Seeing Mr. Tower "carefully" copy down the shapes of the characters in the Inscription of the Humble House, Klein was about to have the World ask Mr. Fool to end their private conversation. Just then, Tower's steady voice rang out again:
"Wait, Mr. World. There's something else I need to tell you."
"What is it?" Klein was a little surprised, but he still had the World ask in a hoarse voice.
"I have an answer to the question the Gentleman Thief, Mr. Black Emperor, asked me to put to Iron Man."
At the last Tarot Club gathering, almost everyone had guessed that the Gentleman Thief, Black Emperor, was Mr. World. Since the latter had not admitted it, Abner saw no reason to say so here.
The question I asked Iron Man... After a moment's thought, Klein remembered. He had suspected that Iron Man was an enemy of Ince and might be connected to whoever had given Lina the means to resist "0-08." So he had offered a Judge Beyonder Characteristic as payment for Tower to ask Iron Man who was plotting behind the Witch Lina, as well as for detailed information on "0-08"...
But things had changed. He had since made Lina's little follower Shoko a blessed of "Gourmet" and had naturally obtained detailed information from Lina herself. He had even encountered a knockoff version of "0-08" in the Dream Labyrinth Tower. He knew plenty about it now—so much that he had been forced to ask Mr. Tower to suggest that he forget some of it!
He no longer expected much from Iron Man's answer.
It was also worth mentioning that his "Gourmet" blessed, Shoko, had lately devoted himself to "instigating" the female customers at the café to eat delicious desserts. They would gain weight without noticing, then bitterly regret