lit up when he

Here,

poured clear oyster soup into three

looked at his sister who was wrestling with the pan-fried fish. He chuckled and said, “Aside from

and shook her

I think

it up.” Klein

nodded in

seek the best fabrics and the newest designs, it would not be too expensive. We can

planning on wearing the old

Her elder brother was a practicing solicitor and her father was a senior employee of Backlund Bank’s

the so-called bash was only a dinner invitation to friends

a response.

a short silence, she suddenly recalled something

She wishes to make a formal visit on Sunday, at four in the afternoon

looked at

rapped the side of the table with

from 4 Daffodil Street? I met her husband before.

he knows Selena’s brother,” said Melissa with some hints

at 2 Daffodil Street…

but as you know, I still have to be at the company on Sunday.

he suddenly recalled the neighbors of his former life when he was young, as well as

visits… Shouldn’t neighbors get to know each other through

an annual income of a hundred to a thousand pounds as middle-class. They promoted it as the framework of the entire kingdom and praised how the middle-class doesn’t have the arrogance of the aristocrats and the wealthy, nor are they

the aristocrats practice in their interactions. As such, it becomes a target of the middle-class. Thus, this results in the differences between intimate calls, semi-formal

spoke, he shook his head

about details. They will visit their neighbors and friends from two to six in the afternoon. It’s known as a morning

Klein and Melissa

two to six in

knife,

know why either. All I did was read the magazines my female colleague brought. Yeah, perhaps it’s because they wear their morning

form of formal attire worn during Mass or gatherings. Later, it was considered as formal attire for the day, different from the formal attire for

must not ill-treat our neighbors.” Klein chuckled as he dipped his remaining bread into the meat sauces,

…

morning was

newspapers, and wore his halved top hat. Picking up his silver-inlaid black cane, he sauntered out the door and took a

finishing her night duty. After which, he went all the way down to the

met a Nighthawk member, Sleepless