Inside the villa, Abner had Servant Leah stop once she had separated out the Beyonder Characteristics of the Silent Disciple, Marionette, Wraith, and Zombie in sequence.
After all, there were few buyers for Prisoner Pathway materials and Beyonder Characteristics, and anything below Zombie would fetch little money.
Abner handed the Marionette characteristic to Miss Sharron. After watching her control Shanks's corpse and carry the characteristic back to the bedroom, Klein hesitated for a moment, then got up and followed her inside.
He guessed Sharron wanted to store the corpse and characteristic Above the Gray Fog for the time being. The Tower would surely guess that too, and an excuse to visit the bathroom now might expose a flaw in the Fool's disguise. So he followed Sharron into the bedroom under everyone's amused gazes—Abner's most of all.
Miss Sharron was clever too, but even she did not have an imagination as wild as the Tower's.
In fact, Abner knew exactly what they were thinking. That did not stop him from quietly "recording" the scene to show Melissa someday...
Abner no longer needed any tools just to make a recording. Both the Magic Mirror and a Secret Art he had developed could do it. He had made the Square Canon for his company's employees to use.
A little over ten minutes later, Klein and Sharron returned to the living room. By then, the Prophet Telles had also come back, bringing each of them a black book with three Command Spells marked on its cover.
"Is everyone ready? If there's no problem, we'll leave now." Once Abner and the others had put away their Books of Command Spells, Telles asked them with a grave expression.
Abner and Klein nodded slightly to show they were ready. Edwina and Sharron had no objections either.
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