Chapter 413 Closed Loop
"So, you actually stayed in Trier, the capital of the Intis Republic, for three days, and only returned to Bansi tonight?"
After listening to Angel's lengthy story, Klein asked slowly with a calm expression.
He had been looking gloomy since returning from Room 312 of "Flame" Danitz. Only after listening to Angel's flawless experience did his tense limbs and expression relax slightly.
"Yes, I thought you had already left Bansi and headed for Bayam. Is it because of the Storm Church?"
Angel had simply washed and changed into fresh clothes, then slumped down on the living room sofa, relaxing her exhausted limbs. Initially, she'd thought it was due to repeated use of the "Knight Bracelet," but she soon discovered it was actually the result of the ritual she'd performed while returning to Bansi from Trier. As her spirituality slowly recovered, her strength gradually returned to her.
"How do you prove you are 'Angel Granger'?"
Klein ignored her fatigue and persisted in asking.
"Okay," Angel said with all his strength, "The one in your left hand is 'Creeping Hunger', and there's an amethyst pendulum on your wrist, which I gave you in Tingen. There's also a 'Biotoxin Bottle' in your pocket. Um, the Sun Brooch is on me..."
As she spoke, she took out the "Sun Brooch" that was sealed in the bullet box by the spiritual wall from her pocket - if she didn't do this, drought and thirst would always torment her - and threw it back to Klein.
Then she told him about the magical items she was carrying and how she obtained them. These were all secrets between the two of them, and no third person would know the whole story.
It was not until Angel began to recall how the cracks on her citrine pendant appeared that Klein stopped her somewhat embarrassedly.
"No need to continue. You are indeed 'you,' but this is a little strange..." He frowned, fingers running down his chin, stroking his nonexistent beard, as if returning to his detective identity in Backlund. "You are on the White Onyx now, but... well, do you know what day it is?"
"Of course it was Friday, December 24th. I arrived in Trier from Bansi on Tuesday evening and returned here three days later, tonight."
Angel felt a little amused, but still answered patiently.
"That's the problem," Klein said, his lips twitching as he forced a smile. "It's now December 21st, Tuesday, 10 p.m., about two hours after you disappeared from the altar in the cave academy on the mountaintop."
"impossible!"
Subconsciously thinking that the other party was joking, Angel jumped up from the sofa, but quickly sat back down because of the sore legs and feet.
"You mean, those three days in Trier were all just a dream? But I got to know the university students there, witnessed the extraordinary disappearance of a living person in the catacombs, had a feast from Intis, and... oh yeah, I even got five pages of Emperor Roselle's diary."
She forced herself to stand up again, returned to the bedroom, and quickly returned to the living room with a stack of manuscript paper that hadn't yet dried, showing it to Klein.
"Is this not some imaginary thing? This is dedicated to Mr. Fool."
Klein's eyes quickly swept across the Emperor's diary and stopped at Angel's tightly pursed lips.
"Of course I believe you," he suddenly smiled. This smile didn't seem like the crazy adventurer he'd been playing all day, but the Klein Angel was familiar with. "So we have to find out the real reason why you're here and in Trier at the same time."
"At the same time...what do you mean?"
Angel frowned at first, then his eyes widened and he suddenly realized.
"Indeed, when I was sending you back to your room just now, I received Mr. Fool's 'revelation,' and he conveyed your words." Klein cleared his throat and used the Faceless Man's ability to imitate Angel's tone. "Respected Mr. Fool, I request that you convey the following words to your follower, Klein Moretti. I am currently in Trier, the capital of Intis, due to the influence of an unknown sacrificial ritual on Bansi Island. Aww..."
He was kicked hard on the knee by Angel, interrupting his lifelike imitation.
But then, Angel lost his joking mood and fell into deep thought.
"So, now there's me on the White Onyx and me in Trier?"
She murmured, thinking back to her experience three days ago. It was indeed around this time that she prayed to the Fool.
"Or maybe this is the possibility," Klein said, his speed of thought worthy of his brief stint as a detective. "Tonight, you were at the altar in the cave. For unknown reasons, you traveled thousands of kilometers to the catacombs of Trier. After leaving, you prayed to Mr. Fool, and I received the message you relayed. Three days later, you used the same method to return from Trier to Bansi. However, you didn't appear in the cave on Friday night. Instead, you returned to the cave tonight, the same place that Donna, the Mandated Punishers, and I had just left."
"By the way, how did you know to return in three days?"
He asked doubtfully.
"It was Mr. Fool who gave me this revelation. Ultimately, it turned out that his suggestion was accurate."
Angel sincerely praised this mysterious existence.
Klein's expression turned strange. After a moment's silence, he nodded and stopped pursuing the issue.
"Then, there's only one last question left. What force caused you to return from Trier on Friday night to Bansy Harbor on Tuesday night?"
He seemed to be asking Angel, but also seemed to be talking to himself, and didn't seem to expect Angel to give an answer.
The latter did not think about this question. Another question kept echoing in her mind:
"If we can use this power to go back to the past, then can we go back to Backlund half a month ago, or even Tingen City four months ago, and save those..."
Her voice gradually became louder and she became more and more excited as she spoke.
"Unlikely," Klein immediately shook his head, pouring cold water on her. "You were able to return from Trier on Friday to Bansi on Tuesday because you had already traveled to Trier with the help of this power. Even so, by the time you returned to Bansi, more than half an hour had already passed."
"You didn't 'go back to the past,' you simply 'returned to the present' after three extra days. Most importantly, these three days of 'going back' have consumed almost all of your spiritual and physical strength. I guess that's why Mr. Fool told you that you'd return in three days. If you stayed in Trier for two more days, you probably wouldn't be able to return."
"Of course, if you're spiritually gifted enough, using this 'backtracking' ability, you might be able to stay in Trier for a long time, long enough to learn about the 'future' through news reports or even exploring it yourself. Then, returning to the present Bansi, you could achieve a kind of 'prophecy and divination' in disguise. However, you can't change what has already happened."
Angel was a little dizzy from his analysis, but he understood the conclusion. This kind of power couldn't change what had already happened, couldn't save the 100,000 people in Backlund, or the captain who died in Tingen City.
She deflated like a popped balloon, slumped on the sofa, her eyes somewhat dull.
Klein looked at her helplessly, stood up, and walked towards the bathroom.
"I'll verify it with divination."
He said and Angel nodded weakly, still not recovering from his low mood.
After many times of "tacit cooperation" between the two, Angel already knew that Klein would avoid everyone during certain key divinations and perform divinations in private places, such as the bathroom. She also never delved into the specific details of these powers, leaving enough privacy for both parties.
Feeling grateful for the other person's understanding, Klein closed the bathroom door, walked four steps backwards, and arrived at the gray fog space, temporarily becoming Mr. Fool.
"The source of power that allowed Angel to travel through three days and return to the present."
He materialized a pen and paper, quickly wrote down this sentence, and then entered into dream divination.
The divination did not fail as he expected. A series of concrete images soon appeared in his dream: the foggy Bansy Harbor, Trier, a place he had never been to but was vivid and alive, and the deep and strange tombs.
Then, the picture was interrupted, and he suddenly woke up from his dream, and found that the gray fog around the long bronze table was swirling up like a tornado, forming a thick dark cloud above the palace.
The originally stagnant gray mist was now fully activated, shaking, flowing, and even affecting the entire mysterious space, as if...
As if resisting foreign enemies!
Klein instantly recalled the similar changes that occurred in the gray foggy space when he dealt with the "Amon" parasite that was parasitic on "Sun" Derrick. He realized that this divination might have provoked a force as powerful as that of the "blasphemer."
He casually grabbed the "Blasphemy Card" from the long table, ready to use its high status to mobilize the power of the gray fog for a proper counterattack. However, before he could make any further moves, the dark clouds above his head stopped shaking, and fell into the palace like melting ice and snow, returning to the surrounding boundless gray fog before returning to stillness again.
Did the "attack" cease? Did it realize it had no way of defeating me, or was it that the urge to attack wasn't strong enough, and it was just a subconscious counterattack, just like what I had divined with the "Eternal Blazing Sun" and the "True Creator"?
Klein pondered and put down the "Black Emperor" card. He looked around the gray foggy space with some fear and decided not to touch that mysterious power for the time being.
Oh, and… we also need to give “Angel of Trier” appropriate inspiration to complete this wonderful closed loop of time and space.
Countless science fiction movies he had watched in his previous life flashed through his mind. He smiled with nostalgia, and his spirituality spread to the star of the "Queen". He was surprised to find that the star was split into two, as if there were two "Queens" at the same time.
He chose the one with weaker connection and obviously farther away.
"Three days from now, at the same time, return to the third floor of the catacombs, which leads to... Binxi."
He acted mysterious and spoke in a deep tone, casting this image into the star that awaited the Fool's response.
Thanks to the leader of "It's Almond"_(:з"∠)_
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