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Plague Doctor was suddenly put on a wanted list in the newspaper, and rumors had already begun to spread in Backlund. Leyton was somewhat worried that the Plague Doctor figurine might become more animated because of this, so he had his Crow Anu watch the figurine every day.
"Boss, the spirit on that doll has increased a bit," Crow Anu reported on the Plague Doctor figurine's status as usual.
Leyton was already used to this; Crow Anu would say this every day since the wanted poster was published in the newspaper.
"I hope the Plague Doctor is controllable after it becomes animated, otherwise I'll have to destroy it."
Leyton murmured to himself.
"Hmm?"
Leyton's spiritual intuition was triggered; someone had infiltrated Klein's house across the street.
Leyton walked to the balcony, and Eyes of Mystery Prying directly penetrated the wall, allowing Leyton to see the situation inside Klein's house.
A dark-skinned, gaunt, sturdy man with deep-set eyes and highland blood had infiltrated Klein's house.
"Is that the person sent by that Ambassador? Good luck to our Mr. Fool!"
Leyton muttered to himself, not taking the matter to heart.
It was just a Sequence 9 Hunter; he wouldn't actually kill Klein.
On a continuously rainy afternoon, the sky was somewhat dim. Leyton, who was reading a book on a lounge chair on the second-floor balcony, noticed Klein's action of pushing the door open and entering the house.
After thinking for a moment, he still pulled Bugs Bunny, who was loosening the soil for a potted plant:
"You go keep an eye on Klein. If anything unexpected happens, help him out."
Before Bugs Bunny could reply, several starlights swirled around Bugs Bunny's body, and then he was directly thrown out by Leyton, landing in front of Klein's house door.
Bugs Bunny, who had just come to his senses and landed, scratched his head helplessly, took off the top hat he was wearing, and pressed the top of the hat tightly against the main door. After securing the hat, Bugs Bunny directly burrowed inside, magically passing through the obstruction of the door and entering the house.
As Bugs Bunny entered Klein's house, he saw Klein being chased, constantly rolling and dodging in the room. The table in the room was overturned, and the chairs were broken.
Both the pursuer and the pursued discovered the rabbit that had suddenly appeared in the room. This rabbit was wearing a bow tie, a small vest, and small shoes, and was holding a small shovel with dirt on it.
Bugs Bunny's sudden appearance made Klein breathe a sigh of relief. Mersault, who was chasing Klein, did not take this pet rabbit seriously.
The next moment, Bugs Bunny leaped up from the ground and, in the blink of an eye, was in front of Mersault. Mersault felt a sudden sense of crisis welling up inside him. He stopped his movements and retreated.
Bang!
The small shovel, which had just been used to loosen soil, slammed hard on Mersault's head. The small shovel was deformed under Bugs Bunny's immense strength.
Mersault's body leaned back, and for a moment, he only felt dizzy and unable to think.
Klein widened his eyes, looking at this violently strong rabbit, but he quickly reacted.
While Mersault had not yet recovered from Bugs Bunny's shovel strike, Klein picked up the standard contract from the coffee table, flicked his wrist, and the contract in his hand shot out like a throwing knife.
The standard contract accurately pierced Mersault's throat, and blood with a little foam flowed out. Mersault directly fell to the ground.
"Phew~ Thank you!"
Klein let out a long breath and turned to speak to Bugs Bunny, who was feeling sad about his small shovel.
"Boohoo~ My small shovel is broken!"
Bugs Bunny was immersed in the sadness of losing his small shovel and ignored Klein.
Klein twitched the corner of his mouth; a living person like him was less appealing than a small shovel. He took a deep breath, walked to Bugs Bunny's side, and half-squatted down, saying:
"I'll buy you a new small shovel tomorrow as a thank-you gift for saving me just now. Is there anything else you want?"
Bugs Bunny looked up at the words, asking with wide red eyes:
"Can you farm?"
"No."
Klein shook his head.
Bugs Bunny continued to ask:
"Can you do experiments?"
"Experiments? What kind of experiments? Uh... I probably can't either."
Klein said somewhat awkwardly.
Bugs Bunny shook his head in disappointment:
"Then forget it. You can't do anything, and you can't help me with work!"
Klein felt like he was being looked down upon by a rabbit.
"I still need to go back and loosen soil. Goodbye. If you want to eat fruit, you can come find me. I've grown many different flavors of fruit."
Bugs Bunny waved his paws, then turned and hopped to open the main door, picked up the top hat from the ground, put it back on his head, and quickly ran back to the house across the street.
Watching Bugs Bunny hop away, Klein couldn't help but exclaim:
"Do animals need to know so many skills now?"
Then he looked at his messy living room, entrance hall, and dining room, feeling a bit helpless, as these furnishings belonged to the landlord, and he would definitely have to pay a sum of money for compensation.
Klein walked silently to Mersault's corpse and performed a divination using the Spirit Channeling ritual.
Through the Spirit Channeling ritual, Klein found the mastermind who sent Mersault to assassinate him: the Ambassador of the Intis Republic stationed in Backlund.
He picked up a Hunter's Beyonder characteristic from Mersault's corpse, then began to worry about how to dispose of Mersault's body.
"Boss said you can choose to call the police, or if you find it too troublesome, you can let him handle it. But Boss said his way of handling it would be very simple and crude."
Holding a pile of colorful fruits, Bugs Bunny returned to Klein's living room.
"Call the police?"
Klein hesitated. This option sounded a bit outrageous. His identity was already not to be exposed, and this matter involved an Ambassador.
As for the latter simple and crude method of disposal, Klein instinctively felt that the other party intended to destroy the body and evidence, which was very consistent with Klein's understanding of Al Tines.
Klein did not reject the idea of destroying the body and evidence, but he did not yet trust this suddenly appearing investor of the Hidden Sage so much, so he still chose to handle it himself, even if it meant a lot of trouble.
Bugs Bunny skillfully placed the fruits on the still intact sofa, then pulled out a gold coin from the decorative pocket on his small vest and handed it to Klein:
"Boss told me to give this to you. He said that when in doubt, divine. This is a common habit of every Seer."
Klein took the gold coin held by Bugs Bunny's paw with a dark expression. Although the other party's action was thoughtful, he felt a hint of mockery.
Klein ultimately decided to do a divination, because the result obtained this way would be the safest. However, he did not use the gold coin Bugs Bunny handed over, but rather unfastened the pendulum inside his left wrist cuff and used his own tool to perform the divination.
"I should call the police!"
"I should call the police!"
Closing his eyes, he silently repeated the divination phrases several times. After finishing, Klein saw the citrine pendant turning clockwise.
Bugs Bunny picked up a fruit for Klein, gnawing on it while curiously watching Klein divine.
He noticed that Klein's divination method was different from his Boss's. His Boss always liked to close his eyes or toss coins to divine.
After Klein performed several divinations and determined how to dispose of the body, Bugs Bunny finally asked curiously:
"Why do you always swing a pendant to divine?"
"Hmm? This is a relatively simple and practical divination method. I am more accustomed to using this method."
"Why do you ask this question?"
After answering Bugs Bunny's question, Klein was a bit curious. This rabbit seemed to know a lot about divination.
"My Boss likes to throw things to divine. He said throwing something has more of a sense of ritual, hiccup~"
Bugs Bunny finished a fruit in the time it took to say a few sentences.
"Sense of ritual?" Klein didn't pay too much attention to this; he personally preferred practical things.
"By the way, I haven't asked your name yet?"
Klein asked curiously.
"My name is Bugs Bunny. Boss gave it to me."
Bugs Bunny had no idea about the origin of the name, only finding it a bit strange.
"Bugs Bunny?"
The familiar name made Klein pause. He suspected that besides himself and Roselle, there were other Transmigrators in this world, such as this rabbit's Boss!
This name was completely out of character for this world's style, so it could basically be ruled out as a coincidence.
"To be able to choose this name, that Al Tines is either a Transmigrator himself or has come into contact with one."
Thinking of this, Klein felt a little excited. In this unfamiliar world, he seemed to have met a fellow countryman. And not the kind like Roselle, an deceased fellow countryman.
To confirm his thoughts, Klein continued to ask:
"Has your Boss named any other animals?"
Bugs Bunny looked at Klein somewhat strangely:
"There's also a somewhat silly Crow Anu. He's my subordinate."
"Anu?"
Klein pondered for a long time, but there was no sense of familiarity. The excitement that had just surged in his heart receded a lot.
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