In just one hour at noon today, Klein was dragged for the third time by Mr. Azik into a rich, phantom-like world. He held tightly Angel, who had lost body temperature in his arms, and subconsciously looked at the rapidly retreating scene around him.
Black Palm Street...Dharavi Street...Backlund Bridge is in the distance. It seems that Mr. Azik can fly over the entire Backlund urban area in about 2 minutes...
If he could find me faster and reach East Borough just now, would there be a chance...
No!
Klein's brain, which had become a little slow, finally reacted and immediately put an end to this dangerous thought in his mind.
In order to divert attention, he asked in a hoarse voice:
"Mr. Azik, our appearance in Backlund now, will it attract the attention of... Ince Zangwill and his '0-08'?"
Azik held Klein's arm with one hand, and held the Beyonder Characteristic he picked up just now with the other hand. Hearing this, he looked sideways slightly, and then looked forward.
"In the battle just now, he suffered serious injuries, and the '0' level Sealed Artifact also consumed most of its power. At this time, he should have left the Backlund, avoiding subsequent official Beyonder investigations, and trying to recover from his injuries.
"There will be no danger in Backlund within a week, but it is best to leave here after that. He will definitely try to find my whereabouts from you and take revenge on you."
He answered in a calm and confident tone, as if answering students' questions in class.
This stability also infected Klein, causing a ripple on his numb face. After a moment, he nodded and said:
"That's enough... Just in front, Minsk Street, that two-story building."
The next moment, he appeared in his bedroom on the second floor of his home. The rich colors of red, yellow and other oil paints around him faded away. The afternoon sunlight shone into the room through the window, and everything was just as he had left it in the morning.
Only she is different from when she left yesterday...
Klein slowly walked to the bed, gently laid Angel flat on the bed, and carefully wiped the dust off her face with his hands. Suddenly, he felt his eyes were a little sore, and wiped the corners of his eyes with his dirt-stained hands.
The foreign body sensation of the soil irritating his eyes made him feel as if he had returned to Tingen City's Raphael Cemetery, back to the night when he crawled out of the tomb and saw another tombstone next to him...
He twitched the corners of his mouth somewhat self-deprecatingly, but in the end he couldn't force out a smile.
After standing by the bed for a long time, Klein turned around and looked at Azik, who had been waiting nearby. The latter was holding the dark green, crystal clear crystal with two fingers, frowning and studying it.
"This should be the Beyonder Characteristic of Affliction'Demoness that she... precipitated. I'll leave it to you for safekeeping." Sensing Klein's gaze, he He raised his head and handed out the crystal, "But it's a little strange. It seems to be contaminated Beyonder Characteristic, but after the precipitation, the pollution was separated again, leaving only pure extraordinary power, even more condensed than usual."
"Beyonder Characteristic..."
The precipitated meaning of Beyonder Characteristic made Klein's original hope of being one in ten thousand sink to the bottom. He felt some pain in his chest again, like a dull knife constantly stirring.
The characteristics have been contaminated, which means that Angel lost control before her death. Sequence 5's "Demoness of Affliction" means that she was promoted to the next Sequence before she died before fully digesting Potion.
Is it to increase the possibility of winning before the battle? Or is it to end this Great Smog?
Judging from the results, she did succeed, but the price was...
Klein didn't dare to think about it, so he reached out and took "Affliction", carefully put it into the cigarette case he carried with him, and then looked back at Angel, who was lying quietly.
"I'm waiting for you in the living room downstairs. I can still stay in Backlund for a short period of time before being discovered by Church of Evernight's followers. If you want to go somewhere else, I can give you a ride."
Seeing that Klein stopped talking, Azik tightened his windbreaker and left the bedroom.
Thank you...
Klein silently thanked the other party for giving him enough private space. He slowly walked to the bed and sat down, so that his eyes were level with the lying Angel.
Looking carefully at the face that she had recently become familiar with again until it became a little dull, as if it had become a part of her life, Klein slowly reached out and touched her cold cheek.
"I didn't expect that the words I said in the cemetery last time, the words you didn't have the chance to hear, will have the opportunity to tell you this time..." He felt that his vision was blurred by tears, and the Angel face in his eyes was shaking a little. He quickly blinked his eyes and squeezed out the tears, "This time, we are really going to Desi Bay. After I was promoted, I still have a lot of money left, enough to buy a house."
The emotions that had been numb after East Borough discovered Angel finally returned. The tears that kept pouring out of his eyes flowed down his face to his chin. He quickly wiped them with his sleeves, but found that the soaked jacket had not been changed yet, so that the more he wiped, the dirtier it became, making his whole face feel wet.
"Maybe I will stay there for a year, or more, to accompany you to see the sea and the scenery all year round..." Klein simply gave up wiping his tears, sniffed and continued, "If you don't like Desi Bay, we can also go to the north of Feysac. I heard Mr. Azik say there are a lot of seals there..."
He forced out a smile that was uglier than crying, and couldn't help but rub the corners of his eyes with his hands.
"Desi Bay?"
Klein was stunned by the sound that sounded like the sounds of nature.
"Huh?"
A shapeless question escaped his throat, and he looked at the purple eyes that reopened with doubt.
"That's what happened, after I lost consciousness in that dark street, I woke up here."
Angel, Klein and Azik were sitting around the coffee table in the living room, communicating about what happened today.
After arriving in the familiar living room, she unceremoniously occupied her own single sofa, while Azik sat on another sofa with her legs crossed, so that Klein could only drag a back chair and sit next to Angel.
Ever since he left the bedroom and went down to the first floor, there was a faint smile on his face, which made Angel look at him from time to time, feeling confused.
I definitely saw the red circles under his eyes when I woke up, but they disappeared in the blink of an eye. Could it be the ability of "Faceless"... Angel frowned and turned his attention to Klein again.
He couldn't have cried... and when I woke up, I heard words like "Desi Bay" and "Feysac's seal". Did he say it to me?
Angel was a little confused inside, and she vaguely came to a conclusion, but at this time Mr. Azik, who was sitting opposite, looked at her and Klein back and forth with interest, making her quickly put away these strange thoughts.
The most important thing at this time is to exchange information, and other doubts can be put aside, because Azik believes that Beyonder, who is "Death" Pathway, has been targeted by some powerful existences of Church of Evernight, so he will leave Backlund as soon as possible to prevent the people around him from being affected.
The true identity of Klein should not be exposed, but "Sherlock Moriarty" has undoubtedly been brought into sight by Ince Zangwill and his Sealed Artifact "0-08". In a few days, the man who has regained his strength will return to Backlund to try to retaliate against this "supporting actor" who disrupted his plan, so he also needs to leave the city as soon as possible and stay away for a while.
Therefore, efficient communication and quick decision-making are what is most needed at this time.
As for Angel himself...
Her "resurrection from the dead" this time was just like the one at Tingen, with no clues. Even Azik, High Sequence Beyonder, didn't see anything unusual. When he left the bedroom, Angel was still a corpse, and a few minutes later, Klein took her down the stairs and came to the living room.
"Even among my partially restored memories, this method of 'resurrection' is unheard of..."
So said the "Undying" who claimed to have entered the coffin many times and woke up again.
"The dark streets, the volcanoes in the distance and the broken Moon you described. If Subordinate Deity understands it occultly, these things all mean some kind of 'end' or 'death' and should not be somewhere in Physical World."
"Could it be Underworld who went there after death?"
Angel asked in confusion.
"No, Underworld is not what you described."
Azik shook his head and said firmly, as if he had seen Underworld before.
"And you also extracted Beyonder Characteristic... are you still Beyonder now?"
Klein poured out the piece of "Demoness of Affliction" from the cigarette case, watched it rolling on the coffee table, and suddenly asked.
The dark green crystal that was about to roll to the edge of the table suddenly stopped moving, and then was suspended by invisible force, slowly flew towards Angel, and landed in the palm of her hand.
"This is the strangest thing. Currently, I am still 'Demoness of Pleasure'..."
After scattering the invisible spider silk, Beyonder Characteristic holding "Demoness of Affliction" in his hand, Angel also said with a confused look.