642 Killing Three Birds With One Stone (2/2)
Well… Viewing it from a different point of view, if the content of the notebook isn't problematic, would the physical item actually be what the Psychology Alchemists are after?
What's so special about it? I didn't discover anything… It belongs to a knight who's accustomed to using Dragonese. That knight must've experienced something… Divination! Yes, divination! Perhaps I can find the knight's final location using divination with the help of the notebook. And this might be related to a dragon!
Since it's a dragon, there's a high chance that it's a mind dragon, a representative of the Spectator pathway. Clues involving it would indeed be something the Psychology Alchemists will pay close attention to…
Audrey, that's some nice thinking!
Audrey's eyes turned crystal clear as it seemed to hide a clear resplendence.
She couldn't help but turn her head and looked at the golden retriever sitting by the side.
Susie glanced at her owner and barked.
”Audrey, do you want me to praise you?”
”No, there's no need…” Audrey turned her head back, feeling a little embarrassed.
Then, she discovered an important question. She wasn't able to divine things herself, or it could be said that the revelation that she received from divination would be highly inaccurate!
There's no way to confirm it… No, I can seek Mr. Fool's help! A secret deed ritual? It can only be performed on my body and not towards an external object… Artificial sleepwalking? It's similar to secret deed rituals, so it wouldn't do as well… Sacrifice it to Mr. Fool and get ”Him” to do the divination before bestowing it back to me? No, that won't work. It will appear rather disrespectful. ”He” isn't my father or teacher, but a real god. Using such a method is way too casual and somewhat sacrilegious… Audrey's thoughts slowly went from Mr. Fool to divination.
Although she was rather incapable of divination, she had a certain level of understanding in the corresponding knowledge. She soon locked onto a particular method of divination.
It was to seek the help of a third party's strength—an unknown or mysterious existence—via a certain ritual. The most classic example of such a method was magic mirror divination!
Yes… It's indeed very dangerous, but the danger stems from the possibility that the target is filled with malice or one that can cause a person to break down immediately. But I don't have such worries. I can seek Mr. Fool's help! Audrey blinked and held down her agitation as she said to the golden retriever, ”Susie, guard the door outside. I will use a mysticism method to study this notebook.”
”Didn't you use them before?” Susie asked, puzzled.
She's getting harder to fool… Audrey's eyes darted around as she said confidently, ”I plan on using magic mirror divination.
”Don't worry. I'll make the plea to a safe existence.”
”Alright.” Susie determined that Audrey was speaking the truth.
She took a few steps before turning around to exhort her.
”Audrey, you need to be careful about being possessed by a mysterious existence.”
”I know,” Audrey replied without feeling worried at all.
From her point of view, if Mr. Fool really wanted to do something to her, he had countless opportunities in the past. There was no reason for him to wait until this day.
After Susie opened and closed the door by herself and went out, Audrey sat in front of her desk and recited the honorific name of The Fool to request the use of magic mirror divination.
After a while, Klein, who was on the Future, went to the bathroom and headed above the gray fog. There, he heard Miss Justice's prayer.
That can be done? That's right. As a mysterious and unknown existence, I can be the third force in a magic mirror divination… Klein allowed it while feeling amused.
Audrey immediately picked up the notebook, sat in front of the dresser, and lit a candle while facing the mirror.Author's notes: One are is 100 square meters. In the late Victorian era, land in the suburbs was approximately 100–130 pounds per acre. Converting to ares, it's about 2 pounds and 10 shillings to 3 pounds and 5 shillings per are. Well, that's excluding London. Of course, this might not be too accurate. I did an inference from the overall cost of the land purchase and building a house and subtracted the cost of building a house from the information from that era.