Azazel immediately drew the curved blade at his waist and stared at Richard with a grave expression.
If he had come alone, he would not have hesitated to either teleport away immediately or kill Richard.
But unfortunately, he had not come alone.
Even more troublesome, White Queen was standing right in front of Richard.
Just as Azazel considered how to rescue White Queen before Richard made a move, Richard summoned Masamune and tapped White Queen's fair oval face with its blade.
"If you don't want to get hurt, you'd better stand farther away."
Richard said to White Queen.
Feeling the cold touch of Masamune, White Queen looked at Richard with a complicated expression.
At the same time, several thoughts flashed through her mind.
Are he and Mystique friends?
Did Azazel really rape Mystique? After Masamune tapped her cheek, White Queen's first reaction was not fear. Instead, she frowned at Azazel, wondering whether he had truly raped Mystique.
Although she and Azazel belonged to the same organization, and she knew that Azazel, Riptide, and Black King Shaw were hardly law-abiding good men.
That did not mean she would simply ignore everything.
She was a woman too, so she naturally felt revulsion toward the rape of women.
More than that, if Azazel had truly raped Mystique, it meant he might rape her as well.
White Queen could never have imagined that Richard had only asked whether Azazel had raped Mystique because he wanted to know whether Nightcrawler in this world was actually Mystique's son.
The Nightcrawler in the movies merely happened to have blue skin like Mystique.
But the Nightcrawler in the comics was Mystique's son.
When Azazel saw his companion, White Queen, looking at him with suspicion, his already foul mood grew even worse.
"I didn't rape Mystique!"
Azazel said, suppressing