Black Shell Street
Inside a luxurious European-style villa, the "Safehouse" was located in the underground wine cellar.
The Assassin Squad hiding here were true competitors, Destiny Travelers from another Super World.
Their overall progress matched Han Dong's.
They had also gathered four clues and exchanged them in the shrine room for the key item—the Watson Family Tree. Its usage condition was limited to "Ladybug Count = 4."
At present, they too could hear the "heavy footsteps" that sounded as though they were treading across the surface of a heart.
"Boss, this thing is incredibly strong!
It's on a completely different level from the monsters we've encountered so far... Should we go out and kill him now? The Box of Grudges might be on him."
Just as the strange man with copper coins hanging from his skin was about to act,
the icy tip of a Folding Fan lightly tapped his shoulder. A certain artistic conception flowed through the fan and forcibly suppressed his anger.
"Dongye~ Stay here and behave.
Even if we really can kill the thing wandering outside, we'll have to pay an enormous price, perhaps even exhaust all our Trump Cards.
Before many things become clear, reaching 'Ladybug Count = 5' is too early... First, we need to deal with the matters inside this haunted house."
While waiting for the Ladybug Count to change,
Dongye, bored out of his mind, repeatedly tore off the copper coins hanging from his skin and hid in a corner to play a game of "heads or tails" by himself.
Another squad member, Mute, used the iron hammer he carried to strike the iron nails embedded in different parts of his body, somehow hammering out the melody of a childhood nursery rhyme.
Only the handsome man known as "Boss" remained motionless throughout, immersed