Secret: I can play two paths

Chapter 75 Klein: Can I be promoted to "Joker"?

Have we found the notebook that the Secret Order and the Church of Night have been longing for?
Klein was stunned. It felt unreal, as if he was dreaming.

This is much easier than I thought...

It seems like it’s hanging...

After finding the notes, Klein exhaled and thought.

He has been living under the shadow of this notebook since he traveled through time, and today he can finally put an end to it.

Instead of walking there rashly, Klein thought about his next plan.

There is no doubt that Klein found the notes on his own before the Sealed Artifact "2-049" he applied for arrived, and even when it was just in the approval stage. This was a great achievement.

Although Star said that he also had to take some credit even though he did not show up, the rest could probably be exchanged for a Sequence 8 potion if they were put together.

As for privately looking for Star to obtain extraordinary materials and secretly promote himself to "Joker".

Not to mention that Klein felt that this would make his already poor economic situation even worse.

Most importantly, Crane is unable to explain his sudden and silent promotion to the Joker.

He felt that he would have to stay in the Tingen Night Squad for a long time.

If you are worried about being exposed and dare not use the corresponding abilities in tasks that require cooperation, you will put yourself in greater danger.

His original plan was to follow the example of the "psychic" Daly and submit a special application to the higher-ups, exchanging his accumulated merits for rewards of extraordinary materials, and becoming a Sequence 8 Nighthawk in a legitimate way.

The digestion progress was easy to deal with. After Star reminded me at my first official Tarot meeting that the church had sealed up the "acting method", I began to consider doing some work on the surface.

His plan was to gradually lay some groundwork with the captain while his "Fortune Teller" potion had not been completely digested.

For example, he mentioned that he felt spiritually lively every time he went to the fortune-telling club, and pretended to casually describe the "fortune-teller's rules" he had summed up. He also said in advance that he had basically stopped hearing voices that he shouldn't hear or seeing things that he shouldn't see recently.

In this way, the Nighthawks' top brass would think that he unconsciously imitated Daly when completing his "mission" and did it more thoroughly.

This would allow them to greatly reduce their suspicion of Klein and just conduct routine inspections.

Moreover, after Star and I played a joke on Leonard that day, Leonard, the "poet classmate", seemed to be less lazy and seemed to be motivated by someone. He started to inquire about the news of the "nightmare" potion in the past few days.

In order to explain his digestion progress reasonably, he took the initiative to share his role-playing method with the team.

This also gave Klein a reasonable explanation for digesting the potion later.

After obtaining the Joker's potion formula from Star, Klein handed it over in a timely manner, although for some reason, he did not receive much contribution.

But as long as I don't need to use my contribution to redeem another one, that's fine...

After all, many of the contributions in Klein's account now do not belong to him.

After he mixed the Joker potion formula with several low-level potion formulas and handed it over yesterday, Captain Dunn congratulated Klein on having clues for subsequent promotions.

But the captain had no idea that after deducting Star's share, those contributions would barely be enough to make up the Joker's potion...

Klein thought depressedly and sighed.

Then he raised the corners of his mouth and made a face:
Think about it, Klein. At least now you have made a contribution, enough to exchange for the "Joker" potion.

Klein quietly walked to a corner and took out his divination tools to do some divination.

As a keyboard warrior, Klein understood that he couldn't be careless or reckless at times like this, and he had to act according to his heart.

He pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket and wrote a line of words on it. Then he took off the pendulum on his wrist, closed his eyes and silently said:

"Inform the captain. It's dangerous to follow. Inform the captain. It's dangerous to follow. Inform..." After repeating it silently seven times, Klein opened his eyes. The yellow crystal pendulum was spinning clockwise at a slow speed, but the amplitude was not large, so the danger was within the tolerance range.

He breathed a sigh of relief and decided:
Report this to the captain!

……

After a period of time.

After a great battle, Klein, Captain Dunn, Leonard and others lay exhausted on the ground.

This time, since they did not go to Riel Bieber's house and were brought to the dock area by the Sealed Object "2-049", the members of the secret order who were waiting at Riel Bieber's house did not join the battle.

Even if the clown in tuxedo "coincidentally" noticed something and wanted to rush over in time, "it would be difficult for him to get back in such a short time since he is not a 'planeswalker'."

Now let’s get back to Klein.

In the distance, Dunn was lying on the ground with a headache, seriously injured, groaning and not moving. Leonard and Cohen were relatively better off and were trying to turn over and sit up.

Although no members of the secret order came, everyone still had to fight hard with Riel Bieber before defeating the humanoid creature over two meters tall that Riel Bieber turned into after he lost control.

If he hadn't used the talisman he got from Star last week, and if Star hadn't told Klein about some of the weaknesses of the Beyonders who turned into monsters after losing control, Klein felt that this battle would have been even more brutal.

Even now, they were badly injured even though they had rushed over with several sealed objects.

This was the result of Klein using the "tampering" spell by "paying gold".

When Klein thought about his expenses, he couldn't help but feel distressed.

Loss...

Since this "tampering" charm was bought privately from Star, it is difficult to reimburse.

Coupled with the high price that Star paid for this amulet, Klein always felt that his heart was bleeding.

The divination result did indicate that his life would not be in danger, but his property was also a part of his life.

At this moment, Klein seemed to understand: divination is never too clear, and vagueness means that the interpretation may be wrong.

At the same moment, his fortune teller's potion was quickly digested.

Can I be promoted to "Joker"?

This was the thought that came to his mind after he found that the potion was digested, but after a closer look, he found that the potion was not yet fully digested.

Still a loss...

However, his teammates were being attacked by monsters, so he couldn't just hide the talisman and not use it, right?
Fortunately, the Antigonus family's notebook was finally taken out of the monster's intestines in time.

Klein looked at the old notebook in the distance and remembered Star's instructions. After Dunn woke up, he stopped him from flipping through the notebook and said,

"This notebook is tainted with evil, so it is better not to open it. I am sure that this is the notebook of the Antigonus family."

……

And in the distance that Klein didn't know.

In a house with a red chimney in the suburbs of Tingen, a man with dark blond hair was roughly holding a pen and writing something vigorously.

Suddenly, he slammed the table with a loud "bang". He couldn't hold the pen anymore and smashed it to the ground.

(End of this chapter)