"Are you sure, are you sure that 'witch' is really called Triss?!"

Klein unconsciously raised his voice and confirmed to the girl.

Alice laughed and shook her head:

"What's so uncertain about this? I've been observing her for almost half a month, is there anything wrong?"

"Observe her for more than half a month... Why are you observing her?" Klein was stunned for a moment, unable to realize the logic of her behavior. "Wait a minute, she is the 'witch' you met at that dinner party before.

, is a member of the Witch Sect? Do you plan to find the higher-level members of the sect through her?"

So far, official organizations including the Nighthawks have unanimously determined that "Instigator" Tris is a member of the secret organization Gnosis Society. Because he fits the behavior of some extreme members of the Gnosis Society and aims to destroy the bodies of others.

, keen on creating bloody tragedies like the Alfalfa case.

But if Tris had attended the manor dinner hosted by the witch organization after becoming Tris, and had been together with many witches, that could only mean one thing!

He, no, she belongs to the Witch Sect!

Of course, this inference must be premised on Alice providing correct information and intelligence, otherwise it will be empty talk.

However, judging from the current situation, what Alice revealed to him was basically true...except for the situation where she had a bad taste and wanted to tease him for fun, she was relatively reliable.

The witch from another world, who was relatively reliable in Klein's eyes, smiled and raised her index finger to the corner of her lips:

"Then let's add some more information. Do you still remember the Mrs. Sharon you met on the way to the dinner? She was the one who almost forced you to do it, and even scared you into meowing for help."

"When did I meow?" Klein seriously protested her inappropriate choice of words.

All that was written in my heart at that time was obviously damn...

However, regarding Mrs. Sharon, Klein later inquired several times through various channels, and finally succeeded in identifying her true identity - the widow of the former Baron Hoy, the stepmother of the current Baron Hoy, who is rumored to be Tingen

The most famous, beautiful and sought-after widow in the city.

Well, there are probably so many tidbits about her that it would take several full pages of newspapers to describe them...

"Mrs. Sharon is a 'happy' witch, and it was she who was responsible for developing Triss into a new member of the witch sect." Alice continued on to herself, "I didn't go into more details.

situation, but following them, we will definitely find the high-level members of the witch sect... Of course, in addition to Triss, I also selected another witch as the subject of observation. You have also seen her, the one who was with me at the beginning of the dinner.

...Well, the one the baron gave a speech with was Mrs. Beatrice."

Klein nodded silently, indicating that he was not surprised by this.

"Mrs. Beatrice belongs directly to a high-level witch sect. The high-level witch has also had contact with Triss. I initially estimate that she should have the strength of Sequence 5...or even Sequence 4." Alice said.

"If Terry...Tris's disappearance is related to the high-level witch you mentioned, then I'm afraid I won't be able to help."

Klein's expression turned serious. A strong man who might have Sequence 4 strength should be quite a high-level person even within the Church of the Night Goddess. He was not at the same level as a new Nighthawk like him who had only been employed for a month!

Wouldn't it be a waste to let him intervene in a game that may involve high-sequence experts?

"No, I don't think Triss's disappearance was the work of that high-level witch." Alice seemed quite sure, shaking her head to deny his hypothesis, "The observation method that can shield me will at least involve the soul...

It is the spiritual body according to your mystical definition, which involves interference and influence on the spiritual body, and the extraordinary people of the 'Witch' sequence obviously do not have this ability. 'Soothsayers' are through what you call the 'Star Spirit Body'

', a person-tracing expert who communicates with the spirit world to obtain guidance and symbols, right? So I plan to try this method."

She didn't mention the means of searching in the mirror world. When Klein thought about it, she should still be wary of the mysterious figure named Ourolius.

After thinking for a while, Klein gave a conservative answer.

"I can't promise to help you find her, but I will try my best. In addition, Tris is probably a man who used to be named 'Tris', and the wanted order for him is still posted in our office.

...So, I may report this news to the church."

The premise is that the captain did not question the information he gave, and calmly accepted the fact that such a grown man suddenly turned into a cross-dressing boss... No, in this case, we can no longer call the other party a cross-dressing boss, because he seems to be real

Transformed into a woman!

Also, we need to think carefully about how to explain the source of this information...

"Do you want to rely on the power of official organizations? It doesn't matter to me." Alice waved a strand of hair twisted in her hand, her expression seemed a little casual, "Because from what I observed, Triss is just an incompetent person.

A conscious abandoner... If you can drive her to a dead end, I might be able to get in touch with those witches hiding behind the scenes earlier."

This... is indeed a black-hearted woman who looks more like a witch than a witch...

Reasonably suppressing his urge to complain, Klein took a breath and said:

"If you are looking for someone, then I need to use items related to her, preferably personal items that have been carried or worn for a long time."

He tried hard to choose a less strange expression.

As if she had expected what he would say, Alice smiled and threw a sealed transparent glass bottle towards him. There seemed to be a small amount of dark red liquid swaying in the narrow-mouthed bottle.

"I have her hair and blood. Of course, they are samples obtained after he became a 'witch'."

Klein wanted to catch the glass bottle. He raised his hand to take it but was a little slow. He could only watch it fall to the floor and roll towards the corner of the room.

"...These items are enough as a medium." After pretending to be nothing, he walked to the wall and picked up the transparent vial containing blood and a few hairs. Klein decided to conduct this divination in the real world.

Think of it as a trial to completely digest the potion.

Of course, Klein, who is used to listening to the call of his heart, first came to sit down at the desk, found a pen and paper and wrote down the initial "divination statement":

"Divining the 'Witch' Triss will cause me to be noticed by high-sequence powerhouses and put me in danger."

He completely ignored Alice's gaze, which seemed to be hesitant to speak. He calmly took out the citrine pendulum and quickly entered the ethereal tranquility of the divination state. After reciting the divination sentence seven times in his heart, he felt the pull of the silver chain.

the power of.

When he opened his eyes, he saw that the citrine was maintaining a steady counterclockwise rotation, which slightly suppressed the uneasiness in his heart.

Klein knew that he could not rely entirely on the results of divination. At best, he could only use spiritual power to glimpse some of the symbols projected by the spiritual world, so he cautiously stated that he needed a quiet and undisturbed environment.

"I'm going to use dream divination..."

He was about to politely ask her to go back to the guest room to wait for a while, but he saw Alice raising her hand in the air to outline rune marks in an unknown language, easily completing the blockade of the spiritual wall, and she herself cast another effect

Using a spell similar to invisibility, the outline of the figure gradually dissipated into the air, leaving only a fleeting word that had not yet faded away, being captured and entered his senses.

"It's okay. Just tell your fortune and just pretend I don't exist."

...Okay, just pretend she doesn't exist.

Klein stood up and made sure that she was lying on the bed that belonged to him without evil intentions. Then he finally climbed onto the white and soft bed, relaxed and tried the "dream divination method".

In a confusing and twisted world, he gradually regained his understanding of himself and found himself in the garden outside a house.

This house is a common two-story structure. The exterior walls are painted grey-blue. The doors and windows on the first floor are closed and the curtains are tightly drawn. There is a half-open window on the second floor. You can see the room near the window.

There are coat racks and dressing tables on the side.

As for the garden and dark brown soil under his feet, the overall feeling was dark and dilapidated.

The closer you get to the house, the more obvious this feeling of death and coldness becomes, so much so that not even a single flower or grass grows on the land around the house.

Outside the garden, you can seem to hear the sound of the rushing river.

His field of vision suddenly shifted, becoming dim and unclear, and Klein realized that he had entered the first floor of the house where the doors and windows were closed...

No, he was standing at the stairway between the first and second floors. The ominous aura reverberating on the first floor was blowing endlessly under his feet. A coldness that was more obvious and more biting than the outside world hit him.

Come, it makes people tremble like an evil spirit that seizes the breath of living people.

Gritting his teeth to resist the strange coldness, Klein tried his best to trace back to the source of the evil feeling, but he only saw a slim female figure kneeling in front of the round altar, which made him feel a little nervous.

Very familiar spiritual intuition.

Before he could clearly see what was enshrined on the evil altar, the entire dream shattered like a broken mirror, and the blurry image in front of him began to fade away quickly and go away from him.

Like everyone who is awakened from a deep sleep by a nightmare, he sat up suddenly from the bed and could feel a faint sweat on his back.

"What do you see?"

Alice lost her invisibility at some point, changed the direction of her desk chair, and quietly raised her chin while waiting for the dreamer to wake up.

Trying his best to calm down, Klein finally turned around, sat on the edge of the bed and replied with a slightly hoarse voice:

"...I first saw a house built by the river. The house has two floors. The overall exterior wall is grey-blue. The doors and windows on the first floor are closed. The garden outside the house looks lifeless, dilapidated and cold.

.Then the divination vision entered the first floor of the house, and I saw the back of a woman, it should be Triss... She was there, she was trying some kind of black magic, or should I say black magic, and built a

Altar, I couldn’t see more details of the altar, but it probably belongs to some hidden existence, or even...the evil god!"

If Triss is really a new member of the Witch Cult, what kind of hidden existence will she worship? Which hidden existence other than the "original witch" can there be?

Damn it! If he really saw the things on the altar clearly, would it be equivalent to looking directly at the "original witch" who was identified as the evil god?

This is much scarier than seeing a high-sequence strongman from the Witch Sect in the divination screen!

As if she could read what he was thinking, Alice nodded lightly as she pondered.

"Well, the interference from the 'Original Witch' is not too unexpected..."

"——You guessed that the divination result might point to the evil god, and you still let me try?" Klein felt like he couldn't hold himself any longer.

"Well..." She smiled as if nothing had happened, as if she wanted to talk about the subject, "Then do you plan to report the results to the Nighthawks?"

After hesitating for less than a second, Klein nodded heavily:

"Since it can be divined by me, it means that Triss has not left the city of Tingen. And that ritual feels too evil and ominous to me, and it is probably inseparable from the element of bloody sacrifice, so I obtained the symbol in the divination
To be continued...