Sherlock... was the alias Klein used when he came to Backlund after his "Resurrection," right? Miss Sharron had always called him by that name, so she must have met him then...
As her thoughts raced, Melissa set aside the newspaper Sharron had handed her and, in a strange tone that seemed to have come after much deliberation, asked, "Miss Sharron, how did you meet Sherlock? Also, could you tell me what he experienced after coming to Backlund?"
"I met him because he hired me." Sharron altered her manner of speaking as much as possible, since there was no "translator" present.
Seeing that Sharron was willing to talk, Melissa's eyes lit up. She continued, "Hired... What did he hire you to do?"
After thinking for a moment, Sharron concealed Klein's matter of dealing with the "Marionettist" and uttered just one word in her ethereal voice: "Catching adultery."
What? Melissa's mind instantly froze, and she thought she had misheard.
While Melissa and Sharron discussed Klein's "dark history," Abner, who had just returned to his doorstep, discovered that Lilith, using Reinhardt's body as a vessel for divine descent, was already waiting there with a smile.
Abner hurriedly welcomed this incarnation of a True God into the villa's living room. Only after dismissing all the servants did he jokingly ask, "You haven't come to give me another reward this time, have you?"
Lilith glanced at him and curled her lips into a smile. "In a sense, you guessed right."
What? There really was a reward? Abner was astonished inwardly, but he calmly asked, "What is it?"
Lilith did not answer immediately. She stroked her silver hair, and only after noticing that Abner's gaze had been unconsciously drawn to it did she say with a smile, "This body I'm using..."
What?! Abner nearly failed