1344 Humanity (1/2)
Seeing that there weren't any abnormalities in the town of marionettes, Klein began thinking about Miss Justice's encounter.
It wasn't Adam who set up an attack against Ariehogg, but Hermes who masterminded it?
Otherwise, it wouldn't be possible for Adam to not descend. It would also be impossible for Ariehogg to escape so easily. ”He” had to rely on the second City of Miracles to have some hope of doing so.
If Hermes was the mastermind, the development of this whole episode becomes logical… Hermes never thought of capturing or killing Ariehogg. ”He” only hopes to learn some information from this ancient mind dragon. When Ariehogg said ”Adam isn't necessarily Adam,” the operation came to a natural end.
Yes, from the looks of it, Hermes already had some doubts about Adam's true state. However, due to the limitations of ”His” status, ”He” has been unable to make Ariehogg appear on ”His” own accord, so ”He” used Miss Justice.
Adam isn't necessarily Adam; Ariehogg isn't necessarily Ariehogg… This sentence is very interesting. The upper echelons of the Spectator pathway are more mysterious than Seers. Back then, Dragon of Imagination Ankewelt clearly occupied Sequence 0, but ”He” had a Sequence 1 son of the same pathway as ”Him”—Dragon of Nightmare, Alzuhod…
If Adam really isn't Adam, then who is ”He”? Is it that Adam from the myth in the time before the First Epoch, or part of the Primordial One? Or is ”He” related to the resurrection of the ancient sun god? From the looks of it, the meaning behind why Medici addresses ”Him” as a zealot has a far more profound meaning…
Klein quickly conjured a gold coin and flicked it into the air, making a divination.
The results of the divination indicated that today's development was nothing dangerous.
Klein immediately dispersed the gold coin and prepared to descend his consciousness into his body beneath Saint Arianna Cathedral.
At this moment, his actions became slightly sluggish.
The moment Miss Justice met Ariehogg and Hermes was almost simultaneous as the moment the MI9 personnel returned to Utopia to testify in court.
Just looking at them individually, there was no problem; but the word ”simultaneous” made Klein somewhat alert.
He was very sensitive to words like ”happened to,” ”coincidence,” ”simultaneous,” and ”almost the same.” This was a mark left behind by his past experiences.
He tapped his finger on the edge of the long mottled table and decided to make preparations for his worries.
He quickly condensed a light that contained certain words and some kind of will, and he threw it into a prayer light.
After doing this, Klein made his consciousness sink and left Sefirah Castle, allowing his mind to return to his original body.
Immediately after, he began to influence Utopia. He planned to use all sorts of arrangements to temporarily make all the foreigners ”leave.”
This way, even if anything happened, it wouldn't affect the innocent.
This also meant that Klein was prepared to abandon Utopia and change locations to rebuild his marionette town. After all, a ritual could be repeated many times, but he could only afford one resurrection.
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”Have a good rest for the next two days. There's still some time left before court begins.” Biles sent Wendel to the entrance of the Irises Hotel.
Wendel replied with a smile, ”I'm already feeling sleepy.”
It was in the middle of the night. He had trouble sleeping previously because of his anxiety and nervousness. That was why he thought of walking around the headquarters of MI9 to ease his mood. However, when he heard the conversation between his colleagues at night, it triggered an eruption in his emotions, and he decided to return to Utopia and face the problem.
After checking in, Wendel took his luggage and went to the third floor.
When he passed through the door, he vaguely felt that his surroundings were abnormally dark.
In order to sleep better, Wendel walked to the window and drew the curtains.
During this process, he felt that the scenery outside the window was unusually familiar.
However, under the cover of the night, he couldn't tell what was happening too clearly. Thinking that it might have been the scene he had seen in Utopia previously, he covered his mouth with his hand and yawned. He took off his clothes and walked towards the bed.
…
Monica slept until midnight when she suddenly needed to pee.
Unable to hold it in any longer, she eventually got out of bed and walked towards her room's attached bathroom.
When she pushed the bathroom door open, she found it a little heavier.
Rubbing her eyes that were almost unable to open, Monica didn't care about this small change. She quickly relieved herself and ran out of the bathroom to her bed.
When she entered the covers, she felt that the temperature was much lower and she had no choice but to wrap herself up tightly in layers.
It didn't take long for her to fall asleep again.
…
About 15 minutes later, the patrolling Biles rubbed his hands and turned towards the street where the police station was. He was about to hand over duties with his colleagues.
Suddenly, his body froze in the alley.
The black and dense Spirit Body Threads on his body peeled off at the same time as they floated upwards.
A pruned and exquisite paper figurine landed and connected to the Spirit Body Threads, quickly turning into another Biles.
At the same time, a torrent of mixed knowledge surged over and reassembled him into a man wearing gorgeous clothes with long chestnut hair.
The man had blue eyes, a high nose bridge, and thin lips. It was Roselle Gustav's Sequence 1 historical projection.
Right on the heels of that, the projection reached out and sucked all the information in the surroundings into its palm, forming an illusory ball of light.
This information included all the details that involved Biles.
In the next second, Roselle Gustav's historical projection forged a piece of information that was completely normal, allowing it to follow the Spirit Body Threads connected to the paper figurine to the Saint Arianna Cathedral in the municipal square, moving straight underground of the cathedral.
After this series of actions, another torrent of information surged in midair. With Roselle's help, they reformed into three figures.