After Nick got up, he checked the time and found it was already four in the afternoon. Six hours had passed since Hancock brought him home. Shaking his slightly groggy head, he went into the bathroom, and by the time he came out, he was fully awake.
When he entered the living room, he saw open volumes of Grimm's Journal scattered across the coffee table, the rug, and even around Dahlia's feet as she reclined on the sofa.
"Gwen said you made a big discovery?" Nick walked over to the sofa and pecked the girl's soft pink lips.
He had been exhausted to the point of collapse when he got home earlier, so he could only ask Dahlia to help look through Grimm's Journal for any records that matched the victim's condition. He hadn't expected her to find something by the time he woke up.
"More or less. Actually, it was a joint discovery. Listen to this passage." Dahlia turned back two of the yellowed pages in her hands.
"Aboard a steamship departing from Singapore, I met a doctor named Hasegawa. By chance, we discovered each other's true identities. We seemed to possess similar abilities.
"However, he was not a Grimm, but called himself an onmyoji. This was once a profession of exorcists that originated in Cyrus and had been officially recognized in Japan for over a thousand years, but was abolished after the Meiji Restoration.
"We enjoyed many conversations aboard the ship and exchanged a great deal of experience. Before we parted, he gave me a scroll describing an unknown species he had once encountered in the Netherlands. I have roughly translated several passages.
"According to the scroll, he once encountered a rare spider-form Wesen aboard a British passenger liner, which he named the Black
"Widow. This creature is