In Constant City, Klein returned to his temporary lodgings after finishing another day's work as the "Human-shaped Walking Wish Machine." He carefully tallied the power of wishes he had accumulated, assessing when he would be able to restore this city devastated by war.
As those wishes accumulated, he had initially only been able to repair a single house, then half a street. Eventually, with just a snap of his fingers, the entire city would instantly return to its undamaged state.
Except for the dead. They cannot return... At that thought, Klein sighed, stacked the various books he had collected along the way today, and prepared to sacrifice them all above the Gray Fog at once.
The Complete Guide to Intis Desserts, Introduction to Mechanical Repair, Train Dispatching Guide, Ladies' Aesthetics... Looking at the thick volumes, Klein felt that his future was bleak. He even felt a little reluctant to keep acting as a Miracle Invoker.
But to create a town with thousands of marionettes, each with a life of their own, this knowledge is indispensable. Otherwise, everyone would merely be a puppet controlled by a history undergraduate like me, and there would be no way to make the whole town function normally...
He gave himself a pep talk and sacrificed the professional guides for various industries to the Fool before going above the Gray Fog himself.
Thoroughly studying all kinds of professional books, inventing a "persona" for each marionette, and designing plausible lives that brought everyone into contact... Klein roughly estimated that the entire project would take several months to complete. Therefore, rather than waiting until he had fully digested the Miracle Invoker potion, he intended to start working on it bit by bit now.
Seated in the Fool's high-backed chair, he split off Worms of Spirit, which transformed into