Without afternoon tea, Klein decided to go to Saint Samuel Church to pray, showing his piety.
Of course, he didn’t forget to stop and watch the white doves in the square, making himself appear leisurely and calm.
Entering the church, passing beneath the sunlight illuminating the murals, Klein arrived at the dim and deep grand prayer hall.
Unlike other churches, it wasn’t resplendent with dazzling colors and visual impact, but instead soft and serene, evoking a genuine sense of peace, while the pure light like stars at the front added a strong atmosphere of sanctity and majesty.
Klein took off his hat and handed it together with his cane to his personal valet,
At that moment, two figures stood up from the front row and turned to walk toward the exit. One of them had black hair and emerald eyes, with a carefree demeanor and an untamed hairstyle; it was
Almost simultaneously, Leonard Mitchell also saw the middle‑aged gentleman with graying temples and deep blue eyes.
Dwayne Dantès… His nerves tensed, his body becoming slightly stiff in a barely perceptible manner.
Klein looked at Leonard and nodded with a smile, friendly and easygoing.
…Leonard forced out a slight smile and gave a stiff nod.
Then he stepped aside and brushed past Dwayne Dantès.
This allowed Klein to see who was behind him — another acquaintance, the medium in a black robe, Daly.
This lady still wore blue eyeshadow and blush, giving her a strangely enchanting beauty.
Daly glanced at the gentleman passing by and suddenly seemed dazed for a moment, then quickly withdrew her gaze and silently walked out.
No way, I only imitated that deep, unfathomable look in the captain's eyes, even the color is different, and Ms. Daly can still sense the familiarity? Women's intuition is terrifying… Klein noticed Daly's brief anomaly and guessed as much.
A long time ago, from his straight‑male perspective, he believed Ms. Daly had a crush on the captain; otherwise she wouldn’t have taken the risk to come to Tingen and give Klein a chance to teach the Acting Method to
As for the captain’s attitude in this regard, Klein couldn’t say for sure, because during that time, Dunn Smith often couldn’t distinguish reality from dreams, and his poor memory was quite prominent; perhaps he unknowingly forgot some things buried in his heart.
However, the captain did often mention Ms. Daly, always using her as an example to teach us; he knew her promotion time and talents so well he could recite them backwards, which seemed contradictory to his bad memory at the time… Hmm, when talking about these things, he sometimes added the statement that it took him nine years to advance from Midnight Poet to Nightmare… He, he might have felt somewhat inferior when facing Ms. Daly… Inferior… As Klein recalled the past, his mood suddenly turned a bit low.
He realized that he didn’t really know Dunn Smith that well, didn’t know how many more things this man hid inside.
And Ms. Daly was quite a bit younger than him, very outgoing and unconcerned about marriage… Klein let out a silent sigh, withdrew his thoughts, found a seat by the wall, bowed his head, closed his eyes, and prayed.
Outside the grand prayer hall, Leonard had composed himself and met up with Daly and the other members of his Red Gloves team.
They waited for a while, and Sost, who had become a Spirit Medium, came out from the other side, looked around, and said:
“Our task this time is to find the hidden formal members of the Necromancy Cult in
“Ms. Daly is a Beyonder of the Corpse Collector pathway and has a deep understanding of the Necromancy Cult, so Saint Anthony sent her to assist us.”
…
In the evening, after sending away his personal valet Richardson, Klein took four steps counterclockwise and went above the
“…Please tell ‘The Magician’ that she needs to book a hotel room in the East Borough before Friday night, preferably far from the gathering place where Mr. X holds his meetings…
“…Give me that stone and the magic book in advance; I need to make certain preparations…
“…On Friday night, she must stop the friend who attends Mr. X’s gathering and present me with the disguised appearance of that friend…
“…If there are other matters, I'll inform you in time.”
There were only two days left until the assassination of Mr. X, and Klein definitely needed to make some preparations in advance. But many of these tasks were impossible for Dwayne Dantès to handle alone, so he could only rely on “The Magician” to do them.
His preliminary plan was to use his Faceless ability to disguise himself as the friend who attended Mr. X’s gathering, know the code words, and directly enter. Then, based on different situations, adopt different contingency plans.
Based on his recent combat experience and puppet manipulation, Klein increasingly felt that the code for a Puppet Master should be “try to stay behind the scenes and subtly direct a play.”
Unless there was no other way, a Puppet Master should avoid direct combat!
“The most troublesome thing now is that Mr. X’s gathering is at 8 o’clock, and at that time Dwayne Dantès is clearly not asleep yet, so he can’t get away from the butler and servants’ watch for a long time to go secretly to the East Borough… Of course, on the flip side, that would create an alibi, but the problem is how to deceive everyone in the house… If only I had another ‘Faceless’ accomplice, I could have them impersonate Dwayne Dantès… Miss Justice’s necklace could do it, but she’s not in Backlund…” Klein leaned back in his chair and rubbed his forehead.