Shade had found four ounces of Sand of Time, Soaked in Black Night from his own point in time in order to buy a gear from this Clock Shop, one of the materials needed to piece together the Compass Pointing to the End.
When the two returned to the counter and opened the goods catalog again, the gear's price had not risen. After Shade asked to buy it, the sounds of gears turning, shafts grinding, and pistons pushing came from inside the wooden counter. Then, with a click~, a drawer popped out from the side of the counter.
Shade placed the prepared Sand of Time into the drawer, then pushed it back into place. After waiting a moment, another drawer popped open, containing precisely the gear they had been looking for. The inner side of the gear was exactly the same size as Fiona's Compass base, allowing the base to fit snugly inside it.
"Now we have the cafe's spoon and the Clock Shop's gear. As long as we find the final item, we can pass through the curtain and reach the palace in the depths of Eternal Night City."
Fiona spoke happily as she carefully tucked the gear into the inner pocket of her clothes.
"Oh, Fiona, look at this."
Last time, they had only hurriedly browsed through the Clock Shop's catalog before leaving and had not had the chance to look at more of its goods. Therefore, although they had successfully obtained that enormous gear, Shade and Fiona were in no hurry to leave.
Shade casually flipped through it and spotted something rather interesting:
Time-Stop Pocket Watch (single-use), divine creation. Can stop time throughout the entire Material World.
Although the illustrations in the Clock Shop's goods catalog were only black and white, Shade could still tell