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"Your Highness."

“……”

"His Highness Vaughan."

“………… Do you have something? ”

"Your Highness, please forgive me for my audacity—have you never lived as a human being? Are you a mythical creature by nature? ”

"You have a lot of guts."

"You've won the prize, and it's more like you're learning how to be a human being from scratch than being inhuman, that's why I have such a bold guess...... Heck, I'm the only one who thinks so, I'm willing to keep it a secret for you, maybe you need a teacher who can teach you how to play human. ”

"You want to save your life this way?"

"So, let's start with the basics of socializing, shall we? You see, how grand and magnificent the banquet is tonight, how unsocial it is for you to rest outside alone, and people are intoxicated with good food and beautiful women. ”

"And what do you think I should do?"

"Please invite me to a dance. Your Highness, if you think the ballroom is too noisy, it will be under this month. That's what I want. ”

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Edward looked at what Crane had handed him, and said with interest, "This is a rare thing. ”

"Where did you get it?"

Crane put on his napkin and was about to start with the food he had just brought in front of him, and when he heard this, he thought about it and decided to answer honestly: "I got it from a bishop of the Church of Mother Earth God, who was looking for someone in the circle of the extraordinary who could help him solve his problem, and I helped him and got this key as a reward. Is there anything wrong with it, please? ”

"It's fine, but it's fun."

Edward finished looking at the brass-colored key, and instead of returning it to Crane, he put it aside: "There must be a curse in it, I guess, is it a curse that makes the sense of direction worse or lost?" In fact, this curse is only the most superficial negative effect of this key, and unlocking is not its real use. ”

"Is that so?" Hearing that the master key had other uses, and that the other party didn't show any intention of wanting to take it for himself, Klein couldn't help but be curious, "Mr. Edward, what is its real effect?" ”

"The door." Instead of answering him, Edward threw out another question, "Do you know the door?" ”

This is a special reference! Klein immediately understood that he was asking about "Mr. Men", well, he knew that I could read Russell's diary, and it wasn't strange that I could learn about that...... Klein replied, "I know, the diary mentions the Emperor's communication with him. ”

"I've also seen his diary, and there are indeed quite a few mentions of Mr. Men, and I'm surprised that he would say so much."

Edward didn't say it, and Klein naturally understood "that" as "Mr. Men". He used his fork to flick the slices of meat in Fenerport's noodles, and he was not in a hurry to put it in his mouth, but explained in more detail: "This key contains Mr. Men's spirituality, if it is not the legacy of a certain high-order powerhouse of the Abraham family, then it should be some low-rank extraordinary person who is unlucky and died in the full moon whispering in his own spirituality, and there is a high probability that he will fail to be promoted." ”

It is because of Mr. Men's spiritual involvement that this key has the effect of "opening all the doors". Spirituality and extraordinary properties combine to form the form of a key. This is also a kind of camouflage, and its real use should be to liberate the spiritual power within it, to influence the enemy with pollution and whispering, well, a one-time small extraordinary time bomb. ”

It sounds like an area-of-effect psychic damage, but I need a key more than a time bomb...... However, this will be a card for me to escape, after all, I am already familiar with the pain of all kinds of babbling, but the enemy will certainly not think of it...... Possessing such a secret and extraordinary object would be worth at least a few hundred pounds, but I also put in the effort. Klein was slightly moved, but not completely, and his eyes were a little hot when he looked at the master key: "Then how can we release the spirit in it?" ”

"It only takes some proper external force to break its shell."

Edward handed the key to Klein, "You're a soothsayer, and you don't currently have a direct means to destroy it, so you need to improvise. If you're a "Warrior" or "Hunter", or even a "Sailor", you should have the power to crush it in Sequence 7. ”

"I see." He understood, "Thank you for informing me. ”

"It's just a trivial little thing."

Although it may indeed be a trivial matter, I may be able to find the answer later by going to the gray mist and divining it carefully, but let an angel himself tell me that this is a treatment that no amount of money can buy...... Klein was overjoyed, and suddenly understood how flattered the other members were when he played the "fool" at the tarot meeting, and said something "common sense of the extraordinary world" lightly.

For the next few minutes, the two of them did not speak, quietly enjoying a delicious lunch served at the Kragg Club.

There is too little pollution hidden in this little key, at most it can pollute one or two people in the middle and low ranks, and there is a high probability that they will not die on the spot, and it is impossible to assimilate into the dependents of the moon...... But I didn't notice that the blood ties of the Abrahamic family were so close. The fact that it was possible to bring His whispers and pollution to the earth with just one low-order promotion without going through any prayer ritual was rare, but it was indeed the quickest, easiest and least noticeable way, and I should have paid more attention to Benjamin at the time. If they really knew that their ancestors were floating on the moon, even if they knew that Bethel was incurable, they would have pinned their hopes on the Seven Gods to try to pull him back to the earth, right?

If it weren't for the fact that I didn't plan to expose myself to them for the time being, it would not be impossible to help the moon a little and make Bethel Abraham lose the ability to resist. It's just a gesture for me, but unfortunately the moon has limited abilities on the earth and can't come up with the chips that can impress me.

“…… Then again, I haven't seen you in the past few days, are you busy with detective work? ”

"No, it's not so much that the detective life is busy, it's that the life of a low-sequence extraordinary like me is too colorful."

The other party is not an official extraordinary, and he should not have much interest in the bottom of the extraordinary world, so Klein briefly talked about the experience of the past few days, and changed the name and time of the person in it: "I want to participate in the gathering of the extraordinary, and I also have to take over some conservation commissions, go out for a walk at night, and bump into the scene of the murder or some people who believe in death to perform a séance ceremony...... Haha, Beckland is so much fun. ”

As he thought, the Abyss Angel really had little interest in these things, but he listened to him dutifully.

The two chatted without saying a word, and when the meal was over and the waiter came to collect the plate, Klein was just about to get up, when he suddenly felt a strange coldness at his feet. The waiter looked to the right and left in confusion to see if the fire in the fireplace was strong. Klein quietly turned on his vision, only to see a small space next to the booth suddenly distort, and something that could not see the shape but seemed to be a small animal appeared from there tremblingly, put the letter in his mouth to Edward's hand, and retreated tremblingly.

…… The reason why he was trembling was because even Crane could see that the little animal didn't dare to look up from beginning to end.

The coldness vanished, and Edward naturally picked up the letter—a piece of paper that had been folded twice—and glanced at it.

"I have left the northern continent and taken a passenger ferry to the islands of the Sunia Sea, leaving the harbor of Bansi after twelve o'clock last night."

"It's not a normal night here, but I can't feel what's going on, maybe I'll need to see it for yourself."

"Richard Ernst"

"P.S.: Teacher, it's my decision to let Riel help deliver the letter, because it's really too expensive and slow to send a letter from the sea to the Northern Continent."

Klein looked at Edward's expression with a serious look at first, frowning slightly, and then becoming speechless.

“…… Laughing, my student couldn't afford the postage when he was away from home, so he summoned someone else's messenger to help deliver the letter, and I suspected that he was crying poor to me in this way. Oh, I just gave him a sum of money. Edward reached out and tapped the little animal messenger on the place where it was about the head, and brought it back to the spirit realm, "Actually, he asked for a pearl at a time to send a letter, and I remember that he never paid him. ”

It turns out that some messengers still have to be paid for sending letters? Klein smacked his lips inwardly, feeling that the skeletal messenger who came to work hard as soon as the brass whistle blew instantly became kind and amiable.

He didn't want to let the conversation linger on money, so he asked a question he had been wondering for a long time: "Mr. Edward, do you know how to remove the contamination from the extraordinary properties?" ”

The letter paper in his hand spontaneously combusted, and the ashes consciously drifted into the trash can by the wall. Edward's gaze fell on Klein, and after he quickly performed a divination with his own inspiration, and after coming to the conclusion that it was "useless", he decided not to make the question a condition of the deal.

"I know." He said, "There is a price to be paid for answering this question. If you want me to help you out, you have to pay the same price. ”

Hearing this, Klein was not only not disappointed, but breathed a sigh of relief - that's right! The words of an angel who have to answer all questions in front of him are too outrageous, and even a little scary. Only in this form can people be reassured, will their tarot also pursue "equivalent transactions"? He was already very satisfied with this answer, the only question was whether he would be able to ask the other party in the future, what an earth angel needed, Klein only dared to think about it in his head.

He felt that as long as he understood the method, there was no need to ask the other party to solve it, and through the Tarot Meeting and improving his strength, he would definitely have the opportunity to solve the problem by himself, and he didn't need to pay two rewards.

Klein pondered for a moment and spoke carefully, "If I want to know the method, what should I pay for?" ”

Edward looked at him in amazement, ordinary people would not think of such a question, if Crane not only asked questions but also wanted to know the result, then there was a high probability that he did have a tainted extraordinary property in his hands...... Could it be that he really has some secret organization? Is it the organization asking for a solution, or is it just that he wants to solve the problem for himself?

"It's not expensive, it's a difficult solution." He said, "...... The easiest, you can give money directly, four thousand pounds. ”

It's so expensive!

Why is it that you, as an angel, always have money so naturally on your lips! If I had been so calm when I played the "Fool", my image would have been ruined a long time ago! Klein tactically leaned back, but was only surprised for a few seconds before he began to think about whether to pay.

No, no, no, if you think about it, it's not that expensive......

Four thousand pounds in exchange was a huge amount of money that he couldn't have imagined a month ago, but after coming to Beckland, he spent a lot of money, Miss "Justice" hired Mr. Aurora to assassinate the ambassador for 10,000 pounds, and he hired Miss Sharon as a bodyguard for 1,000 pounds...... This price is not difficult to accept, I can afford to pay it, and now there is only Sequence 7, and there is one promotion before I need the "Pure Black Eye", it is completely possible to save the money, but since I don't need it now, there is no need to buy the plan early, I only have a few hundred pounds on hand now, and I can't spend it before I have it......

"I see." Klein regained his composure and stood up to take his leave, "Thank you so much!" I'm going to go back and think about it. ”

Edward didn't say much, and after bidding farewell to Klein, he returned to the club and asked the waiter to open a single room, and wrote a brief note to Richard. Opening the door to the spirit realm, the demon messenger named Rare had not gone far, and it stood respectfully in the corner of the door waiting to be summoned. Edward handed it the note, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a slight flickering fire behind the fog of folded historical fragments in the spirit world, two by two, some distance from the ground, and his trajectory seemed to be running and jumping.

“…… Fugen's Dog? They are rarely seen out of the fog. ”

"Just now, a high-level serial person of the mysterious three paths passed by here? Could it be Zarathu? He never seemed to draw them out. ”

The Abyss Angel probed around, but did not see any occult tracks or hidden changes, and the dogs of Fugen, whose eyes were burning with flames, disappeared into the distant fog one after another. Edward didn't take it too seriously, leaving the spirit realm and closing the door again, quickly leaving it behind.

TBC

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*Riel: The "Flower Cat" that appeared in the previous article, Demon Path Sequence 4. Trainor's scout, facilitator, and messenger.

Richard: Send me a letter.

Riel: I'm going to send a letter to give money.

Richard: (smiles kindly)

Riel:......

Riel:...... Got it, got it, I don't charge money.