In a hotel on Howes Street in Tingen City.
Digging up a grave was hardly respectable, and they needed to keep it secret. So Elizabeth had not invited her friends to stay at her home. Instead, they had checked into a fairly upscale hotel.
As soon as they had settled in, Elizabeth, being a local, volunteered to go out and buy suitable tools for what they planned to do that night.
"Miss Hazel... do you think Klein might really be alive?" Melissa seemed to be asking her, yet also talking to herself. "But why would he pretend to be dead and refuse to come home?"
"Maybe... maybe he's in serious trouble, and he doesn't want to drag you or your brother into it," Hazel answered after a moment's thought.
She also admired the detective who had helped her digest Swindler. No wonder Abner counted him as a friend. His Sequence back in Tingen could not have been very high, yet he had handled everything so perfectly.
Compared with how she had performed at Sequence 9, it was downright embarrassing!
Melissa pressed her lips together and asked, "Then why did he suddenly send me a Beyonder item under the name Sherlock?"
"Maybe because you became a Beyonder?" Hazel was not entirely sure. "Or perhaps, now that you're Abner's neighbor, he thinks you're safe enough?"
Melissa thought that over. "So he'll only come home once I can protect myself?"
"Perhaps..." Hazel answered vaguely.
Deep down, she did not think Klein could return to his old life. Even setting everything else aside, it would be difficult to explain his resurrection to the Church.
Besides, she suspected Klein had come to worship some great existence. That would explain how he had advanced so quickly afterward.
She still did not know Gehrman was Klein, but