Mystery: The whole good living master

Let’s get back to Klein’s perspective!

Klein is using common sense to reason:

If this were a mystery novel, then the next step would be the climax of uncovering the truth.

Klein flipped through the book.

[Rotz stood on the tower, looking at the scenery with Princess Gloria. Under the castle on the mountain, there were moonflowers all over the mountain. Rotz smiled cheerfully: "Your Highness is the murderer who killed the prince and the queen, right?" Princess Gloria took a step back in surprise. She shook her head: "I don't know what you are talking about." Rotz looked at the princess, and the wind blew the princess's golden hair: "I think the princess of the previous dynasty didn't want the people to know about the murder of her parents, right?" The princess just shook her head, she held Rotz's hand: "I think you should believe me" Rotz kissed the princess's forehead: "You are thinking that your brother who inherited the throne is dead, and your mother is also dead, so the throne will naturally be inherited by you, right?" The princess looked at him in fear: "No, it's not like that!" Rotz opened his arms, and the sunlight illuminated the boy's face through the window. His eyes were full of yearning for the new world: "My princess, why don't you kill the king as well? They are all hateful thieves, right?" The princess looked at him, like a burning firewood, to burn down the old regime]

Klein scratched his head: So just like that, Roth and the princess threw the king into the moat to feed the sharks, and the princess who stole the country ascended the throne and became queen, and lived a happy life with the boy... Is this the ending?

This development... is well detailed...

No! It's just as outrageous as Elio!

Crane threw the book to the ground.

This is indeed a book that Elio would read...

And why are there sharks in Backlund's moat?

(Case solved! The princess is actually a witch! This explains everything!)

——Elliot’s perspective——

Elio's eyes are vicious!

"I've been looking for you for so long... I finally found you!"

“Well… an adult said… we can’t touch him, and we can’t let him leave…” The old bartender wearing a monocle poked his finger and came over cautiously.

"Heh... He caused such a big mess in Tingen. Do you think I will let him go easily?" Elio stared at the direction of the cell with a look of despair.

In the cell, Mr. Leonard, who was being thought about by all the Amons, was sleeping.

(Since we can’t escape anyway, we might as well take a good rest and recharge our batteries~ Leonard said)

"Wait!" The old bartender, Amon No. 4217, stopped Elio and said, "The master has ordered that you cannot carry or wear a monocle when you come into contact with this person!"

"Huh!? Why?" Elio asked puzzled.

The old bartender narrowed his eyes proudly, and the wrinkles on his face curled up like a chrysanthemum: "No reason! You just need to know that this is the order of that adult!"

"Oh, no matter what, as long as he disrupts the master's plan, I will, absolutely! Execute him without hesitation!" Elio said the harsh words, but still obediently put away his monocle.

The chain snapped open.

"Hey! Wake up!" Elio kicked Leonard who was lying on the ground with his toes.

"Huh?" The person on the ground opened his eyes alertly.

Elio squatted down and looked at him: "As expected... so many people value you... can you sleep peacefully in this environment?"

Mr. Leonard sat up suddenly and asked, "Who are you?"

"Ah~ Come to think of it, you were caught and locked up because you wanted to cheat at the gambling table but your hands were too slow, so you were discovered... right? Oh my, how embarrassing, hahaha!" Elio pursed his lips and suddenly laughed sarcastically.

"No...I'm not!" Leonard blushed slightly.

"Hahaha, speaking of which, you are a Nighthawk, right? Are Nighthawks so short of money? Do you have to rely on cheating at the gambling table to raise funds? Huh? No way?" Elio's eyes curved into an obscene arc.

"I! I didn't! I...I did it for...uh...I can't tell you this!" Leonard blushed.

"Hahahaha...how can there be someone so stupid that he doesn't even know how to cheat? Isn't this a basic skill? And how can someone who can't even cheat have the courage to run to a casino? Huh? Hahaha!" Elio stretched out his finger and poked Leonard's face again and again.

"Me! I did it for... I have something serious to do! I'm not stupid! No! That's not right! Cheating shouldn't be a basic skill!" Leonard, who couldn't reveal the secret, was so angry that his whole body swelled up.

Mr. Elliot, who had been making harsh remarks all the way, has been indulging in mocking Mr. Leonard since he saw him. What is this? Is this a kind of training?

Amon, who has been a bartender for sixty years in the form of an old grandfather, said that this way of playing is too novel and he can't understand it at all!

——Klein's perspective——

What is the answer to the riddle?

Is it a metaphor? The stars represent the princess and the wind represents the boy?

Stars also appeared in the last scene. In the garden under the hazy night sky, the boy put a hand-woven wreath crown on the princess and then gave her a letter left by her mother.

[Is this the letter my mother left for me? Gloria reads in a voice as melodious as a lark: Moonflower shining under the starlight, my child, you must know that unlike the moonflower, only you can bloom for such a long time. I pray that you will always be as bright as the moon. —The end of the full text]

But it is strange that how did the protagonist Roz get the letter left by the princess's mother? The princess's real mother died a long time ago? Could it be that the princess's mother is also a confidante of the male protagonist?

And if it is a mystery? This book has a reasoning element, is it asking how the princess killed people?

This is totally irrelevant? There is no explanation of the technique in the book, so something must have been missed... This is outrageous! I actually read this kind of book so seriously! Hmm... So the "time for returning things to their original owners" on the title page refers to the princess of the previous dynasty taking revenge and restoring the throne? Or does it refer to the hero returning the token that originally belonged to the heroine to its original owner?

But these words always give me a sense of déjà vu. Very strong, but confused by some nonsensical descriptions and words... I can't understand it! I can't understand it at all!

What a crappy book!

Klein threw the book onto the table.

But it seems to have attracted unnecessary attention...

"Hey! You, why did you tear the book? Why did you tear the book?"

The librarian's scolding voice came from afar.

“Ah… I’m sorry… I didn’t mean to…” Klein quickly apologized: “No! Wait, I didn’t tear the book!”

"You were the one reading the book, you were the one holding it, and you were the one who dropped it..." Although he didn't point it out explicitly, the librarian looked at him as a scumbag.

"No... that's not the case. There really was a person who read this book, tore it up and threw it here!"

The librarian narrowed his eyes and looked very stern: "Yanyu Backlund... I don't remember borrowing this book. Did you steal it secretly?"

“Believe me! There really was someone who secretly took the book, tore it up and threw it here! I just came here to take a look out of curiosity!” Klein, who couldn’t wash himself clean even if he jumped into the raging sea, held the librarian’s hands: “Really! You have to believe me!”

The librarian shook Klein off. “I’m a librarian! I protect books like a mother. Do you think I would protect students? Pay me!”

Klein clapped his hands and said, "That's right! Why didn't I think of my mother? I know now!"

The librarian glared at Klein and said, "What do you know? These books are from the school collection. You stole them without permission and tore them up on purpose. Not only do you have to pay compensation, you'll also be fined!"

Klein scratched his head and found that Elio's bag was still in his place. After all, it was the book that Elio tore up, so it shouldn't be a problem to use Elio's money to pay the fine...

"Wait! Even if you pay the fine, you can't take the library books away! Hey! Don't run, come back!"

Klein quickly grabbed two bills from Elio's bag and slapped them into the librarian's hand, then grabbed the coat on the seat next to him and ran away.

The librarian chased after him but failed to catch up. He watched helplessly as Klein ran out of the school gate and jumped onto a public carriage...

——Elliot’s perspective——

"I'm ignoring you!" Leonard turned away with his face flushed with anger.

"Is that so? It seems you won't give in even if you die... Then let's kill him." Elio stood up and brushed the dust off the sides of his clothes.

"Huh? What?" Leonard turned around suddenly.

"I say, it seems that you are not going to cooperate. In order to prevent you from becoming an uncontrollable variable in the master's plan..." Elio suddenly raised his leg and kicked Leonard on the shoulder.

Leonard followed the force, rolled on the ground to release the force, then stood up and ran outside.

"It seems that I have no choice but to get rid of you..." Elio, Time Worm No. 365, raised the corner of his mouth, kicked his heel, and the iron door of the cell was closed...

"Do you think I will surrender?" Leonard's eyes were sharp as he confronted Elio from a distance.

"Do you think I'm going to fight you head-on?" Elio smiled provocatively and snapped his fingers pretending to be cool.

Then, a group of Amons emerged from the darkness.

Leonard gritted his teeth, "Damn it! It's the same trick again! So many people... can't beat them at all!"

——Amon No. 384’s perspective——

"Can you tell me again how you came to this answer?"

Behind the last shelf of the grocery store, in front of a huge notice board, a woman with many feathers on her hat was clutching her hat hard.

"I saw this ad in the Legal Daily. I happened to be reading this book recently, so I thought that Ode to the Moon Flower might refer to this book, and the answer to the mystery of the stars and the wind might be mother and daughter, the queen of the previous dynasty was fake dead, and the male protagonist is actually the mother disguised as a man... something like that, so I came here to try my luck."

The person who spoke was a young man with his face covered with a scarf, leaving only a pair of smiling eyes visible.

The lady wearing a hat took off her hat and scratched her scalp hard, and dandruff flew like snowflakes.

"No way! Is there really someone who would subscribe to a third-rate tabloid like this that has no reputation at all? Wait a minute! Is there really anyone who would read such a shitty book? How could such a niche book be read by anyone?"

The masked young man put away the book and newspaper: "Then please tell me, did I answer correctly?"

"Damn it! There are actually uninformed people who can miraculously match the master's train of thought! Horrible! Absolutely horrible! Tingen is such a talented place! So horrible!" The lady in the hat looked around.

[What should I do? How about…how about selling him some medicine powder and sending him away? I should still have some in stock, right?]

The lady in the feather hat gave an awkward fake smile: "Well, sir, the answer is correct. So, what do you want to buy? Do you need any special medicine?"

"Ah? What medicine? Which aspect?" The young man was stunned by his blind spot in knowledge.

"Ah? You didn't know?" The lady in the feather hat, who had not expected this development at all, was also stunned.

At the same time, both sides were stunned!

"Uh...that, I...I actually just saw the puzzle in the newspaper, so...so...reasoning...that's right! I was addicted to reasoning! So, I just reasoned a little! That's right! That's it!" The masked young man waved his hands and began to make excuses for himself.

"Ah... uh uh uh ~ ah! So that's it! I see!" The lady in the hat shook her fingers nervously and laughed along with the young man.

"So... my question is, where is the address of this store? According to the advertisement, you should be just an agent, right? Where do I go to find the boss?" The masked young man closed his eyes and calmed himself down, then took out the newspaper again, shook it open, pointed at the advertisement and asked.

"Ah? Ah! Ah~ This... this, this, must be kept secret... Besides, you, don't have any needs in that aspect, do you?" The lady in the feather hat waved her hands in panic.

The young man looked at the overly nervous lady in the feather hat and decided to use some rhetoric: "Uh... well... this kind of thing... it's better to be prepared. And I want to meet this gentleman... um... he has the same train of thought as me. It's a pity that we didn't meet earlier... Of course, I'm not going today. I have work to do later... So you... just need to tell me where to find him... That's it... um, that's right!"

"This... seems to make sense... This kind of thing is indeed better to be prepared, just in case it can be used someday... Besides, the master might also want to meet this confidant... As long as he doesn't go there in the next few days! After the master finishes his work, that place will no longer be a secret place, and he can go there as he pleases! That's right! That's it!"

Under the somewhat speechless gaze of the young man, the lady in the hat successfully convinced herself.

So she agreed: "I can tell you, it's in the biggest bar in the dock area, the code is that watermelon peel is slipperier than banana peel!"

Then she clapped her hands, "Oh yeah! The bar is closed for the next few days, you'll have to go next week to see him!"

The young man who covered his face with a scarf thought that watermelon peels and banana peels should be very slippery and ridiculous, but he still breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, I understand, thank you very much, I will visit him in a few days! Goodbye!"

The lady in the feather hat also breathed a sigh of relief and said goodbye happily: "Goodbye! Goodbye!"

——Klein's perspective——

Klein adjusted his scarf so that it could cover his face properly.

The young man with his face covered with a scarf was naturally Klein. Klein certainly couldn't use his face to come into contact with the "drug seller."

"They actually said they were closed today... But it was probably just a bluff, so Elio should have gone to this bar... Let's take the public carriage there."

……

The largest bar in the docklands

[Golden Anchor Beer Bar]

It took Klein a lot of effort to find this place, because every bar claimed that their bar was the largest bar in the entire dock area...

But Elio was not seen in any of these bars.

“Hehe… Elio… Do you think you can just hide and pretend nothing happened? I, Detective Klein, have seen through everything. Of course I know what to do in this situation!” Klein walked straight to the bar, took a deep breath, threw his shame aside, and shouted to the bartender: “Watermelon peel! It’s slippery than a banana peel!”

Everyone in the bar was drawn to this.

The bartender tilted his head and did not show the expected reaction upon hearing the secret signal.

“Ah! It’s over!” Klein’s face flushed red, and he wished he could crawl into a hole in the ground.

"Sorry! Sorry to bother you!" Klein, who had lost the courage to continue living, ran out with his eyes closed and his face covered. Fortunately, he was wearing a mask with a scarf on his face, otherwise he might have to flee Tingen by train overnight!

“Huh~Huh~Ha~Oh no… That person just now couldn’t be… couldn’t be lying to me?” Klein crouched down with his head in his hands.

“No… maybe… she didn’t lie to me. I really can’t see that person today… I’m just overthinking…” Klein covered his face, “How embarrassing~ Woo woo…”

“Hey! You!” A crewman in a linen sailor suit came up to Klein with a malicious smile on his face. “You’re pretty brave, aren’t you?”

“Ah… this…” Klein covered his face and ran away.

The crew member waved at Klein in amusement: "Hey, hey! Wait! Are you looking for someone here?"

Klein gathered his scarf and walked back the way he came.

"If you want to find someone, or want special services, you can't find them here. The taverns in the dock area are where crew members, sailors, and dock workers go to drink beer after get off work..." The crew member rubbed his fingers together and said, "You buy me a drink, and I'll tell you where to find that special place. How about that?"

Klein looked at Elio's bag - whether or not to spend Elio's money to buy information about where Elio went was a very serious question!