In the meeting room of the Divination Club on Howes Street.
Klein sat down in a shaded corner and sipped on his Sibe black tea as he read the Tingen City Honest Paper. There weren't many members around him, just six or seven.
Although he had already disgested his Seer potion ahead of time, courtesy of divining for Amon for some reason, he didn't really have any more reason to visit the divination club except for some cheat food and extra money here and there to treat his siblings.
Also he was still supposed to be investigating things here, the reason why his request for the Nighthawks to pay for the club fees had even been filled. So he had to come here once in a while to see if anything dangerous was going on. Nothing much, he had already decided that he'd spend the rest of his free times these days with either Amon or his siblings or even Leonard. He was a social animal, being around people who he had bonds with was a happy experience for him.
Just as he was laughing at the grammatical mistake used in a job advertisement, he saw a monocled Glacis walk in with a silk top hat in his hand.
("Oi, who parasitised this man without permission from the council?!"
"I think hes genuinely unironically wearing a monocle..."
"Are you saying there are others who wear monocles aside from us?"
"Yes."
"Blasphemy!")
There was a blue-dressed lady in her thirties beside him. This was probably Mr. Glacis's wife...
Through his Spirit Vision, he noticed that Glacis and the lady were both healthy, but were anxious, angry, and flustered.
"Good afternoon, Glacis. That Mr. Lanevus wasn't a trustworthy fellow, was he?" Klein asked with a smile.
This was the man who had asked Klein to divinate about the investments with that Lanevus fellow and had ignored his warnings.
He invited the couple to the Topaz room where Mr. Glacis sighed and started telling his story. Apparently, the Lanevus fellow was a cheat and ran away with all the money, thankfully though Mr. Glacus had remembered about the warning given to him by Klein and only invested a third of his initial money, thus dpsaving him and his family from ruins.
After Klein helped them divine whether the money was salvageable or not, and told them to wait before finally seeing the light, "I understand." Christina nodded. She thought for a moment before saying, "Mr. Moretti, can you divine Lanevus's whereabouts?"
"No, I don't think so. The information Lanevus left behind is most likely fake; even his name might not be real. How can I divine anything? Unless you can give me very specific details, or an item he carries with him all the time," Klein replied truthfully.
Christina fell silent for a moment before pushing a one-soli note toward Klein.
"I have heard from Glacis that you are a true seer, who is respectful and fearful of fate and not greedy for money. You can think of the rest as tips that I am giving to the club."
"Thank you for your confidence in me." She stood up and bade farewell before leaving quickly.
Not greedy for money… No, I am a materialistic man! Klein was regretting his actions of acting as a charlatan.
Truth be told, he no longer had a need for acting as a Seer, hence he could raise his prices technically... but wouldn't hat ruin his entire image as a scumbag?! Whatever, he still had almost 20 pounds in his pockets from what Amon had tipped him...
Seeing Christina leave, Glacis closed the door and asked, "Is there really no way?"
"I told you the way just now." Klein smiled.
Glacis sighed. "Lanevus took off with over 10,000 pounds and his victims totaled over a hundred people. Luckily for me, I only lost 50 pounds. Those were my savings, and I have no debt. But Miss Christina invested 150 pounds. To her, this is not a sum that she can bear easily."
"Have you called the police?" Klein suddenly felt anger towards the cheat after hearing the sum of 10,000 pounds. One could be considered rich even in Backlund with money like that.
I don't know if the police would enlist the help of the Nighthawks, Mandated Punishers, or Machinery Hivemind for a simple case like this… Klein thought, a little distracted.
Glacis nodded and said, "We've already made a police report. The police are paying a lot of attention to this case. After much discussion, we're willing to take out a portion of the money we would get back as a reward. One can get 10 pounds as a reward if they manage to provide clues about Lanevus's whereabouts. If you can give a precise location and help the police catch Lanevus, you can get a reward of 100 pounds!"
10 pounds for a clue? 100 pounds for catching Lanevus? Klein's eyes nearly sparkled after he heard that. His breathing became heavy.
("Why is he more turned on by the idea of imaginary money than seeing our body..."
"He loves money more than us..."
"But we have tons of money! That means he loves us tons!"
"Wouldn't that just make him a good digger though?"
"Ew! Party pooper! Ar you even an Amon??"
"..." under his breath, "An Amon without a bird brain, yes."
"Did you say anything?"
"Nothing!")
In the next hour and a half, Klein got another two customers due to Angelica's recommendation. After that, he put on his top hat and grabbed his cane in order to exit the club and visit Amon as promised.
But before he could, he was stopped by Chrsitna with a young girl wearing a sunhat beside her. She asked softly, "Mr. Moretti, you said that you could try divining Lanevus's whereabouts if there was something belonging to him?"
(The Amon clones in the air and in the surrounding branches instantly were fuled with disgust and rage.
"The Hanged Man's child..." a crow hissed from his perch. "Our 'brother'...
"His breath is suffocating and naseating- and this brat hasnt even been born yet."
"I so wanna kill this 'brother' of ours and those two ants who dared to use father in his weak moments like this," a squirrel growled as it rubbed it's right ear and eye.
"Unfortunately, we cant steer away the timeline too much. Not until Klein is strong enough to handle the backlashes."
"Making him divine for us was a quick way to digest his Seer potion, but its still sequence 9. We need at least 6 to directly involve ourselves or 5 to be safer as per the will of the entity."
The Amon collectively sighed in despair.)
"That is correct." Klein nodded.
Christina heaved a sigh of relief and asked in a serious tone, "Then is his child something that belongs to him?"
Huh? Klein was momentarily a little lost.
Lanevus took advantage of people both financially and sexually… Klein looked towards Megose who was standing quietly next to her. She had a bright forehead, long blond hair, and a pair of big eyes just like Christina's. She looked depressed yet calm, and her lips were tightly pursed together.
She was a real beauty.
Of course, when compared to Amon, she had only average beauty. His wife was the best...
("Good, I was about to raise the pitchforks again.")
Remembering Amon, he couldn't help but replace the quiet looking Megose in front of him with Amon. He images how easy it would be for s swindler like Lanevus to take advantage of Amon through fake love and even get engaged to him and then swindle away his money and riches and- wait wasn't that exactly what the original Klein Moretti had done?!
Thankfully, Amon now has me to safeguard him and protect him! Klein secretly puffed out his chest.
("Bro, I can sneeze at you and you'd die. And I'm just a sequence 4 clone."
"Its the thought that counts! The thought! I think it's pretty cute of Klein to say that... hehehe..."
"Stop laughing creepily right beside me!"
"We're all Amons, all of us laugh the same!"
"Doesn't change the fact that its creepy and unnerving!"
"What are you, a spirit worm?")
The divination would take months so as to let the child born, after which Lavenus might have already lost all the money making Christina to push Megose for an abortion.
Megose lowered her head and looked down. She didn't speak for quite a while.
Then, she touched her stomach and revealed a gentle smile.
"He is different from his father. He will be a considerate and likable child.
"He will kick me lightly every day, telling me his mood. He will even hum a song, whistle and use music to help me sleep…"
Klein heard that and suddenly felt something was amiss.
The former part of what Megose said seemed to be normal, but the latter part was like the ravings of a madwoman.
Did she have a mental problem due to the incident? Klein raised his right hand to his glabella. He pretended to massage it to ease his weariness.
Just then, Megose suddenly turned around and walked towards the door, leaving only one sentence.
("Why is he courting death again? Trying to 'look' at a true God's vessel...")
"Maybe his father will come back in secret after he is born, keeping a part of the money for his child…"
Klein never expected she would respond like that, and he was momentarily taken aback that he forgot to activate his Spirit Vision. Then, he watched helplessly as Megose left the club and walked down the stairs.
Christina let out a sigh and said, "Sorry, Mr. Moretti. Sorry to bother you, we will look for one of Lanevus's personal items that he carried with him all the time."
Klein nodded indiscernibly. He watched her walk downstairs and sighed as he shook his head.
He couldn't help but feel that this weak and pitiful Megose was exactly like Amon-
("I am not bearing my father's child! Oi!")
Klein also xpildny helpbut feel slightly glad and relieved that it wasn't Amon who had been scammed, although he did feel a but guilty though that this poor young lady had to suffer instead and he was actually happy for that...
Klein shook his head as he checked his pocket watch, he was half an hour late than his promised time!
This impromptu talk between him Chistina and Megose made him late-
Amon was hoong to be so sad!
Klein couldn't help but curse at Lanevus for all of this.
Swindlers were the worst in the entire world!
I hate swindlers and thieves!
("...")
The rest of the way back Klein randomly tripped over nothing, had bird shit on him and even a few cats scratching him. All of them had some kind of deformation in their right eyes.
"Klein, you're late- wait, why are you covered in bird poop?" Amon blinked as me momentarily forgot to put like he had planned. He secretly glanced at his doppelgangers who just motioned with their hands that they'd explain later.
What do you mean later- you can directly give me those memories! Where had his clones' brains gone these days? Yes, everything started from when he was cut off from them due to being locked up in the Sefirah Castle. Give them a few weeks to be completely left unsupervised and even their brains would turn into maggots and worms.
Yes, he still held a deep hatred for them for the blunder two days ago.
No, it didn't matter that his clones were himself, so in actuality, he was technically holding a grudge with himself.
Schematics.
He remembered his father psychoanalyzing his clones, telling him that they had reverted to this werid child like state due to spiritual trauma of being stripped away from their main body and the lack of extraordinary characteristics for a long while even after meeting back with himself and that some amount of effect still remained even after multiple sessions with his father.
He also said some pretty complex psychology stuff, which Amon was sure only Audrey would be able to understand (and Susie). But all he had concluded after that was that-
Tldr; his clones were a lot dumber now and if he wanted that to give away, he had to completely recycle them which he was too lazy to do. And hey, these child like antics of his clones earned a ton of brownie points from both Klein back in those 20 years even after losing all of his humanity and emotions and his father as well who said that it reminded him of when Amon was just born and ran around his kingdom of God and the silver city doing pranks and sleeping by his thighs.
The fact that the pranks included parasitising entire villages was something that he didn't pay attention to.
His father was the best. Well, his father was his brother now... which was a bit complex and confusing but whatever. How can it be more confusing than whenever he spent days with Antigonus whenever he acted like a true Bizarro Sorcerer?
Klein gave a nervous chuckle as he carefully took off his outer coat and top hat, folding them into his hands to wash later. "I suddenly got attacked by lady luck's wrath on the way, sorry for being late." Klein smiled, he wanted to lean in closer to his wife and kiss him, but he remembered that he was covered in bird poop and dirt all over so he held himself back.
"Can I use the bathroom?" He asked instead.
"Alright, I'll get some of your clothes as well." Amon smiled as he took the coat and top hat covered with his clone's bird poop. "I had already prepared the bath for you before you arrived so you can directly go in right now."
"Why did you... OH-" Klein's eyes widened as realization hit him. Before sex people usually had showers so as to not do it while covered in filth and sweat. And for the bottoms to p-prepare themselves...
Klein suddenly remembered the scene of Amon who was about to finger himself open to prepare himself for him and hid his blushing face behind his arms.
"Hm." He hummed in reply as he quickly walked towards the bathroom of their shared bedroom.
The fact that he was well acquainted with the layout of the bathroom even though it had been his first time here... Klein's eyebrows twitched. Why had he intentionally turned into a peeping pervert?! It wqnst his fault that more than half of the time he went above the grey fog and monitored Amon he was mostly in the bathroom...
Klein quickly stripped himself off of his clothes and placed them kb the clothes basket near the door.
The bathroom smelled sweetly of flowers and various salts and oils Amon had used to prepare his bath. Klein didn't even want to calculate the amount of money drowned just for this type of bath... he really should give his wife a general course about money management. But Amon probably had more money that half of Tingen combined...
After a quick shower to get rid of the filth and burden poop from his body, Klein finally submerged himself into the warm water and soaked in there. It really felt like heaven... the bath salts and the essential oils enveloped his senses and surrounded him with an intoxicating kind of comfort.
No wonder Amon has these kinds of baths everyday.... should he just move here? No no no, what was he thinking, he still had his siblings back at his own terrace home. But don't fiances and lovers usually lived together...
Just as Klein was wondering about this, he heard the door creak open, making him tense up in alterness.
"A-amon?!" He exclaimed in surprise as he saw his handsome wife enter the bathroom, uncaring for the fact that Klein was in the bathtub completely naked!
"I'm just here to take away your dirty clothes and give them to the servants to clean." Amon simply replied as he picked up the clothes basket where Klein had pit his dirty clothes in. "I've brought the towels and the bathrobe as well."
"T-thank you..." Klein blushed as he submerged his body even deeper into the water in embarrassment. He hated the original Klein Moretti to not have worked out much in his life-like has no good figure to show to his wife!
Then, instead of going outside, Amon actually walked towards the bathtub where Klein was and asked with a smile, "Is the water warm enough? Or is it too hot?" He asked casually as he dipped his hands into the water, "Its been a while since I've prepared a bath for you so I may have forgotten some things..." of course he was lying, from his enhanced intelligence from angel level Sequmce 7 ability over his already sharp mind coupled with the power of cognition that his father had taught him as a child, there was nothing Amon forgot about unless it was intentional.
He just wanted to see Klein naked and embarrassed.
"Its fine!" Klein quickly shouted as he tried not to act too embarrassing or too much like a virgin. As soon as that thought ran across his mind- he was suddenly overtaken by another dilemma. Wait... he had never had any sort of sex or sexual experience before in his life... how was he supposed to satisfy Amon who was probably expecting very good sex?!
He was just a IT company employee who had never even held hands with a potential love interest in his life before...
Heck, he hadn't even seen any gay AVs in his past life because of the general ban of those kinds of things in his country and neither did he ever tried to dig in deep as he considered himself straight and only interest in the female curves and bodies...
He remembered how good and natural Amon was when he had sucked the living daylights out of Klein... he was probably very experienced or was a natural in bed... how was he supposed to impress someone like that?!
What if Amon breaks up with him because he was trash in bed?
Klein, who had just realized he had no experience in bed prior to this, suddenly felt very sad and depressed.
Amon, who had been able to read Klein's mind couldn't help but smile and laugh inside his heart. Mr. Fool was inexperienced when he had fucked him for the first time both on the Sefirag castle as a half sane entity as well as when he was just Zhou Mingrui in the dream world made by Tianzun. And none of those times were bad, though a little painful for his liking. But he had his powers this time so he doubted anything this sequence 9 could do to him would even tickle his body.
This Klein would probably also do just fine. Though it didn't matter anyways, although he did act all horny and needy in front of Klein and in private as well, it was more from how he had been derived of Klein for the past 20 years rather than actual sexual pent up feelings. He was a natural mythical creature after all.
But he should still give his fiance some breathing room.
Chuckling, Amom leaned in closer to Klein's ear and whispered in a seductive tone, "I'll ride you this time." With that he got up again and exited the room with his usual smile, making sure to store the memory of Klein's embarrassed but hungry face in his mind forever.
Klein couldn't help but turn red all over as soon as he heard that. To think his sweet looking wife was actually so ravenous in bed?! It was so fucking hot...