Lord of the Mysteries

Klein was in no hurry to confirm his general assumptions. He pretended that nothing had happened and turned the page so that it faced him.

The information he wrote about Ian Wright was completely true. He would still get a positive answer even if he used divination techniques to confirm. Therefore, he believed that the people under the ambassador’s charge would follow this investigations trail and gain something in return. It was unlikely that they would have the motivation to seek revenge on him for the time being.

Similarly, he would continue to spread the paper out on his desk for the military’s special department who were monitoring him. It would direct their attention away from him as they shifted their focus to Ian Wright. It would then be a race against time to find him before the ambassador.

This way, Klein would be even safer.

It feels like I’m walking on a tightrope. Is this a Clown’s special trick? He shook his head in amusement. He opened the oriel window, hoping to take in the fresh morning air, but there was thick, choking smog outside that made him quietly close the windows.

Pressing down the paper with Ian’s information with an ink bottle, Klein went to the closest bathroom and quickly washed up. He then picked up the black double-breasted suit and the half top hat that hung from the rack and walked all the way to the first floor.

He had an appointment with Lawyer Jurgen for breakfast today.

Pulling his black silver inlaid cane from the umbrella stand in the foyer, Klein walked along the edge of the street in a thick fog that provided visibility of no more than ten meters until he reached 58 Minsk Street. He rang the doorbell of the dark house.

As the clanging sound echoed, a black green-eyed cat with a raised tail suddenly appeared in his mind.

Brody the black cat walked straight to the door. After preparing itself for two seconds, it leaped up and grabbed the handle of the door.

Then, it inevitably fell and twisted the handle with its weight, and opened the door.

With a creak, the morning wind blew in, and the door slowly opened.

Brody the black cat glanced at Klein haughtily as it walked to the side.

“What a clever cat,” Klein praised as he faced the old lady, Doris, in her white apron.

Doris laughed as her wrinkles eased.

“It depends on its mood. Most of the time it acts stupid, as though it doesn’t know what you’re talking about. Oh, I’ve prepared my best bean turnip soup for you. Eat it with bread.”

Bean turnip soup… Sounds like something randomly mashed together… Klein smiled.

“I’m looking forward to it.”

The lawyer came out of the bathroom. Even at home, regardless if he had just woken up, he was dressed to the nines. His white shirt was ironed and his brownish-yellow vest was tightly fitted, the lines of his trousers appearing to be freshly ironed.

to see if there are any omissions.” Jurgen’s blue eyes swept over. He didn’t make

hair was neatly combed back, and the sheen from the pomade

Jurgen into the study

flipping through it. The more he read, the more his head hurt. In the end,

that everything that’s needed is in there, as well as the previously omitted clauses, such as the establishment of the three instances that will determine how much money is to be supplied to Leppard based on his progress, rather than a lump sum payment of 100 pounds. The first instance involves 50 pounds… Yes, that way I won’t have to go to the Backlund Bank

and said, “I’m satisfied.

he took out two one-pound notes that he

an error is made during the signing, there are two extra copies. Remember to shred the

machines was a hand-cranked

Doris suddenly shouted from the dining room,

deteriorated,” Jurgen explained as he invited Klein with a hand

room and saw that Mrs. Doris had scooped out a spoonful

bean turnip soup. Here’s your bread.” Mrs. Doris

who looked even more serious than before.

a piece of white bread, dipped it in the yellow-green soup, and stuffed it into his

to find that the flavor was actually quite good. The faint salty taste had a sweet tang to it that stimulated his appetite. It also perfectly brought out the soft,

once an excellent cook,” Jugen said casually as he slowly

have to keep a straight face… I really don’t have any appetite watching you eat… Klein lampooned silently before

to Sird Street in St. George Borough, where he made a formal agreement and paid Leppard the first fifty pound. The second sum of thirty pounds would be paid

point, Klein was left with only 21 pounds 8

returned to Cherwood Borough and went to the public library to read the Tussock Times of the past year in

the black-and-white photo and confirmed that it was the one he

name silently. He left the library and found a small restaurant for

…

drew the curtains, took four steps in the counterclockwise

him and received a positive result. He then wrote a divination

in his chair, he muttered the sentence. Klein’s eyelids

bedroom came into view in a

saw a black shadow squirming in

into the room. It arched at the center and then flattened itself, constantly

extremely stiff, as though it had broken down a series of slow motions,

the desk and crawled to the top, leaving a trail of quickly evaporating mucus

stopped at the written piece regarding Ian Wright. Its head lifted up as the middle of its body rose, leaving only the tail to support the

was

black-iron threadworm turned the paper around and

Unless this iron-black