The Devilish Assassin Meets The Angelic Detective

At Elle's Residence....

Charles had been staying at Elle's place for one week now hoping and waiting for her to come back.

Right now, Charles just hung up the 10th call of the day. Those were calls from their potential clients. Many had called him and wanted to hire Catseye for a mission but he had no choice but to turn it down since she was still missing.

He had to come up with some reasonable alibi so that they would not suspect anything. If they got a news about Catseye's disappearance, he was sure many from the underground world would be rejoicing.

Catseye was a skilled assassin. Many people would like to hire her but it didn't meant that they don't wish to harm her. They were afraid of her. Of course they wanted her dead because she was a big threat for them. They never knew if one day Catseye would come knocking on their doors just to end their lives.

Catseye was an independent assassin which means she didn't belong to any group or organization of hired Assassin. She didn't follow rules and she was the most infamous assassin right now in her generation. If she wanted your life, she would claim it for sure. If she wanted you dead then wait for the grim reaper to fetch you.

"Catseye where are you? We are losing a lot of money day by day. So many pending mission! Come back now please!" Charles was solemnly wishing for Elle's return when he heard his phone ringing. He glared at his phone while saying "Oh Gosh,,,another possible millions of money that I need to turn it down."

He picked up his phone and answered nonchalantly "Hello? What can I do for you?"

"Did you miss me?" Elle said from the other line as she noticed that Charles was not in a good mood. She smirked at the thought of Charles having a hard time because of her disappearance. 'It served him right'. she thought to herself.

"Are you kidding me?!! Do you really think that I am in the mood to do sweet talking with a stranger right now?!!" Charles couldn't help himself from pouring out his stress to the caller.

'Did he just shout at me? I just disappeared for a week and he became bolder. Hmm You just wait Charles! ' Elle was startled and she just stayed silent for a while. 'He seemed like he was really suffering under a lot of stress right now.' She wanted to laugh at him.

Charles calmed down when he didn't received any reaction from the other caller. 'Wait...why is it her voice sounds familiar?' Silence remained on the other line. He glanced at his phone to check whether the caller already hung up but she didn't. This silent treatment seemed familiar. His heart started to beat fast.

"Ahemm... sorry about that. Could you... please speak again?" he requested politely trying to confirm his suspicion. After seconds of anticipation, the girl spoke again from the other line.

"Hello my dearest Charles!" Charles shivered upon hearing her familiar cold voice. "Oh sh**t! It was really her. It was Elle!' He almost dropped the phone from shock.

He didn't know what he should feel right now. Should he feel so glad and happy since Elle finally contacted him or should he feel afraid since just a while ago he shouted at her, could this be the end of his life?

As if Elle had read his mind, so she said "Don't worry. It is not your time yet. You are still useful to me. But I dare you to shout at me again, I am telling you now I don't know what I might do to you."

The face of Elle that flashes an evil smile appeared on Charles' mind so he nodded many times as if Elle could really see it. He felt relieved now.

"Why it took you so long from contacting me? How are you? What happened to you? Have you been hurt? Where are you? When will you be coming back?" He bombarded her with so many questions! He was back to his true self now. The blabbering mouth of Charles started to operate again.

"It seems like I want to change my mind now." Elle said to him.

"What a cold blooded woman! Can't you be good to me atleast once? You scared me to death! Do you know that? I was worried sick about you." Charles complained to her.

"It's your fault for not answering my call." Elle rebutted.

"Hmmp. No way. It was also your fault for not listening to me. I told you that the mission was a little bit suspicious but you didn't believe me. You didn't listen to me!" Charles sighed in frustration but he just suddenly laughed.

"Haha! Admit it, admit it. I was right! I told you so. My guts feeling was right!" his voice was brimming with confidence. Elle just rolled her eyes. If she was there she could have punched him in the face already.

"By the way I called Master Phantom about your disappearance."

"What did he say?" Elle asked him

"Of course he reprimanded me so many times. I didn't know where to find you so I asked him for help. If you didn't call me after three days he will surely come back to search for you. Luckily you finally called."

"Oh right, before I forget, Master Phantom didn't seem that worried when I informed him about your failed mission. I thought you were dead but he told me that you are alive and he sounded confident. He said he knew you. He even said that you might be mad at me and wanted to punish me that's why you didn't contact me." He spoke spontaneously like a kid who was telling her mother an interesting thing that happened to him.

Elle smiled and shook her head. As expected Master Phantom had high hopes and high expectations for her. He was proud of her. He really believed in her skills and capabilities. He really knew her, he even knew that she wanted to punish Charles.

"It was Black Shadow, he conspired with the Skull Gang to catch me. You are right I was badly injured. Someone had saved me." She told him what happened.

"What!? Black Shadow! That bastard is really full of himself. He wanted to compete with you and he even dared to hurt you. He is really brave enough!" Charles said mockingly.

"He saw my face and discovered my real identity." she said nonchalantly.

Charles was dumbfounded. He didn't know that Black Shadow was really that capable. He should commend him for knowing Catseye's identity and for injuring her. Charles gasped as realization came to him "Oh no! It's a big problem. Everyone will now know your identity. You are not a mysterious assassin anymore. Haha! He really broke your record!"

Elle raised her brows "You really have the guts to laugh now with my misfortune?" Charles stopped laughing when he heard her warning.

"Who cares, just let them know. I can just kill them one by one." Elle said with an evil smile and her eyes full of excitement and thrill.