Lord of the Mysteries: The Benevolent Witch
Chapter 972

Negotiation

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At the sight of Chunas wearing a monocle, the unease that had lingered in Klein's chest finally settled into utter calm.

He was so calm he might as well have been dead.

I knew it. Adam was here, so how could his brother, Amon the Blasphemer, who has been tracking the Fool's believers all this time, possibly stay away... Was he hiding outside the door, waiting for Adam to finish talking to me, only to plunge me into the deepest despair the moment I relaxed completely and thought I had escaped disaster?

Now it seems I was probably "arranged for" right after destroying the mausoleum in East Taker County. Even the idea of teleporting to this island to erase my traces and interfere with divination came from Adam. Unless I returned above the gray fog, I had no way whatsoever of detecting the arrangements of a King of Angels of the Spectator pathway...

Everything that happened after I returned to Backlund was actually "imagination." He even scripted the conversations of passersby to let me know George III was dead, making me drop my guard completely and "enter the gray fog" in what I thought was the safety of Backlund...

The only question is, how did Adam imagine the scene above the gray fog? But that wouldn't be difficult for him. The Tarot Club's members may be secretive, but they aren't without vulnerabilities, especially since Angel has met Adam several times... Right, every time he met Angel, he tried to listen to her thoughts, slowly piecing together the details of the Tarot Club. Deliberately revealing himself to her, and thereby letting me, the "Fool," know, was really just bait to conceal something else...

*None of that matters. What matters most is that my identity as the Fool has been completely exposed,

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