The elderly man dressed as a butler seemed somewhat surprised by Detective Moriarty's refusal: "The reward for this commission will be very generous."
Klein smiled. "Unless I know your true purpose and who your employer is?"
If he hadn't met Mr. Gar before, he might have actually believed the old man's words, but he had been to the "Nanmu Ballroom" and had met Mr. Gar.
Klein had his own judgment about what Mr. Gar was doing, so he wouldn't just blindly believe the old man's words.
"Alright, alright." The old man took a deep breath and said, "I wouldn't have told you this if a friend hadn't strongly recommended you to me."
He said seriously, "My employer is Lord Ashburn, who is disgusted by Gar's cruelty to Backlund women and is eager to save them."
"As for your payment, you will receive £50 if you can find any one of the three points mentioned earlier, and £180 if you can find all the information we need!"
Such compensation is indeed very generous for an investigation commission, but it also suggests that the commission must be very difficult.
As for the employer's purpose, Klein was not entirely convinced. He stood up and said, "Excuse me, I'm going to the restroom."
He was inclined to accept the commission because he was also interested in Mr. Gar, but he had to consult the oracle to see if there would be any danger after accepting the commission, since Mr. Gar was also an extraordinary person.
Entering the bathroom, Klein took out the citrine pendant and silently thought to himself, "Accepting this commission is dangerous."
"Accepting this commission is dangerous."
"..."
After silently repeating it seven times, Klein saw the crystal pendant slowly rotating clockwise.
In other words, there is a slight risk, but it is acceptable.
Whoosh~
He turned on the toilet valve to create the illusion of flushing, then returned to the living room and said to the old man, "I accept this commission."
Nothing urgent has been happening lately, so Klein plans to investigate Mr. Garr, and also what Lord Asiburn is up to.
...
Saturday afternoon, at the Gar herbal medicine shop.
Simon visited again to report the information he had gathered to Odis: "I treated several waiters from the underground fighting arena to dinner and finally found a way to find out information about the other fighters."
"He was a valet who was responsible for cleaning the referee's room and the lounge. He had the opportunity to witness many matches while working and knew a lot about the players."
The underground boxing ring owner, who had a wicked look on his face, laughed and said, "I have a long-term working relationship with him. I pay him 5 pounds each time to get information about his opponent. If he hasn't met his opponent, he can ask someone else."
Odis nodded slowly: "Very good. I'll pay the five pounds. There's no need to deduct it from your share."
"Yes, yes, I knew you wouldn't be stingy with such a small amount of money," Simon said with a smile.
Now that Odis has become his benefactor, earning him an extra twenty or thirty pounds a week, he naturally has to lower his standards.
Simon continued, "This competition is different from the last one. It seems that after learning that you have a special weapon, they don't plan to let you participate in competitions where you can use weapons for the time being. Instead, they will hold a no-rules fighting competition."
"No weapons can be used in the fight; it is a purely unregulated brawl. The rules are the same as those in most underground fighting arenas in Backlund. The match ends when someone is knocked unconscious or submits because they cannot defeat their opponent."
"Your opponent is called Eden. He is said to have very magical abilities. He can make a person very unlucky, easily fall down, and can also create flashes of light, fog, and so on."
"The most amazing thing is that he was able to push the wall open very easily and hide inside the house."
Odis immediately realized that this must be a "master of magic," who is considered one of the more capable extraordinary beings among the lower-sequence extraordinary beings.
Their "takedown technique" is particularly useful in free fighting.
However, in Odis's view, this sequence also has great drawbacks, such as "low health" and "low defense".
"I understand." Odis nodded and reached for his pipe, but quickly put it down again, because the fire at the Capin villa the day before yesterday had made his throat very uncomfortable.
If it were an ordinary person, they would probably cough for a while, but as a Sequence 8, Odis only felt a little uncomfortable in her throat.
Simon added, "Also, tomorrow's match time has been changed to the afternoon. Please prepare in advance. I will pick you up at two o'clock."
Odis pondered how to deal with the "Master of Tricks" and simply hummed in response.
"I also received a message that I don't know if it's true or false."
Odis looked at Simon: "Tell me about it."
"It is said that your opponent, Eden, belongs to a fighting organization. This organization is basically composed of excellent fighters in underground fighting arenas. Anyone who has defeated them will be retaliated against by them."
Odis smiled slightly: "What is the attitude of the nobles' arenas towards them?"
Simon grinned, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth: "The fighting arena only needs exciting matches."
Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!
His implication was that people in the underground fighting arena chose to ignore the organization because it offered exciting matches.
Odis nodded. He knew about this organization. The reason Odis took the initiative to participate in the Extraordinary Fighting Competition was not only to hone his fighting skills, but also because he was after this organization.
They may have sounded like they were just "fake fighting," but they also did a lot of shady things for the nobility.
During the ninth sequence of Odis, they repeatedly exposed their evil deeds to the "Mechanical Heart," but the "Mechanical Heart," under pressure from the nobles, failed to arrest them or even conduct a proper investigation.
Of course, Odis didn't have a complete plan at first. It was only in the last two days that he thought of using some of the characteristics of this organization to try to eliminate a few of its members.
After Simon left, Odis prepared to wear a knight's outfit with a "defense magic circle" for tomorrow's match. As long as he could withstand the opponent's "tricks," he could easily defeat the opponent when he got close.
Having developed a basic strategy for dealing with enemies, Odis went to the backyard to write "The Manual of Combat".
...
Klein's investigation into Mr. Garr began at the "Nanmu Ballroom".
That night, under the cover of darkness, he lay in ambush in the back alley of the dance hall, hiding in a corner for more than half an hour, until some of the waiters finally got off work.
Klein quietly followed one of them, knocked him unconscious, and led him to a secluded, dark alley.
He first used spiritually rich materials such as Amanda hydrosol and essential oil extracted from Deep Sleep Flower to put the other person's spirit in a very relaxed state, and then built a "spiritual wall" to communicate with the spirit.
Since Klein didn't know whether the person in front of him was good or evil, he used a psychic method that he had learned from Ms. Daly, which was less harmful to others.
Otherwise, forcibly engaging in psychic communication will inevitably cause irreversible damage to the other person's "mental body".
Soon, the waiter who had fainted suddenly sat up, opened his eyes, and stared ahead with a dazed look.
Klein also used "meditation" to put himself in a semi-conscious state and control his spirit to enter the spirit world and invade the other party's "mental body".
In that instant, countless memories flooded Klein's mind.