Friday night, the chimes rang out softly, as though they came from a place unimaginably far away.
As agreed, Abner arrived at the central park on Williams Street and quickly turned his gaze toward a young gentleman with neatly combed black hair and deep brown eyes.
He had mixed-race features, though his appearance leaned more toward that of a Loen native.
But that was not why Abner had noticed him... What had truly caught his attention were the iron-black gloves on the gentleman's hands, the dark-gold sunbird-shaped brooch pinned to his left chest, the pitch-black badge hanging from his right chest, and the pure-black revolver in his holster.
"'Sun Brooch,' the 'Confession' pistol... The gloves should be that Extraordinary item that appeared in the original story, the one seized from Harras during the Capim Case and possessing the abilities of a Disciplinary Paladin...
"As for the other badge, I have no idea where Klein got it from... But after a preliminary Analysis, it should be something from the Sleepless Pathway.
"Coupled with the Mind Breath charm he must be carrying on him, Klein is fully armed...
"And the appearance he transformed into would feel a bit like Gehrman's if he put on a pair of gold-rimmed glasses."
As Abner observed Klein, Klein was also observing him, inwardly grumbling:
Changed appearances again? Am I the Faceless, or are you the Faceless?!
The reason he could recognize this scholarly-looking man, who resembled a teacher, as Mr. The Tower was that the other party was already silently reciting the Fool's honorific name.
Since the details of the operation had long been finalized Above the Gray Fog, the two merely exchanged glances before passing each other. Yet this also signaled the official start of the operation.
After entering the nearby sewers, Abner smoothly unsealed