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At night, inside a building in Cherwood Borough.
Xio returned home through the light drizzle. Drying her hair with a towel, she told Fors:
"Your letter has been sent."
Fors murmured an acknowledgment, privately wondering when her teacher would write back.
Just then, Xio put down the towel and casually said:
"Word came about Mr. X's gathering. Same place as before, Friday evening."
Great, I can tell Mr. World now! I wonder how much I'll have to pay... Fors's eyes lit up.
Before she could ask for details, Xio continued on her own:
"Mr. X also offered a task that supposedly pays very generously. He wants people to tell him about anyone they know whose luck is abnormal."
"People whose luck is abnormal?" Fors murmured in confusion. "Is something wrong with this gentleman's head? Who would reveal information about the people around them at a gathering like that? It would make it easy for others to discover their real identity."
"Who knows? Maybe he really is a lunatic." Xio knew no one with abnormal luck, so she responded without much concern.
Fors thought carefully for a while, but still failed to understand the task's true purpose. She could only put it out of her mind, planning to pray to Mr. Fool while Xio was bathing and pass the relevant information to the World, Gehrman Sparrow.
Klein received the request up in Sefirah Castle. As it happened, he had just spoken with the Snake of Mercury, Will Auceptin, and used Sefirah Castle's power and a Worm of Time previously left behind by Amon to make a high-level charm at the demigod level.
After hearing Fors's words, he first chose to divine the statement "Assassinating Mr. X is very dangerous" in Sefirah Castle. The yellow crystal pendulum swung clockwise with