Chapter 251 Another Party
"One is in the attic. Hmm, judging by the height, it should be the fourth floor. Perhaps he's looking down at the manor house surrounding the villa. The other is by the main entrance and living room. I didn't even notice him when I walked in just now..."
The bright red figures of the two extraordinary people were extremely dazzling among the other pale-colored ordinary people. Of course, Angel did not count those who had been confirmed to be extraordinary people, um, and dogs.
For example, Miss Justice, while claiming to be searching for the Audience potion, had already turned a bright red in the Crimson Eye's field of vision. The large golden retriever wandering the villa was also a transcendental creature. As for Grelint... unfortunately, despite obtaining the potion formula, he was still an ordinary human.
Angel quickly locked onto the positions of the two Beyonders who served as bodyguards for the Earl's family and immediately released his fingers, letting the obscene words that were gradually becoming louder in his ears slowly fade away.
As expected, Earl Hall's family was indeed secretly protected by Extraordinary People. It made sense. As the Earl was a top aristocrat and an influential member of the cabinet, with a net worth of over ten million pounds, if his family did not have Extraordinary People protecting them, wouldn't he be at the mercy of others?
I heard that the Earl's family are all believers of the Goddess of Night. Perhaps these two Beyonders were arranged by the Night Watchers, or even that they are members of the Night Watchers themselves...
Angel guessed.
Fortunately, the two extraordinary people were quite far away from the bathroom, and they didn't notice her peeping from their actions, which made her feel relieved.
But Angel still needs to be fully prepared for his next actions.
She waited a moment, pressed the flush button on the toilet, then turned on the hot water valve at the sink, allowing the rising steam to quickly cover the surface of the half-length mirror, making it blurry and unusable.
Then, she took out a magic mirror from her handbag that looked like a small dressing mirror and carefully examined her own appearance in the mirror, like a beauty-conscious woman who had to use her own dressing mirror because the mirror was blurry.
"Mirror, Mirror, tell me what Hibbert Hall and Gralint talked about."
She moved her lips slightly and silently recited the divination words, then tapped the mirror with her thumb, causing it to ripple like water, revealing content that only she could see and hear.
She performed divination within the vigilance range of the two extraordinary people because she had just come into contact with the two targets of divination and could obtain the most information at this time. If she waited until she left the Hall family's villa, she might only be able to see a few words.
For the sake of his Sequence 6 potion, these risks were worth taking.
"Sir Des Shaw also suggested this, but I have to choose the candidate. Do you have a suitable one?"
The mirror showed a dark room with the curtains drawn. The four people who had just been talking in the corridor were sitting around the coffee table, conspiring in low voices. Hibbert looked at Greylint and asked the question he had not finished asking.
"Mary Gale. She's a member of the committee and a shareholder in Coim's, whose main product is anthracite coal, a beneficiary of the bill. Most importantly, she's divorced from her husband and is now isolated and helpless, making her a perfect target."
Grellint said with a frown.
"Ms. Mary... I've met her once. Great, that's her. Be careful not to get caught, or we'll become a laughing stock."
This sentence was said by Hibbert to another middle-aged man.
"Okay, Mr. Hall, I'll go to the East District to find someone. With a few more hands, no one will ever trace us."
The image on the magic mirror faded, and Angel's own face reappeared.
"Target...be careful...are they planning to take action against Ms. Mary? Is the Chief Secretary of the Air Pollution Investigation Committee plotting to take action against one of their own members?"
Angel's heart was in turmoil, but his expression remained unchanged. He put away the magic mirror, as if he was using a dressing mirror to check his makeup, then washed his hands and left the bathroom.
On the way, she briefly touched the "Scarlet Eye" in her handbag. The two Beyonder bodyguards remained where they were, while the Beyonder Dog wandered to the other end of the villa, almost out of her sight.
Good, no one discovered my divination...
Angel felt relieved and returned to the reception room under the guidance of the maid.
Several nobles were discussing whether the "Black Emperor" was a man or a woman. Christine, who had just shown an excited expression, firmly believed that the thief was a female Beyonder because of the "Queen" card and the rumors passed by the people near the Capin mansion. Grelint, who had just returned here, believed it was a man because there were more witnesses of the Armored Crown Ghost, and the ghost was over 1.8 meters tall, so it was unlikely to be a woman.
"Or maybe they are an organization, and some people use the 'Emperor' card as a symbol of their identity, while others use the 'Queen'. There are even other cards, such as 'Justice' and 'Strength'."
For a moment, Conse forgot his identity as a MI9 officer and fantasized with anticipation.
An organization? Unfortunately, the cards on Capian's body were played by Moriarty at my request, and I... huh?
Angel suddenly realized that if Cons's inference was correct, and there really was such an organization that would use tarot cards to announce after killing the target, then Sherlock Moriarty, who made him set up "Emperor" and "Judgment" after Capin's death, could he really be a member of the organization, a member called "Black Emperor"?
"If there is such an organization, I would definitely choose the 'Justice' card!"
"Justice," Audrey said with a narrowed eye and a smile, interrupting Angel's thoughts.
…
The party ended quickly, and several noble sons left the Hall family's villa with their personal servants in carriages. Angel came in a hired carriage, and Queens, especially the wealthy residential area, had no subway and few public carriage lines. She might need to walk for a while to find public transportation or hire a carriage to go home.
"Miss Irene, please wait a moment."
Audrey stopped Angel who was about to leave.
Besides her, the only people left in the room were Angel and Grellint, members of the "Mystic Salon". The latter seemed to have known Audrey's plan for a long time and did not show any surprise.
"There's a Beyonder gathering later this week. It's the one Ms. Fors mentioned last time where someone was selling the Audience formula. They can't come due to some matters, so I'd like to invite you to join them."
After Audrey finished speaking, she looked at Grellint who was standing beside her. The Viscount nodded and took over the topic:
"I also need to go to the party to buy the ingredients for the 'Pharmacist'. I don't have those two items in my family's treasury."
He then lamented:
"The serial killer has finally been apprehended. Otherwise, if the Beyonder gathering had been postponed any further, I would have had to ask my father's old friend to come up with a solution."
The Viscount, who had obtained the coveted potion formula, had obviously been waiting for a long time. Now that he was able to attend the Beyonder gathering and purchase materials, his face was filled with excitement.
Angel originally wanted to leave immediately and go to Selvilia to report the divination results that shocked her, but then she thought that after leaving the villa with these two nobles, she might be able to find out some information about Hibbert and verify the results of the divination, so she agreed.
She also guessed that Audrey asked her to go with her, most likely because she needed to borrow her Beyonder identity. After all, the earl's daughter was not officially a Beyonder, and Grelint had not become a true pharmacist. The two of them usually went to Beyonder gatherings accompanied and protected by Xio or Fors. Now that the other two were absent, they could only rely on her.
Taking the Hall family's carriage, the three of them first arrived at Viscount Greylint's house. They left their personal maid and Susie at his house and changed to another unmarked carriage. After several twists and turns, they changed carriages again and arrived at the outskirts of the North District, a three-story house that originally belonged to Backlund Medical School but was now almost abandoned.
"Holding a party in a place like this in broad daylight, aren't they worried about being discovered and reported?"
Grellant asked curiously. This was also his first time here. He followed Audrey into a dressing room, put on white coats, white masks and surgical caps, and dressed himself up like a medical student doing an internship.
"If we're in the North District, it's actually safer during the day than at night, because this area is under the jurisdiction of the 'Nightwatchers' of the Church of Evernight. They are, well, nocturnal creatures..."
Angel put on his mask and explained in a muffled voice, thinking of his partners in Tingen City who liked to solve cases in the middle of the night.
"It's so spooky here. Even during the day, I feel like there are ghosts and evil spirits wandering around."
The Viscount murmured, and shuddered.
"Glint, this is a Beyonder gathering. If any ghosts or evil spirits appear, they will surely happily make them into materials or capture them as servants," Audrey replied, leading the two to the other side of the dressing room, where there was also a large door. "Besides, don't we still have Miss Irene? She's a true Beyonder."
"Let me be clear, the 'Fortune Teller' has no fighting power..."
Angel smiled awkwardly and added silently in his heart: Fortunately, I am not a "fortune teller".
Pushing open the door, the three came to a large classroom. There were already more than a dozen members in the classroom who were also wearing white coats and covering their faces with masks. They sat at a long table like medical students, facing the center of the classroom.
At the end of everyone's sight, there was a transparent glass column standing upright, reaching the ceiling. The interior was filled with light yellow preservative fluid, and a male corpse in a black bachelor's gown was floating in it.
There are four wooden platforms around which skeletal specimens are placed, and four equally transparent glass coffins which contain naked corpses preserved in embalming fluid.
“Ah…”
Viscount Grelint, who was standing next to Angel, let out a strange whimper after seeing the furnishings in the classroom.
Amid the pungent smell of preservatives, she looked at the Viscount, who was almost huddled up in a ball. The part of his face not covered by the mask had become as pale as his white coat, and his eyes were wide open, revealing undisguised panic.
He moved closer to Angel, the "Extraordinary Person", almost sticking to him, before his body stopped trembling.
Audrey, who was not here for the first time, whispered, "Come with me, let's find a place to sit down first."
Noticing that several people had turned their gazes in their direction, Angel obediently followed Audrey to sit at the long table in the corner, sitting upright like the other participants.
Now all I need is a textbook, and I’ll be back to my student days…
Inwardly scorning this bizarre gathering place, Angel waited for a few minutes. When no new members pushed the door open, the male corpse in the glass column suddenly opened his eyes, quickly glanced at the party members outside, and then opened his mouth, letting a voice come out through the glass:
"Let the party begin."
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