Megose

Huh? Klein was briefly bewildered, thinking he had been distracted and misheard.

"What? Uh... please say that again."

Christina did not pay much attention to Mr. Diviner's confusion. She glanced at Angelica at the reception desk and lowered her voice.

"I mean Lanevus's child."

She pointed at the young woman in the lotus-leaf hat beside her.

This was Lanevus's child?

Wasn't that growing a little too fast?

Wasn't he a bit impatient?

Christina noticed that something was off with Klein's expression and explained.

"This is my niece, Megose. Her mother is my eldest sister."

Klein immediately understood.

Christina continued.

"I regret it, and I'm sorry. Back then, I thought Lanevus was an outstanding, exceptional young man, so I introduced Megose to him while he was still unmarried and watched them become lovers."

Behind her, Megose pursed her lips and touched her lower abdomen.

"Megose's parents had also been very satisfied with Lanevus. They had planned to invest all their savings in the steel company after their engagement. Fortunately, Lanevus ran away before that could happen, so their family did not suffer a devastating loss. Unfortunately, my sister and brother-in-law had to explain to relatives and friends why the engagement ceremony had been canceled, and they had to worry about the child in Megose's womb."

"We all believe in the God of Steam and Machinery, not the Lord of Storms. We do not believe lovers must remain chaste before marriage. We do not blame Megose; we even sympathize with her. But whether to keep the child is indeed difficult, especially when he has such a father..."

"Wait, isn't that wrong?" Morien's voice suddenly rang out in everyone's minds. "Though saying 'we don't blame her' sounds nice, you don't actually have the right to blame her in the first place, do you?"

"No matter what, she should be the one blaming you. After all, you were the one who introduced that man to her."

At some point, Morien had put down his newspaper. He looked at Christina strangely, his mouth unopened, yet he was speaking Loenese learned from the Hidden Sage.

I found this strange when I read the original novel before.

She was clearly the one who introduced the man, and Megose was clearly the "victim."

Why could Christina say something like, "I didn't blame her"?

Uh... that did seem to make sense?

Klein instinctively looked at the quietly standing Megose and realized that she was quite an outstanding beauty.

Then, in the very next second, Klein immediately realized that the voice had appeared directly in his mind. Morien had not opened his mouth.

He was definitely a Beyonder!

Klein suddenly recalled the Nighthawks' documents describing a certain extraordinary race, along with some photographs he had seen.

Compared to humans and other humanoids, this race had shallower eye sockets, lower nose bridges, flatter brow ridges, and flatter foreheads.

This was the appearance of the Elves, and also the appearance of Easterners.

In those descriptions and photographs, the Elves' features were extremely close to those of Easterners.

This thought was like having a bucket of cold water dumped over him. Klein's excitement instantly cooled.

Right, this world also has people with Eastern features...

Klein let out an almost imperceptible sigh.

In the few seconds Klein spent thinking, Christina had already spoken angrily.

"I didn't know he was a swindler at the time! And didn't I refrain from blaming Megose?"

"So what?" Morien spread his hands in confusion. "Isn't it still your fault? Even if you did something bad with good intentions, does that make it not bad? You clearly did something wrong, so why are you acting like you're magnanimously forgiving her? That's so weird."

"Oh, right. To get your money back, you even tore open her wounds before strangers, out in public."

"I remember Emperor Roselle saying, 'Don't air your family's dirty laundry in public,' didn't he?"

"Do you really treat her like a person?"

Morien looked puzzled, but his voice was sincere.

Klein noticed that everyone present was looking at Morien, yet not a single person questioned the fact that Morien was "speaking without opening his mouth."

Was this another Beyonder Ability?

Christina immediately became flustered upon hearing Morien's words.

She pointed at Morien's nose and was about to speak when Klein suddenly squeezed between them.

With a professional smile on his face, he answered Christina's earlier question.

"If the child has already been born, I do have a way to use him to divine Lanevus's approximate whereabouts. But unfortunately, we would have to wait several months. Um... perhaps this was what the result of your previous divination meant: endure, wait, persevere, stop being greedy, and then a turning point will come, and you will see the light."

Good heavens...

Please say less...

Klein smiled, but sweat was already seeping from his temples.

Making his voice appear directly in other people's minds...

Even the captain would have to pull someone into a dream first to do something like that...

And there was that ability where something clearly abnormal was right in front of ordinary people, yet they could not notice it at all.

Klein felt drenched in sweat.

From Klein's perspective, Morien's current display suggested that he was likely a Mid-Sequence powerhouse at Sequence 7 or even Sequence 6.

And he seemed to be an unaffiliated Beyonder as well.

Klein had never believed that all unaffiliated Beyonders were dangerous, but he knew that arguing with a completely unrestrained Mid-Sequence Beyonder would definitely end badly.

And deep down, Klein also felt that this masked man was not actually wrong...

Christina took a deep breath and stopped looking at Morien, turning instead toward Klein.

When she looked at Klein, Christina's tone improved slightly as well.

"Several months..."

"No, after so long, even if we find Lanevus, we won't get the money back..."

She turned to look at the blonde, blue-eyed Megose, her voice unconsciously growing heavier.

"Do you have anything Lanevus carried with him?"

Megose replied in a clear, soft voice.

"No."

After thinking for a moment, she added.

"Does the ring he gave me count?"

"No."

Klein shook his head.

"It has to be something he carried for a long period of time."

After saying that, he began frantically signaling Angelica, the receptionist.

Angelica immediately understood and walked over to Morien.

She did not know about Beyonders, but it was never good for members and guests of the club to argue.

"Mr. Morien, there are quite a few divination instruments in the divination room, if you..."

"No need." Morien smiled and waved his hand. "I'll just sit here for a while."

With that, Morien picked up the newspaper again and spread it across his lap.

Angelica hesitated for a moment, but ultimately retreated.

After all, both sides had paid, so she could not really say much.

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