The Trafford Trading Club
Chapter 2022

Women's War

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She had arrived.

The instant she appeared, people's memories seemed to be dragged straight back several days.

No one could forget, nor was it possible to forget... She was the woman who had appeared beside that man—the man who had brought a nightmare-like Black Ten Minutes to the supernatural powers of the entire world.

Their heartstrings were plucked taut in that instant. At the Power Conference venue, now reduced to nothing but an empty lot, every gaze was fixed on her.

It was so quiet that even the drop of a needle could be heard.

Some people perhaps did not need to do anything at all. As long as she stood there, she could become the focus of everything.

She walked slowly, every step seemingly spaced at the perfect distance... Each ripple in her clothes as she moved seemed impossible to reproduce completely, no matter how many frames were used.

She had arrived.

She had arrived... Had he come too?

The man whom every supernatural being in the world wanted to forget, wanted to deny... the man they wished they had never met in this life—had he come as well, and was he somewhere nearby?

What was his purpose?

Was he challenging the True Dragon of Shenzhou, who had thoroughly displayed her invincible power?

But he no longer needed to do that, did he?

"Perhaps he isn't as impossible to deal with as we imagined."

"Yes, perhaps it was merely a mass hypnosis technique."

"Without a doubt, on that day, the eyes of the entire world were focused on the Summit Conference, focused on him."

"We... may simply have been hypnotized or influenced without realizing it, and thus mistakenly believed that supernatural power had disappeared for ten minutes."

No one knew where those claims had begun.

They were like

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