Lord of the Mysteries

Klein backed up from the fork in the path, without touching Zreal’s corpse.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Suddenly, a sound echoed in the distance through the empty sewers.

Klein listened for a few seconds before decisively retreating towards the exit, down the dirty concrete road that ran along both sides of the sewage channel.

There was no need to take risks in matters that didn’t involve him.

Klein closed the iron manhole cover after he climbed out of the sewers. After ensuring that the surrounding area looked normal, he returned to his rented room in the East Borough and changed out of his disguise.

Then, he put on his gold-rimmed glasses, walked to another street, took a rented carriage, and returned to Cherwood Borough in the silence and cold of three in the morning. However, he didn’t return to Minsk Street.

Then, Klein made another huge detour, and only after confirming that no one was following him, did he enter his house. He slept till dawn and was woken up by the doorbell.

He sat up immediately, put on his shirt, buttoned his vest, and hurried down to the first floor to open the door.

And even before that, his premonition ability as a Clown was already capable of naturally forming the image of the visitor in his mind.

The visitor was wearing an old coat, a brown round hat, and a tattered satchel. He had bright red eyes, a delicate face, and a quiet temperament. It was none other than Ian, the teenage boy who had come to entrust him with a job yesterday.

“Good morning, Detective Moriarty,” Ian greeted him and looked around. “Any progress? Yeah… I’m only asking because I happened to pass by.”

Klein nodded seriously and said, “Yes.”

“…” Ian seemed shocked as he didn’t say a word for quite a while.

After a while, he stammered in surprise, “Have you determined Mr. Zreal’s condition?”

“Yes.” Klein paused for a moment, then said seriously, “I found Zreal’s corpse.”

“Corpse…” Ian’s pupils shrank as he repeated it in a low tone.

He wasn’t too surprised, as if he had already expected the worst possible outcome.

Klein watched silently without interjecting.

“Sigh…” Ian exhaled and warily surveyed his surroundings. “Your efficiency is amazing. Can you take me to see Mr. Zreal’s body?”

“No problem. In fact, that’s what I was planning to do.” Klein then thought for a moment before saying, “I hope you won’t mention me when you call the police. Just say that you found the corpse yourself. I believe you know how to make up a reason.”

Ian wasn’t surprised; he knew that not every detective liked to deal with the police. In fact, except for the very famous detectives, who often gave advice to the police with mutual cooperation, the rest were discriminated against, ostracized, and even extorted from.

This was the current situation of the Loen Kingdom.

“Alright,” Ian readily agreed.

Considering that they were entering the sewers, Klein changed into a set of clothes worn by the common working class, put on a deer-hunting cap, and took a lantern with him.

Both of them took the public carriage to the East Borough. They walked for half an hour to reach the remote sewer entrance under the watchful gazes filled with numbness and malicious intent.

asked, half-surprised and half-curious, as he watched Klein lift

the area beneath him and answered casually, “Skillful training which includes many techniques in reasoning, investigation, tracking,

the sewers.

You seem to have received very

led Ian to the fork in the path where

as he approached. More of Zreal’s body was missing now when compared to the previous

rat can do… Klein muttered to

of the lantern’s light, Ian was able to clearly see

the Quelaag’s Oil he prepared, unscrewed the cap, and bent over to

lit up, and

twenty seconds later, he weakly whispered, “Thank

examined the

that

of politeness. “I suggest

Ian nodded indiscernibly as he followed

Klein clapped his

the end of my mission. As for what should

fell silent for a

three matters. You can

want to know where I can get a gun and bullets,

Bravehearts Bar at Iron Gate Street in the Backlund Bridge district. Find Kaspars

matters in the future. I have a feeling that we’ll meet again.” Klein

look but didn’t

split up and headed down different streets in the East Borough. The secluded spot,

and retraced his steps. He then hid himself in a secluded corner, peeking at

minutes, he saw Ian

withdrew his gaze in a timely manner,

heard the scraping sound of the manhole cover being removed and heard someone

Klein discovered that Ian had re-entered

Indeed, this

decided to leave for real and planned to seek out Kaspars, two days

…

was in his home situated in

to the study was tightly shut, separating the four people inside from the

in a pale yellow lace dress,

weight of the money, she could only say sincerely, “Miss Audrey, thank you for your generosity. Your honesty makes you look even

string around the envelope and

was uniform gray paper money with black stripes. The stack was thick and exuded a special

Xio took one note out and checked its face value. Beside her, Fors, who appeared

the thickness, Xio tried to figure out how

Fors and saw the

lot

Decide how you will split the money between

this matter

evenly, with my savings, it’s enough to buy the potion formula for Sheriff… Xio, who was slightly taller than 150cm, stared blankly at the notes in the envelope, wishing she

Miss Audrey wouldn’t pay them any less, but what if she had made a mistake