The blurry and distorted illusory vision gradually faded and dispersed. Klein leaned back on the high-backed chair, covered his face with his hands and sighed.

He always thought that he would not encounter accidents related to the "Mirror Witch" again. After all, they were "members of the Witch Cult" that had been "sealed" by the top leaders of the Church of the Night, and they should be peaceful prisoners who would not cause trouble again...

As a result, in a roundabout way, the cause and effect actually circled back to the beginning, to the Nighthawks team in Conant City who were bewitched by the "Mirror Witch"... and to the Nighthawks captain who was affected by the deep charm.

To be more strict, according to the information revealed in Ms. Daly's dream, the "nightmare" named Mooney Kahn is no longer responsible for managing the Nighthawks team in Connacht City, but has been escorted to the headquarters of the Serenity Church.

Winter County was forced to participate in the mysterious and top-secret "Sleep Plan".

...In Klein's opinion, if the "great master" that the crazy "nightmare" called was not Alice herself, he would rather write the name upside down!

Thinking about it carefully, Alice's answer at that time was also very problematic. She responded to his doubts with rhetorical questions and completely avoided answering directly.

But the relationship between her and that "nightmare" was just a guess, a possibility, lacking substantial clues and evidence, so that he could not complete the final proof of divination with the pre-information at hand.

Because Alice is not like a mysterious existence with an honorable name in any case. She is just a witch from another world from the DND system, and she has mastered many magical spells that cannot be explained by sequence potions...

Although magical, it is not weird. It deviates from common sense to such a high-level realm. Well, at least it is not as bizarre as his mysterious transfer ritual and gray fog space...

Of course, her performance in the mirror world is powerful enough, showing her sovereign control in that realm, but that is only limited to the mirror world and the dream realm that the "Sleepless One" path can enter.

There is no overlap.

What's more suspicious is that the memory that Alice showed him that belonged to Ms. Daly had obviously been deliberately cut out of the last part of "Nightmare" where she pronounced the name of the "Great Master".

She just didn't seem to want him to know the specific details...

But the intention of this approach was simply too obvious, almost telling him that there was something wrong with this honorific title, and it was something he couldn't know.

…I don’t understand, I can’t think of a reasonable answer, and I’m missing some crucial information.

Maybe I should take some time out tomorrow to ask Alice?

But at least tonight, Klein knew what he should do.

Eliminating distracting thoughts and silently reciting the divination sentences to maintain a meditative state, he quickly obtained corresponding results such as "Establishing contact with the person in the ripples of the prayer halo will not drain my spiritual power" and "There is danger in pulling this person in".

Even if he repeatedly changed the divination sentences, the results he obtained were still reassuring to Klein, so he silently let go of the citrine pendulum in his hand. While he breathed a sigh of relief, he couldn't help but soon feel nervous, nervous that he was about to be pulled into a person who was interested in him.

He has a well-understood personality, and his strength is obviously much stronger than that of his acquaintances.

No matter what, just follow the plan!

He has been deliberating on the script for so long, so there is no reason to be timid before it starts!

If you find that your spiritual energy consumption is too great or other signs of danger appear along the way, cut off the connection with this halo decisively as soon as possible!

After silently counting down the timer to five, four, three, two and one, Klein took a breath. First, with the idea of ​​"creating a trumpet", he condensed a figure at the bottom of the long bronze table, and then stretched out his hand to touch the ripples.

light curtain and try to establish contact with it.

From the moment he tried, he felt his spirituality continuously pouring out, as if a strong wind was stirring up the entire gray fog space, causing the gray fog to billow, and even the ground seemed to be shaking slightly.

It wasn't until nearly 70% of his spirituality was drained away that this majestic palace built in the mysterious space above the gray mist returned to its former peace. A second shadow quietly appeared beside the ancient mottled bronze long table.

Klein suppressed his emotions and let the dummy that had been prepared long ago and shrouded in illusory mist dissipate with his deliberate wave of hands, and then turned to the extra people at the long table with the "fool" attitude of an absolute ruler.

…

People...shadows?

The moment he looked around, Klein heard the sound of his brain shutting down.

That's... a person?

He really wanted to convince himself that the strange silhouette with a strange appearance, as if covered with feathers, belonged to Alice...what a ghost!

It was clearly a giant bird with a length of more than one meter for some unknown reason!

Even through the thick gray-white fog, he could clearly see that this giant strange bird of unknown origin was opening its beak wide, staring blankly at himself on the seat of "The Fool", with most of the words written in his eyes.

As dull as he is.

After about three to five seconds of extremely weird and awkward silence, a heart-rending cry resounded above the gray mist.

"ah----!!!"

Klein was stunned by the roar, which was like a giant roar of a groundhog.

Then, he soon heard the loud cry of the giant strange bird, as well as the clumsy flapping of its wings but unable to fly.

"Help, Alice, help! I've been kidnapped! Your lovely, hard-working, brave familiar Eve has been kidnapped by unknown people! Help, I'm dying, I'm dying, help me, help me! I'm going to be kidnapped.

killed!"

...Wait a minute, familiar Eve?

Klein's temples ached due to the idiot's howling, but he suddenly recalled the period in early August, when the extraordinary beast came to observe his "medicine testing" every night with medicinal ointment.

animal……

That little thief bird who calls himself Alice’s familiar, and calls himself a robin!

...Although strictly speaking, it is an extraordinary bird of the "Stealer" path.

How did it become so big?! It was almost as tall as an eleven or twelve-year-old child, and its wingspan reached an exaggerated two meters, fully covering several empty seats adjacent to it.

In a very short period of time, Klein had a lot of thoughts in his mind. He could only maintain the image of a mysterious and powerful man who was calm and calm on the surface. He could not think of a way to deal with the situation in front of him...

This...who in this world would have thought that he would pull up a bird?!

No, the scene he saw through the ripples of the prayer halo was clearly a figure whose specific appearance could not be discerned... It was precisely because he knew that Alice had high-level anti-divination and anti-prophecy methods that he felt that this was

normal phenomenon.

... Could it be that the person who copied that ancient Hermes code was the stupid bird in front of me who was frightened and could only shout for help?

It’s too ridiculous!

Wait, if it is this little thief bird who goes to the bank to withdraw money tonight, then my deposit...

Thinking of this, Klein's expression suddenly changed. He was about to cut off contact with this stupid bird and quickly return to the real world to confirm the situation with Alice.

However, at this moment, he felt something strange——

shock.

Strong, terrifying vibrations like a huge earthquake swept through the gray mist space he was in from under his feet, from the majestic palace he was standing on.

The broad and majestic dome collapsed inch by inch, and the tall and solemn stone pillars collapsed one by one, smashing into the ancient mottled bronze long table and the solemn high-backed chairs beside the long table, as if it was a scene before the end of the world.

Although his location was relatively lucky and he was not affected by the aftermath of this weird "earthquake", Klein almost instantly remembered his previous suicide attempt and the mutated sun holy symbol of divination "3-0782"

The terrifying experience of being burned by the source of divine blood!

Something is wrong!

Klein reacted immediately, and the first thing he thought of was to cut off contact with Eve, the stupid bird.

But almost the moment he had this thought, his body lost balance.

The huge waves that suddenly hit the sky hit the dilapidated palace on the gray mist with overwhelming force, hitting the severely damaged long bronze table, and swept everything into the raging waves.

The drastic change happened too suddenly, without warning, and a few seconds even became as long as the change of centuries.

Klein was forced to choke several times before he realized that he had escaped the tsunami-like disaster and was lying on the ground with light mist, his whole body exuding the salty smell of sea water.

After judging that he had not been seriously injured, he stretched out his arms and stood up to observe the surrounding situation, but when he raised his head, he saw a scene that made his hair stand on end.

Klein saw his reflection.

Without the cover of the gray-white mist, it was as if he had been fished out of the sea. Even the tuxedo and trousers that appeared on his body were dripping with water.

The problem was——the thing that reflected his figure at this moment was as smooth and bright as a mirror.

It was an eye staring back at him.

Huge, terrifying eyes that almost filled the gray fog space.

One... has a familiar, magnificent blue-green eye.

Klein didn't know how he turned around to avoid it, nor did he know how stiff he was when he twisted his neck to try to find the familiar bird in this area; but when he turned his body back again, he saw the heart-wrenching bird.

The fearful giant eyes had disappeared.

Instead, standing not far in front of him was a slender figure that was no different from reality.

There was no illusory mist surrounding her side, and her beautiful and moving facial features were just revealed in this mysterious space. She was wearing a pink gauze dress that was as thin as a nightgown, and she looked straight at him with her eyes.

Looking at Mr. Fool who was in a state of embarrassment and also lost the fog cover.

…It’s over. It’s all over.

A flash of his gloomy future flashed through Klein's mind.

After a period of silence that was longer and more embarrassing than before, he saw the girl turn her eyes and look at the ruins of the dilapidated palace, her delicate pink lips lightly parted:

"...You stayed up most of the night and played tricks behind your back. Are you not going to give me an explanation?"

...Explanation? You still want to ask me to explain? I also want to ask you how you got here...I didn't get you at all!

Klein numbly raised his hand and wiped his face, wiped his wet hair that was dripping with water, and wiped his hands until the sea water seemed to evaporate grains of salt. Then he slowly expressed his intention to return to his original state.

So in just a blink of an eye, the ruined palace returned to its majestic, majestic and ancient glory. The long bronze table and high-backed chairs that had been swept away by the tsunami and floods also returned to the dome supported by the towering stone pillars.
To be continued...