"This involved a game among Gods."
After the Tarot Club meeting ended, Klein recalled Mr. Devil's warning and sighed inwardly—
"Mr. Devil really knows quite a lot. It seems I truly need to visit East Chester County. Right, after I visit Raymond's daughter in Conant City on his behalf, I'll go to East Chester County and help Mr. Devil decipher the treasure left behind by Senior Perrdax."
Klein made arrangements for his upcoming itinerary, then picked up Groselle's Travels. Although the Dragon Slaying Quintet had already been rescued, he still felt that this book likely concealed some deeper secret.
Just as Klein encountered the spiritual projections of the Dragon Slaying Quintet within Groselle's Travels, Sno had returned to Bayram once again. Although dumping Snoeman and Longzeel on Jana felt somewhat like shirking responsibility, Sno still had more things to do.
For example...
Have dinner with Bernadette.
Though he strongly suspected that Bernadette had arrived in Bayram ahead of schedule just to mooch a meal, considering that he had been the one to bring her over, Sno still had Black Swan Castle prepare dinner according to the standard of four dishes and a soup.
Halfway through the meal, Sno suddenly raised his head and said:
"You're just going to watch that Silver Coin Snake act under your name?"
"There are people all over these seas pretending to be my subordinates." Bernadette calmly picked up a slice of twice-cooked pork and ate it in small bites, while directly using spirituality to vibrate the air in response to Sno's question.
But at that point, Bernadette suddenly changed the subject—
"But Odell isn't an impostor. At least, he wasn't originally."
"He really was your subordinate?" Sno was surprised now. He had originally thought the man was merely a fake, but it seemed...
"At