Klein had been completely sold out to Prince by Xu Yue. What else could he do?
Refuse outright and offend Prince?
He had already become a Faceless and needed to start looking for a Mermaid. It was not as though he could not do it...
Klein weighed the matter in his mind.
But all of that vanished the moment Prince threw a thousand gold pounds in his face.
It seemed like participating was not impossible after all.
If anything went wrong, he could always run later...
Besides, Xu Yue, you pushed me into the fire pit. Shouldn't you pull me out when it matters?
Afterward, through what he learned from Prince, Klein also pieced together some relevant clues.
The matter was indeed bewilderingly complicated.
The romantic problem Talim had previously consulted him about was most likely that Prince had fallen in love with a commoner woman, and Talim seemed to have some connection with that woman as well.
From some of Talim's conversations with him, it seemed Talim had persuaded the commoner woman to leave, and she had agreed.
Then Talim had died suddenly.
It was impossible for there to be no connection whatsoever between these events.
However, considering Prince's attitude, Klein did not bring up these issues directly.
Instead, he planned to find a chance to discuss them with Xu Yue.
After accepting the thousand pounds as startup capital, Klein also asked for some of Talim's hair and personal belongings for divination.
He then signaled Xu Yue with his eyes to hurry up and leave.
He had discovered that Xu Yue had done nothing but recommend him, yet had somehow freeloaded a thousand gold pounds too!
That was outrageous!
But Klein soon discovered that something even more outrageous was yet to come...
"We haven't done anything yet, but we've