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"i wish i could go back in time, back when it all started" sitting on the head of the long bronze table, klein said as he sighed and raised his hands to rub his temples suddenly, he felt a pluck coming from an infinite distance, The error uniqueness faded followed by it's 2 Beyond characteristics, soon the uniqueness of fool and door also followed along with there beyonder characteristics, and at the end he was left with 1 set of sequence 9 - 1 beyonder characteristics of fool pathway, Startled He cast his gaze down the grey fog and what he saw made his heart freeze in place, He saw the crimson moon spilling her light onto a room, a room that belonged to Klein moretti, a room in which Klein moretti was sitting on his desk with a silver revolver in his hand, a room where Klein moretti has just shot himself to death, Klein's pupil dilated from above the grey fog, as he saw the real Klein moretti commit suicide, it was the reason why he has been transmigrated, or rather he believed himself to be transmigrated back then, Before he could ponder what happened, he saw with his true visions, that melissa, now awoke from the noise entering the room where Klein's body was, Without any further hesitation, he invaded the now dead Klein's body, using his angel level status to heal the wound, and conceal the revolver and the blood stain before melissa could arrive, Tap. Tap. Tap. The footsteps of Melissa grew louder, she was still groggy as she entered the room of his elder brother, "What was that noise?" She asked in a groggy voice while rubbing her eyes "Nothing" Klein said with a nervous chuckle, "it's just that I fell while dreaming," he added, "You had me worried" melissa said with a pout, "I won't do it again" klein said rubbing the back of his head "Okay, I'm going to sleep, sweet dreams" she said as she started heading out "Sweet dreams to you too" Klein said as he went to sit in his desk, Making sure that melissa has left, he instantly turned nearby bugs into Marrionets, scattering them around because the first rule of a magician was to be prepared at all times, as he turned his head gazing on everything that was lying there, He remembered when he first came here into this world waking up with a hole in his head and he was worried about his work not knowing anything, Klein chuckled at that memory, "Hmmm, why did I choose to reincarnate as Klein again?, was it because i didn't wanted melissa to find out that Klein is dead?, no... Soon I'll have to leave again anyways, so why did I do it?, perhaps because I want to spend time with Melissa and benson?, i don't have a family here anymore, so I want to stick to whoever i have as a family?," Klein wondered, to himself putting everything else aside, "Perhaps this time it can be different, i can save them, Without pushing them away, after all what good this second chance will be if I only repeat my previous choices?" Klein said to himself, as he went to sleep, even tho he didn't need to, he was waiting for something, *Next day* After purchasing the bread that melissa wanted Klein was now waiting in his room, he was sure unless someone from the monster pathway or a high sequence beyonder comes in contact with him, no one will be able to find his king of angels status or sefirah although he had to be warry of pallez, Suddenly he felt drowsy, and he knew Captain Dunn had invaded his dreams, he followed the sequence just as his original timeline, following captain dunn outside, Making a run for escape, entering the carriage that he knew had captain dunn as it's driver, then going into a sleep, walking up with miss daly interrogating him, One Major change he noticed was absence of leonard, perhaps pallez has cautioned him to stay away?, or was it evernight goddess's doing?, he wasn't sure, Following the already written script, he walked into the black thorn security company situated in Second floor of Zouteland Street 36 in Tingen City, Where he opened the door without knocking and found the familiar beautiful girl with gentle features and brown hairs dressed in a smooth light green dress, whose head was drooped on the table. With a smile he walked up to her and tapped the desk gently, waking rozzane up, Startled and kind of afraid that captain dunn has find her slacking off before she looked up at the gentleman who woke her up, The brown-haired girl sat up immediately and swiftly took the newspaper in front of her, covering her face. “The steam train service ‘Soaring Express’ that directly reaches Constant City is starting operations today… Oh come on, when will there be one that goes straight to Brindisi Bay. I really don’t want to take the ship there again, it’s too awful, really awful… Hey, who are you?” The girl with brown hair read pretentiously and gave her opinion. As she spoke, she lowered the newspaper and revealed her bright forehead and light-brown eyes, looking at Klein with a fawning and startled look. “Hello, I am Klein Moretti, and I am here at the invitation of Dunn Smith,” Klein said as he took down his hat to his chest and bowed slightly, while inwardly he started chuckling at the excuse he has already heard in his previous life, "Uhh... Captain Dunn, alright I'll go fetch him" the beautiful girl said before heading off down the corridor, "Didn't asked me for water or coffee again" Klein lampooned inwardly, After some time, the beautiful girl opened the door and came out. She said with a sweet smile, “Mr.Moretti, please follow me. The Captain is on watch at the ‘Chanis Gate’ and is unable to leave at the moment.” “Okay.” Klein quickly followed behind. In his mind, he pondered to himself "this time how can I be different without raising the suspicion?, now that i know the goddess is secretly helping me, i don't think I'll have to worry about much, but i should start making preparations to stop "him" rather early, but despite that i should always conceal my moves before I make sure everyone is safe" Going through the partition, and then the small corridor, with only three offices on each side,. The first thing he saw was leonard walking out, their gazes met as Klein offered a smile to him, watching his reaction carefully, "Looks like pallez hasn't said anything to him as of now" Klein wondered, "is he thinking he'll be safe because of evernight goddess? Or does he want to pull me into a sense of security by making me think there's nothing wrong and my identity is safe?" Klein wondered, The brown-haired girl pushed opened the left office door at the end of the room and pointed inside, chirping, “We still have to go down a few levels.” This office had no furniture in place, only a grayish-white stone staircase that extended downwards. The two sides of the stairs were lit up by gas lamps. The stable glow dispelled the darkness and gave a sense of harmony. The brown-haired girl walked in front, staring at her feet while walking carefully. “Although I walk here often, I am still constantly afraid of falling down, tumbling down like a barrel. You don’t know, Leonard did such a folly. On the first day of becoming a ‘Sleepless’—the first day where he had not mastered his new powers—he tried to rush down the flight of stairs. And-and he became a cartwheel. Haha, it was hilarious if you think about it. Oh yes, it was the guy that greeted you just now. This was about three years ago. Speaking of which, I have been with the Nighthawks for five years; I was only seventeen when I joined…” At this Klein couldn't help but laugh and be sad at same time, as he knew what will happen if he doesn't do anything, but at least he had his chance now The girl watched her steps as she spoke. Suddenly, she smacked her forehead and said, “I forgot to introduce myself! I’m Rozanne. My father was a member of the Nighthawks, who sacrificed himself in an accident five years ago. I suppose we are colleagues from now on— Err, yeah ‘colleague’ is the right word… we are not teammates since we are not Beyonders.” At this Klein couldn't help but inwardly chuckle, "mam you also forgot to ask me for coffee" he lampooned inwardly “I hope to have the honor of becoming a beyonder and helping other" klein said with a warm smile As they reached chanis gate rozanne became timid. "Are you not coming with me?" Klein pretended to be confused even tho he knew the answer "I’ve always been a little afraid of him, even though he is amiable, a fatherly figure. I don’t know why but I’m still afraid.” Rozanne spoke as though there was a piece of sweet in her throat. Klein answered humorously, “Isn’t being afraid of a father normal?” “True.” Rozanne said as she held the wall around the bend. “Chanis Gate.” Rozanne reminded him and pointed at the room beside them, saying, “Captain is inside. Go on in by yourself.” “Alright, thank you.” Klein replied gently as he gave rozanne a warm smile before going through the chanis gate to where captain dunn was waiting, Klein took a deep breath to calm himself. Knock! Knock! Knock! “Come in.” He heard Dunn Smith’s deep and amiable voice. Klein opened the unlatched door gently. There was only a table and four chairs inside. Dunn Smith with his high hairline, who was wearing the black coat from the previous night plus a gold watch chain around his chest, was reading the newspaper leisurely. “Come and have a seat. Have you decided? Are you certain you want to join us?” Dunn smiled and asked as he put down the newspaper. Klein removed his hat and bowed, then he sat beside the table and said, “Yes, I am certain.” “Then take a look at this deed, heh heh. People like to call it a contract now.” Dunn pulled out the table drawer and took out two contract copies. A five year contract… Two pounds and ten soli for weekly wages, ten soli as compensation for the risk and confidentiality… Klein read through it and answered resolutely, “I’ve no problem with it.” “Then sign it,” Dunn said as he pointed to the dark red fountain pen and ink. He signed on both contracts with his name: Klein Moretti, Followed by his thumbprint Dunn stored one contract and gave the other to Klein, “Welcome, from now on, you are one of us, and please note that the contract is confidential as well.” Klein nodded as he took it, "shall I address you as captain then?" He asked, "Yes" dunn answered, “I can’t believe you guys would use the name ‘Blackthorn Security Company’ as a disguise,” Klein laughed and said even tho he knew the answer he wanted to savour every moment with his team. “Actually, we have other signboards.” Dunn pulled out a piece of paper from the drawer. It was stamped with the stamps of the city government and the police department. The content was as follows: “Seventh Unit, Special Operations Department, Awwa County Police, Loen Kingdom.” “The first four units are the regular police responsible for general security, like the VIP Protection Unit and Key Installations Protection Unit. And from unit five onwards are the ones dealing with supernatural incidents in each city. Our unit is responsible for incidents related to the followers of Evernight Goddess in Tingen. If there are different types of followers, then we divide the area accordingly; we are mainly in charge of places like the north, west and the Golden Indus region.” Dunn briefly introduced, “Unit Six of the Mandated Punisher squad under the Church of the Lord of Storms is in charge of the pier region, the east, and the south. The university area and the suburbs are under Unit Five, which is the Machinery Hivemind squad in Tingen.” Klein who already knew this nodded and smiled. Before you go there is something you should know dunn said as he gazed at klein “We are guardians, but also a bunch of miserable wretches that are constantly fighting against dangers and madness.” At first Klein didn't understood the meaning properly, but as time went by and he saw people dear to him lose control these line became very profound for him, and now hearing it again, The bright smile on klein's face faded slowly and became one akin to sad, and as if sensing the change Dunn shook his head and smiled when he saw Klein silent. “Are you very disappointed? Beyonders are not like what you imagine them to be. We are always treading alongside danger.” “a price is always exacted for what fate bestows.” Klein uttered the words that was said to him by adam with a quivering voice. “Not bad. Very mature and rational…” Dunn finished the last mouthful of coffee and added, “Also, Beyonders are not as powerful as you imagine them to be, especially a low-Sequence Beyonder. Heh, why would we use 1 to represent the highest grade and 9 the lowest? Isn’t this against intuition and logic? The low Sequence we often mention refers to a low grade or a high number. They are the starting point of the Sequence chain. “Alright, where was I? Yes, Beyonders are not as powerful as you imagine. A low-Sequence Beyonder’s power is no match for guns, much less cannons. They are just more fascinating and indefensible than firearms. If you have a chance to become a Beyonder in the future, you must consider what I said today carefully. Do not make a rash decision.” As someone who once spent a part of his life hunting pirates he was well aware of the weakness and strength of multiple pathways and most importantly regardless of that, he was already an angel from the seer pathway, not to mention that is the only pathway he could have, or else he would've been powerless to stop amon or helpless to get the uniqueness and sequence 1 characteristics from mr.door, while he could chose other option and leave sefirah be but that would lead to disaster in apocalypse, Sometimes later When taking the potion, he saw hidden sage behind old neil In the original timeline hidden sage was the reason for old Neil's death, and this time Klein won't allow that, After leaving the blackthorn security company, and settling into his new home along side benson and mellisa, He started praying to evernight goddess, for a revelation, He felt the surroundings grow dark as a feeling of weightlessness overcame him, opening his eyes he looked at the evernight goddess, who had a knowing smirk "you are not "him" are you?, how did you manage to accommodate the sefirah?" She asked "Goddess aren't you supposed to give revelations?," Klein lampooned inwardly, before replying, "long story short, I'm from past and future, sort of like I lived one life and got a chance to come back here due to sefirah" Klein said with a sigh, "So you know about my situation?" The goddess asked, "Yes" Klein replied, "although i prefer instead of starting a war you do this more quietly" Klein said somewhat somberly, As merlin Hermes, he had already wandered around the aftermath of the battle and saw the destruction and despair it has brought "What do you suggest then?" She asked expectantly, achieving death's uniqueness should not be a problem, the problem is getting the uniqueness of Giant pathway and the river of eternal darkness, and they both knew that the peaceful solution were almost none, Klein sighed, "give me some time okay?" He said gravely, "Klein" the goddess spoke "you are a variable that no one is prepared for, and also a variable that I'm betting on, if it's true, if you have the knowledge of future events, then I'll leave the choices in your hand, and give you my support" she said "but I want you to know that this very well could be your last reset and even if it's not, i want you to treat it as such, adam and amon are very clever even a single moment of carelessness can be your end" she added in a grave voice, with that being said Klein made his own request, "Can you send some of your followers a revelation about the fool and tarot club?, and make sure that leonard is the one who joins? Please please pretty please?" Klein asked in a hopeful tone "Huh? You call yourself the fool?" Evernight goddess asked with a smile "it's fitting of your stature" she said in a voice that can be considered teasing " I'll make sure leonard Mitchell joins the tarot club under the fool, Meanwhile with Leonard Leonard was having a very normal time, which in itself should be abnormal but klein's dear poet didn't bother to read too much into it, one thing that he did noticed was that the old man has been awfully silent, thinking about it, it started during the antigonus notebook incident, "Hey old man" leonard whispered "are you related to that antigonus guy?" He asked, but there was no replies, "is the author of that book some sort of powerhouse who's still alive?, is he the reason for your current state?" He kept asking, but there was no reply, Meanwhile at sefirah castle A strange feeling washed over pallez as he found himself in a place that he could not make out because of the fog surroundings him, as he started wandering aimlessly, he suddenly felt a power so profound it dwarfed amon the monster that pallez has been hiding from, Turning around he saw a figure shrouded in grey fog, with sinister slippery tentacles surroundings him, his blood frooze, a tingling sensation entering his mind as if countless needles have drilled into his mind he quickly lowered his gaze looking at his feet, "Sir, who are you?, and is there something specific I can do for you?," pallez asked in a trembling voice, Klein merely smiled, "take a seat" he said, as pallez went to take his seat Klein continued "you are hiding from amon?, his true body is in forsaken land of gods and his avatars are also scattered away, in addition to that, the jacob family treasure is a sequence 1 Beyonder characteristics of error pathway, which is trap set by amon,, my question for you is what do you intend to do with this information?" He said in a bored tone, The cog in pallez mind started turning faster than ever before the Adrenaline rushing to his head, "the information about amon and the location of sequence 1 Beyonder characteristics, and he just gave away it like nothing, of anything he is almost uninterested just who is he?", Before pallez could give his answer kelin said, "and as for your previous question, you can address me as the fool" Pallez, still looking down said "mr.fool with the information you have given me, I will stop trying to reach out to the jacob family treasure, and try to stay away from any possible exposure, although I wish to ask you why are you helping me" he said in a quivering voice, Klein smiled, not that pallez could see that "I wish for your loyalty, afterall i will need an angel of time after I get rid of amon" he said "and oh, don't tell leonard about klein's little secret" he added, Pallez looked up surprised, "the boy, the angel from seer pathway is your blessed?, it would make sense why is he after antigonus family notebook" he said almost to himself, and then noded, "very well, I shall be your loyal angel of time" he said even tho he had his own doubts about it, in the state he was right now he couldn't do anything even if he wished to, just then Klein snapped his finger and restore a huge portion of pallez strength, "good I have high expectations from you," he said as he threw down pallez back into leonard's body, Meanwhile with leonard "Old man? Old man you dead?" Leonard asked, "shut up you disrespectful brat I'm not dead yet" pallez yelled with indignation, "so you gotten senile?, cause I've been asking you about antigonus for an hour now" leonard said, Pallez sigh "antigonus was a angel of seer pathway who was also a king of angels before he went mad and became half fool,, that's all you should know now" he said "Fool? He was called the fool?" Leonard asked surprised, "Half fool, you idiot," pallez replied "and what's with that face?" He asked, "I just got a message from the higher up, evernight goddess has sent a revelation, the goddess especially wants me to pray to a deity that was "her" consort" leonard said, "Wanna guess who that entity is?", leonard added, "The fool?" Pallez said, "Yes" leonard replied, "Don't worry "HE" is not antigonus", pallez said, " "HE"? Old man actually used "HE"? So the fool is a deity? Who's just as powerful as evernight goddess?" Leonard wondered, "Why do we call the antigonus the fool?" Leonard asked "HALF FOOL YOU STUPID BRAT, AND ASK THAT MR.FOOL WHEN YOU PRAY TO HIM" pallez said before cutting the connection, making leonard sigh, "Why are you getting mad at me?" Leonard ask, "stupid grumpy old man" he said "Who is this fool person?, how is he connected to antigonus and where does evernight goddess comes in?" Leonard thought to himself, Meanwhile at the sefirah Klein, sitting at the lond bronze table at the seat which belongs to the fool, crossed his ten finger before placing it on his chin, In his previous life he had already pulled Audrey and alger into tarot club before joining the church but this time he held back, He wanted to make a plan of action before doing anything First thing is to kill lanevus, and ince zangWill and take 0-08, because that's the root cause of it, that's what adam wants, but then how would that affect demoness sect?, how would the relationship between them and George will be affected?, Klein took a deep breath and conjured a piece of paper, and started writing down the events of his previous life, Starting with Tengen's event, followed by lanevus and slave abduction which then led to great smog of backlund, that followed by the take of German sparrow, and the key to giant king court where sasir is, and the grosells travels, which is power grade 0 artifact, Then there's sea god calvetua, miss messenger, will aceptin, and others, Followed by George III apotheosis ritual and then the enlightenment of city of silver and moon, Speaking of moon, Mr.Moon, and Lilith's matter is also Waiting, should I talk to Lilith directly? After brainstorming on these idea's Klein came up with a plan, I'll first pull up, the star leonard, miss. Justice Audrey, Mr.Hanged man alger, little Sun derrik, the world gehrman sparrow, miss.magician fors, miss judgement xio, Mr.moon emlyn white. Bringing up miss hermit cattleya following queen Bernadette, are the one whom I need to keep an eye out for hidden sage, but pulling them now will not benifit them, Hmmm, or i can bring them up, at once and then offer some really high level items to make the image of fool, After coming up with various idea he made a plan of action, First he'll make multiple identity for different circles, Sherlock moriarty for middle and lower class, Gehrman sparrow for pirate hunting and dangerous mission Dwayne dantes to influence high society And ultimately Merlin Hermes to take care of demigod and angels, He'll have to make attempts simultaneously Take care of lanevus and ince zangWill, using merlin Hermes Stop the slave smuggling and demoness sect using gehrman sparrow and Mr azik helps, Take care of backlund's east area by using the influence of Audrey and Dwayne dantes, Kill sea god kalvetua using Gehrman sparrow again, Take care of hidden factions, His thoughts were interrupted as he heard illusive prayers coming up castings his gaze down he saw leonard and surprisingly mam ariana, at this the corner of Klein's lips twiched, 5 min earlier In the cathedral of the serinity, the base of operation of nighthawk and church of evernight goddess, Leonard was standing against the highest ranking members of church, more noticeably The Pope Saint Anthony Stevenson The highest religious leader of the Church, lady Arianna, Matriarch of the Night, The leader of the ascetic order and the most prominent "hidden" powerhouse of the Church, Nine High-ranking Deacons including Saint Cesmisir, To say he was nervous would be an understatement, in front of leonard an alter was already prepared engraved upon it were words that he assumed to be the 3 part honorific name of the fool, "There's no need to be anxious, just repeat after me" ariana said softly. Leonard following the lead of lady ariana walked up to the alter and started praying, "The fool who doesn't belong to this era" "The mysterious ruler above the grey fog" "The king in yellow and black who wield's good luck" "You are the king of space time, the dominator of spirit world, the beacon of destiny, the embodiment of sefirah, the lord of the mysteries" "I pray for your blessings, i pray for your loving grace, i pray for your help " Leonard repeated after ariana in ancient Hermes, Above the sefirah Klein couldn't help but chuckle, seeing so many items used to please deity held for him, In the past the tarot club has held rituals for him but those were made by simply praying or using the items necessary for them to make a mystical bridge, but it was the first time someone has litten fragrance to please him during the ritual, Extending his hands he injected his spirituality, Suddenly an angel made of golden light with 12 black wings protruding out his back descended, illuminating the entire room, a strange warmth and sense of peace settled over everyone soon followed by a feeling of weightlessness that overcame leonard and Ariana as they were pulled into the sefirah, they found themselves sitting on a table, there were 22 seats around them perhaps representing each pathway?, leonard thought, looking around they saw a figure sitting on the head of long bzone table, the figure was shrouded in grey fog, Klein looked at the duo with a faint smile, "your prayer has been heard", he said in a gentle manner, "Uhh... Um" leonard started stuttering in a presence of a true God, before this the only high level existence he has saw was that of old man pallez and lady ariana, and both looked insignificant in front of this deity, As a nighthawk he knew how dangerous it was to contact hidden existences but since evernight goddess has called mr.fool' her consort and ordered them to pray to him, he figured out that mr.fool must be a benevolent deity, "Mr.Fool, my name is ariana, an angel under the evernight goddess and he is leonard Mitchell, the evernight goddess wanted us to pray to you for help" lady ariana said in her uasal soft aloof voice, "If evernight wishes for me to help you, then that help shall be provided, you can simply chant the first 3 lines of name without needing to make any ritual and after that you can make your wish" Klein said in a gentle voice, he intentionally left out the goddess part because he had a status to maintain, Following this, a piece of paper appeared in front of ariana, there on the paper were written the honorific name of merlin Hermes "The attendance of mysteries, the magician with many names, the embodiment of miracles, the angel of wishes, merlin Hermes" "This Is the honorific names you can use to summon my angels for help" Klein said warmly "Thank you mr.Fool, the church is ever grateful for your benevolence" lady ariana said softly in her aloof voice, "Mr.Fool, if I wish to ask a question what should I have to do in return" leonard asked, he had many questions that pallez has not answered and that has been bothering him. Klein turned to his dear poet, and said in a calm voice "if you wish to ask me a question, based of the law of equivalent exchange, depending on the question and the knowledge, you will have to do one thing for me that is of equal value, the task will be within your capabilities", Klein continued, "on that regard, at every Monday 3 pm accordingly to backlund time, i hold a gathering among people like you who wishes to seek knowledge and items and my blessed, if you wish to join them chose one tarot card" Klein finished as a deck of tarot card appeared in front of them, Leonard drew the card "the star" as expected, and ariana chose not to join the gathering because of her unique status, After doing that, he sent leonard and Ariana back into cathedral of serenity, where other members were Waiting, there expression was still that of profound shock, from the earlier display of the 12 winged angel, Arina walking up to the pope, gave him a piece of paper, "this has the honorific name of the angel under mr.Fool, you can contact "him" for help" she said "also by using the first 3 lines of his honorific names, that evernight goddess provided, you can make a wish that will be fulfilled" she said, The pope nodded at her, "if the evernight goddess wants us to believe in "him" then that's what we will do" With that done, Klein turned his thoughts on the other matter, "there are 3 days, till the 1st tarot gathering, I have to invite the other people rather quickly," Klein thought as he snapped his fingers, Just as the sound of the snap echoes in the sefirah, a naive noble girl in a green dress, a mysticism enthusiast who was attempting a mirror divination, a person with blue hair on a ship stuck in middle of a storm holding a cup whose inside started freezing and a tall blonde kid in front of an alter who's chanting in joutan, were suddenly pulled into the sefirah Alger, who's was on his ship and then suddenly found himself in a place surrounded by grey fog, sitting on the table, in front of him, was girl who strangely was more excited than afraid, and at the far end of the table was also a tall person, there figure shrouded in faint grey fog, Turning to the head of the long bronze table, he saw a figure shrouded in think grey fog, the sailor pathway's instinct that warned them of strength of others, screamed at him to bow his head and prostrate himself, "Not to be rude sir, but where are we and who are you?" He asked in a quivering voice, "You can address me as The Fool, as for the origin of this place, you are not ready to know that", Klein said with a faint smile, Upon hearing that, alger and derrik understood that this person was far more terrifying than they initially thought, both for different reasons, Alger, knowing that seeing what you shouldn't can get you killed, and sun knew that you shouldn't gaze at a god, At this moment both came to the same conclusion, that "The Fool" was a god, But Audrey who was inexperienced and didn't knew much, was very confused, " what does that mean Mr.Fool? " She asked, with a hint of curiosity, excitement and a little bit of fear "In the world of beyonders there are some knowledge that can make a certain mystism connection and when that happens the person will get courrpted, and lose control, or become a mindless vessel" Klein said in a tone akin to that of a teacher "the origin of this place is written in the second blasphemy slate in the section of Cosmos and outer deity, only after one becomes an angel should this knowledge will be available," he finished, as realisation dawned on Audrey's face, "Outer deity?, is Mr.Fool an outer deity from the Cosmos whose mere origin is enough to corrupt others?, and it's written in blasphemy slate?" Alger thought to himself, "Mr.Fool, why did you brought us here?" The question was raised by Derrick, "You can consider this an attempt" said Klein, "An attempt?, so is it successful now?, will you permit us to leave?" This time the question was raised by Audrey, " Yes, if you wish to leave, just make a formal request and I shall send you back," said Klein, Upon hearing that, the 3 people felt a relief wash over them "It's so absurd, I mean I was in my bedroom, and then suddenly I'm here, and it's so mysterious" Audrey said nervously, "what I mean is I'm quite fascinated with mystism, and I wanna know how to become a beyonder please....." Said Audrey in a slightly embarrassed tone Klein smiled faintly at Audrey, knowing what she'll grow up into, Klein couldn't help be nostalgic about it, "To become a beyonder you must drink a potion," Klein said and gave Audrey a basic framework of the 22 pathway, their sequence and their basic abilities, The extent of his knowledge about all the pathway and sequence, was extraordinary, but expected from an ancient deity from Cosmos, "If you choose the spectator pathway, then you'll have plenty of opportunities to become a high sequence beyonder rather quickly" Klein added after finishing his explanation, Audrey who didn't know any better decided to heed to Mr.Fool advice and choose the spectator pathway, with Mr.Fool as the witness she and alger made the trade, At this time darrik who has been silently listening to the conversation raised his hand and asked "Mr.Fool, do you know how can we can escape the forsaken land of gods? What would I have to do in return for the help?" Forsaken lands of God?, as in the place where even the 7 orthodox deity can't reach?, Mr.fool can reach people from the forsaken land of gods? how high is Mr.Fool's level? Alger and Audrey both had similar thoughts, Klein looked at the derrik, in his previous life he had no idea so he could only delay matters, but this time he has both the knowledge and the power to save them, "Yes i know how you can escape from the forsaken land of gods" klein replied "although you don't have the necessary resources for that" he said as he leaned back, "and you don't have to pay me for it, perhaps once you get out of the forsaken land, i might have some task for you" even tho Klein wanted to save the forsaken lands of God, he knew the place is tied to adam and amon, and it wouldn't do good to make moves prematurely At first he have to take the 0-08 followed by grosells travel and giant kings court, only after making sure that adam has no way to advance to sequence 0 visionary, he will strike at amon and after that save the city of silver and the city of moon "Yes Mr.Fool," derrik said, with happiness, this outer deity, knew how to save the city of silver, even tho he didn't have the necessary resources now, he finally have a way, After few more exchanges including Audrey's curiosity towards the forsaken land of god, soon the gathering came to a close “Mr.Fool would you mind making a few more attempt like this?" Audrey asked hopefully, “Mr.Fool, don’t you find such ‘Gatherings’ interesting? Although your powers exceed our imaginations, there has to be certain domains that you don’t understand or excel in. The person across me is obviously a young lady of lofty stature. I also have my unique set of experiences, insights, mediums, and resources. Perhaps there will come a day when both of us can help you complete something trivial that might be inconvenient for you.” alger added, hoping that Mr.Fool will agree with him, this was his chance to become a high ranking beyonder, the chance he won't get from the Church, Klein smiled, he already had a reply to that “I’m a person who likes a fair and equal exchange.Your help will not go unrewarded." "Draw a card" he said a deck appeared in front of each member, "The justice" Audrey said, "The hanged man" alger said, "The sun" derrik said, "If you find yourself in trouble, then you can pray to me, for assistance" Klein said, "Mr.Fool how should we pray to you?" Asked Audrey in a existed voice, "The fool who doesn't belong to this era" "The mysterious ruler above the grey fog" "The king in yellow and black who wield's good luck" "A three part honorific name?, "Mr.Fool" really is a deity" both alger and Audrey had the similar thoughts, "Every Monday at 3 PM, try to be away from any disturbance, as you the sun I will notify you a thousand heartbeats before the gathering starts" Klein said, Each of them stood from there seat bowed towards the fool, and left, Klein let out a long sigh "even tho I have become a deity now, playing the role of Mr.Fool is still very embarrassing," Klein chuckled at his situation, After that the the red star representing miss Justice, glowed as she offered the money for the sequence 9 spectator formula, and Klein sent that money as a bestowment to alger, Tapping the long bronze table, Klein decided he'll deal with ince zangWill now, and then use the identity to gehrman sparrow to contact vise admiral edwina, Somewhere in tingen city, Ince zangwill looked at the item 0-08 which has started writing on it's own, his heart became heavy, "Just then a curtain fell over the entire tingen city, isolating it from outside world as a high level entity locked onto the 0-08" the quill of alzuhod wrote, as a humanoid creature came from the spirit world, it had no facial features, just worms resembling meat tendrils crawling where his face was supposed to be, and strage sinister tentacles were protruding out his lower parts, Upon seeing this ince zangWill who was just a sequence 5 beyonder at this time felt his mind go numb as if multiple needles have been pierced through his skull, He instantly collapsed and but before he could even lose control, he was turned into a marrionet, The humanoid creature, picked up the 0-08 also known as the quill of alzuhod, and the Marrionet that was once zangWill, and thew them at sefirah castle, before entering himself, Klein who was sitting at the head long bronze table, looked at his marrionet and ince zangWill corpse who has also turned into a marrionet now, He reached out and took the quill of alzuhod, and put it on the desk along side a paper, "Are you him?" The quill wrote, "Who do you mean by him?" Klein asked deciding to play the role of a mysterious seer, and talk in riddles, "The celestial worthy of heaven and earth" the quill wrote "Yes and no" Klein said with a smile, "I'm what he represents, I'm the new owner of sefirah castle," "Is celestial worthy gone?" The quill wrote, "Yes" Klein said "What should I address you as?" The quill wrote "The Fool" Klein said, "Why did you wanted me?" The quill wrote, "Is alzuhod still within you?" Instead of answering Klein replied with his own question "Yes" the quill wrote. "Are you aware of adam?" Klein asked "Yes" the quill wrote again, "I have a proposal for you, become my blessed and I will save you from adam" Klein said, "If i refuse you'll turn me into a beyonder characteristics?" The quill wrote, "Yes" Klein replied, "Alright, i agree to become your blessed, i won't write anything against you, but in the state i am, i won't be of much help again adam" the quill wrote, "You need not to worry about it,, soon I'll bring the grosells travels for you to write upon" Klein said, Even tho the quill had no voice or any facial features to discern, Klein got a feeling that the quill was surprised "I'm not sure i can match adam even with that, but I will regain my strength as a sequence 1 author, or even a king of angel with that" the quill wrote, "I don't need you to contend with adam directly" Klein said, "just make minor coincidence to help my blessed", Klein added, "Alright" the quill wrote, Somewhere in backlund into the church of steam and machinery, a mirror sneezed, "eh? Someone's trying to steal my glorious master?" The aqueous light formed these words on it's surface, soon the mirror's surface rippled and new words formed out, "I'll have to find my master and tell him that his loyal servant is ready to serve him", After handling the situation with 0-08, Klein suddenly fell into a dilemma, should he tell mellisa and benson? Should he make them a beyonder?, or in a act of sacrificial love leave them behind Without a word? "I've been pushing it for too long, i started tarot club, became a nighthawk, and even got alzuhod, but i still don't want to face melissa and benson," Klein said to himself, " just for how much longer can I push it huh?," he wondered, "If i go and get the grosells travels and use that with quill of alzuhod, to make coincidences that will lead them to find out about beyonders and mysticism, then they'll surely come to me right? And I can just let them make a choice, yes that's the best way as for now" Klein said to himself, As he looked down at Bayam the city of generosity, he took the Marrionet he used to kill ince zangWill, and threw it down, the humanoid creature, with no facial features turned into the cold gehrman sparrow and landed onto the outskirts of the Bayam. Although the identity of Gehrman sparrow was supposed to come after the great smog of backlund, Klein wished to make more connections rather early so he can have a better idea of what's happening all around him, not to mention the money he'll need for the identity of Dwayne dantes, which is his key to the high society and will allow him to monitor how george III and demoness sect are moving now that ince zangwill is dead, Ofcourse it wouldn't do good to make moves preemptively that will cause adam to change his plan, and pace, If something as precious as 0-08 were to suddenly vanish adam surely would get suspicious, the only reason Klein even dared to get 0-08 because the death of ince zangwill was written by it, And 0-08 killing it's owner isn't a variable, with the natural anti divination ability it has, all Klein needed to do is to make another identity of a demigod saint who makes coincidence that will be difficult to notice for the church, but someone like adam should be able to discover, The major advantage Klein has as of now is the unless evernight goddess started "her" plan, and George III started his ritual adam will not collect the 0-08, All he had to do, is to make sure when he really need 0-08, instead of using it to make coincidence, he had to disguise it as good luck, so that any blame can be later shift on to his ice cream lover friend, ofcourse if will acepten have any problems with it, that can be easily solved by ice creams, The Marrionet who was now the Gehrman sparrow, with the help of alzuhod, he coincidentally ran into danitz who was running away from "steel maveti" Although this was supposed to happen few months later, with bayam being the unofficial base of pirates two opposing pirates meeting by coincidence wasn't a big thing, Tap. Tap. Tap Danitz ran as fast as he could and in his hurry he did not saw the figure of Gehrman sparrow, and ran into him head first and fell on his butt, Klein didn't said anything, as he looked at danitz coldly, Just as then danitz looked up metting gehrman sparrow's cold eyes and his spirit instinct screamed at him that this person is dangerous, more dangerous than anything danitz has faced in his life, "Uh, you see," danitz stutter, "I'm sorry, please don't kill me" he suddenly begged, afraid of this person, "Where can I find pirates with high bounty" Klein asked in a cold voice, "High bounty?, high bounty?, this is it, i can tell him to hunt steel and the get away during the conflict" danitz thought, as he pointed into the direction where he was running away from, "There a high bounty pirat," danitz said "he is the reason why I was running", he hurriedly said, as he stood up and moved to the side, A cold smile tugged at Klein's lips, as he took the death knull, or rather the historical projection of it, and switched to the 3rd mode, The reason for this was simple, it wouldn't do him any good to reveal his Angel status, amon or adam might lock onto him if he made any mistake, so he will present the Gehrman sparrow as a sequence 5 beyonder with multiple grade 1 artifacts, Tap. Tap. Tap, Steel maveti who was hunting danitz suddenly spotted him beside a unfamiliar figure who's had a crazed expression and a revolver in hand, Before he could process what's happening, the figure raised the revolver and shot in his direction, he instictvely jumped to the side escaping the line of fire. Bang. The sound echoed as the bullet shattered and hit him at multiple places, some of them were at his legs and some of it hit him at his arms, He quickly turned took out his own revolver and tried to shoot Klein while using his ice power to make the surface slippery, but Klein easily evaded him because of the clown's inhuman balance not to mention it was merely a marrionte, Klein used death knull to fire a sun based bullet, which again shattered in a area of effect and burned steel, instantly killing him, "Even tho a beyonder of sequence 6 or 5 is very strong when compared to normal people, one minor mistake can get them killed just as easily" vise admiral edwina's words echoed in danitz's mind, Even tho he was prepared to run the moment the conflict began, he found himself rooted in his place the moment the first shot was fired and then the second shot, Within less than a minute a the second mate of blood senor with such a high bounty was killed, solely because he jumped at his enemy without any knowledge, The figure of Gehrman sparrow lifted the the dead body of steel and turned to danitz with the same cold smile, "Where can I retrieve this bounty?," he asked in a cold tone, he ofcourse knew what to do, but he also had to make connections with danitz so he can later meet with vice admiral iceberg "Uh,.. you need to go to governes office" danitz said shaken "Lead me there" Klein said, Danitz froze, why is this crazy person dragging me into this, "alright" he stuttered, as he lead Gehrman sparrow to the governor office, Somewhere between this journey, the beyonder characteristics of steel, a sequence 6 zombie of the chained pathway, had seeped out, which Klein chose not to sell just now and look for future opportunities, At Klein's current level hunting pirates admirals won't be hard he can even go after the pirate kings, but as of now in just a span of 3 days he had already done too much, Such as collecting 0-08, and using it with historical projection of groselles travel, making strong ties with the church and the identity of merlin Hermes and Gehrman sparrow, Now he was afraid that if does anything too major adam and amon would find out and change their plan accordingly, that way his advantage would be lost, he would be firing in dark, While he was confident that he can take on amon and Adam with the help of evernight goddess, he didn't wish to risk it, With that said, he'll wait for a few months and do minor things to turn sherlock moriarty and Gehrman sparrow more real, Sherlock moriarty will keep an eye on east burrow, and Dwayne dantes will keep an eye on North burrow, And only when demoness sect and aurora order becomes more proactive, he'll intervene as Merlin Hermes from the church of evernight goddess, Leaving some of his spirit worms above the grey fog to monitor gehrman sparrow, Klein decened through the fog entering his home, where night has already fallen, After much consideration he came to the conclusion he won't try to manipulate melissa and benson's decision or life, rather he'll come out clean and trust them, afterall isn't that what family do? Walking out of his room, he spotted benson sitting at the dining room with Melissa in kitchen, "melissa, benson, i have something to confess" Klein said in a serious tone, "You finally found a girl?" Melissa asked as she looked up from her place, "i was going to take you both to a gathering to help fix your marriage problem but looks like I only have to worry about benson now" she quickly added, as she twirled the kitchen spoon in her hand, Hearing this, that corner of Klein's lips stated twitching, "miss. must you always make such assumptions? why can't you be serious for a moment?" Klein lampooned, Benson coughed to get the attention of other, in his usual elder brother tone he said "melissa why don't you let Klein finish and then we can find out which of your worries has been solved?" He offered, "I'm not wrong tho, you all are getting older, Klein has already graduated and got a nice job, and you are turning into a pre-historic person" melissa complaint, "Pre historic?" Benson repeated, "i can't be that old right?" He said in a tone filled with denial, "Klein back me up" he said as he looked at Klein hopefully, This time Klein couldn't help but curl the edges of his lips upward, for a moment he forgot about all the worries, "melissa, you should not call benson pre historic, that is very rude," Klein said in a scolding tone at which benson sighed in relief "even tho benson is a living Fossil who has witnessed the evolution of human civilization" Klein added in a teasing tone, at which melissa burst out laughing, and benson let out a groan, "You too Klein?, i had hopes from you," benson said as he turned slightly serious again, "although what was the thing you wanted to tell us earlier?, it sounded urgent" he said thoughtfully, At this Klein got serious again, and sat at the dining table, urging melissa and benson to gather around, "How do I put this," Klein said more to himself, "i have became a beyonder under the church of evernight goddess and joined the nighthawks" Klein said "come on Klein, 3 days of thinking and that's the best you come up with?" Klein immediately lampooned inwardly, "Huh?" Was the intelligent reply of both melissa and benson, "What is a beyonder?" Melissa asked, "what is nighthawks?" Benson followed, "Calm down and let me finish",, Klein said as he took a deep breath, "A beyonder is someone who uses potion to tranced the limits of human, there are currently 22 standard pathway, each having 9 sequences, the higher the sequence the stronger they get, at sequence 9-8, one is just a human with some magic tricks, at sequence 7-5 they started becoming too strong for a humans, at sequence 4-3, they become half mythical creature, who are also called demigod saints, and at sequence 2-1, they become complete mystical creature also known as angels" Klein said in a serious tone, "Klein are you skipping on your sleep again?" Melissa ask, in a concerned voice, "I told you being so stressed will make you go crazy" she said with a huff, "Mam can you be any more serious just this once?" Klein lampooned "Klein, what is the meaning of this?" Benson asked, "Would it be better if i just show you?" Klein asked, "Yes" both melissa and benson replied, With a deep breath, klein took them above the sefirah, "Before you say anything, I can't tell you what it is, and you can't tell anyone about it, and by that I mean 'anyone' cause if you do we all would be in great danger" Klein said, Melissa who looked like she wanted to say something, couldn't produce any Sound, Benson too wasn't doing much better, "Hello? Guys?" Klein asked, "What is happening with you?" Melissa asked, her tone unusually down and solemn, Klein felt a pang of guilt and sadness, "would've it been better if I stayed silent and left without informing any on you?" Klein asked, with a sad smile, "What?, what do you mean leave without telling? You can't do that," benson said sternly, Klein who had a small sad smile on his face replied "remember the notebook that welch brought?, it belonged to an angel from the 4th epoc, due to that welch and naya died," "But didn't they commit suicide?" Melissa asked in a concerned voice, "Did they do it under the influence of that notebook?" Benson made a guess, "Yes" Klein confirmed, "i survived but,.... You see things like this don't just disappear, that's why I had to become a beyonder under the church of evernight goddess", "And nighthawk is the organisation that you joined under the church?" Benson made another guess, "Yes" Klein said, "I'm not supposed to tell you about this, but I can't bring myself to lie about it either, we have 2 option" "First option is that Klein morreti dies, and I make a new identity for myself somewhere far away, this was no matter what dangers i attract, you both will be able to live a safe life" he said in a somber tone "Klein you can't mean that" melissa who looked like she's about to cry, suddenly jumped up from her seat "You can't just leave, not when everything is finally starting to look good for us, not when we finally have a future to work toward, not when...." She couldn't finish her sentence as she started sobbing, 0-08, who has been observing up until now, Started writing, "He ain't wrong tho, the world of beyonder is cruel, so much so that death is a favorable outcome for many, beside you have a second choice, to become beyonder under a church, that way you won't have to worry about this", Benson who was already overwhelmed, had no strength to be surprised at an alive quill, "Klein, even if it's dangerous, you can't just leave, i understand you are concerned for us but-" he was cut off as Klein said "I wish it would've been that simple, i don't want to leave and I'm trying to find a way that protects you without me leaving, but as alzuhod said, the only way that doesn't include me leaving is you too becoming a beyonder or a civilian staff under a church," Melissa who has now calmed down and gotten a hold on her feelings said, "Then it's final, in few months I have a exam that will be held in backlund, we can go there, benson will also find a job, and we'll go under the protection of a church..., " she said in a tone of finality, it was clear she is not going to change her mind, After this they left sefirah, returning to thier home for dinner, and while the food was appetizing, the atmosphere was subdued, benson was eating in silence, melissa was chewing her food mechanically,