"Can you use Door Opening in a dream, too?"
Klein's eyes filled with confusion and curiosity. He had always felt that the Apprentice potion his companion had taken wasn't the same kind as Miss Magician's. Otherwise, the difference between them was far too great.
Cyril nodded. "In theory, yes, but I don't know if I can actually do it. After all, I'm only a Sequence 6."
Klein: ...
He'd been caught off guard by that humblebrag.
Ignoring Klein's speechlessness, Cyril asked curiously, "Why did you insist on bringing me along?"
Klein answered honestly, "Since you managed to get Will Auceptin's body, you must be quite familiar with that Snake of Mercury. I thought it might be safer to bring you along."
"And having you here will make the journey much easier."
At that, Klein suddenly remembered how he'd been caught carrying a gun by a patrol officer on his way home one night. In the end, it had been his neighbor, Lawyer Jurgen, who'd bailed him out.
Thinking of Lawyer Jurgen reminded him of Mrs. Doris, who had recently fallen ill and been hospitalized... Perhaps he could ask the vampire at Harvest Cathedral to treat her. Miss Justice had sent me another payment this month—well, sent one to my blessed. I could try buying the pituitary gland of a Thousand-Faced Hunter mutant from the Sanguine.
Cyril watched Klein drift off and curled his lip. "I think you're overthinking it. Bringing me along might actually be more dangerous."
Klein snapped back to attention and shrugged. "We're here now, anyway."
As he spoke, he took out another talisman and recited an incantation to activate it.
"Scarlet!"
The deep, silent darkness descended like dusk, quietly enveloping Doctor Aaron, Cyril, and Klein.
Then Klein quickly entered a meditative state and used his Spirituality to