章節 250: Chapter 169:The monster 'in' the closet
Sighing, Klein adjusted his hat and entered Howes Street.
He could see the Divination Club in the distance and could only sigh.
'There is no rest for the unfortunate...' Klein lamented internally.
With everything that was going on, he couldn't allow himself to relax.
The captain's words still rang in his ears.
Shortly after the Red Gloves left the Blackthorn Security Company, Dunn had called all the members into the room and informed them of what had happened.
<It is likely that the traitorous Archbishop Ince Zangwill is in Tingen City but is not confirmed. The Red Gloves will be looking for his trail during the following weeks.>
<The case of Ince Zangwill is completely out of our control and the ones in charge of it will be the Red Gloves. They will come here to rest every 3 days for about 4 hours, if you have information that can help them, do not hesitate to inform them in that time, otherwise do not bother them with anything.>
<We on the other hand will continue our work as normal.>
'This is ridiculous! I've only been in this world for 1 month and I already have to deal with a church traitor?' Klein lamented for his luck but unable to do anything he could only accept this.
'I have to digest Seer's potion as soon as possible and advance to Clown...' Klein thought decidedly but at that moment he raised his right hand to his mouth and yawned.
Scratching his eye, he could feel his body asking him to rest.
In the last 5 days, he had barely slept 14 hours...
'This time I'll order a black coffee.' Klein thought walking into the club.
...
In the meeting room of the Divination Club.
Sitting in a shady corner, Klein lifted the cup of black coffee to his lips and took a deep sip as he read the Tingen City Newspaper. There weren't many members around him, only five or six.
Seeing the spelling mistake in a job advertisement made a smile form on his face, but he couldn't be too happy because he saw a monocular Glacis entering accompanied by a young lady in her thirties dressed in a blue dress.
The young lady had in her left hand an Intis hat decorated with the feathers of a black swan.
'That hat is ridiculous. Wouldn't her neck be sore for wearing that?' Klein noted.
Klein looked over there and massaged his glabella, relieving his fatigue.
Through his spirit vision, he saw that Glacis and the lady were both healthy, but anxious, angry, and embarrassed.
'I hope you haven't invested everything you had.'
"Good morning Glacis. That Mr. Lanevus wasn't a trustworthy fellow, was he?" Klein asked with a smile, remaining seated.
Glacis had asked him for a divination about an investment opportunity related to a man named Lanevus. Glacis got a negative suggestion.
Glacis had been very indecisive and guided by the colors of his emotions, Klein concluded that the man took the risk.
Glacis froze for a moment, he then gave a bitter smile.
"I truly regret not listening to your divination suggestion. This is the second time I'm saying something like that, let's hope...No, I believe there won't be a third time."
He turned his head and looked at the lady with some wrinkles.
"Madam Christina, look, Mr. Moretti has already guessed our reason for coming here without us speaking. He is the most magical fortune teller I have ever seen. I am more inclined to describe him as a Seer."
"Good afternoon, Mr. Moretti. We have come here precisely because of Lanevus." Christina gave a simple curtsy, clearly anxious and flustered.
"Should we go to Topaz?" Glacis was more collected. He pointed at the meeting room door with his chin.
...
"What do you wish to divine today?" Klein maintained his Seer attitude and asked.
"We want to know if this is salvageable or not." Christina said as she looked at Glacis.
Klein grabbed a piece of paper and a fountain pen.
"Then let's do an astrolabe divination. I'll ask, you'll answer."
Among the questions, Klein marked the Thunderous constellations and the corresponding symbols of various situations before completing the astrolabe.
He had used more elements in his astrolabe than a normal person would have done. This would help him get closer to the truth.
"Madam, Sir, you are now at a crossroad. If you do not restrain yourself and sink into your greed and anxiety, you will only sink further into the abyss, never being able to free yourself. But if you are patient and persistently wait, then there is a chance for you to see sunlight..." Klein said, his tone unhurried.
"I understand..." Christina nodded. She thought for a few moments before asking.
"Mr. Moretti, can you divine the location of Lanevus?"
"No, I don't think so. The information that Lanevus left behind is most likely false, even his name may not be his real one. How can I divine anything?"
"Unless you give me very specific details or an item he carries around with him all the time." Klein answered truly.
Christina fell silent for a moment before moving a 1 soli note towards Klein.
"I have heard from Glacis that you are a true Seer, one who is respectful and fearful of fate and not greedy for money. You can think of the rest as a tip that I am giving to the club."
"Thank you for your trust in me," Klein said with a smile, the corners of his lips twitching slightly.
'Not greedy for money...No miss, I am a very materialistic man!' Klein regretted being a charlatan when he put his price as 8 pence.
Christina didn't say anything else, she just got up and said goodbye, she quickly left the club accompanied by Glacis.
...
"Megose, dear!" Christina called entering her house and looking for her niece.
There was no answer but she could hear how a woman was speaking in the living room and this made her sigh sadly.
Placing her imported Intis hat on the rack next to the door, she gently touched its texture.
'A person as sweet as Lanevus turned out to be a fucking wretch...' she could only curse internally as she let go of the hat that had been a gift from the aforementioned to her.
Lanevus had given expensive gifts to all the family members to thank them for giving him the blessing to date Megose.
She shook those thoughts from her mind and approached the living room where she could see her niece sitting on the sofa.
She had a shiny forehead, long blonde hair, and a pair of large honey eyes.
These large eyes gazed with enormous love at her belly as she caressed it gently.
"That man sounds like an excellent person from the way you talk about him, my baby."
She was then silent for a few seconds before laughing softly.
"Hehe, you say he pranked the Angry Pigeon and made him kiss Plucky Bird? Hehehe"
While Megose laughed while stroking her stomach, Christina was watching this with pain and sadness.
Megose had fallen deeply in love with Lanevus and the way he had abandoned her after getting her pregnant had hurt her a lot.
Her parents are too busy trying to explain to the rest of the family why the wedding won't happen, her grandparents had died 5 years ago and now it was Christina's responsibility to take care of her.
The other members of the family supported her but since they had been conned by Lanevus they couldn't help much.
The only consolation Megose had was to fake conversations with her unborn baby.
So despite being in a rush, Christina decided to give Megose another few minutes.
"I would love to meet this Uncle of yours, is there any way to make that possible?" The blonde asks with a smile.
But after a few seconds, her happy expression turned into one of confusion.
"<Not the time yet>? My baby, what does that mean?"
Megose again fell silent for another few seconds as if she was listening to something.
Her expression became even more confused.
"I don't understand..." she muttered a little dazed.
"Megose, dear, can we talk for a moment?"
Before Megose could ask more, her Aunt spoke to her.
Turning to look at her aunt, Megose smiled sweetly and nodded.
"Of course, Aunt Christina. My baby was just telling me stories about his Uncle~" She said softly as she caressed her tummy lovingly.
章節 251: Chapter 170: Too close
An hour and a half had passed since Glancis and Christina left the Club and in that time Klein received 2 other clients.
'Maybe this way I can get enough funds for doing divinations for others.' Klein thought with a small smile as he got up from his seat, put on his hat, grabbed his cane, and walked towards the exit of the club.
At this moment, Christina entered accompanied by the young Megose who was wearing a sun hat.
Christina saw Klein and immediately approached him.
"Mr. Moretti, you said that you could try to guess Lanevus's location if there was anything that belonged to him?" she asked softly.
"That's right." Klein nodded.
Christina breathed a sigh of relief and asked with a serious tone.
"So is his child something that belongs to him?"
"Huh?" Klein was momentarily a bit lost.
Christina didn't notice the Seer's blank expression.
She took a quick peek at the receptionist Angelica over the reception desk, lowering her voice, she said.
"I mean Lanevus's child"
She extended her hand to point at the young Megose who was a bit away from them and was quietly singing a song.
"This is my niece, Megose. Her mother is my older sister."
"I am very sorry and regretful for thinking that Lanevus was a sweet and outstanding young man back then. I introduced Megose, who was single, to Lanevus. Then they both became lovers."
"Megose's parents were also happy with Lanevus at the beginning, the whole family was. The whole family invested in Lanevus's company, some more and some less but we all got scammed by him. Luckily, the family is not in danger and there is hope to recover but it will take a long time." she said regretfully and then sighed and added with venom.
"Lanevus fled with over 10,000 pounds in his pockets."
She then shook her head slightly and continued.
"I'm getting off topic."
"We believe in the God of Steam and Machinery; not in the Lord of Storms. We do not believe in chastity before marriage. We do not blame Megose and even feel sorry for her. The existence of the child does make things difficult though .especially having such a father."
'10,000 pounds! Oh Goddess, if you manage that money you can live your whole life without working!' Klein was stunned at the amount of money Lanevus managed to steal.
But that astonishment quickly turned to anger.
'He took advantage of the people who trusted him both financially and sexually...' Klein looked at the silent Megose who was standing next to Christina.
She looked depressed yet calm.
'What a disgusting snake, he even managed to escape successfully...' Klein inwardly insulted Lanevus and said after some thought.
"If it is a child that has already been born then it is possible to use the child as a medium. But unfortunately, this will require waiting a few months. Yes, this may be what the divination earlier referred to. Be patient and wait persistently without being greedy, then you will have the opportunity of seeing the sunlight."
"A few months..." Christina muttered to herself as she shook her head.
"No, after all this time, even if we find Lanevus, we won't be able to get our money back."
She looked sideways at Megose. His voice lowered unconsciously.
"Do you have something that he carried with him before?
"No..." Megose answered gently. But then her honey eyes lit up when she remembered something.
"Will the ring he gave me count?"
"Must be something he's been carrying around for a long time." Klein shook his head.
Christina was silent for a few seconds, she then turned to see Megose and said.
"You have to make a decision. I think that taking this child will only make your future rough and painful. Are you going to tell him that his father was a con man who took money from many people, including his mother?"
"It's time to go to the clinic, to the hospital. Besides, this can help us find Lanevus, and recover what we lost."
'Hey isn't that a bit of a hardcore method?' Klein thought to himself but did not give his opinion because it was not his place.
'I never thought I'd use a fetus as a divination aid...' Klein lampooned a bit.
Magose's expression quickly turned sour and she glared at her Aunt while putting both hands on her stomach as if protecting it.
"I can't believe you could say that Aunt!"
"He will be different from his father. He will be a considerate and friendly boy!"
"He will kick me lightly every day, telling me his mood. He hums songs, whistles, and tells me stories to help me sleep!"
Klein listened and suddenly noticed something strange.
'Perhaps now she has mental problems due to the incident...' Klein put his right hand to his glabella. He pretended to massage it to soothe his weariness.
But at that moment Megose turned around and stormed out of the Club, leaving only one sentence.
"I won't stay here to listen to how you want to hurt my baby! I'm out!"
Klein was caught off guard by this sudden reaction that he forgot to activate his spirit vision.
He watched helplessly as Megose left the club and stormed down the stairs.
Christina watched this stunned, she turned to see Klein and quickly said.
"Sorry, Mr. Moretti. I'm sorry to have bothered you, we'll be looking for something that Lanevus carried with him all the time."
Saying that, Christina didn't expect a response from the seer, she turned around and left the club and went downstairs screaming for her niece to wait for her.
Klein seeing all this could only sigh as he shook his head.
'This reminds me of a case I saw in a movie, the mother also reacted like this to the suggestion to abort the baby...'
Finding nothing unusual in Megose's reaction, Klein just left the club.
...
Somewhere in Tingen City. In a dark room.
A dark blond man was finishing writing in his notebook before putting the pen in a container and sealing it.
"Too close..." Ince Zangwill sighed in relief as he wiped the sweat from his forehead and sighed.
Looking down at the notebook, he read what the quill had written and he had barely been able to stop it.
<Christina couldn't get Klein Moretti's words about using something from Lanevus to find him out of her head.>
<Thanks to this, she had the idea of using Megose so quickly going to her house for her niece and returning to the Divination Club with her, she presented the idea to Klein Moretti.>
<And how could all this happen, the reader wonders?>
<This all happened because Ince Zangwill was too busy covering his tracks and escaping the Red Gloves to notice what Megose was up to.>
<Only a Useless Writer like Ince Zangwill wouldn't check his work every so often to make sure everything was going the way he wanted.>
<Returning to the story...>
<Klein Moretti agreed and suggested waiting a few months until the child was born but Christina feared that the money Lanevus stole would be spent by the time the baby was born.>
<Because of this, she suggested to her niece that she should terminate the pregnancy since the baby would negatively affect her future and they could use it to catch Lanevus and recover the money he stole.>
<At the suggestion, Megose calmly refused and told her Aunt that her baby would be different, that he helped her sleep with songs, whistles, and music.>
<At this, Klein Moretti found it strange and was about to use his spiritual vision on her but his spirituality unconsciously stopped him. This is a reminder of a seer's spirituality so it's a normal development>
<Before he could think of this, Megose left the Club with the excuse that her husband could return and she had to go back home to wait for him. Nothing else happened...>
The last words were written with less force and the next paragraph was written with powerful and incredible strokes, as if the writer was incredulous.
<This is Impossible! Klein Moretti, inexplicably, found not using his spiritual vision 'familiar'.>
<Because of this familiarity he used unknown divination methods to divine the state of Megose and he discovered what grew in Megose's womb was not the son of Lanevus but the son of an Evil God!>
<In less than half an hour he was already telling Dunn Smith, who using Daly Simone's messenger notified Cesimir's team and just two days later, Megose was purified!>
<In an inexplicable and impossible way, Ince Zangwill's plan was ruined, not even the great and magnificent Quill of Alzuhod understands how this impossible development happened!>
'That was too close...' Ince Zangwill thought heavily as he squeezed hard on the wooden table almost breaking it.
He tried to change everything so that Megose would never meet Klein Moretti but that was impossible.
No matter how hard he tried, the two of them would end up meeting at the club.
And he discovered that he could only slightly change paragraphs 9 and 11.
So with what little he could change, he managed to save the plan from being discovered.
<At the suggestion, Megose angrily refused, telling her baby that it would be different, that he would help her sleep with songs, whistles, and music.>
<Before he could think of this, Megose left the Club furious at her aunt's audacity. Klein Moretti did not find anything abnormal in this because this was a normal reaction of a mother protecting her baby, he even found it normal due to the mental state of the woman>
And finally, even though it would suffer even more, he added an extra paragraph.
<Thanks to this, Klein Moretti didn't care that he hadn't activated his spirit vision since he didn't find anything strange and didn't think much of it. He just continued with his day as normal>
Looking at the last sentence Ince Zangwill was very tempted to write that Klein Moretti met with an accident and died.
But he contained that desire and closed the notebook and put it in his jacket pocket.
'I know what you're planning Cesimir and I won't fall...' Ince Zangwill thought darkly.
If Klein died suddenly, no matter the circumstance, Ince Zangwill knew that Cesimir would have enough evidence to call in more reinforcements.
That was why Crestet Cesimir had told the Nighthawks to carry on with their work as normal.
To attract Ince Zangwill's hand, he planned to use Klein Moretti as bait.
'No matter how much I want to kill that rat for now he is untouchable...' Ince thought with hate when suddenly an evil smile grew on his face.
"But that doesn't mean the other Nighthawks are." he murmured with a short laugh.
If he was careful, he could make their deaths look like work accidents.
But at that moment, the mirror surface of the room turned dark, as if there were countless objects and layers of endless spaces hidden within it.
From this strange space, Panatiya emerged gracefully, still wearing her pure white robe and her pulled-back black hair.
The mirror behind her returned to normal and reflected her sensual figure.
Ince Zangwill had to swallow as he saw how the woman's waist was sensually outlined by her robe.
She looked at Ince Zangwill and smiled softly.
"If you think I'll sleep here then you really have lost your mind." she teased but seeing that Ince Zangwill just looked at her annoyed she just sighed.
"Not a kiss? Even a hi? You're a lousy lover." she said with fake sadness before looking behind the man.
"At least your quill is excited to see me~." she teased and Ince Zangwill's eyes widened in horror.
Touching his pocket he realized that his notebook had disappeared.
He turned around and saw how the quill is writing in the notebook!
He lunged forward and grabbed the quill before it could write anything else.
Looking down he quickly read what the pen had written.
<Ince Zangwill's luck is horrible, the house where he is hiding is in the first areas that the Red Gloves will investigate. If he doesn't run away now he'll be caught!>
"Fuck!" Cursing he turned to Panatiya and said.
"We are leaving!"
Panatiya sighed sadly as she walked to the mirror that turned dark again being quickly followed by Ince Zangwill who grabbed a bag next to the bed.
"And that I had barely arrived." she said sadly as she stepped to the side of the mirror.
She extended her arm toward the mirror as if giving way to a lady.
Ince Zangwill could only bite his tongue and entered the mirror being followed by a smiling Panatiya who snapped her fingers before entering and the room was engulfed in an illusory black fire that disappeared after three seconds.
The mirror returned to normal reflecting the darkness of the room.
A few seconds later, a cold air rushed through the room making the curtains swirl slightly, this lasted only a few seconds and then disappeared.
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