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Chapter Twenty-OneThe Night of the Full Moon It was the same dream divination, but this time, Klein saw far more scenes. The first scene was still that cramped, dark, filthy room, and Ian Wright asleep on the upper bunk. The second scene was the sewer both of them had visited. Ian crouched before Zeriel’s mutilated corpse, reached out, felt along the two rows of pale-white teeth, and removed one of them. The third scene was a busy, noisy street. The pedestrians wore plain clothes—some even…-
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Chapter TwentyNever Judge by Appearance One living person and more than a dozen corpses had played cards for half the night inside a dimly lit room. The more one thought of such a scene, the more terrifying it became, until one’s scalp tingled inch by inch. Klein restrained the instinctive fear rising within him and looked at the twenty-eight- or twenty-nine-year-old man before him—the one with a pale face, brown eyes full of malice, and an entire person who revealed a faint trace of madness.…
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Chapter NineteenBravehearts Bar Who? Why would someone know I purchased the Sheriff formula? Xio’s dark-green pupils contracted. Stunned, she looked around, but she discovered no suspicious gaze. According to Mr. A, trades conducted here should be very safe and very confidential… In the end, unable to restrain herself, Xio looked toward that single sofa and saw that Mr. A, his features hidden by the shadow of his hood, was still quietly watching the crowd without showing the slightest…
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Chapter EighteenLosses Inside an office at Rice Police Station, Klein met Jurgen Cooper. This young senior solicitor was still dressed extremely formally, as though he were ready at any moment to attend a banquet of high society. His black double-breasted frock coat, stiff-collared white shirt, enormous bow tie, and polished leather boots made the policemen treat him very politely. Holding his half-top silk hat, Jurgen looked at Klein with blue eyes and said, “The procedures are complete. Go pay…
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Chapter SeventeenThe Interrogation In Queen’s Borough, inside an unremarkable house. Xio and Fors casually found seats and sat down. Their eyes scanned the entries written across the surface of the blackboard. Mr. A, dressed in a hooded robe, remained quietly seated alone on the foremost sofa, looking down upon everyone from his elevated position. “Sequence 8 Sheriff potion formula, 450 pounds…” Xio silently read out the familiar line, and in her heart, she let out a long breath of…
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Chapter SixteenChoosing the Lesser of Two Evils Meursault’s corpse lay there, eyes wide open, as though the vicious light in them had not yet faded. The wound that had cut through half his throat had originally been only a narrow line. But as the Beyonder characteristic had just condensed, it had been stretched much wider and blurred considerably. At the same time, postmortem incontinence had caused a foul stench to rise from his lower body. Klein held the lump of deep-red, jelly-like…
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Chapter FifteenThe Mastermind Almost by instinct, Klein bent his knees sharply, twisted his waist and back to the side, and rolled in the other direction—toward the washroom door. Whoosh! A small black-feathered arrow embedded itself in the washstand. Its tip seemed to be made of bone, gleaming with a watery blue, strangely beautiful. If Klein had hesitated even slightly, there would have been no escaping this sudden attack. His roll paused for only a moment before his hand reached toward…
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Chapter FourteenInventor Leppard On a foggy morning, Klein sat at his dining table, breaking the oat bread he had specially bought into pieces and soaking them in milk, improving how it was eaten. Although his body had already changed, his pursuit of and attachment to good food had been engraved into his soul. He completely could not adapt to the repetitive, monotonous breakfast style of the Loen Kingdom. He could only keep experimenting, refusing to be confined to toast, bread, bacon, sausages,…
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Chapter ThirteenA Frightened Xio 15 Minsk Street, Cherwood Borough. Having eaten and drunk his fill, Klein sat in the easy chair in the sitting room. Beside him, charcoal burned inside the fireplace. In an environment as warm as early summer, he wore a white shirt, black waistcoat, and thin trousers, and with both hands unfolded the newspaper to the page that contained the most small advertisements. “A new type of transportation, urgently seeking investment. Details to be discussed in…
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Chapter TwelveGuiding Without a Trace Klein did not touch Zeriel’s corpse. He withdrew from the side passage just like that. Thud! Thud! Thud! Suddenly, noise came from the distance, echoing again and again through the hollow, cold sewer. Klein listened for several seconds, then decisively retreated along the filthy cement path on both sides of the sewage river, heading toward the exit. To him, matters that did not involve him were completely unnecessary risks. After climbing out of the…
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