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Inside the bathroom at 15 Minsk Street.
Klein drew a paper figurine from a concealed pocket in his clothes and shook it, turning it into a stand-in.
He had the stand-in sit on the toilet holding a newspaper to deceive others, while he slipped into the shadows, took four steps counterclockwise, and entered Above the Gray Fog.
Inside the magnificent, ancient palace, Klein sat at the head of the Bronze Long Table and manifested Jason Beria's handkerchief before him.
-This was only a projection, but it could still be used for divination.
Let's give it a try. The projection might not work very well, but performing a ritual to sacrifice the actual item up here under the Church's surveillance would be too dangerous... If it doesn't work, I'll think of something else later... Klein muttered to himself, manifested a piece of parchment and a fountain pen with a rounded barrel, and wrote the divination statement:
"Jason Beria's current location."
Normally, a handkerchief someone had only used in a particular ritual would not be enough to divine their movements or whereabouts. The connection was insufficiently close, and there was too much interference. For instance, it would be very easy to attract the attention of the archduke of the Abyss to whom the ritual had been directed.
But for Klein, interference of this level could be eliminated, because he surmised that this so-called archduke of the Abyss was, at most, a High Sequence Devil, rather than the embodiment of the Abyss, the "Cosmos' Dark Side."
And that title... He vaguely remembered seeing the name of Sequence 2 of the Devil Pathway in Roselle's diary: "Archduke of Blood." In that case, the Devil connected to Jason Beria was an Angel, on the same level as Mr. Edward Vaughan. He wondered which of