Klein looked at the mirror before him, immersed in his chūnibyō fantasies, and said in a deep voice:
"Speak."
After a ripple shimmered across the mirror's surface, silver words appeared, one after another, brimming with excitement:
"Great Master, you could ask that, um... friend of yours for some help. Ask him. You might even be able to..."
"Among the Sealed Artifacts the Church of Steam is using to secure the Royal Museum, there's one connected to him. It's the most reliable loophole in the entire security system."
"I'll also help you conceal the information along the way, ensuring the Church of Steam can't find a single useful clue when they investigate afterward."
As the words appeared on the mirror, so did an image of Cyril sitting in a bright room, reading a thick book. Beside him was an old-fashioned silver-plated mirror, as if it had been slashed diagonally with an axe.
As Klein looked at the mirror, the image of Cyril seemed to come to life. He lifted his eyes from his book and stared straight at Klein.
Klein instinctively took a step back. The gaze from the image in the mirror gave him the chills.
Fortunately, the image on the mirror vanished in less than a second.
In a clergy break room at Lever Church, Cyril paused in the middle of reading.
Then he looked up at the stained-glass window beside him, his eyes slightly unfocused.
A moment later, he came to, and smiled faintly at his reflection in the stained glass.
"So it can do that, too. Interesting..."
After murmuring under his breath, he returned his gaze to the book in his hands.
Ikanser had kept him at the church, using the excuse that many Machinery Hivemind members had been pulled away and they couldn't spare anyone else