Chapter 384 cleared
Lumian looked at the pocket watch carefully for a while and confirmed that it had no mechanical failure.
An hour earlier, he himself had not bumped into it, so it would not affect the pocket watch.
"From the time I calibrated my pocket watch until now, the only thing that makes me feel unusual is the trance and vaguely heard bell ringing when I leave the 'Alone' bar, well, there is also one less guard wearing a monocle at the entrance of the 'Different' cabaret, is this related to my pocket watch suddenly slowing down by one minute?" Lumian thought seriously for a while, but could only find out the suspected cause.
He planned to write to Ms. "The Magician" when he returned to the market area.
Normally, he wouldn't be able to trouble the Major Arcana with such a trivial matter, but the anomaly of the pocket watch is likely to occur in the old street, and the Amon in the "different" cabaret has changed a little, these are all reasons not to be negligent.
Lumian put on his pocket watch, and after the public carriage arrived at a stop, he suddenly got out of the carriage and turned into a nearby street, always paying attention to the people and animals around him.
He changed public carriages to different places three times in a row, trying to spot and dump possible trackers.
This is the self-cultivation of a "hunter".
After going through the entire process, Lumian entered a department store, put a satchel containing "torture" gloves in the compartment of the public washroom, put on the "lie" ear clips, and changed back to his original appearance.
He also took off his brown jacket and put on the dark vest he was carrying in his satchel. Dubois returned to the Honest Market area.
After writing about his trance, the vague sound of bells, and the changes of the "different" cabaret guards in a letter and sending it to Ms. "The Magician", Lumian breathed a long sigh of relief.
Every time he went to the old street, although he did not encounter a real disaster, he always felt uncomfortable, and there was an indescribable fear stirring in his heart.
Not long after, the "Doll" messenger brought a reply from Ms. "The Magician":
"Your feelings are sharp and correct.
"The trance you appear in and the bells you hear were made by Mr. Fool's 'Angel of Time', who found his goal and cleared out all of Amon in the 'Different' Cabaret and all of Trier, and your pocket watch slowed down by a minute because of the effects of this battle.
"In the future, you don't have to worry about what Amon does to you, of course, you should also know that such mythical creatures cannot be solved so easily, and they will completely fall, in various countries in the north and south continents, there are still a large number of Amon exists, the underground of Trier, where angelic power cannot exert remote influence, there may still be a few Amon hidden."
After reading Ms. "Magician's" reply, Lumian was stunned for several seconds.
So a trance represents an angelic battle?
If he hadn't just calibrated his pocket watch, he wouldn't have found any substantive evidence!
If it weren't for the fact that Thermibolos, a creature with the angelic personality sealed in his body, he would definitely be like Lia, unable to even hear the bell, and even difficult to produce trance!
"Is this the power of angels? That is, the battle between the "Angel of Time" and Amon did not affect the people around him, otherwise the citizens in the old street at that time would not even know how they died......
"The pocket watch is a minute slower...... In my brief trance, there was an angel-level battle...... 'Time Angel' ...... Mr. Fool's 'Time Angel' can really control some time......
"Once I crossed the divine gate, all kinds of abilities became so magical, the repeated cycle of the 'man in the ring', the 'secret' power of the 'night' path, the starlight gate of the 'magician' lady, and the bell of the 'Angel of Time' were all ...... I couldn't imagine before." Lumian was surprised and sighed, and for the first time, he was not thirsty for high-order power because he wanted to resurrect his sister.
It was a kind of yearning that stemmed from instinct.
Thinking that he would no longer have to fear that the Amon would suddenly jump out of a corner and push himself into a new danger for a while, Lumian was in a good mood, and he sincerely praised Mr. "Fool", the "Angel of Time" and his Lady "Magician" in the Major Arcana.
He relaxed a lot, burned the reply letter, and went to Apartment 601 at No. 3 White Coat Street.
Franka is waiting for him to bring back information about the "Alone" bar and "Loki".
"One good news, one bad news, which one do you want to hear?" After Lumian closed the door, he asked with a smile.
Franka looked him up and down a few times:
"You're in a good mood......
"The good news is that you have found clues related to 'Loki'?
"The bad news is that we lack enough ability to pursue it?"
"Neither." Lumian snatched Franka's easy chair.
Franka was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect this guy to be so shameless.
Before she could make a sound, Lumian had already continued:
"The good news is that Mr. Fool's 'Angel of Time' took action and cleaned up the 'different' cabaret and the entire Amon in Trier, and if 'Loki' is not absent for no reason at the next gathering, it means that he is not 'parasitized' by a certain Amon.
"The bad news is that the copy of the data you bought was indeed typed out with a mechanical typewriter in the cellar of the 'Alone' bar, but we can't trace it on the site of the Eighth Bureau, well, I'm pretty sure it's the Eighth Bureau's stronghold now."
Leah also worked as a bartender there.
Franka was sometimes excited and frowned when she heard this:
"Have you seen Mr. Fool's 'Angel of Time'? But why didn't I feel any obvious movement in Trier......
"Indeed, regardless of whether 'Loki' is from the Eighth Bureau or not, directly asking anyone who has used that mechanical typewriter recently will cause you and I to be targeted by the Eighth Bureau, and finding an excuse to use that typewriter to try to predict the nearest user is likely to point to some members of the Eighth Bureau, and even the Saints.
"The eighth bureau stronghold located diagonally opposite the 'different' dance hall must have a high-ranking person in charge!"
Turning her attention to business, Franka forgot to let Lumian leave her seat.
Lumian roughly talked about the situation of slowing down his pocket watch by a minute and the reply from the "magician" lady, and Franka was amazed and fascinated by it.
After talking about the "Angel of Time", Lumian thought for a moment:
"At the party, 'Loki' didn't hide his appearance well, and I suspect he has abilities similar to 'Face of Nesser' or 'Lies'."
Franka nodded:
"If he is really an official member of the Eighth Bureau, then I think he should be an extraordinary person of the 'soothsayer' path, at least the 'Faceless Man' of Sequence 6, and your 'lie' corresponds to this sequence, well, many of the extraordinary people in the Eighth Bureau are from the 'Diviner' path."
"Is there a 'faceless man' above the 'magician'?" After Lumian got the "lie", he suspected that it was the "soothsayer" path, but he didn't know the corresponding sequence name.
"Yes, this path has been weird and difficult to kill since sequence 7 'Magician', good at change, and in sequence 5, the ability is even more terrifying, it can silently turn a person into a puppet without a self, called 'Secret Puppet Master'." Franka, who entered the world of occultism earlier than Lumian and joined the "Tarot Society" earlier, obviously holds more information about the "Way of God".
After Lumian communicated with Franka about the "fortune teller" route for a while, the two of them fell into the trouble of finding "Loki" in reality at the same time.
At this time, brisk footsteps went upstairs, and Jian Na opened the door of Apartment 601.
She glanced at Lumian sitting in the easy chair and Franka standing next to her, and asked suspiciously:
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm thinking of a difficult problem." Lumian cut off the beginning and tail, telling Jane that he and Franka were tracking down an enemy codenamed "Loki" and were in a lot of trouble, and finally asked, "What are your ideas?"
"You have all vetoed the methods I can think of." Jane shook her head amusedly.
Without waiting for the two companions to speak, she said thoughtfully:
"Ciel, you can think of yourself as 'Loki', as those guys who like to tease others, think about all the things that happened before from their point of view, and see if you can find clues.
My pranks are still very different from theirs...... Lumian didn't say this sentence, and tried to recall his motivations, thoughts, and mentality changes when he played pranks, so as to analyze the behavior and purpose of the "April Fool's Day" team members.
After a moment, he frowned:
"All pranks are about reaping joy when the target is embarrassed or hit, and those who use my sister as the target of pranks cannot confirm the final result and find true happiness in it......
"Similarly, how can they grasp Franka's movements and see her tragic end? You know, even if Franka never goes to that occult meeting again, it may be because of something else that caused the accident."
The three people in the room all thought about this question:
If the person who plays the prank does not see the ending of the prank, he will lack enough sense of accomplishment and will not get the expected happiness, and what do "Loki" and others rely on to determine what happened to Aurore or Franka?
After a while, Lumian said in a deep voice:
"Either the prank is just a cover-up, they do these things for another purpose, or they have a way to monitor the corresponding target."
Franka suddenly felt a chill down her spine and subconsciously looked around the room.
"What can be done?" Jane asked for her.
Lumian shook his head slowly:
"I don't know, this may be a hidden clue."
In the sometimes silent and sometimes discussed exchange, the three of them could not come up with an answer, so they could only temporarily put the matter aside.
On the way back to the Breeze Ballroom, Lumian looked at the afternoon sun and asked tentatively:
"Thermibolos, can I find 'Loki' through the 'Prophecy Technique'?"
Thermiporos' magnificent cascading voice sounded:
"After you leave the old street, if you don't do anti-tracking, you will have met 'Loki' now."
(End of this chapter)