By the time Angel returned to Daffodil Street, it was already late at night.
After returning Sealed Artifact 2-049 and the Antigonus Family Notebook to Blackthorn Security Company that afternoon, the injured Nighthawks had successively received treatment from Old Neil's Ritual Magic.
Angel, whose injuries were the lightest, accompanied Frye the "Corpse Collector" back to the scene in the Docklands. There, she met up with Lorotta, who had remained on guard, and brought the bodies of the two Secret Order members back to the basement of Blackthorn Security Company.
Lorotta and Borgia, the two Nighthawks from the Backlund Diocese, would leave Tingen tomorrow, taking 2-049 and the Antigonus Notebook on the earliest steam train to Backlund.
Due to the Sealed Artifact's characteristics, Backlund would send another two Nighthawks to receive them tonight.
Klein had made considerable contributions during the search for the notebook. Angel heard from Dunn that once the notebook was sent back to Backlund for verification, he would be permitted to become an official Nighthawks member.
This unofficial Nighthawks member, who had only just become a Beyonder, also seemed to be hiding quite a few secrets. During today's battle, he had been affected by Sealed Artifact 2-049, yet he had broken free of its control on his own without anyone rescuing him.
Although Angel had concealed this matter from Dunn and the others, that did not mean she could easily accept it.
Perhaps she should find an opportunity to have a proper talk with him... Unfortunately, until she left Blackthorn Security Company that evening, she had not found a chance to speak with him alone.
She heard that Klein had apparently been traumatized by the Tuxedo Clown dying right in front of him. He had been startled by the corpse placed in the morgue and had even hallucinated