Whoo—
The whistle echoed through the station as the enormous, beast-like steam locomotive slowly came to a halt, pulling more than twenty carriages behind it.
A middle-aged man, nearly forty and a little over six feet tall, stepped out of the station carrying a suitcase. He wore a formal tailcoat and a half-top silk hat. Beside him stood a handsome young man with a Black Cat perched on his shoulder.
Both men were around six feet tall, and they walked out of the carriage side by side. Yet in the eyes of those around them, only the middle-aged man's figure was reflected.
"How does it feel to be back in Backlund, Mr. Kidd Robin?" the man with the Black Cat on his shoulder asked teasingly, the corners of his lips curling upward.
A trace of confusion flashed through the middle-aged man's eyes. Yet, through the Faceless's abilities, he forcibly recalled his new name and replied somewhat blankly,
"The fog is much thinner than before, and the gas streetlamps light up earlier. It looks as though a great deal has changed, but when you look closely, it feels as if nothing has."
"That really is quite a poetic answer." Sno reached up and patted Lily's head, then looked at Klein's disguise with a slight lift of his brow. "Want to visit your family? At this time, Melissa should be about to take her entrance exams. Speaking of which, your brother is quite clever. Rather than managing the bicycle company himself, he hired professionals through me to run it, so Machinery Hivemind never noticed."
"No. Showing up now would only bring them trouble." Unlike the avenger Dantes from the original story, Klein had entered Backlund this time under the alias "Kidd Robin." It was not difficult to see from that name exactly