Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1272 Another Timeline
"Future me?"

Klein immediately asked back, his expression unchanged, but a storm was already brewing in his heart.

If what Angel Gray said was true, it meant that she was a kind of "time traveler", and she was not a remnant of the old days who traveled from the past to the present like herself, but a reverse traveler who returned from the future to the present and tried to change the current state.

"Terminator", "Dragon Ball", "Steins;Gate"... Many works with time-travel elements that he had seen suddenly popped up in his mind. In addition, he had witnessed Angel using the marks left by the "City of Disaster" in various places to travel through different times. He believed Gray's words a little, but more doubts lingered in his mind.

Angel once said that her "Mirror Man" believed that it was actually impossible to travel back to the past by relying on the special characteristics of the City of Disaster, because it was necessary to meet the two requirements of leaving a "brand" in advance and having sufficient spirituality...

If Gray is a time traveler and claims to be Angel's "original body", does that mean that she is the future Angel Granger?
"Yes, you will understand once I have told you my complete story."

Angel Gray nodded, not giving Klein time to think further. Instead, he leaned back in the high-back chair and said in a calm and relaxed tone:

"When I regained consciousness, I was already lying in the basement of No. 6 Daffodil Street in Tingen City. The owner of that house, Cole Granger, lost control and died because she failed to become a 'witch'. However, her extraordinary characteristics had not yet emerged, and her body belonged to me...

"So, I inherited this witch's body, the extraordinary ability of the 'Assassin' Path Sequence 7, and most of his memories. Of course, there are also interpersonal relationships, such as that of Mrs. Sharon...

"That day was also Thursday, June 1349, 6."

The time was the same as Angel's "time travel", but he inherited the ability of a "witch" instead of extracting the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 7 and Sequence 8 like Angel. He only retained the ability of an "assassin"... Klein immediately discovered that the experience Gray described was subtly different from Angel's, but he did not interrupt him immediately and just continued to listen.

“I had just accepted the reality that I had come to another world, digested the memories in my mind, and had a preliminary understanding of this world when Sharon Hoy came to visit me.

"She thought I was still the same Cole who obeyed her every word, and suggested that I fake a false identity to escape from the crime and start a new life. This was exactly what I wanted, and I was eager to get rid of the identity that was involved in many murders that I didn't commit.

"Under Madam Sharon's arrangement, I became her distant relative and lived in Baron Hoy's house. While I was getting familiar with the abilities of a 'witch', I was also in contact with the upper echelons of Tingen City under her arrangement... Heh, she probably wanted to train me to be a socialite like her so that her network in Tingen would be more solid."

At this point, Gray looked up at Klein, as if assessing his reaction. Seeing that he looked calm and listened attentively, he continued:
"Of course, I don't plan to stay under her control forever. Instead, I plan to collect enough evidence and report it to the three major churches. But on the one hand, my own identity is difficult to handle. On the other hand, Madam Sharon doesn't have too many "sins". She spends most of her time studying how to expand her network of relationships with her body and money, and training a few subordinates according to the requirements of the Witch Cult. She hardly has time to do anything herself...

"Soon, the 'instigator' she trained, Tris, returned from the sea, completed his role, digested the potion, and became a member of the 'witch'. But in order to eliminate the evidence of instigating passengers on a passenger ship to kill each other at sea, she tried to launch a large-scale curse and was discovered by the Night Watchers."

It was the captain. Angel, Leonard, and I raided Triss and Mitis's base in the suburbs... By the way, according to her story, if Madam Sharon hadn't died, the other "joy" witch wouldn't have come to Tingen. This is also a point of disagreement... Klein pondered silently, comparing the difference between the memories in his mind and the experience described by the other party.

Angel Grey seems to have the same idea, skipping many trivial matters and focusing on the "differences":
"Triss managed to escape capture, but she could no longer stay in Tingen City. Madam Sharon asked me to escort her to Backlund. Before I left, I sent a letter of complaint to the police station, exposing Madam Sharon's true identity.

"Unfortunately, in the end, it seems that she did not die because of reporting the crime, but because she killed a congressman in bed. The Night Watchmen caught the clue and killed her during the arrest.

"You killed her."

At this point, Angel Gray smiled. What I killed... was similar to the action that the captain led to capture Madam Sharon before I joined the Nighthawks? But how could a fortuneteller like me who had no direct combat ability go to the front line to fight? By then, I had already been promoted to "Joker"? Klein's mind was full of thoughts, and he couldn't help but ask:
"When did this happen?"

Gray thought for a moment and replied:

"In early September, two months after I traveled to the 'modern' era... Cornley White died in that battle. Dunn Smith's condition, which had been stable due to the role-playing method, deteriorated again because he took his Beyonder characteristics. Two days later, Megose, who was pregnant with the child of the 'True Creator', came to the Blackthorn Security Company. You and Dunn died."

I'm dead... Klein was a little dazed for a moment, but he immediately realized that this was the "God's Descent" incident in his memory, and it was also the end of Tingen's story that was manipulated by 0-08 behind the scenes.

Without Angel's participation, the captain would have truly died, as would Cornelius... After a long silence, he said:
"continue."

Gray nodded and continued:
"After arriving in Backlund, Triss and I found one of the leaders of the Witch Cult in this city, Sylvia Langdon. It seems that because of Triss's special characteristics, she gave her a ring that could trigger the descent of the Original Witch, making her the prince's mistress. As for me... I was responsible for approaching certain nobles and exchanging the intelligence I obtained for the magic potion formula and materials of the Pleasure Witch.

"But I soon discovered that the mission Sylvia assigned to me was not entirely the instruction of the 'Witch Cult', but was based on her personal interests and... the purpose of another organization."

Another organization? Before Klein could speak, Gray revealed the answer himself:
"It was only much later that I found out that Sylvia was a member of the 'Twilight Hermits'."

It was the organization that organized the assassination of Duke Negan in Backlund... Klein chewed on this name that he had not dared to mention for a long time, and suddenly realized:
"Did Adam notice you at that time?"

Angel Gray nodded slightly and said with a sigh:
"I don't know what caused me to be exposed, but the Dusk Hermits did exert influence on me through Severia... With the occurrence of the Backlund Great Smog at the end of 1349, she took me away from Backlund and returned to my hometown of Trier. I also became a subordinate of her mother, the 'Black Witch' Clarisse.

"After that, the situation in the world was not much different from what you remember. The most difference was the time. For example, the World War ended in January 1352, half a year later than here. The damage caused was also much greater. The Outer Gods had enough opportunities to develop their power within the barrier, which made the situation after the war even more tense...

"I took the opportunity to become a member of the 'Twilight Hermits' and with the help of their resources, I was able to reach the threshold of being a demigod even though I was only a 'joy' witch on the surface.

"Under their arrangement, I traveled around and 'encountered' various events. As a result, I had the aura of the 'Blood Emperor' and the mark of the 'Underworld Man' in my body. Finally, when I entered the 'Exiled City' Morola and tried to steal the power of '0-01', I used the death row prisoners there to be promoted to the 'Despair' Witch..."

Death row prisoner... I remember Angel said that the real "Despair" witch promotion ceremony requires 3 people to be involved in the plague... Klein's eyes moved to the two different "Witch" cards on the long bronze table, and he couldn't help but ask:
"So, what you experienced was the 'real' Sequence 4 promotion ceremony? Then where did the ceremony recorded in the blasphemous card that Angel got come from? Who made that card?"

He paused and answered himself:

"Could it be the future Roselle Gustav?"

PS: This paragraph is difficult to write... today's is a bit short.

(End of this chapter)