Secrets: Priestess

Chapter 32 First Battle
Claire walked forward holding the nightmare doll.

Passing by the boy in the shadows.

Under the arrangement of some distant power, everything was normal in her inspiration.

But the restlessness of the pollution in the body, the burning sensation of the holy emblem on the heart, and the cold stinging pain from the mark on the back of the hand were all warnings almost in no particular order!
Shock and confusion appeared on Claire's face, but her body's reflex was to dodge to the side before she could get confused.

The cold dagger scratched Claire's back.

But it was only a scratch.

In less than a blink of an eye, Claire bent her waist and lowered her shoulders, dodging sideways and kicking away from the attacker while pulling out a small pistol from her gun bag.

Ermo, holding the dagger, was stunned for a moment. After seeing the pistol, his planned hijacking intention immediately turned into murder.

Ermo's petite body twisted with astonishing flexibility, and the dagger in his hand chased Claire's back like a poisonous snake.

The boy was one point faster than Claire!
It looked like she was about to succeed, but in the boy's incredulous gaze, Claire, with her back to him, bent her arms to an angle beyond the normal human body's limit, using the doll in her arms to block her back.

In this battle, it feels like the opponent is more like an assassin than him!

But a broken doll thinks it can block a full-strength attack from an assassin like me?!

Ermo stabbed the dagger in his hand hard, but the dagger failed to pierce the doll.

At the same time, Ermo's eyes met the big eyes of the doll's head...

The huge force caused Claire to groan, and a bloody taste surged from her throat, but it did not affect her ability to move at all.

While peeling off the black cloth wrapped around the nightmare doll with his left hand, he took advantage of the side angle and fired four shots in succession.

bang bang bang-

Four shots accurately hit the attacker's arms and thighs, blood spurted out, and the attacker collapsed to the ground.

Claire didn't move closer. She first observed the attacker, who was bleeding profusely, with his eyes hazy and still trapped in a nightmare. She then carefully picked up the attacker's dagger and moved a little closer.

The dagger in her hand made Claire feel unusually familiar and at ease, as if she were an expert in using daggers.

"Wow, that's awesome."

Claire picked up the nightmare doll that had first blocked the knife for her, then helped her drag the attacker into the nightmare, and finally thrown away by her, and patted the nightmare doll's head soothingly.

Instead of releasing the nightmare doll from control, Claire used a dagger to cut the attacker's tendons in her hands and feet for safety. When the blood splattered, she didn't feel any discomfort at all, and she could even control the angle of the blood so that it wouldn't splash on her body.

Dunn, dressed in a gray and black windbreaker, walked into the detention room of Tingen Police Station and saw Claire, who was standing by the suspect and still reading a book.

"You are hurt?"

"I got cut, but I applied the ointment they gave me, and it's almost healed."

Dunn felt relieved, and then confirmed what happened with Claire.

Dunn asked, "And you dragged the criminal to the police station?"

Claire shrugged. "I used the badge I was carrying to stop a carriage, so I was brought to the police station."

"The police are trying to identify this guy. He's suspected of being a suspect in multiple murders, rapes, robberies, and thefts. By comparing profiles and using photos to find informants, they've basically confirmed he's 'Lazy Cat' Ermer."

"Lazy cat?" Claire listened to the man's criminal record and felt that this seemingly harmless boy was not lazy at all.

If the information matched, it would be truly abominable. Dunn explained, "It's a code name among gang members."

"Xijia has been following this clue for the past few days. He suspects that Ermo is not a simple gangster thug, but a Beyonder who has taken the 'Assassin' potion. He also suspects that there is a superior behind this."

"I didn't expect to fall into your hands tonight."

Claire raised an eyebrow. "So what now? Does it have any impact on the investigation?"

Dunn shook his head. "No, the team already has a plan to capture him. If you can subdue him, it will save a lot of trouble. Now it all depends on how much information we can get out of him."

"Is this man still able to speak?" Dunn looked at the unconscious Ermo suspiciously and asked Claire for confirmation.

Claire patted the doll beside her and smiled, "The nightmare doll seal is very useful, but I was afraid of killing him, so I removed the nightmare effect. He looks like this now because I knocked him unconscious."

"Are the seals so easy to use?" Dunn asked in confusion, thinking about the strange rules he had to follow when using those seals.

Claire pondered for a moment, "Maybe it's because I'm a Favored One."

Dunn choked up, thinking about how Claire had disguised herself as the "Insomniac" without a single flaw, so he shut up and didn't continue the topic.

"Captain, what do we need to do next?" Claire asked curiously as it was her first time coming into contact with a hostile Beyonder.

Dunn sneered, "Imprison him in the underground cell for now... When daybreak comes, we'll move him to Chanis Gate. That's where he belongs."

The police station provided a special carriage for escorting prisoners. When encountering this kind of incident, Claire temporarily gave up the idea of ​​going to the Dragon Bar and got on the carriage with Dunn.

In the carriage, Dunn instructed, "You don't have to participate in the interrogation for now. When you return, go to my office first and remember to get the medicine you used up this time."

After returning to the company, Claire changed into a spare set of clothes. It turned out that this one had a cut on the back and could not be worn.

Fortunately, this kind of loss can be reimbursed by the night watchman.

Claire chose a black and white shirt with floral patterns and delicate embroidery on the lapels, and put on a short jacket, which looked neat and elegant.

After changing her clothes, Claire took the approval slip and went to collect the regular supply of medicine.

On the way, Claire also saw Sister Daly's hurried figure disappear in front of the door of the prison cell where the cultists were imprisoned.

Even Sister Dai Li was dragged here by the captain...it seems there is a big fish behind this?
Claire muttered something in confusion, then turned back to the ground and returned to the office Dunn had assigned to her.

This office is currently used by her and Luo Yao. Luo Yao does a lot of field work. Not only Luo Yao, but probably every official night watchman does a lot of field work.

Because Claire had just joined and was not yet considered a mature fighter by Dunn, she was only doing guard duty.

However, with this record of subduing an "assassin" alone, Claire guessed that Dunn would add her to the field duty roster in the future.

Claire was also a little nervous about this.

"During the battle, I wasn't as nervous as I thought... No, I was even too calm."

Claire pulled out the spoils Dunn had left her. The dagger, in good condition, fluttered like a butterfly between Claire's nimble fingers.

Claire gripped the hilt of the knife tightly and swung the dagger with skillful movements, creating a hail of blades.

Claire sighed as her dark red eyes flickered, "That woman probably left me more than she thought, and more than I thought."

(End of this chapter)