"Actually, our first meeting wasn't at the Café..."
Looking at Klein, Noah slowly recounted that past Klein had never known about.
But in Klein's view, this first-meeting experience could hardly be called a leisurely tale...
"At the time, I had just entered this world and decided to gather nine portions of Source Quality. The first Source Quality I collected was the Country of Disorder. I summoned it using the other half, controlled by the Outer Gods in the starry sky, as a guide—"
"The other half controlled by the Outer Gods?"
A question mark seemed to pop up over Klein's head.
"Source Quality differs from Extraordinary Characteristics. It isn't so small and is inherently whole, but being separated by sufficiently powerful forces isn't impossible. The Country of Disorder isn't the only Source Quality that was split apart. The real skill lies in preserving the separated Source Quality and preventing it from merging again..."
Noah gave Klein another brief lesson in mysticism before continuing:
"After collecting the complete Country of Order, I began searching for other Source Quality. It was then that your soul was sent into this era by the Source Castle, and I sensed the aura of Source Quality from you..."
Even hearing it now, after the fact, Klein felt his heart tighten.
Following that development, under normal circumstances, the next part should have been that heavenly treasures belonged to the worthy. Then he, a "little nobody who transmigrated but couldn't become the protagonist because transmigration wasn't rare," should have received his boxed lunch and exited the story.
Yet he was still alive now, so...
"At the time, I was dealing with the Country of Disorder. After I finished, I followed the aura of Source Quality over for a look and discovered that there was actually someone inside the