Mystery: The Stars Returner

The sun was shining warmly at noon, and its golden light made people drowsy. Even the gray fog covering Backlund was much weaker than before.

Azshara curled up in Hastur's arms, eating half of the dried fish in her mouth. The palm of her master's hand that was stroking her head stopped. She looked up and found that her master's eyes were closed, as if he was sleeping. Same as before.

"Meow?"

Azshara called out softly, but received no response.

At this time, Sharon came out of the mirror and waved to Azshara. Azshara gently jumped down from Hastur's arms, for fear of disturbing her master's sleep.

"Meow."

Sharon bent down and reached out to pick up Azshara, stretching out a finger to gently tease her.

In the dream, Hastur reunited with Klein and Leonard again. Klein stated that he had sought secret asylum from the goddess of the night and could start preparing for action.

It is not difficult to fish out Amon's main clone. The descendant of the Jacob family, a demigod-level thief and an extraordinary person, is a good choice.

The reason why Hastur intervened at that time was to save him for later use. At the same time, he also did not want Amon's clone to swallow the extraordinary characteristics and increase his strength.

"Klein, you are indeed the goddess's favored one."

Klein heard the undisguised jealousy in Leonard's tone. He smiled and nodded, tapping his chest four times to draw a crimson moon, "Let us praise the goddess."

Leonard just watched Klein's trick of changing the topic quietly, "You should really praise the goddess, otherwise your piety will not be worth the goddess's love for you."

"Everything is the will of the goddess."

Klein showed a pious expression like that of a church bishop, making Leonard unable to find fault even if he wanted to.

Hastur looked at the friendly interaction between Leonard and Klein with a smile on his face.

After hearing Leonard's message to Klein before, he knew that the Goddess of the Night was stepping up to intervene in Klein's affairs, forcing Klein to seek help from her.

Just like she was teasing Azshara with dried fish, the goddess also didn't want her fat and white cat to be abducted by the stars.

If Klein turns to the stars for help, Hastur is also capable of cutting off the connection between Amon's main body and his clone.

Hastur looked at it for a while and said: "Let's take action at night. That is the most suitable time."

"Is Mr. Hastur planning to take action personally?"

Klein and Leonard are both curious about this question. They have not seen Hastur's abilities yet, but Hastur knows them very well.

"I will call in a suitable helper who is also skilled in the extraordinary abilities of the Thief Path."

"Okay." Leonard felt a little pity.

After ending the dream created through Will, Hastur opened his eyes and woke up. Azshara, who was originally curled up in his arms, was now lying on Sharon's shoulder, and Sharon was standing a few steps ahead. The balcony overlooks the scenery of Backlund in the distance.

Hastur folded his hands behind his head, leaned against the back of the armchair, and looked at Sharon in silence.

In recent times, he has been trying to help Sharon further act as a puppet. Unfortunately, Sharon is shy and thin-skinned. She always likes to hide in the mirror and deliberately avoid him.

"Are you going out tonight?"

"No, I'll stay home."

Sharon turned back curiously, curiosity revealed in her beautiful eyes.

"There are always some things that can be done by others. It's not good to be too tired." Hasta added with a smile: "I have to help you learn more restraint."

"Need not."

"Only by following your heart can you go further on the extraordinary road."

"That's what I'm about."

"Hey, Azshara, don't just listen and eavesdrop. Occasionally, you should also say a few nice words to your master."

"Meow."

After a few more jokes with Sharon, Hastur got up and left the balcony. He came to his study room on the second floor and opened the pen box containing 008.

"Wow, dear master, you finally remembered me!"

008 was very happy and was spinning around on the blank paper.

"Maybe someone misses you more than I do."

"That is someone else's business. I only care about the master's attitude." 008 wrote another line on the paper, "Of course, I am also willing to listen to the instructions from Miss Sharon."

"Tsk, that's really smart."

"I just care about everything around the master. What the master likes is what I want to please...protect."

Hastur looked at the very wise 008 slowly and nodded gently, "For the sake of your sincerity, I will help you again."

……

Late at night, at the house where Macht was talking on Burklund Street.

Hazel is in a good mood. Not only has her teacher not gone crazy recently, but she has also taught her a lot of occult knowledge.

This allowed her to understand the nature of potions, master the method of digesting potions, and get the opportunity to be promoted to a decryption scholar.

Now she is already a Sequence 7 Beyonder.

She is moving step by step towards becoming a Sequence 4 demigod, going deep into the gate of the mysterious world.

Thinking of this, she saw the teacher on the fur cushion of the sofa. The gray mouse was raising his right paw, pressing the monocle of his right eye, and then continued to flip through a large newspaper recording the latest news.

Hazel didn't think there was anything wrong with the scene before her.

As the time on the wall clock ticked by, a squeaking mouse sounded outside the window.

Hazel frowned slightly and was about to open the window to drive away the other annoying mice. This could only be a resting place for her teacher.

But he saw his teacher put down the newspaper in his hand and seemed to murmur, "Such a delicious bait is really exciting. Unfortunately, I am not alone."

Hazel opened the window and saw a gray mouse about the same size as her teacher standing outside the window.

Her eyes hesitated for a while, looking at the gray mouse outside, and then secretly looking at her teacher.

After comparing back and forth, she seemed to feel something breaking inside her body, and there were many more memories about this period in her mind.

But soon, her eyes became confused again, and then she picked up a small pot of flowers placed by the window and threw it at the gray mouse, making it furious and its eyes red.

But before it could do anything, Hazel had already started to drive the bodyguards attracted by the flower pot to the ground, asking them to drive away the gray mouse that was exactly the same as her teacher.

The gray mouse wearing a monocle on the sofa raised his eyebrows and glanced. Just when he was about to look away, he suddenly found that the eyeliners he had placed outside the window were disappearing one by one.

To be more precise, they were replaced one by one.

He tried to deduce something, but found that he could not get any useful information from the death of the clone outside.

"The secret of the night..."

Amon chuckled softly, which seemed to be mocking, but also seemed to be afraid of something.

"In that case, let me see what you have prepared."

Transparent worms emerged from his body, swam in all directions, and then disappeared.

At this time, the confusion in Hazel's eyes gradually receded, and the memory of that night was returned, and she clearly remembered what happened that night.

When she looked at the sofa, her teacher, and the gray mouse again, her eyes were horrified. She saw that terrifying figure wearing a monocle, which was a nightmare that would linger throughout her life.

"what!"

She let out a cry of extreme fear, ran to the door, pulled the door handle and escaped.

Outside the room, the maid who was carrying the food put down the food, took out a pair of black-framed monocle eyes from her coat pocket, took a breath, wiped the mirror surface with the corner of her clothes, and then put it on the eye socket. superior.

Seeing this scene, Hazel's pupils suddenly dilated, her body became weak, she pressed against the cold wall, and staggered away.

She came to the room where her mother was resting, and wanted to remind her to leave here with her quickly.

But he saw his mother, Lady Liana, looking at her with a smile, and then slowly put on a pair of monocles with a gold rim and a watch chain.

Hazel was so frightened that she took a few steps back and broke a vase placed at the door. The sound of cracking and breaking attracted her father, Representative Macht.

He also wore a monocle made of crystal on his right eye, and looked at himself with a smile.

And this is just a simple beginning.

With this place as the center, all the maids, bodyguards, and chefs in the house have all turned into the shape of Amon. Even the bugs in the flower pots, the cockroaches passing by, and the mice searching for food have all turned into Amon at this moment, and It is still spreading outwards.

From house 39 on Birklund Street, it gradually spreads to other houses.

It was like a highly contagious plague that began to spread under the cover of night.

……

Klein, who came to investigate as a secret puppet and observed the situation here through the gray fog, could not hide the look of shock in his eyes.

The blasphemer Amon is so terrifying that he can easily replace other people's identities silently and spread at an extremely fast speed.

Poor Hazel, such a simple and kind-hearted girl, has to suffer such horrific suffering.

After observing for a while, Klein returned to the real world and walked out of the bathroom, holding a medal carved from black gemstones in his right hand.

This is the secret shelter provided by Lady Arianna for him. At critical moments, he can also pray to this medal to ask for Lady Arianna's help.

At this moment, Klein suddenly felt that his marionette responsible for observation had been taken away by someone, the thread of his spiritual body was cut off, and he completely lost his senses.

Klein was not panicked at all, because they had already anticipated this.

At this time, the door of the master bedroom at No. 160 Berklund Street opened with a creak. The person who opened the door was none other than Enyuni, the marionette "Winner" that Klein had just lost.

He walked in step by step, then slowly took out a crystal-like monocle from his pocket, and slowly placed it on the socket of his right eye.

He looked at Dawn Downstad in the room, and the corners of his mouth turned up a little: "I found you."