Once kindling and charcoal had been fed into the kitchen boiler, the temperature inside 2 Kirk Street quickly rose to a level both Arthur and Pendragon found comfortable.
By the time Arthur had settled Lady "Anna" in place, Pendragon had already burrowed into the cat bed.
When Arthur came out of the kitchen with a cup of hot cocoa, Pendragon was already fast asleep.
He gave his orange cat an envious glance, then turned up the kerosene lamp in the Medium's Hall.
Arthur began taking stock of the spoils he had obtained from Harris.
The spoils were divided into three parts in total.
The first was gold.
The second was notes.
The third was a Mystic Art.
The fourth was an item.
Arthur counted the gold first, not because it mattered more than the notes or the Mystic Art, but because it was easier to tally at a glance-one-jin gold bars were neatly stacked in the two chests, a full four hundred of them!
At two grams per gold coin, that amounted to 100,000 gold coins.
For anyone, that was a fortune that could not be ignored.
And that was after Arthur had left ten gold bars with the [Exquisite Puppet] as a precaution.
Harris really had some nerve. He actually stole Isidore's fortune right out from under him!
Tsk!
Sure enough, in South Los, the Old Lion of the Inner Bay was the perfect scapegoat!
Although he had expected it, seeing those four hundred gold bars still left Arthur astonished at Harris's audacity.
Without hesitation, Arthur picked up the notebook.
He hoped to find some answers inside.
And the results did not disappoint him.
Although the notebook mainly contained experimental records, it also included things that caught Arthur's attention-
Father actually chose to cooperate with those people!
Those people