After "reporting" the blond man who had colluded with a Devil to Miss Judgment, The World requested a private conversation with The Tower. He anxiously asked what the Angel who had intervened wanted...
Or rather, what did The Tower, who had called in a favor to bring in that Angel, want in return?
Abner had already made up his mind. He did not intend to collect payment right away. Apart from a Card of Blasphemy, Klein, who had only just reached Sequence 6, had nothing that tempted him.
"So we'll put it on my tab for now?" Klein, controlling The World, felt relieved, but the pressure on him was real.
Owing someone was bad enough. A favor from an Angel was harder still to repay! Especially when the other party was The Tower, who seemed to know a little about everything. It would be difficult to take advantage of anything he did not know.
I need to advance through the Sequences faster... Otherwise, if I can't keep up with Mr. Tower, not just The World but even Mr. Fool might lose his mystique!
Fortunately, I already have the Marionettist Beyonder Characteristic, and Mermaids shouldn't be too hard to find... At least Sequence 5 shouldn't be a problem.
After giving himself a brief pep talk, Klein lifted the block on everyone else's senses and let the Tarot Club meeting continue.
Seeing that the two had finished their private conversation, Alger, The Hanged Man, immediately turned to The World.
"Your Werewolf Beyonder Characteristic has been sold. An Artisan bought it... However, you warned that it might contain a 'curse' from the Rose School, so the price was driven down again. It sold for only 1,000 pounds...
"As agreed, I'll receive 180 pounds of that as payment."
That was no small cut, but