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67 Red Plane Tree Street, Connaught City, Desi County.
Wearing a face fairly common in the Loen Kingdom, Klein stepped forward and rang the doorbell.
In less than a minute, the door creaked open. A maid in a black-and-white dress peered out for a few seconds before asking in puzzlement:
"Good evening. Who are you looking for?"
"Mrs. Nilu. I'm a friend of her father, David Raymond," Klein answered calmly.
David Raymond was the Nightmare he had released from Creeping Hunger, a Red Glove among the Nighthawks.
At the end, his greatest concern had been his daughter, Nilu Raymond. He felt deeply guilty that he had been unable to watch her grow up, leaving her all but fatherless after she had lost her mother. Klein had promised him then that, if he had the chance, he would visit this beautiful seaside city and see how his daughter was doing.
Just as the maid invited Klein inside, in another neighborhood of Connaught City, a young man with slightly curly black hair and a monocle was strolling down the street.
As he walked, he muttered to himself, as though someone invisible were talking to him.
"No way, Medici. You only just found out? Seriously? Seriously?" Amon drank Roselle Soda Water with an expressionless face. "You only just learned that he's part of Father? Is this really the extent of the Red Angel's intelligence-gathering abilities?"
More than half of Loen away, Medici laughed.
"You knew, kid? Then why not share how you felt when you learned that?"
Almost without thinking, Amon said, "Father's will is different from his body. It exists eternally within the pathways. I don't find his return strange. Perhaps..."
"The only thing that surprised me was that 'he' was Adam." Amon paused at this point. "Once I knew the