Estimating that her trip would take no more than four hours, Angel did not tell Clement where she was going. She merely informed Daly before leaving the Silver Bullet Detective Agency.
She had originally planned to go to the location of the Artisan provided by the Hanged Man to figure out what the inexplicable revolver in her hand that had absorbed a Beyonder Characteristic was actually capable of, but after learning from Daly that the Nighthawks had already set their sights on the Tarot Club, she decided to look into the matter first.
The Port District was close to the Steam Train Station and not too far from the Nighthawks' headquarters, but Angel was unfamiliar with the streets of Enmat Harbor. Rather than attempting to walk there, she hired a carriage, just as she had when she arrived.
This time, she asked the price in advance.
Munching on a Fish Cake she had bought from a roadside stall before boarding, she watched the scenery race backward beyond the window. The aroma of fried fish paste and potatoes in her mouth, along with the salty, fishy sea breeze blowing into the carriage, reminded her of her hometown.
As the Loen Kingdom's second-largest port city, Enmat Harbor handled a tremendous volume of sea trade. As the carriage passed through Golden Apple District and Oak District and gradually entered the Port District, warehouses and processing plants began to replace houses and shops along the roadside.
Naturally, there were also busy workers and mountains of cargo.
If the magnificent coastline had not appeared before Angel's eyes, she would have almost thought she had returned to the Docklands of Tingen City.
Unfortunately, the water near the shore was not an elegant indigo blue, but a grayish green mixed with floating debris, oil slicks, and overgrown