Lord of Mysteries: Starting as a Reader
Chapter 222

Miss Justice's Question

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Miss Justice was always so cheerful. How enviable. I wish I could be like that... Hearing her bright greeting, Klein, seated at the head of the Bronze Long Table, could not help sighing inwardly.

Then he remembered how casually she had given away a bag of jewels and suddenly felt that staying as cheerful as Miss Justice would be very difficult for him...

As the thought flashed through his mind, Klein drew the page of Roselle's Diary that Miss Justice had conjured toward him. Rather than read it immediately, he turned to the lively young lady and asked calmly:

"What would you like in return?"

Alfred had already written back with definite news about the Rainbow Salamander, so Audrey chose not to ask about that material again. After a moment's thought, she said carefully:

"At a Beyonder gathering, I met someone who claimed to know a great deal about Roselle Script. He had three Roselle Script characters tattooed on his arm and claimed they possessed 'power' that made him stronger and healthier..."

At this point, Justice Audrey obtained the Fool's permission and conjured images of the three characters. She looked respectfully toward the head of the table and asked:

"Honorable Mr. Fool, I'd like to know what these three characters mean... And do they truly possess power?"

Abner did not dare look at the characters right away. If they turned out to be something ridiculous, he was afraid he would laugh aloud.

He spent several seconds preparing himself before stealing a glance at the characters Miss Justice had conjured before her.

Uh, is that... "little girl"?

Perhaps because Audrey had memorized the tattoo itself, the strokes of the three characters were badly distorted. Abner had to study them for quite a while before he could barely make them out.

*Little

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