Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 828: The Battle between the Magician and the Witch

"So, you have dealt the Minor Arcana cards to two of your subordinates? No wonder you were so positive about this proposal at the Tarot meeting four days ago..."

Picking up the black tea brewed by the “winner” Enuni, Klein took a sip gracefully and said with a chuckle.

Sitting opposite him was Angel, who was wearing a light-colored long dress and had her black hair pinned behind her back with multiple hairpins, revealing the delicate skin on her neck and chest. This time, she did not come directly to Klein's bedroom through the mirror world, but came for a formal visit as "Christine Theresa". The personal maid she brought with her was waiting outside the door. There were only two secret dolls pretending to be servants in the reception room, so the conversation between the two even touched on the secret topics of the Tarot Club.

Hearing Klein's teasing, Angel also laughed. She lowered her right leg from her left leg, and the whiteness under her skirt instantly attracted the attention of Klein and the two secret dolls. She took out two cards from her handbag and placed them on the table. They were the "Queen of Pentacles" sitting on the throne, holding a star coin, and the "Queen of Scepters" holding a scepter and a sunflower.

Of course, this "Queen" has a different meaning from Angel's code name in the Tarot Club, and is more feminine in meaning, but both refer to women with positive meanings.

"One is for Sherman. She represents my forces in the East District of Backlund. Next, I will let her get out of Viscount Stratford's mission as soon as possible, develop her own Beyonder forces, and control the situation in the East District, and even the nearby dock area, South Bridge District, and St. George District. The other is for Elaine. She currently owns the Redhead and has digested the magic potion of the Conspirator. I will find an opportunity to promote her to the Reaper and build her own fleet to compete with other pirate generals."

Angel's fingers tapped on the two cards one by one, drawing Klein's attention away from himself and back to the topic, introducing his own cards.

Once this vision is achieved, "Queen" Angel will continue to maintain her transcendent status in the Tarot Club. Both her personal strength and the power of her subordinates will far exceed that of other members. Even though "Hermit" Cattleya, as the "Admiral of the Stars", also has a whole pirate fleet, her personal strength cannot match that of Angel, who is about to become the "immortal" witch, let alone other members who are alone.

In fact, even The Fool has to avoid its edge... Klein muttered to himself and told his plan:

"I plan to apply for a public small card for my secret puppets as their identity in the Tarot Club. This way, in certain collaborations where it is inconvenient for me to show up, I can use this identity to let the secret puppets take action. I can even pretend to be a secret puppet and blend in. Well, this is also one of the rules of the role-playing "Strange Mage" that I have come up with recently. It makes it difficult for people to tell whether I am a real person or a secret puppet."

As he spoke, the face of "Dwayne Dantès" who was sitting in front of Angel blurred for a moment, his body shape changed slightly, and his skin color darkened a lot, turning into the personal guard "Admiral of Hell" Raphael who was supposed to be standing beside him. Even his clothes changed from dark brown formal clothes to a loose top and sturdy canvas pants worn by a servant with the help of illusion.

At the same time, Raphael, who was originally standing beside the two men as a personal bodyguard, turned into the tall and straight Dwayne Dantes. He took off the hat that had appeared on his head and pressed it against his chest. He bowed to Angel and said in his own voice:

"Now, can you tell which one is the real me?"

Okay, okay, let's play like this, right?
Angel's face darkened, his eyes moving between Raphael in front of him and Dantes standing beside him, but he couldn't tell the difference between them.

Of course, if it is in a battle, Angel can immediately spread disease and cast curses, killing both the "trickster" himself and his puppets, and can also make them reveal flaws in pain, but in life, it is extremely difficult to distinguish the difference between the puppet and the real body without getting hurt.

After all, at the "Faceless Man" stage, the extraordinary people of this path have already become proficient in playing different identities.

And I have a feeling that no matter which answer is true, I will be laughed at by him. After all, the "secret doll" and the real body can be switched instantly... Angel muttered, his eyes flickering constantly, observing the expressions, demeanor and subtle movements of the master and the servant, the man and the doll from various angles of the mirrors in the room.

Suddenly, she laughed.

“I think this is your true self.”

She stretched out her slender arm and pointed to the seated "Admiral of Hell" Raphael...behind him stood the "Winner" Enuni, who was holding a tray, ready to refill tea for the two of them at any time.

This is not a mystical or logical inference, but an analysis that Angel made based on Crane's personality.

Klein, who was holding his tea and trying not to laugh, said "Huh" in his heart, and quietly switched positions with "Raphael" on the sofa. At the same time, he adjusted his body shape and appearance to make sure there were no flaws. Then he spoke:

"You guessed wrong. I actually haven't moved at all."

At this time, even if your true identity is guessed, you cannot admit it!
In this kind of puzzle, the "trickster" who can exchange positions and appearances with the secret doll at any time is invincible from the beginning.

But at this moment, his spirit suddenly formed a picture behind him in his mind. A figure was outlined beside Enuni. It was Angel, who was wearing a long skirt with a "rose necklace" swaying on her chest, highlighting the beautiful lines of her collarbone and neck.

She had been invisible beside me just now? Who was sitting on the sofa... Hmm, her spirit line suddenly disappeared, was it a mirror substitute?

Countless thoughts flashed through Klein's mind instantly, but when he saw Angel about to hug Enuni with his hands and his head close to the chest of the expressionless "winner", he still sighed helplessly and exchanged positions with his secret doll.

Then, he was hugged tightly by soft hands, and he could hear Angel's moist, warm breath and triumphant laughter:

"Did I guess wrong?" "...You didn't guess wrong, I just remembered it wrong by accident."

Klein admitted honestly, put down the tray, and took it back.

But the soft touch in his arms, the body temperature and fragrance that made Angel's heart beat faster, suddenly became cold, and then turned into transparent fragments in his sight, passing through his arms, through the floor, and disappeared into the void.

Klein looked at the "mirror stand-in" on the sofa in surprise. The spiritual line that had just disappeared returned to this body. Amid the chaotic lines, the corners of the "stand-in"'s mouth curled up, revealing a bright smile.

"How do you feel about being fooled by the same trick as the 'Trickster'?"

The charm of a "witch" emanating from her smiling face made Klein immediately put aside his complaints.

This time, in the battle between the "Weird Wizard" and the "Witch of Despair", he lost sincerely.

"But, when you used your Stand to replace yourself just now, the invisible 'Angel' beside me didn't emit any spiritual lines. How did you do that?"

Sitting back on the sofa, Klein, who had resumed his Dwayne Dantes costume, frowned and quickly found the key to his "failure".

"Of course it's because both of them are mirror substitutes. This is not your secret doll, but just a piece of mirror fragment. How can there be a 'spiritual thread'?" Angel called Enuni to refill his hot tea, and explained casually, "The real me is hiding in the mirror world. Your special vision cannot penetrate the mirror surface and enter another world, so of course you can't find me."

This... When the mirror double hugged me just now, I didn't realize it was fake at all... The body temperature, body odor, and touch were all the same as a real person. In order to observe her expression, I stopped sensing the spiritual thread... Her use of the mirror double is already close to the level of a "secret doll", and it is definitely not the knowledge and ability that comes with the potion. It is completely "invented" by her in the process of digesting the potion... Klein's thoughts were a little sluggish, and he once again understood Angel's terrifying fighting talent.

"Unfortunately, these Stands can look and act like the real thing, but they are useless in combat... I guess that only after advancing to Sequence 3 can I give my Stands real combat power, and even make them 'real people' who are no less powerful than the original body."

Angel muttered, and put the black tea that he had cooled down to a warm state into his mouth, and sighed with satisfaction.

"Speaking of advancing to 'immortality'... did your sea voyage to find the 'Fountain of Youth' go smoothly?"

Klein picked up a crispy muffin to prevent Angel from finishing the afternoon tea snacks alone, and then asked.

"The 'Redhead' stopped at the mid-range island to replenish water and food, and set sail again this morning. For the next week, it will sail on the west side of the violent sea where there is no official route, and then enter the foggy sea to find the island covered by storms and thick fog."

Angel also grabbed a piece of cat tongue biscuit and answered vaguely while chewing it.

She had spent most of her time on the Redhead these past few days, to prevent this sailing ship, whose highest combat power was only Sequence 6, from encountering some danger that it could not handle. She occasionally returned to Backlund only to appear in front of her butler and servants, otherwise the rumor of "Miss Theresa's disappearance" would spread throughout the social circle.

At the same time, Klein was also playing his role as the "trickster". In addition to this failed confrontation, he would also "teleport" to various parts of the country in the dead of night to create some strange phenomena, such as three people with exactly the same appearance and clothing entering a bar together, appearing in front of drunkards, or landing on a pirate ship to create a real "ghost story".

Of course, these performances either had few audiences or were not weird enough, and were not even as good as the failed "deception" in front of a demigod just now in digesting the potion in the body. They were also far inferior to the time when he turned into paper German and frightened the crew on the "Black Emperor" and talked freely in front of Nast.

I’m afraid that when Angel is promoted to “Immortal”, I won’t have much clue about my role as “Trickster”, let alone the potion formula of Sequence 3 “Ancient Scholar”... Klein thought a little frustratedly, and felt that the muffin in his hand was not sweet anymore.

After comforting Klein, Angel used the magic mirror on Elaine's body in the evening to find the "Redhead Girl" which was still sailing westward, and his figure appeared in the captain's room.

Well, where are the people?

Angel looked around and found that Elaine was not beside him. He immediately did a quick "scan" of the entire ship through the mirror. He found that Elaine, William, and even Tia, who was restricted in certain movements, were not in the cabin. Instead, they were gathered at the front of the deck with all the other sailors, arguing about something around a rolled-up fishing net.

She quickly came to the deck covered by the setting sun, and as the sailors naturally parted to make way for the passage, she came to Elaine's side and asked casually:
"what happened?"

The captain didn't need to answer, Angel's eyes were already on the fishing net and he knew the focus of the crew's discussion.

That was the extraordinary creature she had seen near the "Ruins of the God War" and the one that helped Klein become a "Master of Secret Puppetry".

It was a mermaid whose body was covered with scales that sparkled in bright colors in the sun. Her lower body was shaped like a fish tail, but it gradually forked from the tail end, as if it was about to become two independent legs!
(End of this chapter)