Lord of the Mysteries

After waiting for more than half an hour and confirming that nothing unexpected had happened, Klein and Emlyn White left Lawyer Jurgen’s house and proceeded in silence, each of them preoccupied with their own thoughts. Soon, they arrived outside 15 Minsk Street.

The vampire, Emlyn White, put his fist to his mouth, coughed lightly, and said, “The payment has been paid. I hope we won’t meet again in the future.”

That sounds pretty cool, but Mr. White, have you forgotten something important?Klein smiled politely.

“I will visit Bishop Utravsky every now and then, and I hope you will not be at the Harvest Church when the time comes.

“That way, I don’t have to busy myself with finding a way to solve the inducing suggestion planted in your psyche.”

Emlyn White’s expression suddenly became very strange. He stayed silent for two seconds before he raised his chin and said, “We have many powerful mysticologists among the Sanguine. I will write to them for help.”

After he finished speaking, he pressed his hand to his chest and bowed to bid farewell.

Turning around and taking a few steps, he suddenly slowed down, turned his head, and asked hesitantly, “What were you cooking over here?”

“Beef bone radish soup, with rice and chili peppers from the Feynapotter highlands,” Klein said in anticipation as he breathed in the fragrance drifting out from the house.

Emlyn frowned and shook his head.

“Chili peppers aren’t things fancied by the Sanguine.”

Frankly speaking, it’s hard for me to imagine a vampire eating chili peppers. Of course, I occasionally imagine a vampire holding a steamed bun and chewing on garlic and onions… Klein silently lampooned, pointed to the door, and indicated that he was about to enjoy his dinner.

Emlyn White thought for a second, lowered his voice, and said in deliberation, “Last night, I thought over things for a long time and found out that you actually didn’t do anything, so why are you asking for compensation? That old man would’ve let me leave at any moment.”

Klein chuckled.

“No, that’s not how the accounts are done. Your parents assigned a mission to find you, not to save you. In the end, I found you. According to the agreement, the reward should belong to me.

“Besides, if I hadn’t reminded you, you might’ve stayed in Harvest Church for weeks or months before you realized that you were free to leave. Furthermore, you wouldn’t have noticed the seed planted in your mind.”

“Are you hinting that my intelligence isn’t up to par?” Emlyn’s face twisted.

No, I’m saying it directly… Klein smiled but didn’t say anything else. He just opened the door and went straight to the kitchen, his mind full of the clear and alluring soup, the white rice, the soft yet chewy beef, the marrow hidden deep in the bones, the sweet, refreshing radishes with meaty flavors, and the shredded chili from the Feynapotter highlands.

In the spicy-hot shreds, there were also pink rose salt and green parsley leaves.

…

morning, as promised, Klein went to the value-for-money coffee shop in East

sitting in a corner, matching tea that barely tasted like tea with a loaf of

of him, took out the things he had

consisting of two five-soli notes, four one-soli notes, and a handful of copper pennies specially designed to increase the effect of the

them for quite a while before finally

looked at the money over and over again, raised his hand to wipe his

with our feet in

a total of 15 soli

A few seconds later, he said, “What have

to know when I was a tramp. Some of them

from who-knows-where that since we believe in one of the seven gods, why don’t we directly pray to the Creator of everything? It’s said that ‘He’ didn’t truly pass away, and he remains in everyone’s body and in

after death, but we will also have a better life before death. For example, we don’t need to work so hard, and we can

pay attention to the poor in East Borough, the dock area, and the factory district, hoping to use them for certain purposes? I wonder if the three Churches have

“Mr. Detective, according to your instructions, I paid attention to the female textile workers. In the end, with the help of

girls, and some have gone off somewhere.

Qilangos came to Backlund, he could come to East Borough to kill one or two people every day without anyone discovering or noticing the act… Klein sighed in his

heard daily before saying, “By the way, Liv’s youngest daughter has gone

he had never heard of

“She’s the laundry maid you and Mr. Reporter met last time, the one who was arguing with someone. She was always at home doing the washing with her two daughters, but yesterday, when her two daughters were returning home from delivering the laundry, one of them ended up missing. The younger one, what a

meet with even worse situations because they have no ability to resist danger or change

seconds of stone-like silence, he said, “Take me to see them. I’m a detective, so maybe I

They have no money,” Old Kohler reminded

up his hat and cane and said, “I occasionally

…

apartment which

as a bounty hunter, and Fors hastened the pace of her new

book wasn’t something one could write that easily. Fors scratched her hair irritably and decided to go out for a walk to seek out

that she had unknowingly returned to a

her was the Yosifov Clinic, a fairly large private

while, Fors thought of the old lady who had guided her into the Beyonder world. She turned into a small

down the parasol tree. It was a

at Unit 39. Back then, she would occasionally visit personally

tenants… I still remember when I came to tidy up the items she left behind. I discovered

past experiences, she gradually gained some inspiration for

a black half top hat standing in front of Unit 39.

one was opening the door, the old man with blue eyes shook his head and turned around. He whispered in puzzlement, “Still no

suddenly noticed Fors who was looking at him from nearby. He hurriedly walked over, gently and urgently smiled, and said, “Beautiful lady, do you live