On Monday afternoon, Leonard finally had time to get some rest.
There was no time to return to his lodgings, so he reclined on a sofa in the Red Gloves' lounge and dozed.
At three o'clock sharp, gray fog covered his vision. In the blink of an eye, he appeared in the Giant Hall, seated along one side of the Bronze Long Table.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool." Miss Justice's greeting sounded more cheerful than it had over the past two days, as though she had emerged from her earlier gloom.
As Leonard rose to greet Mr. Fool, he thought, What a carefree young lady.
As usual, they first offered pages of Roselle's Diary to Mr. Fool, after which Mr. Fool read them.
The trading phase that followed was also brief, and they soon reached the discussion phase of this gathering.
The World, seated at the very end of the table, first glanced at Cattleya the Hermit, then at Alger the Hanged Man, before telling them, "Help me keep an eye on the Vice Admiral of Ailment's movements."
His investigation into the royal family's conspiracy had now reached its final-and most crucial-step.
Many important secrets were beyond the knowledge of low-level Beyonders.
He intended to use Katarina Pelle, the Saintess of White, as his point of entry to obtain some core intelligence.
He had chosen this Demoness of Unaging partly because Trissy had provided Klein with some intelligence about the Demoness Church, and partly because Klein and the Red Angel evil spirit had agreed to cooperate on this matter. Klein would locate the Demoness of Unaging's hiding place, then join forces with the Red Angel evil spirit to subdue Katarina.
Once they succeeded, Klein would perform Spirit Channeling on the Demoness of Unaging to obtain information, while the Red Angel evil