In the end, Klein ended up sleeping in the same bed as Amon.
What was he even supposed to do?!
Sleeping in another room would take out the entire point of why he wanted to stay back at Amon's place!
And sleeping in the couch or on some blanket on the floor in the bedroom would just make him look more suspicious if Amon were to wake up before Klein. After all, what sort of fiance chooses to sleep in an uncomfortable sofa or ground rather jn his beautiful pretty and perfect fiance's arms?
This was the only reason why Klein chose to sleep right next to Amon.
There were no other factors involved.
That was reasonable.
The fact that Amon was warn and huggable was just a perk.
Also, why did the blanket over him and Amon suddenly felt so heavy?!
("Hey! Stop pushing!"
"You shove over! I want to sleep over klein!"
"I WANNA SLEEP NEAR HIS ARMPITS!"
"Hey that place was reserved by me!"
"First come first serve!"
"You damn amoeba!"
"You damn whatever microbe you are!")
"Klein?" Klein woke up to the gentle sound of someone calling him.
"Hm?" He mumbled as he ope ed his sleepy eyes, and right in front of him was a smiling Amon.
"Good morning~" Amon greeted as he kissed Klein's cheek, making the smaller man blush.
"G-good morning-!" Klein replied with fluster as he immediately sat up on the bed.
His movements caused the blanket over the couple to slide off, and Klein's eyes landed on the now exposed thighs of Amon.
He blinked.
Why didn't Amon have any pants on?!
Klein felt heat rise up his cheeks as he observed the way Amon's lose shirt barely covered up his important bits, revealing the pale and soft looking thighs.
"To climb up into someone's bed while they are sleeping..." Amon sighed and blushed shyly as he glanced at Klein with a pout, "especially when they are underdressed like this. Klein, you pervert."
I'm innocent!!!! Klein cried in his heart.
"But if its Klein..." Amon giggled as he ripped off the sheets completely and climbed over Klein's frame, "I don't mind..."
Klein's eyes were wide as saucers as they hungrily licked up the scene of a blushing shy Amon climbed up over his body, his nipples peeking out from his loose shirt, the way the skin of his bare ass could be seen as the shirt slipped down towards his hips, the way he could almost see something peeking out from between those legs-
"Klein..." Amon moaned as he dipped his head to kiss Klein.
"I have to go to work!" Klein shouted as he hastily pushed Amon from on top of him and dashed out of the bedroom like his life, no- his virginity, depended on it.
"..."
Amon fixed the monocle glass on his right eye with an annoyed expression, "I dont know whether to be angry or impressed over how much he can hold back." He shook his head and raised his hand, gtanninh one of the laughing microbes in the air and turned his doppelganger back into its human Amon form and threw him on the bed. "You substitute for him."
Klein restlessly kept fixing his hair under his top hat as he struggled to read the newspaper while on the carriage to the Blackthorn Security Company.
He shouldn't have shoved off Amon like that...
Although the situation was surprising, and he didn't want to lose his virginity and have sex with Amon yet, (he didn't realize his own use of the word 'yet' as if losing his virginity to Amon was an acceptable and welcomed thing in the future) but he shouldn't have been that rough!
He remembered the thin figure of Amon... so frail and easy to break...
Was Amon hurt?
Klein really hoped that Amon wouldn't be crying right now due to his hasty rejection...
("Well, he is crying right now- but for a completely different reason than this." Amom 32719 laughed.)
Well, at least Amon looked plenty healthy back then...
Healthy...
Wait a second-
He completely forgot about the reason he actually stayed overnight with Amon! And he had actually forgotten to ask about the strange entire day sleep to Amon!
Well... it was not like he could blame himself...
Those thighs definitely were very distracting...
Focus!
That was when Klein heard an ethereal voice calling out to him, shapeless words resounded in his head and Klein observed that the engagement ring on his ring fi ger had heated up slightly.
Something related to the grey fog?
Klein touched the ring on his finger and suddenly he saw a crimson stat glowing brightly in his vision.
If he remembered correctly, this star represented Ms. Justice... did she already pray to Mr. Fool? It seemed Klein's experiment actually worked!
Although he couldn't hear the prayer in the physical world alone like this, he could probably hear it while in the grey fog, or through his ring!
Klein touched the crimson star in front of him and noticed how none of the people around him in the public carriage reacted to the illusionary stars and voices flowing out of the ring. Something that only Klein could hear...
Although he could see that the ring allowed him to see which star had prayed to him and performed rituals in his name, he was still too weak to actually access the complete powers of this ring to connect himself directly to the grey fog...
Right now, he could only hear the completely prayer and check up on it in the mysterious palace above the grey fog, he'd do that tonight. In the future, it might even be possible for him to be able to hear and respond to prayers just through this ring as he increased his sequence level.
Soon, he arrived at Zouteland Street and entered the Blackthorn Security Company.
Before he could greet Rozanne, Klein saw Captain Dunn Smith walk out. He held a piece of paper with a portrait on it.
"Take a look at this internal warrant of arrest. A very cruel and vicious Beyonder has entered Tingen." Dressed in his black windbreaker, the hatless Dunn swept his gaze over and handed the piece of paper in passing.
Klein received it and the first thing that entered his vision was a portrait sketch.
The sketch was of boy with a round face. He looked amiable with a tiny hint of bashfulness and was fairly young, probably about eighteen or nineteen years old.
"Tris, a suspected Beyonder. The initial estimate is that he's a Sequence 8 Instigator and we are not eliminating the possibility that the Theosophy Order is behind it. The culprit behind the massacre of the Alfalfa… According to a witness testimony, he came to Tingen after leaving Enmat Harbor. His current whereabouts are unknown…"
Tris... so that situation he had divined about from that person yesterday in the divination club was actually a beyonder incident...
"Which Sequence pathway is Instigator? What kind of organization is the Theosophy Order?"
Was instigating others to kill each other the method Tris used to eliminate the side effects of the potion or was it a requirement needed to advance?
Dunn thought for a few seconds and said, "Coincidentally, it's about time for you to learn the relevant information regarding Beyonders and the mysterious organizations. You shouldn't be ordered by Old Neil to keep reading the historical documents all the time."
Captain, wasn't the reason for recruiting me to be your 'history expert?' Klein did not dare point out the problem as he nodded seriously.
"Alright."
Klein flipped through the pages of the book that had been handed to him by Old Neil and captain Dunn Smith about the sequences he had to study upon.
Unfortunately, his level was very low and he only had clearance to read up to sequence 7 of the notes. The book although had the abilities and powers ld the beyonders of the seer pathway from 9 to 7, it unfortunately did not posses the name of those sequences.
Klein slowly flipped the page and saw Apprentice and Marauder which Emperor Roselle had lingering thoughts for. Their records only reached Sequence 8 and nothing more.
"Sequence 9: Apprentice. Their abilities are rather strange. It can only be confirmed that this is the originating pathway of a mage. They are rarely trapped and very difficult to be stopped. They often are able to escape and pass through obstacles every time…
"Sequence 8: Trickmaster. They wield all kinds of strange but impotent spells…"
"Sequence 9: Marauder. Difficult to separate these Beyonders from ordinary bandits or thieves. Perhaps the means available to them are more impressive, but their goal of stealing riches is not for enjoyment or survival. It's more like answering a calling…"
"Sequence 8: Sequencers. We have also discovered traces of Beyonders in fraud investigations. They gain enjoyment from swindling…"
("Oo! Ooo! That's us! That's us!"
"What are you? A kid?")
Gain enjoyment from swindling… This is 'acting' in a different form, isn't it? If I had the choice, I might have chosen Apprentice… Klein silently said to himself.
After he read through the evil organizations in the list, he couldn't help but lampoon inside, he really hoped his tarot club won't be on this list in the future...
Klein looked around himself,
These people don't know that I'm the leader of a cult...
"I appreciate you taking some time out of your so obviously busy schedule," Leonard drawled sarcastically as he looked up and down the angel of time that had appeared in front of him, "but I'm the middle of my shift you know. Maybe next time seek me out outside of my working hours?"
Leonard was already a person who didn't give much respect to people and talked casually to them, and the last week he had been completely surrounded by two Angel's, one in his mind and the other floating around and pissing him off, so he no longer gave Amon or Pallez any sort of respect.
He was already not that attached to his life, and getting involved between 2 Angel's was already dangerous enkugh- might as well live how he wanted to before one of them suddenly found him boring and snapped his neck.
"I've already replaced you with one of my doppelgangers, no one would notice your absence." Amon nudged the monocle on his right eye.
You say that to reassure me- but all that makes me feel is fear! Leonard cried in his heart.
"What did you want to talk about so urgently this time that you pulled me away from my shift?" Leaonrd asked as he played with the vegetables on his plate. He never liked to eat vegetables... unfortunate, he had this certain old man in his head who kept screaming at him to eat his greens.
"I want to discuss with Pallez about his sequence 1 characteristics."
Leonard instantly jolted in attention. He knew he couldn't run away if the situation actually became violent, but that didn't stop his trained Nighthawks body from getting ready for any sort of instant action.
[Don't worry, if worse comes to worse, I'll try my best to let you run away. You're just an innocent bystander in this conflict.]
"Old man..." Leonard didn't know how to feel.
Amon laughed as he waved his hand casually, "No need for that, I won't hurt my fiance's best friend" future best friend.
"When did I-"
"As I was saying," Amon smiled, "I require your sequence 1 characteristics Pallez."
[You want me to just hand it to you?]
As Amon could obviously steal Leonard's thoughts and read his mind, Pallez chose to directly speak to Amon.
"No," Amon shopk his head, "Nor fo I want to fight over it with you. Klein doesn't like violence you see, just the other day he came back home crying because he had seen a dead body."
Leonard's eyes slightly widened at that, he didn't know that... how could he have not realized his colleague's mental situation?
[Your finace... that Seer kid?]
"Yup~" Amon swooned, "After meeting Klein, I have certainly changed in a lot of ways. I wanna make my fiance happy to be with me you know- a track record of murder wouldn't fly past him. What if he starts to hate me?" He pouted.
That's what you're worried about? Not the actual morality of murder itself? Leonard didn't know what to think.
"And, Klein is especially fond of 'equivalent exchange'," Amon said, "So Pallez, how about we trade?"
[What in your mind is as valuable as a sequence 1 characteristic?] The old man scoffed in Leonard's brain.
"Firstly, the bug I had inputed into the sequence 4 potions of the marauder pathway which gave less information toon to the demigod in question causing them to easily go out of control and die, I'll remove that."
You can do that? Leonard's eyes widened in fear. How many lives had this angel I front of him taken just by this passive approach?!
"Secondly, since after this I would have all 3 sequence 1 characteristics of my pathway as well as my own uniqueness, I'll stop hunting the remnants of the descendants of the Jacob and Zoroaster families." Amon showed a smile.
"Thirdly, I'll help you advance to sequence 1 of the Door pathway after this when I get the characteristics."
...
Wasn't that a great deal?!
But, Leonard remembered, wasn't the other name of Amon the god of deceit? Could his worlds truly be trusted?
"You can trust me," Amon smiled, "Pallez should know this the best, right now, and since the past week- j coukd have forcibly taken his sequence 1 characteristics anytime if I had wanted. Even now, I can easily just take them as I please. This exchange is not just a simple trade, but a proof that I have changed my ways since the past thousands of years, also indirectly proving that I'll hold onto my promise to stop persuing your descendants as well as Jacob's. So, how about it?"
[...I will not change my pathway to the neighboring pathway.] The old man said after a while of thinking, [The Marauder pathway is an identity to my family and my descendants, I will not give it up.]
[I can stay as a sequence 2.]
"Truly a family man arent you?" Amon smiled as he leaned back on his chair.
[Though I do have a question, why did you only offer the door sequence 1, and not the fool sequence 1? Since the door sequence 1 should be harder to gain at this time than the fool characteristics."
"That's Klein's pathways obviously," Amon said like it was the most obvious answer ever, "If I give you the sequence 1 fool characteristics, I'll just have to take it away from you in the future when Klein becomes a future True God."
Leonard blinked, "Are you talking about the same Klein? The one who just became a beyonder of sequence 9 less than a week ago?!"
Even Pallez was shocked.
"Who else am I engaged to who's name is Klein?" Amon looked at Leonard like he was stupid.
Dont look at me like that! This situation is obviously very confusing and mindblowing!! Leonard cried in his heart.
"Anyways, since you refuse that part of the exchange," Amon went back to the topic, "I'll instead help you little Poet grandson to sequence 2." He had already some so in the previous timeline, he didn't mind doing it again.
Leoanrd choked.