But Chloe hesitated for a moment and still didn't reach for the key first.
Although she didn't know whether the key had any warning function... just in case, it would be better to take it last.
The closer she got to victory, the calmer Chloe became. She began considering every possibility, reflecting on her own oversights and mistakes.
After quietly reviewing everything, she confirmed that there were no loopholes.
Iver really was drunk, and none of his actions in his sleep had been unusual.
Only then did she boldly step forward. She took a dark-red lipstick from her bosom and gently applied it to her lips.
The basic ability of the Path of Adaptation was resistance to poison and disease, and the higher one's level, the stronger that resistance. That was precisely why its practitioners could swallow large amounts of herbs without worrying about side effects, or eat any creature they found in the wild to replenish their energy and nutrition. Many poisons were useless against them, but effective against others. Through this disparity in understanding, the Path of Adaptation possessed extremely powerful assassination abilities.
As a member of the Hawkeye Organization, she could learn the methods for creating all kinds of Secret Poison and Curse Poison from the organization. Besides applying the potent poison in paste form to her Eagle Feather throwing knives, she had also made it into lipstick that was easy to carry and conceal, using a fatal kiss to trigger it.
Of course, this actually had no particular significance. It was merely one of her peculiar tastes... If she had to explain it, a kiss was gentler than the act of applying lipstick to someone else. But what she truly wanted to do was simply "kiss" him.
A kiss that quietly stole away another person's life