Chapter 46 Two-faced Man

boom! boom! boom!
The smell of gunpowder filled the air. Klein shot at the target in front of him as if to vent his anger. He found that even under such high-intensity recoil, his right arm holding the gun could still be controlled steadily, just like when he shot at Old Neil's head.

Only after all the brass bullets were used up did he pack himself up and take a trackless public carriage to the home of his fighting teacher Gawain.

He performed one set of exercises after another in a self-torturing manner, only to find that with the help of the "Joker" potion on his body, the fighting skills that he had previously found difficult became familiar with him after only a little practice, and from familiarity he became like an apprentice knight who had received half a year of training.

Klein, who had originally intended to use high-intensity physical training to paralyze himself, grinned, somewhat helpless. He was actually troubled by becoming too strong? Ha, ha!
All of this was seen by his fighting teacher Gao Wen, who couldn't help but ask:
"What happened?"

Klein barely managed to pull the corner of his mouth and answered briefly:

"A lot of things happened... I had a friend who died suddenly... I executed him myself."

Gawain looked Klein up and down for a while. "Did he make a big mistake? If it's inconvenient to answer, you don't need to answer."

“No…” Klein thought carefully for a while and said, “That should be it. An enemy tempted him with his greatest weakness… and he couldn’t resist the temptation…”

Gawain, with mottled blond hair, was silent for a few seconds, then said in an erratic tone:

"I once lost 325 friends in five minutes, and at least 10 of them were people I could turn my back on."

"My opinion on how to deal with the traitor is to kill him with iron and blood, without mercy."

"I think you did the right thing."

Klein was a little dazed and said, "No, not a traitor... maybe... but..."

He was interrupted by Gawain who continued:
"To deal with an enemy who seduces your friends, you must use all means at your disposal until they are dead."

"I will never be able to avenge my comrades, I will never be able to fulfill their wishes, I will never be able to do so."

"And you still have such an opportunity, especially since your physique seems to have improved a lot. You are still young, and you still have many opportunities."

Teacher Gawain didn’t seem to know much about Beyonders… Yes, after his Ahova Knights were disbanded by Intis’s high-pressure steam rifles and six-barreled machine guns, he left the army and worked with the police department to become a combat instructor… And the police and night watchmen who received training were very aware of confidentiality…

Then I shouldn't reveal the existence of Beyonders to ordinary people... Becoming Beyonder is not a safe choice...

Teacher Gao Wen's concept is really clear about good and evil... In my previous life, it should be called decisive killing... Perhaps, I should also learn this attitude and stop worrying so much... Too many criteria for judgment will only make me indecisive...

Klein took a breath and cheered himself up.
"Thank you, teacher. How long do you think it will take me now to be able to participate in actual combat?"

Gawain folded his hands, looked at him seriously, and replied in a slightly hoarse voice:

"Two or three days."

"But that's not enough!"

……

"You have to remember that every drop of sweat you shed here may save your life in the future."

……

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Klein left Gawain and went straight home to buy some food, ready to rest for a while and prepare dinner for his family.

What? Checking the red chimney? The £7 worth of investigative reports had been burned to ashes, transformed into energy, and made the final contribution to a meal.

Ever since Klein learned from Old Blue that the mastermind possessed the ability of the Audience Path and understood the true power of the Audience Path, he no longer had any hope of investigating it.

After meditating as usual, he sealed off the entire room with a spiritual wall, walked four steps backwards, chanted a spell, and came above the gray fog.

In the towering palace that looked like a giant's residence, his figure suddenly appeared at the top of the long bronze table, sitting upright on the high-back chair that belonged to the "Fool". The Fool Klein was suddenly startled and stood up abruptly, "Fuck! Why would I burn the investigation report that I paid for? Why would I give up the patrol? According to my personality, I will definitely plan the route again and try to complete the investigation within a few months..."

“Shit! How could I have revealed my extraordinary abilities to Teacher Gao Wen! I mastered the fighting skills so quickly, and he could tell at a glance that my physical condition had greatly improved! What he asked about at that time was not my mental state... but the changes in my physical condition!”

"Fuck, why do I feel like a curly-haired baboon..."

[“Haha, there’s no difference between humans and curly-haired baboons, right…”]

“Fuck! Who!” Klein the Fool was really shocked. He stretched out his right hand and gray mist surged. It seemed as if the palace that had existed since ancient times was still empty, and the crimson stars hung quietly in the distance. There was no other person at all.

[“Who!? Who else? I’m the only one who can climb the gray fog.”]

"Me?" Klein was shocked to find that the voice did not come from outside, but from his own heart! This voice... this voice was actually the same as his own! But he could not control it!
[“Of course it’s me… Be more confident. I’m the chosen one. Gray fog is my cheat. Without my permission, how could anyone else appear? Ha, ha ha!”]

“Fuck!” Klein didn’t care at all about what the voice that sounded similar to his own said. He quickly materialized a yellow-brown parchment and a fountain pen and wrote:

"The voices I heard were hallucinations."

Then he took off the topaz pendant from his left cuff, held the chain in his left hand and stretched it out, letting the silver chain hang vertically above the parchment.

"The voices I heard were hallucinations."

[“It’s not an illusion, no need for divination! Ha, if you can’t even tell this, just wait for me to lose control!”]

"The voices I heard were hallucinations."

……

Klein forced himself to recite the mantra seven times. He opened his eyes and saw the topaz rotating counterclockwise with the silver chain...

“Shit…” Klein the Fool’s hands trembled, and the yellow crystal pendulum was thrown aside. This kind of divination involving oneself is very accurate... It almost never makes mistakes... In other words...

“Am I schizophrenic?”

"Am I schizophrenic?"

Klein covered the left half of his face with his right hand, but the corner of his right face that was exposed curled up. “Ha, ha, ha!”

"..."

He quickly materialized another piece of parchment and wrote on it:

"The reason why I changed."

Then, he picked up the parchment with his left hand, leaned back, still pressing his right hand on the left side of his face, and entered a dream with the help of meditation.

He wanted to use "dream divination" to find out the factors that caused him to become a "two-faced man".

[“Come again? I’ve already guessed it, right? Didn’t Old Blue tell me… about the audience’s abilities…”]

Klein the Fool sat up suddenly. In his dream, he only saw incoherent, fragmented, and hazy gray fog, and found nothing else.

He let go of his right hand that was covering his left face and started laughing loudly. He couldn't stop laughing, "Ha! Haha! Hahaha!"

He laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his back, he laughed so hard that tears came out of his eyes, he laughed so hard that his spirit body trembled, he laughed so hard that the grey fog surged and rolled, he laughed so hard that it seemed as if the palace that had existed since the beginning of time was also shaking.

　Come on, crazy
　　
　
(End of this chapter)