"Are you awake? The auction is about to end, and I still haven't seen Dad."
Miss Capet, who was sitting next to Jenkins, said softly.
"How long have I been sleeping? Huh? Who is this?"
I glanced at the man sitting directly in front of the two, but found that the other party was actually an eighth-level demigod bestower. Judging from the configuration of the ability spots, he probably wasn't from the Orthodox Church, which surprised him.
"Is there a problem with this person?"
Noticing Jenkins' gaze, Miss Capet said softly.
Jenkins immediately raised his fingers to make a silent gesture. The inspiration of the demigod-level bestower is very powerful, not to mention that the three of them are very close. In this case, it is best not to mention each other.
But it's a pity that he was still a step late. Just as Jenkins raised his finger, the man in front suddenly turned his head.
It was an ordinary-looking man with two mustaches. He has a ruddy complexion and is neither tall nor short, just a little thin. With a very polite smile on his face, he looked at Jenkins and Miss Capet in turn, and handed out a business card under the vigilant eyes of the two:
[Alfonso Carmel, Carmel thrift store owner]
Miss Capet looked blank. She didn't know what this meant, but Jenkins understood. He looked at each other vigilantly. The thrift store owner with a mustache took out his notepad, wrote a line in a hurry, and then showed it to Jenkins:
"It's you, took my mirror away?"
"It really is this thrift store!"
Jenkins thought to himself, nodded slightly, not knowing what the other party wanted to do.
"After the market is over, I would like to invite Mr. Williams to sit in my shop. Of course, you can also bring your female companion."
He wrote this, then turned his head and continued to focus on the auction, turning his back to Jenkins generously.
At this distance, Jenkins has countless ways to kill the person in front of him with one blow. But Kamel was too confident, which made Jenkins scruples and dared not do it. Of course, this may also be a strategy of the opponent, but Jenkins does not want to bet on this probability.
"who is he?"
Miss Capet mouthed with her mouth open, but said nothing.
Jenkins shook his head. He also has the habit of carrying a notepad with him, and hastily wrote a few words on it:
"After the train arrives at the station, you leave immediately and report to the church. I'm here to delay him."
"Who the hell is he?"
Miss Capet saw something in Jenkins' manner.
"At least it's a demigod, and there are a lot of numbered items on it. It's okay, just go first, and leave it to me here."
After writing this, he looked at his own cat, knowing that it would never follow Miss Capet.
"Don't you need my help?"
Miss Capet confirmed again that seeing Jenkins shaking his head firmly, he knew that the other party had his own plan in mind. She didn't insist on staying, but whispered into Jenkins' ear, telling him to be careful. Jenkins is not used to others talking to him like this, his ears are red.
Jenkins paid no attention to what was sold throughout the auction. He couldn't stop thinking about what happened today, guessing what the other party wanted to do, and what did he know about his identity. I also thought about all the things I knew about Carmel's thrift store. Although I have been involved with the other party for a long time, I didn't expect that the meeting would be such a coincidence.
After the auction ended, an unknown voice notified everyone that the train was arriving. Jenkins sat still and watched Miss Capet leave before standing up. At the same time, Kamel, who was sitting in front of him, also stood up.
Alfonso Kamel was a full head lower than Jenkins, and he was much thinner than him, but when the two looked at each other, his momentum did not lose the wind at all.
"The young people nowadays are really amazing. I thought you would run away the moment you opened the door."
He didn't look like he was joking, and while putting his black top hat on his head, he walked towards the side door of the carriage one step ahead of Jenkins:
"Come with me, I think you'll be interested in my store."
Jenkins squinted his eyes and paused, then actually followed him out of the car.
Carmel's thrift store in Belduran, tucked away on an unassuming shopping street in the east of the city. It was evening now, and there were quite a few people even in the remote streets.
On the left side of the thrift store is a bakery, because the cheap bread crumbs will be sold in the evening, so the children and housewives in the slums have already lined up early. Kamel and Jenkins bypassed the queue and came to the door of the store. The former took out the key and opened the door, and then walked in with Jenkins.
The owner of the store probably never thought of tidying up the place, the shelves and all kinds of strange products in the store filled almost every corner of the house. In Jenkins' eyes, at least a quarter of the items had an unusually strong aura, which meant that there were more than twenty numbered items in the main hall of the store alone.
Before that, he knew that the Carmel thrift store had a huge number of special items, but seeing this situation with his own eyes still surprised him.
"B-10-04-3977 [Mirror of Good and Evil] is just an inconspicuous collection of mine. I sold it just to see if the Viscount who accidentally walked in here is what he thinks , with a steel-like spirit. But then I found out that the mirror has other uses. When the opposite side of the mirror is faced with another ordinary mirror, the front effect of the mirror will be completely reversed, and it will become the person who is looking at the mirror. Inflict the curse and disease it has swallowed recently. I wanted to send someone to buy it back for research, but I ran into you by accident."
Kamel took off his hat and threw it on the counter, then turned to look at Jenkins;
"Jenkins Williams, very interesting man. I have read your book, read the transcript of your speech on the Fabry hoax, and even watched you from afar without you knowing it. You are very Strange, I originally thought you were just an ordinary scribe of the Church of the Sages, but recently I changed my mind. After you intervened in the matter of the mirror, I did a little research on your background and found out that there are many things related to your family. Interesting things."
Kamel was able to easily investigate William Te's matter because it had been leaked for various reasons. If it was a few months ago, Jenkins doesn't believe he would have found any clues.
"So what are you going to do?"
Jenkins asked.
"I want to play a game with you. If you win, I will forgive you for taking my mirror; if you lose, I will take one of your things."