After punishing Calvin, Hobart did not immediately leave the Country of Disorder. He planned to wait and see Cavell's reaction.
He mocked himself inwardly: Why does this feel a little like a "customer follow-up," checking whether the "customer" has bought what I sold him?
With nothing better to do, he thought of the Spirit Communication result from earlier.
Although the process had been interrupted, the information Elliot wanted had become clear: the Balk Family's Curse had absolutely nothing to do with the Rose School. The Curse had undeniably come from the family bloodline.
This also made Hobart abandon his last shred of wishful thinking. He had always believed that the Heller Family and the Balk Family must be inextricably linked.
The two families had most likely come to bear Curses in their bloodlines for the same reason.
If the Curse truly came from a high-level Beyonder of the Prisoner pathway, then the matter would be easiest to resolve. As long as the caster was killed, the Curse would naturally disappear.
Though accomplishing that would be difficult, it was indeed an easy problem for Hobart to solve, because such a Curse fell entirely within the scope of his knowledge.
All he had to do in the future was patiently grow stronger, then defeat the caster.
Yet tonight's Spirit Communication result showed that the Curse had nothing whatsoever to do with the Rose School.
Everything had returned to square one. The Curse was full of unknowns, and he could only begin his investigation with the Heller Family and the Balk Family.
But what left Hobart helpless was that neither family was well known. It seemed difficult to conduct any effective investigation.
He currently had only two leads. The first was Rex, and he decided to find time to visit Dix soon.
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