"Just as I thought. Leonard might not be very serious, but his eyes were incredibly sharp. Klein really was different from the other Nighthawks."
After locking the door, changing out of the dress she had bought specifically for the dinner, and putting on comfortable indoor clothes, Angel returned to the living room. She sat on her favorite sofa by the window and pondered beneath the dim yellow light.
The few words Klein had spoken before leaving after accepting her gift kept lingering in her mind.
After all, they had sounded somewhat like a threat and a provocation...
However, there were a few things she could confirm. First, Klein should have grasped the Acting Method. He had said he had "digested" the Potion rather than "mastered" it, as ordinary Beyonders would say. Moreover, he had claimed to have completely digested the Sequence 9 Seer Potion, and it had not even been a month since he drank the Potion and became a Beyonder!
Second...
Remembering how he had said he would "catch up to you soon," Angel could not help breaking out in a cold sweat.
"He definitely knows I advanced from Assassin to Instigator!"
Combined with the change in Klein's attitude toward her after returning to Tingen from Enmat Harbor, as well as the looks he occasionally cast her way whenever they discussed Instigators while tracking the Curse Altar, Angel became even more certain of it.
Could he, like that amnesiac High Sequence Beyonder, Mr. Azik, possess the ability to tell at a glance whether someone was a Beyonder and even see their Sequence level?
But considering how recently he had become a Beyonder, that possibility was extremely unlikely.
"Or did he confirm my current condition through divination?"
Angel leaned back against the sofa, gazed at the gas lamp on the