Inside a warehouse on the outskirts of Tingen City.
Leonard walked over to Dunn and asked with some concern:
"Captain, are you all right?"
Dunn shook his head, a faint smile appearing on his face as he reassured those around him. "I'm fine. I only suffered a minor injury."
"But Tris..."
A look of confusion and concern appeared on Dunn's face:
"I didn't expect him to have turned into a woman, or for a Mid-Sequence Demoness to rescue him at the end."
At this point, Dunn looked at Klein, who had just finished Spirit Channeling. "Klein, did you find any clues?"
After speaking, Dunn noticed that Klein hadn't responded. He was standing there, apparently lost in thought.
Leonard stepped forward and gave him a pat on the shoulder. "Klein, what are you thinking about? The captain's calling you!"
"Ah!" Klein immediately came to his senses.
"Oh, sorry. I was just thinking about what I divined."
Leonard shrugged indifferently. "So, did you find anything?"
Klein shared what he had known beforehand, along with some of what he had just divined:
"The broken wand on the ground does belong to Tris, but he became a woman by taking the Potion for Sequence 7 of the Assassin Pathway-Witch. That's the current Trissy."
"She captured Miss Anna to curse Mr. Joyce, just as we suspected."
"As for the Demoness who rescued Trissy and the man who called out earlier..."
"Sorry, Captain, I couldn't divine any useful clues."
Klein had actually divined some information, but he chose to keep it to himself. He had been lost in thought because he was thinking about that.
"That's all right," Dunn said reassuringly.
"You've already done very well to get this far. That's all for today's operation. Once we get back, I'll report what happened here to the higher-ups and share the information about Tris becoming a woman with the Mandated Punishers and the Machinery Hivemind."
"As for you, Klein, you don't have to stand watch today. You can go home and get some rest to recover the Spirituality you expended."
2 Daffodil Street, Tingen City.
Click! Klein opened the door and returned home.
"Hmm?" Melissa was a little surprised to see him.
"Klein, didn't you say you were on the night shift and wouldn't be coming home today?"
"And you don't seem quite yourself. Did you run into danger again?"
Hearing his sister's concerned words, Klein smiled. "I'm fine. A mission came up unexpectedly today, and I used up a little too much Spirituality, so the captain gave me half a day off."
"You don't need to worry too much. I'll be fine after some rest."
Klein walked toward his room as he spoke. "I'm going to sleep for a while. Wake me when it's time for dinner."
Klein closed his bedroom door and set up a Wall of Spirituality, then took four steps backward and entered Sefirah Castle.
Looking at the unchanging Gray Fog around him, Klein's gaze grew firm. I have to make sure!
Klein leaned back in his chair, relaxed his mind, and closed his eyes, silently repeating the subject of his divination: What happened in the warehouse...
What happened in the warehouse...
After seven repetitions, Klein entered a dream.
In the dream, he saw Anna lying on the ground, Trissy performing the curse ritual, and a man who had suddenly appeared, his face blurred and his entire body shrouded in golden light.
That's him!
Klein drew his field of vision closer to take a better look at him.
Is that... a Sarira?
At Wilt's chest, he saw a Sarira with a swastika inside it. The golden light covering Wilt came from it, and the Sarira was firmly suppressing a mass of silver-black energy.
Is that really a Sarira? If it is, why would something like that exist on the Northern and Southern Continents? Could Emperor Roselle have made it?
Klein focused his gaze on the Sarira, hoping to see its true form more clearly. Then the surroundings suddenly changed.
Trissy, the warehouse, and even the Sarira he had been observing all vanished. Only one thing remained in Klein's eyes-
A thousand-meter-tall Buddha stood on a nine-tiered lotus pedestal, a massive halo of merit behind Him and golden light radiating from His entire body. He gave off a sense of serenity, compassion, and transcendence.
Only one thought remained in Klein's mind: That's one enormous Buddha!
Boom!!!
Klein's entire body exploded. Faint Buddhist chants echoed through Sefirah Castle as golden light blazed in every direction.
Then the Gray Fog churned in wave after wave, quickly suppressing all the anomalies, and Sefirah Castle returned to its original state.
But now there was an additional golden star inside Sefirah Castle.
After a while longer, Klein slowly reassembled himself inside Sefirah Castle. Looking utterly bewildered, he said, "I just exploded like that, and how come I didn't get any information at all?"
"That doesn't make sense. I got part of a Sequence formula just from looking directly at the Eternal Blazing Sun. Could that Buddha be on an even higher level than the Eternal Blazing Sun?"
But Klein quickly shook his head. "No, no, this isn't the time to think about that."
"What's the deal with that Buddha? Could that man covered in golden light be a transmigrator like me, and that giant Buddha is actually his golden finger?"
Klein began to feel excited. After all, one of life's four great joys was meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign land. If his guess was right, he wouldn't be alone in this world.
Then Klein's eyes lit up. He had spotted an unusual star.
"A golden star. It's definitely that man!"
Klein manifested the palace again. He sat down in a chair and waved a hand, pulling the golden star in front of him.
"Good. Let's see who you really are!"
Klein directed his gaze into the star and saw a familiar person inside.
"Wi... Wilt Mirage!"
Klein recognized him. This was Mr. Wilt, the man who had saved his sister. Immediately afterward, Klein understood a few other things:
"Wait, Wilt said there was something off about my fate. Could that be how he saw it?"
"In that case, should I pull Wilt up here and take a look? That way, I could not only confirm whether he's a transmigrator, but maybe even solve my problem?"
But after thinking it over for a while, Klein shook his head.
"There's no rush. I'll observe him for a few more days first. Now that I've confirmed this star is Wilt, I can pull him up whenever I want."
Just as Klein was about to continue observing, he saw golden light radiate from Wilt again, covering his entire field of vision. He couldn't see anything anymore...
Meanwhile, after returning to Tingen City, Wilt planned to buy a few potions from Darkwill to recover, as he had expended too much in the recent battle.
But just as Wilt turned into a street, he suddenly frowned.
This feeling... Someone's spying on me!
Wilt then realized something.
"Could Klein be divining me from Sefirah Castle?" The more Wilt thought about it, the more likely it seemed.
Just then, the Sarira inside him suddenly stirred, and the feeling of being watched vanished.
Wilt: "..."