Chapter 87: Gift

Chapter 87: Gift

Amid the soft, soothing melody, Klein and Hazel danced gracefully. One was tall and upright, the other slender and long-limbed. Apart from the age gap appearing a little large, whether in rhythm, movement, bearing, or appearance, they matched each other extremely well. Their dance was beautiful enough to almost serve as a teaching demonstration.

Klein took the initiative to break the silent atmosphere. As they lightly turned, he said as if casually, “Some time ago, I kept having nightmares. Fortunately, with the Goddess’s protection, after praying at the cathedral a few times and drinking several cups of holy water, I no longer woke in the middle of the night.”

Hazel silently lifted her eyes. After two seconds, she asked, “What kind of nightmares?”

She is actually interested in this topic… Will Auceptin was exactly right…

Klein smiled and replied, “I was inside an abandoned, dilapidated church, being chased by all kinds of monsters.

“But you should also know how dreams are. One can never remember the details clearly. I find it hard to describe exactly what those monsters looked like.”

Hazel said nothing, but her bright, deep-brown eyes were full of disapproval.

In other words, she believed that things in dreams were not necessarily impossible to remember.

Klein held her as they stepped diagonally, then said with a smile, “Indeed, I have also had very clear dreams before.

“At that time, I was still in the Southern Continent. I dreamed of an inverted mausoleum made of pitch-black boulders. It extended underground, and living corpses covered in white feathers emerged from it, trying to drag me inside.

“I dreamed something similar for several days in a row. It is a little embarrassing to say, but I was quite frightened at the time. I hurried to a nearby city, found a divination club, and asked them to interpret the dream for me. Their conclusion was that, while purchasing local specialties, I might have offended a tribe’s faith in Death.

“Strangely enough, when I went to that tribe to apologize, offered gifts, and participated in one of their celebrations, I never had that dream again.”

All of this had been fabricated from the perspective of a diviner. Its purpose was to arouse Hazel’s interest and see whether she would unconsciously reveal something. At the same time, it was also a subtle suggestion that would not make others suspicious. Its hidden meaning was that if Hazel was troubled by dreams, it would be best to seek a member of a divination club or a church pastor to interpret them, rather than blindly believe the contents of the dreams and rashly attempt something herself.

When Will Auceptin had mentioned that Hazel had some problem and that Klein could talk with her about dream-related topics, Klein had suspected that her apparent contradictions might have originated from repeated dreams. Otherwise, it was difficult to explain why she clearly had at least Sequence 8 strength, yet severely lacked common sense about the mystical world and was blindly arrogant. Moreover, she was an upper-class young lady who received family education. It should be very hard for her to come into contact with a wild Beyonder of unknown purpose. After all, her father was a Member of Parliament who should certainly be protected, and there should be no shortage of Beyonders around him.

Therefore, Klein believed it very possible that Hazel had come into contact with some object, or that, because of her personality, she had been favored by some powerful figure who guided her step by step into becoming a Beyonder through dreams, without giving her the necessary common sense. At the same time, that figure had also lured her into searching and digging for something in the sewers.

There were two factors that made Klein more certain of this guess. The first was Will Auceptin’s words. The second was that Sequence 5 of the Marauder pathway was called Dream Stealer. It could not, and would not, possess only the Beyonder…