"The boy in Leviathan's house in Room 1 is the boy who drew those weird pictures. How did he die?"
"Feel sorry."
Miss Bevanna shook her head:
"Those corpses hidden in the closet were processed by the pervert in the last room. Now, even the most skilled coroner can't find the specific cause of death, but... look in that file bag. And a little cloth bag."
"Let me see… "
Jenkins shoved the sniffing cat aside, then turned the bag upside down and shook it, and the gray knitted bag fell out.
It's also smaller than Jenkins' palm, and it doesn't feel heavy when you hold it.
"The contents of the bag were found in the boy's stomach during the post-mortem. Fortunately, it was not destroyed by gastric juice. We thought it was the cause of the weird paintings, but it was just ordinary things."
"In... stomach?"
Jenkins pointed at Chocolate's stomach in surprise, and the latter let out an unhappy cry.
"Yes, to be more precise, it's in the middle and lower part of the stomach. It's a magical location."
Miss Bevanna also pointed to her body to show Jenkins where it was.
Inside the cloth bag was a slender metal strip, very thin, showing a golden luster. According to the autopsy results, the esophagus was scratched, probably caused by this thing. There are extremely thin engravings on both sides of it, which should not be lines, but rather like energy circuits or circuit diagrams in Jenkin's memory.
"What's this?"
He held the thing up to the gas lamps on the wall, but found nothing.
"The only finding of the autopsy is that the boy was one step away from being truly extraordinary. Maybe the appearance of the strange world inspired his talent, maybe it was just a coincidence. But we may never know the real reason."
The woman tapped the table with her fingers, and added:
"Combined with those transformations, we speculate that he has a talent for divination. Those words and this piece of metal should be the result of his divination. As for why it was swallowed... Sorry, we don't know."
The metal strip in the soft rubber was tested and found to be low-purity copper with some silver and tin mixed in. It was the same material as a damaged metal decoration in Room 1. And those notches that looked like circuit diagrams were actually words engraved by the boy, but Jenkins didn't recognize them because the words were too ugly.
[The battle between life and death, the winner is...]
That's what the words meant, but even if they deciphered them, the church didn't know what the boy was trying to say. Jenkins held the object up to the light of the room for a long moment, and seemed to be able to see the boy swallowing it desperately before dying.
"Are you going to take it?"
Seeing that Jenkins is interested, Miss Bevanna suggested.
"Huh? Oh no, I don't want to take it."
Jenkins shook his head, took one last look at the pattern, and put it back safely into the bag:
"After all, I don't want to cause any more trouble."
(Chocolate is running... )
Tonight is the time for the astronomy...divination class, and Miss Audrey is waiting for Jenkins in an abandoned house on the outskirts of the city. It was a small two-story building standing abruptly in the farmland, but judging from the rough architectural style, it should have been built by the country people themselves.
Because he came out after dinner in the church, the full chocolate showed a drowsy and lazy feeling. It had fallen asleep in the carriage, and now it was sleeping peacefully inside the coat.
From the snow-covered country road to the barren farmland, it is still winter, and there is nothing in these fields. But it was still difficult to walk, with snow covering bumps in the ground and Jenkins had to be careful not to fall.
He didn't really understand why the divination course was conducted here, but since Miss Audrey chose this place, there must be a reason for choosing this place.
The building's dilapidated door did not close, in fact that door may not close at all due to deformation of the door frame. The house was terribly gloomy, with dust and spider webs everywhere. Jenkins stood at the door and hesitated for a while, only after confirming that the benefactor standing on the second floor was indeed Miss Audrey, did he dare to go inside.
There was a staircase across the hall and living room, but it seemed to be made of planks and nails. The carpentry of the fabricator must have been terrible, and Jenkins thinks half of the treads are slanted.
After finally coming to the second floor, I happened to see Miss Audrey standing at the window sealed with wooden boards and blowing the air. There are gaps in the middle of those wooden boards, and you can see the scenery of the snow field outside.
Unlike the first floor which is divided into different rooms, the second floor does not have any decorative walls. Apart from a few isolated load-bearing walls, this is a huge bedroom.
It's a bedroom because the only thing left besides dust, cobwebs, rusty steam pipes and the droppings of an unknown bird is a tent bed.
Only the part of the white gauze near the top of the bracket remained, showing a dark yellow oxidation state. In the center was a suspiciously complex smear of what Jenkins thought was blood.
"It's really strange that people who live here have money to buy gauze curtains."
While talking, Jenkins walked to Miss Audrey's side. The woman was wearing a thick dark red dress today, with a lot of lace trim decorations on the skirt. Seeing that Miss Audrey looked at her face without saying a word, she was startled by the rolling of her eyes.
"Oh, this is divination."
Jenkins suddenly realized that a fortuneteller in this state can use "another horizon" to observe the future, which is a more sophisticated way of divination. Ordinary fortune tellers also like to imitate this behavior, but it will only hurt their eyes.
"Guess what I saw?"
Soon this strange state disappeared. Perhaps because of the contrast with the white pupils just now, the woman's eyes are extremely bright at this time.
"Is this the practice content of this course?"
Jenkins asked.
"No, just to let you guess."
"Um… "
Jenkins looked up and looked around:
"Did you see the success of our class today?"
"No."
Miss Audrey shook her head while smiling, "I saw a grand performance."
The content of today's lesson has a lot to do with this house. Miss Audrey temporarily gave up trying to make Jenkins "guess things from a distance", this time starting from what he is good at.