“That item is called the [Bystander Evasion Card]. It’s a fairly expensive consumable on the market. Generally, only professional assassins or lone wolves who don’t want to cause trouble use it.”
“Its effect is to temporarily interfere with the brainwaves of ordinary people within a certain range, making them subconsciously feel that this place is dangerous, or suddenly remember that they have urgent business elsewhere, causing them to unconsciously leave this area.”
At this point, Emilia wrinkled her nose and added with a hint of disdain:
“However, this kind of item does have some side effects on ordinary people’s brains. Fortunately, my [Strong Luck] talent automatically blocks variables that would have a negative impact on me, so this shoddy interference item is ineffective against me.”
“…You don’t need to be that surprised. Although this item is powerful, its effect doesn’t last long.”
Emilia said to the stunned Nuo Ai’er.
However, Nuo Ai’er opened her mouth but couldn’t say a single word.
What shocked her wasn’t the effect of the item at all, but Emilia’s casual kick!
You see, that black-clothed puppet had previously been able to punch her to her knees and stab her to death with a single knife.
Yet under Emilia’s foot, it was as fragile as a roadside Pikachu?
‘Am I just too weak, or what?’
“But I really didn’t expect that you would be targeted by a professional assassin.” Emilia crossed her arms, looked at Nuo Ai’er’s terrified expression, and couldn’t help but sigh.
“Generally speaking, my [Strong Luck] talent automatically avoids the worst-case scenarios. But meeting an assassin together with you is itself a very dangerous situation. Yet Strong Luck helped me avoid the card that would affect my brain, but didn’t avoid the assassin. In other words…”
Just then, the black-clothed puppet that had been slumped in the corner suddenly sprang up as if rewound, brandishing its knife and lunging at the two again.
Emilia didn’t even lift an eyelid. She just slightly turned sideways, then raised her long leg and brought it down accurately and ruthlessly onto the puppet’s head.
Bam!
The puppet’s face was slammed into the stone pavement, its body twitched violently a few times, and then it went completely still.
“In other words, Strong Luck judged that this assassin is far weaker than me.”
Emilia stepped on the puppet’s head, a hint of disdain in her tone.
“Hah, after all, I do train in martial arts every day.”
She looked down and carefully examined the lifeless puppet under her foot, then snorted:
“Boring puppet technique talent. This low-level puppet art’s combat power depends entirely on the controller’s mental strength. Since this puppet is so weak, it means the original’s control range limit can’t be too far. And…”
Emilia’s lips curled slightly: “If I remember correctly, low-level puppet technique talent has a fatal flaw—the damage dealt to the puppet is proportionally shared with the original.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Emilia suddenly exerted force and kicked the puppet on the ground high into the air!
*Aah——!!”
Along with the trajectory of the puppet flying into the sky, a piercing scream suddenly came from deep within the dark alley in the distance.
There, a woman also flew up, spinning in the air just like the puppet.
“Ohohoho~”
Emilia looked in the direction of the sound, a knowing smile spreading across her face.
“Found you~”
At this moment, the female customer who had been so fiercely trying to assassinate Nuo Ai’er was now lying pathetically on the ground.
Emilia’s foot was unceremoniously pressed onto her back, leaving her unable to move.
“Speak. Who sent you? Why kill this kitty?” Emilia demanded from above.
“Um, I’m not a cat…” Nuo Ai’er said weakly.
But no one heard her.
However, that female customer clenched her teeth and refused to say a word.
She painfully twisted her head, her venom-filled eyes fixed on Nuo Ai’er cowering behind, and asked through gritted teeth:
“Why… how did you know I was going to kill you?”
Nuo Ai’er’s earlier words to Emilia had been heard.
Using the [Bystander Evasion Card] to clear the area, such a first encounter kill method should have killed a newbie like Nuo Ai’er without her even realizing it.
How could she have sensed that someone was going to kill her?!
The female customer didn’t understand…
Actually, Emilia was also curious about this.
She turned to Nuo Ai’er with a puzzled look: “Right, I’m curious too. How did you figure it out?”
Nuo Ai’er: “Uh (°)”
Nuo Ai’er shrank her neck, not daring to say that she had already died several times and rewound several times.
She could only force herself to stammer a lie: “Uh, it’s just… at the milk tea shop entrance earlier, I accidentally bumped into her. At that moment, I felt her gaze was off… like she was looking at a dead person. Then I roughly guessed…”
Hearing this explanation, the venom in the female customer’s eyes deepened. She growled through gritted teeth: “Nuo Ai’er… you really are no ordinary newbie! To have such sharp intuition!”
‘I’m not, I didn’t…’
“I’ll remember you!”
At that moment, the female customer suddenly opened her mouth wide, and a thick purple poison mist erupted from it, instantly enveloping the surrounding space.
“Damn! It’s poison mist!”
Emilia reacted quickly, scooping up Nuo Ai’er beside her and shielding her in her arms, leaping backward to avoid the core area of the mist.
Under the cover of the poison mist, the female customer’s body began to undergo a strange transformation.
Her originally tall and slender figure gradually became fuller and more voluptuous, her ordinary clothes transformed into an ornate lace dress, and her once plain black hair turned into a seductive deep purple.
When the poison mist cleared, standing in place was no longer that ordinary female customer, but a hot-bodied, seductive purple-haired woman.
She slowly straightened up, wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth. Her narrow, phoenix-like eyes locked onto Nuo Ai’er with killing intent.
“Heh, it’s been a while since I’ve met such an interesting newbie.” The purple-haired beauty licked her lips, her voice full of magnetism. “Let me introduce myself. My name is Camilla. Consider it your win that you saw through my assassination scheme.”
She gave Nuo Ai’er a deep look, as if engraving the white-haired, red-eyed little loli into her bones: “But from now on, Nuo Ai’er, I won’t let anyone else kill you. Because you are my prey. Your life can only be taken by me.”
“Always be prepared, hehehe~”
After saying that, Camilla opened her mouth again and spat out a thick poison mist, completely concealing her figure.
By the time Emilia dispersed the mist and chased after her, the place was already empty.
‘No… why did someone like this remember me? Is this right?’