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?”

a few times. She couldn’t

on for quite a while,

excellent combat abilities. She’s good at infiltration and curses,

fall sick, including colds, pneumonia, gastroenteritis,

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

would make many pirates give up putting up

she’s cruel to her enemies. She enjoys destroying the perfection that

go into detail on how Tracy destroyed the state of perfection of others. There were many cruel stories and hilarious matters. This Ailment Maiden had once made her enemies—a father and son

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

that’s inlaid with diamonds. As long as she wears it, it’s very difficult for Tracy

few other detailed questions as he straightened his body a

helping the Demoness Sect

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

Demoness Sect cooperated with Ince Zangwill, and it was related to the royal family. It involved an

helped them in the

who orchestrated numerous disappearance cases of slaves and the disappearance of primitive tribes in the Southern

Capim, had Beyonders who were of the Arbiter pathway protecting him. And this is a pathway controlled by the Loen and Feynapotter royal families, as well

these matters that Klein was aware of linked together to form a line, but he wasn’t

Sect?” Helene asked

don’t have to know,” Klein

and savage man, then I’m afraid that you would’ve

her puzzlement and said while 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

Connors Viktor… Klein remembered the nickname and

voice. Instead, he said in a relatively gentle voice, “Did you involve yourself in such matters? Such as being a part-time

trembling for some baffling reason. He felt that Gehrman

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

must’ve read too many romance novels… Klein took out a gold coin and

a divination

was that she was rather

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

that moment in time, the carriage had circled around the harbor, no longer heading for the ship that Helene was

a small metal bottle. He handed

“Why?” Helene subconsciously asked.

Klein leaned forward once again

didn’t wish to agitate the man and get on his bad side at such a critical moment. She could only remove the bottle

it be used

acknowledged in the

it with the bottle’s liquid.