By the time Leonard reacted, towering stone pillars had appeared in front of him. They stood above the boundless gray mist, supporting a magnificent palace like a giant's residence.
His green eyes were blank. After being stunned for a second, Leonard realized that he had not known when he was sitting on the side of a long mottled ancient bronze table. Next to and opposite were high-backed chairs that gave people a sense of majesty and solemnity.
At the top of the mottled long table, a figure was shrouded in thick gray fog, leaning against the back of the chair in a limited posture, seeming to be looking down at everything in the world.
This figure reflected in Leonard's practice, and he felt as if he had boarded a passenger ship, facing an abyss with no edge or bottom, or walked out of the city to the suburbs and looked up at the towering mountain peaks.
In an instant, thoughts flashed through Leonard's mind, and he had a rough guess about his situation. As an extraordinary person of the church and a believer who believed in the true existence of gods, he could not resist the feelings in his heart, and subconsciously wanted to Get out of your seat and worship in front of your presence.
The power of the gods is like a mountain or a sea.
Leonard just stood up, but was pushed back by an invisible force, and then a dull voice echoed:
"No need to bother, you can call me Mr. Fool."
"Is it really the Fool?" Leonard's anxious mood calmed down a little. Although he was still worried about what would happen next, considering that the person who asked him to pray to this existence was the existence of a suspected goddess scroller, he was not so worried. Terrified.
However, the goddess's acquiescence does not mean that the other party also acquiesces. With his identity, he cannot understand whether he is praying to this gentleman under the protection of the goddess as an undercover agent, or whether he is a middleman for the cooperation between two great beings, so , he still maintained a cautious attitude, stood up, pressed his hand on his chest, and saluted:
"Dear Mr. Fool, why did you summon me?"
When he asked this question, Leonard's mood was extremely complicated, because the education and work of the Nighthawks made him deeply understand how dangerous it is to establish contact with a hidden existence, but he thought of Ke who was still alive and well. Coming to En, Leonard inevitably raised a little expectation, but...
The beautiful and flirtatious "lady" suddenly appeared in Leonard's mind. Ever since the old man told him that it was a man and he knew him, he couldn't help but compare her with Klein, maybe because of " Confirmation bias." The more he compared, the more he felt that the woman had something in common with Klein.
Thinking of this, Leonard suddenly had a strange association and couldn't help but cursed:
"I hope I won't get into cross-dressing..."
Mr. Fool, who had no idea how the poet classmate in front of him was slandering him, chuckled:
"Since you asked me for help, then according to the principle of equal exchange, you must pay something."
Leonard's body trembled slightly and his head sank slightly:
"What do you hope to gain?"
After a short interval, the Fool’s voice sounded again:
"Don't worry, maybe you will be asked to do something in the future to provide some help to some people."
"Sit down."
Leonard slowly breathed a sigh of relief, sat down, looked around and said:
"Has he, Crane Moretti, been here like me?"
Klein couldn't help but feel warm when he heard that the poet classmate cared about him so much, but he was also a little surprised immediately. Although he knew that the poet classmate dug his grave and confirmed that he was not dead, he might even have tracked down Detective Sherlock.
But how did he know that Sherlock was related to The Fool?
By the way, the Black Emperor! It’s the Black Emperor!
Klein suddenly realized that the Black Emperor had left obvious Tarot cards. As long as he went to the East District to find those rescued people who fell asleep, it would not be difficult to see Sherlock's face and connect him with the Black Emperor. In addition,
After that, the name "The Fool" spread widely, and it doesn't seem to be a strange thing to connect it.
Klein built a complete chain of evidence in his mind, and his brain was racing, thinking about how to deceive the poet classmate. Then he suddenly remembered that he was a great existence now, so there was no need to speak too openly, and he immediately said in a calm tone:
"A different way."
no the same……
Leonard frowned slightly. Does this difference mean that he did not enter by reciting the honorary name? Is there any other way? Being recommended by others? No, strictly speaking, he can be regarded as being recommended by others...
Seeing that Leonard's spiritual state began to show a blue aura of thinking, Klein relaxed slightly, and then let out Mr. Fool's usual chuckle:
"In addition to you, there are other living beings who were pulled here for various reasons."
"They are willing to ask me to hold regular gatherings to exchange information, buy and sell materials, trade formulas, and help each other. This can help them quickly improve and become high-sequencers."
This is a bit different from the secret organization I imagined with Tarot cards as its code name. It's very loose...
While Leonard was guessing at the Fool's purpose for holding such a gathering, he recalled the few cases where Tarot cards were left behind.
It was probably because he had been in a state of mental tension since he arrived at the palace, which made his thinking much sharper than usual. This mission once again reminded him of that deep feeling of powerlessness, and started the nightmare of Tingen again.
At the same time, it also made him eager for promotion.
After thinking about it for a while, Leonard asked:
"Is Crane Moretti a member of that regular gathering?"
"He owns a seat here?"
Mr. Fool was very touched by the excessive concern for him from his fellow poets, but on the surface he answered casually:
"Yes."
Leonard was indifferent for a second and said:
"Dear Mr. Fool, can I join that regular gathering?"
"Okay." Mr. Fool said with a smile, "But remember to mention this matter to Pales Zoroastrian when you go back, and don't try to hide it from her."
Leonard got the information that the old man was a real angel, and got the tip that "deterrence is more useful than fighting". He finally drew the one that represented his code name from the twenty-two star cards, and then returned to the Church of the Night.
The rest area...
…
"Poet classmate is still the same." Seeing Leonard disappear, Klein's face also showed a sincere smile for a long time. He paid attention to Zoroastrian's condition through the connection of the crimson stars.
, to ensure that he could be pulled up immediately when the danger that might arise from the showdown appeared, and he reached out and touched his chin——
"I always feel that when my poet classmate mentions the name 'Klein', his mood swings are a bit abnormal? Am I overthinking it?"
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
Regarding the stand-in, although there are Jojo elements, that thing is not actually a "stand-in", but a certain spell that looks like a stand-in, just like Huang Beibei's fairy tale magic with fairy tale elements, Huang's "Luo"
Just like spells such as "Celto Dream" and "Golden Holy Clothes", they are essentially spells of the mysterious system, rather than other things created out of thin air.
To be absolutely speaking, this thing is actually the principle of Crane's "spirit body containing the card of blasphemy". It uses the authority of the Hanged Man/Paradox to separate the "other self", and then uses a method similar to the listener to receive the true creation.
The way Whisper gains power is to give the spirit body some weird abilities (or directly give it with extraordinary characteristics). It is such a simple spell.
So this book is really a pure mystery, without any comic elements, it is all based on the mysterious world view.