Chapter 120: Straight to the Point

Chapter 120: Straight to the Point

The sunlight was bright in midair, yet one corner of the cemetery was quiet and cold. Leonard Mitchell suddenly lifted the iron shovel stuck beside him.

Two piles of soil gradually rose higher. The grave was exposed little by little. People occasionally passed nearby, yet none of them noticed anything, as if what was happening here were nothing but a dream.

Finally, Leonard abandoned the shovel, bent down, reached out with both hands, and gripped the edge of the coffin lid.

With sudden force, he lifted the heavy wooden lid and discovered that, at some unknown point, the thick iron nails had already fallen away. Inside the pitch-black coffin, there was nothing.

Nothing at all!

Leonard remained half-bent, silently looking at this scene. For a long time, he made no additional movement, as though he had turned into a stone statue.

…

Inside a hazy dream, Klein saw a stone stele—a stele engraved with an epitaph. It stood silently among many others of its kind, stained crimson by the moonlight.

The scene shattered at once. Klein suddenly woke, confirming that he was still Dawn Dantes and still inside the master bedroom at 160 Böklund Street.

That dream just now seems to be revealing something…

As a Diviner, Klein treated every dream with importance, and this time was no exception. He focused his mind, cast away sleepiness, and attempted to interpret it:

“That should have been a gravestone…

“It represents someone who is dead, or matters related to resurrection…

“Crimson moonlight symbolizes the Goddess and corresponds to concepts such as the Evernight Church and the Nighthawks… If I had directly seen the moon, it might involve the Primordial Moon, the vampire ancestor Lilith, or the Mother Tree of Desire…

“The gravestone being dyed almost the color of blood indicates this is not a good thing…”

While interpreting, Klein tried connecting the contents together in order to obtain an effective and meaningful conclusion.

After serious thought, he began to believe that the revelation from the dream was related to his past, and to the Evernight Church.

Thinking again of what had happened over the past few days, Klein gradually formed an answer:

“Because Dawn Dantes frequently went to Saint Samuel Cathedral, he would inevitably be placed on the investigation list. If Leonard has not yet left Backlund, this will certainly attract his attention, because he knows Dawn Dantes is not simple and that his background is mysterious…

“As an angel of the Marauder pathway, the old grandfather inside Leonard’s body can most likely discover that the gray fog has a close connection to the Diviner pathway, and knows that the corresponding Sequence 0 is called Fool…

“In that case, they can naturally connect it to the Fool’s honorific name that previously spread, believing that I am a member of the hidden organization that worships the Fool. Extending from this line, they can also drag in the one who killed Lanevus and the chivalrous thief Black Emperor, who likewise used tarot cards…

“Adding in the Gehrman Sparrow clue I deliberately left behind, as well as the fact that Leonard was already investigating Sherlock Moriarty before, it is not impossible that he would connect these situations one by one and find the key suspect.

“And my early disguise as Sherlock Moriarty was not especially good. As long as Leonard investigates deeply enough, it would not be hard for him to discover that the great detective resembles his former colleague… So, has he gone to Tingen to dig up the grave and confirm it?”

As he thought, Klein took a cushion, fumbled into a sitting position, and felt that he had already found the answer to the dream just now.

He began cautiously analyzing what would happen next, considering whether he should abandon the identity of Dawn Dantes.

“Leonard cannot tell the other Nighthawks his speculation and results, because he cannot explain the key parts. That would expose his own…