Lord of the Mysteries

As she spoke, Helene’s eyes moved up slightly as though she was immersed in her memories.

“Early on, I transported iron and coal from Midseashire to Feynapotter, then I shipped back tobacco, coffee, cocoa, and other native specialties back to Intis. This is a sea route that borders the shore, so it was rather safe. The competition was intense as well. In order to quickly get out of my predicament and save up money, I worked hard to raise my Sequence, hoping that I could trade in the colonies.

“Unfortunately, just as I familiarized myself with the sea route and made some money, I chanced upon Ailment Maiden Tracy, who wasn’t Vice Admiral Ailment at the time, in one of her raids during my second trip to West Balam. She only had one ship back then, but she was very powerful. My partner and I resisted with our lives, but all of that was in vain.

“She doesn’t have the habit of killing mindlessly. All she did was snatch the goods, as well as myself…”

As expected of an oddity among Demonesses… Klein listened in silence and used his Clown powers to suppress his embarrassed emotions to expressionlessly ask, “How far did the relationship between the two of you go?”

“We didn’t!” Helene instinctively denied. “She forced me! I-I didn’t want to die. I-I could o-only choose to accept it. B-besides, she’s a woman!”

Lady, there’s no need to get so worked up. If I had asked if the two of you had a relationship that went beyond friendship, would you have jumped out? It’s only because I’m kind enough and had considered your shame which had prevented me from being so direct… Sigh. Under the facade of the crazy Gehrman Sparrow is a gentlemanly me… That’s the true me… Klein switched to asking without a change in expression, “What kind of food do you like? Are there any dishes you especially like? Do you prefer sweet or salty food, or somewhere in between?

“What food do you dislike? What food are you allergic to?

“Do you have any dietary restrictions? If you do, what are they?

“…”

These questions made Helene feel like she was in a dream, as though everything was surreal.

She never imagined that the man would ask her such questions. It was like a pursuer was asking his crush what hobbies she had.

No! No pursuer would ask such questions! These are all indirectly obtained from numerous chats, or are obtained by other means! No woman would like to be questioned like that! T-this is like a survey which Emperor Roselle created… W-what does he want? He’s asking these questions without any expression. I’m so afraid… Helene fell silent for a few seconds before answering them one after another under Klein’s cold, unmoving gaze.

Klein maintained his seating posture of leaning forward and continued asking, “How do you usually sit? Do you have any habitual motions…”

The more Helene answered, the more panicked she became. She had the inexplicable feeling that answering these questions would make her disappear.

By the time the perplexing and terrifying “survey” was done, she felt heavy deep down, constantly suspecting that a terrible outcome awaited her.

Why don’t I risk it and jump off the carriage while he isn’t paying attention? Helene seriously considered the possibility.

However, the man didn’t seem to have any indication of attacking her, and this made her indecisive. She felt that there was hope to resolve the matter amicably.

After grasping Helene’s personality, habits, and preferences, Klein turned the topic towards Vice Admiral Ailment.

“What do you know of Tracy?”

as her mouth quivered a few times. She couldn’t bring herself to

carriage continued on for quite a while,

excellent combat abilities. She’s good at infiltration and curses, with her being capable of

and frost. She can make enemies in a certain range suddenly fall sick, including colds, pneumonia, gastroenteritis, and

create invisible threads to control her enemy. She knows human ana-anatomy very well. She can easily give people pleasure through contact—th-that kind of

make many pirates give up putting up a resistance once they’re

enemies. She enjoys destroying the perfection

Ailment Maiden had

Pleasure… Klein gained a basic grasp of Tracy’s combat style, and he calmly

long as she wears it, it’s very difficult for Tracy to be injured.” Helene hesitated before revealing Vice Admiral Ailment’s

a few other detailed questions as he straightened his body a

the Demoness Sect perform human

something he took great notice of when he heard Vice Admiral Iceberg Edwina

Zangwill, and it was related to the royal family. It involved an underground ruin whose location

in

was someone who orchestrated numerous disappearance cases of slaves and the disappearance of primitive tribes in the Southern Continent. With him appearing at the underground ruins,

this is a pathway

linked together to form a line, but he wasn’t sure what it actually exposed. Vice Admiral Ailment Tracy

Demoness Sect?” Helene asked in

to know,” Klein

is a dirty and savage man, then I’m afraid that you would’ve lost control on the spot… You don’t have to thank me. I’m a

recalling, “In recent years, she’s been busy shipping slaves. The other end of the trade is Crazy Captain Connors Viktor. Rumor has it that he and many

Connors Viktor… Klein remembered

in a relatively gentle

trembling for some baffling reason. He felt that Gehrman Sparrow being in such a state was much more terrifying than his cold and expressionless

me. I will not bring shame to my family. Be-besides, Tracy always said that she wouldn’t let me be tainted by

coin and allowed it to weave

from Helene as he performed a divination in front of her

result was that she was rather

because I didn’t ask in detail about her emotional entanglements with Tracy; otherwise, she wouldn’t be that honest… Klein secretly

had circled around the harbor, no

looked at the scenery outside the window and took out a small metal bottle. He handed it

“Why?” Helene subconsciously asked.

should be asking,” Klein leaned forward

feeling aggrieved and furious, Helene didn’t wish to agitate the man and get on his bad side at such a critical moment. She could only

used directly?” she

tersely acknowledged in the

dabbed it with the bottle’s liquid. Then, she began