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1, 2, 3, 4, 5… I think there were twelve pairs of wings… According to the canon descriptions of the various Churches, that's an angel of the highest rank… Fors tried to recall what she had seen in her reverie. She was both shocked and not that shocked, as if what she had encountered was a shocking event that she had previously taken for granted but had simply never encountered before.
It isn't surprising that Mr. Fool has the services of an angel. From the fact that Miss Justice and Mr. Hanged Man occasionally use the word ”Him” to refer to him, one can imagine so. The fact that he's able to isolate the effects of the moon's ravings allows me to infer… However, my request was only to interfere with Mr. Lawrence's divination; yet, ”He” actually made an Angel protect me. Isn't this too extravagant? Or is this a routine act for ”Him”?
Uh, one more problem. Why are the feathers on the angel's wings black? Does this signify degeneracy or Death? What is the true identity of Mr. Fool? Which great being is ”He”? Death who was rumored to have died in the Pale Era? ”He” wishes to be reborn through the Tarot Gatherings? Fors suddenly took a deep breath, completely unconcerned that the gentleman named Lawrence would find anything wrong with her through his divination.
On the realization that she had already joined the Tarot Club, she smiled wryly and whispered silently, I can only do as Emperor Roselle said, ”Take things one step at a time…”
After gathering her thoughts, Fors humbly thanked Mr. Fool once more. Following the normal process of a ritual, she extinguished the three candles' flame and began to clear the altar which was filled with all kinds of items.
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Above the gray fog, Klein temporarily put the matter of the Abraham family at the back of his mind.
According to his original plan, he conjured a pen and paper and wrote the following divination statement: ”Daisy's current situation.”
Putting the fountain pen away, Klein stacked Daisy's vocabulary book and the piece of paper with the divination statement on it and held them in his left hand.
Then, leaning back in his chair, he entered a state of Cogitation, reciting the words ”Daisy's current situation” over and over again.
After seven times, Klein fell asleep, his eyes black with a hint of red before grayness surfaced in them.
One scene after another began to flash. Some were contiguous, some had gaps, and some were completely incoherent.
Klein saw Liv's youngest daughter, a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old girl who persisted despite being repeatedly scalded. She was dragged into a remote alley by a man wearing a heavy jacket and a grayish-black cap after he covered her mouth with a handkerchief from behind.
Another man, who was dressed the same, took her legs, and they lifted her as they quickly walked away.
Their destination was the carriage parked outside the alley.
The whole incident was over in less than two minutes, and by the time Daisy's sister, Freja, returned to search for Daisy, the carriage was already gone.
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Within the carriage, a sharp, ice-cold dagger was held to the muddleheaded Daisy's face, and lewd threats rang in her ears.
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The carriage drove into the luxurious villa.
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Daisy was in a small, dark room, and from time to time, the sound of women's cries, screams, and curses echoed outside.
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Daisy woke up and cried out for help, but the door was opened, and she was kicked away. The pain made it impossible for her to get up.
She wept as she constantly cried for ”Mother” and ”Freja.”
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Klein opened his eyes and realized that the paper he held in his left hand had already been crumpled by his tight grip.
He had established that Capim was the mastermind behind the many disappearances of young ladies and that he was the boss of a criminal organization.
The problem, however, was that the case shouldn't and couldn't involve powerful Beyonder forces. At most, there would be a few money-hungry Beyonders at Sequence 7, 8, or 9 that were helping out. It wouldn't have made Klein's spiritual intuition give him warnings of intense danger the moment he approached the villa.
Is Capim himself a Sequence 6 or even Sequence 5 Beyonder? However, it's not difficult for a Beyonder of this level to earn money. There's no need to do such dirty and complicated matters. He just has to find all the gangs and collect protection fees via a protection racket… It would be easy, and it wouldn't dirty his hands… Could there be some hidden plot behind Capim's human trafficking? As he pondered, Klein used the power of the gray fog to restore Daisy's vocabulary book to its original state.
After a few seconds of silence, he took out another piece of goatskin and wrote a new divination statement: ”Saving Daisy is a dangerous matter.”
After reading it carefully twice, Klein removed the spirit pendulum from his left wrist, letting the topaz pendant fall and hang above the surface of the paper, almost to the point of touching the statement.
After taking a few seconds to compose himself, he closed his eyes and began to recite the divination statement he had just written.
When he finished reciting it, Klein opened his eyes and looked at the pendulum in his left hand.
The topaz pendant was rotating clockwise at a fairly fast frequency and with a rather high amplitude!
This meant that saving Daisy was a rather dangerous act!
However, it isn't one of total despair. There's still a possibility, a significant chance of success, as long as I can seize it… Klein deciphered the revelation from the spirit pendulum.
He leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and said with a self-deprecating smile, Wasn't I looking for an opportunity to perform?
This is it!
As a Magician, I have to challenge something of a higher difficulty. Otherwise, I would be called a Trickmaster and not a Magician.
Completing the seemingly impossible, even if the outcome is nothing but an illusion, that's the image of a magician in my heart. As for whether it's one of the rules or not, I still need confirmation…
Klein tapped the edge of the ancient table and quickly made his decision.