Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 941: Meeting with Klein
Excitement and fun... It turns out that this seemingly old-fashioned consul hides a lively soul under his bloated body... Angel didn't know what to say, so he could only chuckle to cover up the embarrassment.

Nast asked with great interest:

"Does this mean that you will not stop us from exploiting loopholes in the law, and even encourage us to do so?"

As a "mad wizard" who makes and bends rules, he obviously cares about this very much.

"Your interpretation is 'taking advantage of loopholes'," Gerdruf raised the corner of his mouth slightly, causing his mustache to sway. "I'm just saying that finding loopholes within the legal framework is a test and update for the entire legal system, which is beneficial... Of course, it may not be beneficial to you who broke the law."

This means that even if the law cannot punish those who take advantage of loopholes for the time being, the Archon will use his authority to punish them... Angel silently translated the other party's somewhat confusing answer, and after a moment, he changed the topic and asked:
"I heard that a 'guest' who came to this city with us met you this morning? Has she left now?"

"Are you talking about the girl who looks underage but is actually a Sequence 2...Balancer? She left the city hall after registering as a resident and refused the accommodation assigned to her. She said she wanted to return to her ship and told me to tell other visitors about this after I arrived."

Geldruf answered with a thoughtful look.

Angel noticed the pauses in his words. He seemed not to be used to addressing others by the Beyonder's "Sequence" and the names of potions. He also did not use honorifics even though he knew Anne was Sequence 2.

It seems that he does not think that a Sequence 2 can stir up any waves in this city. As expected, it is the Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristics left by the Night Emperor that support the “Consul” to manage this city... Angel guessed, and then asked:

"Can I go find her later? Isn't this against some law, or the will of the 'Archon'?"

"Of course, this is normal social behavior," Geldruf smiled again on his fat face. "To be honest, you don't need to worry so much about violating the law in your daily life. Apart from some measures to restrict Beyonders, the city laws are not much different from those in the outside world. In fact, they are more complete. Even if you accidentally trigger a minor crime, you will be given a warning for the first time. In the past, many guests who mistakenly entered this city were traditional villains, but after some 'reformation', they were able to integrate into this system and become law-abiding citizens."

Reform, I'm afraid it means imprisonment and corporal punishment... Angel muttered, and suddenly heard Nast ask:
"How does the city enforce the law? Does it need a dedicated enforcement team? If so, I hope my job will be about that."

Geldruf looked at the other party with an unchanged smile on his face, and after a moment he laughed and said:

"I am pleased with your enthusiasm for contributing to the city, Mr. Nast, but this city does not need law enforcers. It is the law enforcer itself, monitoring everything, protecting everything...punishing everything."

Angel and Nast remained silent in the face of his meaningful smile.

……

After registering basic information in the office next door and receiving the house address and keys assigned to him, Angel left the city hall.

She wanted to discuss the next plan with Nast, but the latter was in a hurry to go to the archives to check the information of the extraordinary people who had come to the "Dream City" before, and did not go with her.

This made Angel even more certain that the "King of the Five Seas" was not looking for the Ghost Empire simply to obtain a Sequence 2 characteristic, but for other purposes, such as finding someone who entered this city...

Looking at Nestor's hurriedly leaving figure, Angel shook his head, identified the direction at the signpost at the intersection, and prepared to find the lake where the "Queen Anne's Revenge" was located first, and then make plans for the next step after meeting Anne.

But when her eyes fell on the window glass next to the street, she suddenly had an idea.

She planned to try out how the "law enforcers" mentioned by Archon Geldruf judged crimes and imposed punishments.

After all, the ultimate goal of Angel and others entering this city is to find the secret treasures of the "Ghost Empire", especially several important extraordinary characteristics, rather than to actually settle here.

In subsequent actions, she is very likely to violate the prohibitions in the city laws and be punished accordingly. If the intensity of "law enforcement" is not clarified in advance, when she really commits a serious crime, she may be caught off guard by the sudden punishment.

"Let's start with the minor offenses. If Geldruf didn't deceive us, most of the 'minor offenses' would only be a warning first, and then the real punishment, and it wouldn't be too severe... Of course, this could be his lie, but even as a consul, he shouldn't be able to violate the city's laws, and 'defrauding others' itself is a minor offense...

"Well, instigating others to commit a crime is a felony, so he just denied Nestor's question, saying that he did not instigate us to break the law..." Angel muttered, and suddenly realized that Nestor had been implicitly inducing the "Consul" to break the law.

As expected of a demigod of the "lawyer" path, it seems that he is also secretly trying to "crack" the underlying rules of this city in his own way for his subsequent actions...

With a chuckle, Angel walked to the window and reached out to touch the glass that reflected his blurry figure. The residents in the window looked over curiously and were fascinated by her angelic beauty through the glass. They did not look away until she turned and left.

Of course, the "Angel" on the street at this time has become a "stand-in" formed by the window mirror. The real her has come to the mirror world, observing the outside world in a world that is more hazy and dim than the outside world, and carefully not letting her body enter the "private domain" to avoid violating the regulations prohibiting entering private homes in the spiritual world and the mirror world.

After waiting for a while, she did not feel any "warning" appear, which meant that she would not be punished for using extraordinary abilities in public as long as she did not infringe on the rights of others.

Immediately, the "stand-in" standing on the street performed a simple magic mirror divination with his eyes flickering, and the target was the resident in the window whom Angel did not recognize.

The close contact between the two just now had given her enough clues to obtain information about the other party's recent behavior through the spiritual world.

There is no doubt that this falls under the category of "peeping into other people's privacy."

The next second, Angel, who had just seen a divination scene in front of her eyes, felt as if a knife was inserted into her head, stirring the fragile brain tissue inside. The pain burst out from the depths of her soul and quickly occupied her whole body, making her curl up in the weightless mirror world and let out a suppressed scream.

In the outside world, the stand-in's movements instantly became stiff. It did not feel any corresponding pain, but all its actions were restricted. Even the display window, which was the basis of the mirror magic, became a little dim, and faintly visible cracks appeared at the four corners.

At this moment, both Angel's body and his double were "spiritually pierced", and this attack, which was obviously launched by a Saint-level Beyonder, was too much for her, who was at Sequence 3, to bear. Not to mention that the "spiritual piercing" that attacked her double was also strangely reflected on her, causing her to suffer double damage!
Fortunately, this attack, which affected the spirit rather than the body, came and went quickly, and Angel recovered quickly after a scream, but the divination failed as expected.

"Is this a 'warning'? If you are not a demigod, you would be severely injured by such a 'spiritual piercing'. For ordinary people without extraordinary powers, it is equivalent to a 'death penalty'... Unless, this punishment power selects different intensities according to the sequence of targets, just to achieve the purpose of giving a warning without hurting people..."

After calming down, she began to try to analyze the attack she had just suffered.

"There is no way to avoid this kind of warning in the mirror world, and the attack came quickly and accurately. My divination has not yet been completed, and the punishment for 'peeping into privacy' has already arrived. Even the punishment for the stand has to be counted against me... No wonder Geldruf is confident that this city does not need law enforcers..."

Thinking about it carefully, she was so terrified that she didn't dare to continue testing the bottom line of the law. Even if it was a minor crime, it included various punishments such as detention and hard labor after the trial in the court. Given the accuracy of this invisible law enforcer, the next blow might knock her out directly. When she woke up, she would have been locked up in the police station, awaiting interrogation and conviction.

That would undoubtedly cause great trouble to her next actions.

After figuring this out, Angel replaced the avatar that was standing there with lifeless eyes with his own real body, returned to the real street, sighed, and was about to go find Annie when he suddenly discovered that a black four-wheeled carriage had stopped in front of the door of the town hall he had just left. Two men and one woman, accompanied by a gentleman in a top hat holding a cane, walked out of the carriage and entered the gate of the town hall surrounded by black stone pillars.

That's Crane... two Cranes, and Duchess Georgina Augustus!
Angel immediately recognized the two men with identical clothing and appearance as Klein dressed as "Hermann" and one of his secret dolls. The woman who had changed out of her evening gown and put on a plain long dress, and whose golden mask was nowhere to be seen, was the Duchess whom she had met several times as Christine.

As expected, these Sequence 4 "guests" were also gathered together to meet the Archon... Angel's eyes stayed on the two "Germans" and found that even he could not tell which of them was the real body and which was the secret doll.

And divination is equivalent to "peeping into privacy"... Angel, who was still having a slight headache, had just hesitated when he found that one of the Hermanns stretched out his right hand and pinched his collar with three fingers, as if he was adjusting his clothes to show respect before meeting the consul.

He found me...

Angel's mouth curled up slightly. He did not disturb the small group of guests entering the city hall. Instead, he sat quietly on a bench on the corner of the street, clearing his mind and taking a rest.

Half an hour later, she met up with Klein, who had left the City Hall on the pretext of splitting up with Georgina.

(End of this chapter)