Backlund, North District.
It was a night when the crimson moon was hidden behind layers of clouds. Darkness reigned everywhere, with only the gas lamps on both sides of the street emitting a little light, illuminating the road ahead and the doorways of nearby houses.
The mailbox at 7 Pinhurst Street was quietly hidden at the junction of light and darkness, bathed in the cool breeze blowing from the side, as if already asleep.
At that moment, a flood of newspapers, bills, and letters from unknown senders suddenly gushed out of its delivery slot.
These objects, as if held by an invisible hand, floated in midair, flew toward the door, and slipped in through the gap.
Inside the house, in the foyer, the newspapers unfolded by themselves, flipped quickly to the last page, and then casually fell onto the chairs, stacking on top of the previous ones.
The bills and letters continued inward into the living room. The former soon stopped, shook a few times, and then wobbled down to the surface of the coffee table, neatly spreading out. The latter, if they had envelopes, shed them; if they had no envelopes, they quickly opened themselves, revealing their contents in the air.
After a while, some of these letters flew to the shelves of the first-floor study, while others rushed toward the scissors, helping them tear themselves into pieces, then filed into the bathroom in a line and threw themselves into the toilet.
Whoosh!
The toilet's mechanical button depressed on its own, flushing the paper shreds into the sewer.
Thus, 7 Pinhurst Street returned to normal, as quiet as any other uninhabited house.
Southern Continent, East Borealis, Gulain City.
Leonard Mitchell, who had just arrived here not long ago, was resting in the accommodation arranged by the local Church of the Goddess of the Night.
Suddenly, a slightly aged voice sounded in his mind:
"Kid, you have an important letter."
"What letter?" Leonard asked in a low tone, already having a guess.
There was only one person who could send an important letter to 7 Pinhurst Street without caring whether anyone was there—no, two:
Klein Moretti and Dwayne Dantès.
As for why the old man named Pallez Zoroaster could clearly read the contents of the letters received at 7 Pinhurst Street from across the Raging Sea and half the Northern Continent, Leonard could more or less guess because he had helped him catch a ghost.
His judgment was:
The old man must have split off a 'Time Worm' and parasitized it inside that ghost, making it his eyes, ears, and mouth left on the Northern Continent.
At that moment, Pallez Zoroaster answered his previous question:
"The letter is from Klein Moretti. He said that Dwayne Dantès, while traveling to the Southern Continent, found traces of Ince Zangwill on Midway Island in the Raging Sea."
Leonard fell silent, opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.
After a long time, he muttered in a slightly hoarse voice:
"He really hasn't forgotten revenge…
…What can I do?"
"What can you do? You're only Sequence 6. Even if Ince Zangwill doesn't have '0—08,' you're not qualified to take revenge on him. He only needs to partially reveal his mythical creature form to make you lose control on the spot or go mad. Your chance of successful revenge is zero! That's the qualitative change brought by divinity." Pallez Zoroaster said in a rather serious tone.
He paused and then chuckled:
"Fortunately, you know yourself better than before. In the past, you would have said, 'I want to pass the information about Ince Zangwill to the Church and join the team to track him down,' but now you know to ask what you can do."
Leonard wanted to retort several times but didn't say anything.
Pallez Zoroaster continued:
"All you can do now is give Klein Moretti some information, wait for his reply, and then cooperate according to the arrangements."
"No excuse to inform the Church of Ince Zangwill's whereabouts?" Leonard asked in shock, his voice low.
Pallez Zoroaster chuckled:
"No hurry. Do it when the time is right.
"'0—08' may like to kill its owner, but it wants even less to return to a sealed state. As soon as you inform the Church of Ince Zangwill's location and start the corresponding pursuit, it will know immediately and make sufficient arrangements.
"You need to hint this to Klein Moretti."
Leonard was stunned for a second and said: