The Devilish Assassin Meets The Angelic Detective

At the Hospital...

After buying the things they wanted to give to their Chief Lee, members of the Joint Task Force went into his private room together.

"Chief Lee!" Everyone shouted in unison as soon as they saw Erick leaning on his hospital bed.

Everyone was glad to see Erick was doing fine. Sarah and Raymond decided to leave them for a while so that the team could talk with each other.

"Chief Lee, we would like to apologize for our mistakes," June said apologetically.

"Yeah, if it is not because of us, our mission of catching Black Shadow would be a success. Sorry about that." Carl also said guiltily.

"Me too Chief... I was supposed to assist you there but I am a useless partner." Bryan said feeling dejected.

Erick did not know whether to laugh or cry because of them.

'What happened to me is not entirely bad. When I wake up, the girl I love confessed to me.'

He was very happy because of that.

'When my life was put in danger, Elle realized that I am important to her. And I am grateful that this happened.'

Erick could not contain his laughter because of that. His friends and colleagues just looked at him puzzled.

"Alright... No need to apologize. Don't blame yourselves. Maybe all of these are meant to happen."

Erick was trying to console them so that they won't feel guilty anymore.

"Let us look at the positive sides," Erick added as he laughed to lighten the mood of his colleagues who were feeling down right now.

His laugh was loud, happy yelp that showed Erick's utter happiness right now. His laughter was infectious.

The persons around him just stared with each other thinking of the same thing.

What positive sides? As far as they could remember, there is no positive side that happened. They failed the mission and Erick even got injured.

"Ahem... Chief Lee, you are really an optimist. You can still see the good sides of everything even though we could not think of any positive things after what happened." Carl commented.

Dr. Gomez and Bryan stared at each other as if they knew what Erick meant by saying that.

'Is he referring to the kiss between him and Elle?'

"Chief Lee, you amazed me. You just have undergone a life-threatening situation." June blurted out of the blue.

"You almost lost your life but now you just woke up but it seems you are still very energetic like yesterday's incident never happened. You scared us to death."

"Yeah, I also notice you have a brighter mood right now Chief." Rose agreed on June's statement.

Everyone was a little bit baffled because of that. Erick just smiled at them sheepishly.

Of course, he could not tell them that the reason for this was none other than but Elle.

She made him felt more alive today because of her sweet punishment and love confession.

'Oh, I miss her already. When will she come back here?' Erick thought to himself.

Dr. Gomez was not able to control his laughter. He and Bryan somewhat knew the reasons why Erick was acting like this today.

Others focused their attention to Dr. Gomez. 'Why is he laughing? Is there something funny?'

Sensing their strange gaze, Dr. Gomez stopped laughing and cleared his throat.

"Cough! Cough! Sorry about that. I just want to say that Love... I mean... the heart doctor of your Chief Lee is very skillful in taking care of him."

Bryan's mouth twitched trying to hold his smile.

'This is what they called the power of love.'

"By the way, speaking of a good thing, Chief Lee, the assassin who shot you during our mission was killed by Catseye last night," April said as she remembered their meeting.

"What do you mean?" Erick was astounded by that news.

The team started to share the information with their Chief Lee who missed a lot of things in just one night. There were lots of things happening one after another.

"That piece of news about Catseye killing Reaper is the most popular news right now in the underground world."

"Not only that, Assassin's Guild already issued a Command Kill order against her, giving 500 billion as bounty price for those who can kill Catseye."

"Marie got a grasp of that piece of information easily because it was spreading fast in the underground world."

"What are your thoughts about this Chief?" Bryan asked Erick.

Among them, Erick was the one who was good at analyzing things and events. Perhaps, he could deduce something out of this information given.

The team averted their gaze to Erick who became silent for a moment. He was consumed by his own thoughts.

They were waiting for his reply when suddenly Dr. Gomez spoke up.

"Hey... Hey... your Chief Lee has not yet recovered fully. Why are you talking about work here? Let him rest for a while."

"Don't dwell on this too much. You never know, Catseye just did that in order to avenge your Chief Lee. Hehe, you should be glad." Dr. Gomez said nonchalantly as he shrugged.

Everyone was rendered speechless because of Dr. Gomez's remarks.

For them, it was really weird to think that the shooting incident in which involved Erick was related to Reaper's death.

That did not belong to the possible motives of why Catseye did that.

Dr. Gomez just laughed seeing their expressions.

"Hahaha Don't look at me like that. I am not weird. I am just joking since all of you look very serious."

"Yeah... even though everything was off, we could count that as one possibility," Bryan said in agreement.

"Why do you think so?" They asked Bryan curiously, hoping to have a valuable and relevant answer coming from him.

"Because... Chief Lee is handsome. She might have a crush on him when she saw him last time." Bryan said matter-of-factly.

The team was like... 'Huh??? Did we hear it right?'

Rose:"..."

April:"..."

June:"..."

Carl:"..."

Erick:"..."

Dr. Gomez:"..."

Seconds later, several pairs of eyes were shooting daggers at Bryan as they shook their head.

Carl remembered that Bryan tends to have weird logical reasoning as he witnessed during their first face-off with Catseye at Arison's Holding Main Office.

Well, if they just knew, Dr. Gomez and Bryan's statements were much closer to Catseye's real motive and more valid.

"Kidding aside, given these circ.u.mstances, I think Catseye will be caught sooner or later since almost everyone in the underground world will hunt her down because of the high reward," Carl commented.

"Our case will be solved!!!" April said enthusiastically.

"Hey don't rejoice yet. It is difficult to hunt one person whose identity is unknown... especially that person is Catseye. She will surely retaliate against the Assassin's Guild."

"Agree, she will not stay still and wait for her enemy to strike. She is the kind of person who always moves first."

"Oh my... What if  Catseye plans to eliminate all the members of Assassin's Guild? There will be a bloodbath." Rose said with a frightened voice.

"We don't want that to happen. So we need to catch her first." Erick was also determined to catch her.

"Hey, why is it you look more scared about Catseye killing those assassin members compared to Assassin's Guild hunting Catseye? It is one versus many." Dr. Gomez asked them.

"Because Catseye is the devil. She is more frightening. She could kill those assassins easily." Bryan replied promptly.

Well, this time Bryan has spoken something in which everyone agreed with it.

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At Skull Gang Headquarter...

After Black Shadow attended the emergency meeting at Assassin's Guild Headquarter, he immediately asked James to meet him.

He was instructed by James to go to the Skull Gang Headquarter where James would come to meet him.

"Do you have something important to tell me?" James asked Black Shadow right away.

"I don't know if this is good news or bad news for you."

"Just tell me," James said impatiently.

"Assassins will start hunting Catseye now because Assassin's Guild offered a 500 billion reward for her head. Catseye killed one of our comrades."

"Even though I am the only one who knew her face, I think they would do their best to track her down and lure her into a trap."

"Although we had the advantage, I can't guarantee if I can bring her to you. This is now a race who can catch her first, whether I can catch her first or the police authorities or she will die in the hands of other assassins."

James's expression darkened. "You. Should. Bring. Her. To. Me. Alive!" James ordered him with his stern authoritative voice.

"Hahaha... don't worry. I also have a score to settle with her. I owe my fallen brother a favor." Black Shadow assured him.

"Oh... one more thing." Black Shadow took something out of his pocket and showed it to James.

James stared at it with a frown. "What is that?" he asked.

"Of course, a necklace!" Black Shadow laughed at him mockingly.