Chapter 157: The Audience’s Applause

Chapter One Hundred Fifty-SevenThe Audience’s Applause

Bounty, carriage fare, potions with Beyonder effects…

For a moment, Emlyn White failed to react.

This was not the answer he had expected.

Where is the gentlemanly bearing?

The vampire thought blankly.

As a detective, keeping accounts clearly is a necessary quality. Besides, you delayed my trip to the Cragg Club. I still do not know what the limited supply has been these past two days…

Looking at Emlyn White, Klein made that half-joking remark inwardly.

Several seconds later, Emlyn forced out a smile.

“I must see the patient before I can compound a suitable medicine.”

He sounds very confident…

Klein nodded thoughtfully.

Immediately, he thought of a problem.

The White family seems to be made up of outstanding Apothecaries. If I am ever truly injured or poisoned, I can come find them for treatment… Then the Apothecary formula I went to so much trouble to obtain from Father Utravsky would no longer be useful, would it? I would not need to cultivate an assistant skilled at healing anymore… Plans really cannot keep up with changes…

Then again, it does not count as wasted. I have already recovered the cost from Miss Magician. So long as a formula exists, it always has value…

Besides, the White family will definitely move far away from Riverbay Avenue afterward and hide under new identities. I may not necessarily be able to find them. It will not be that convenient…

No. Before the Nightmare Candle’s suggestion is resolved, if I wait at Harvest Church, I should be able to run into Emlyn White…

Thinking this, Klein removed his hat and bowed.

“No problem. When the time comes, I will bring you there.

“I will not take more of your time.”

Emlyn White’s expression shifted slightly. After hesitating, he said, “If you can remove the influence of the Nightmare Candle, you can obtain even greater payment, and…”

He paused, lifted his chin, and said, “And the friendship of the Sanguine.”

I am a Magician. What I possess is the Sun Brooch and the Biological Toxin Bottle. My use of the Mind Body is limited to spirit channeling. What method could I possibly have? Among the people I know, only Miss Justice is somewhat close to that field, but she is only Sequence 8, merely a Telepathist… Unless, unless you convert to The Fool that does not belong to this era, then we can study how to use the knowledge recorded in the Book of Secrets through a corresponding ritual to resolve this problem for you… Come to think of it, vampires also seem to be worshipers of the Primordial Moon, very similar to the Witch King and the others… Could that ancient god recorded by the City of Silver—the Vampire Ancestor Lilith—be the Primordial Moon?

As Klein’s thoughts wandered, he smiled.

“I will help keep an eye out for the relevant method.”

Emlyn White nodded and said nothing more. Unable to wait any longer, he turned and rushed toward the front door.

If not for the coachman still nearby, he would certainly have spread his black bat wings and flown straight to the second floor.

Klein laughed softly and shook his head with some emotion.

He rode the same rental carriage from earlier to a steam subway station not far away, then made several transfers and returned to 15 Minsk Street in Cherwood Borough.

Before entering, Klein, who had already developed the habit, opened his letter box to check whether there was any mail.

To his surprise, there truly was a letter.

The letter had no stamp. On it were written the words “For Detective Sherlock Moriarty,” and the sender was Jurgen Cooper.

Solicitor Jurgen?

Klein picked up the envelope with some puzzlement and casually tore it open.

In the light of the streetlamp, he saw one sheet of paper and two banknotes inside.

The two notes were worth one soli and five soli respectively.

Six soli in total… During this period, I fed the cat three times… The agreement was two soli each time…

Klein understood. He opened the front door, entered the house…