Night Owl?
Night Owl, the head of the Darkness Division? This couldn't possibly be just a coincidence of names, could it? Xu Xiaoshou's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly understood where the faint sense of familiarity he had felt from the very beginning had come from.
"I've seen her before..."
Back on Solitary Sound Cliff, after Water Ghost's final deep-sea tidal wave shattered space and swept countless people away, there had seemed to be such a fleeting figure glimpsed within the spatial rifts.
Further back, when he had fought Aberrant and used Soul Reading on Aberrant's memories, he seemed to have crossed paths with the figure before him many times as well.
In the early memories of assassins such as Double Fool and Golden Foot, there had also been vague impressions of this black-feathered woman.
"But I was clearly certain that I'd never seen her..." Xu Xiaoshou trusted his own instincts completely, and his brows knitted at once.
So what was this? Interference from a Holy Emperor's will? No! If it had reached the level of a Holy Emperor's will, then even if he now knew the name "Night Owl," he could never have recalled such trivial details.
"The head of the Darkness Division, darkness..."
As Xu Xiaoshou silently repeated that title, he seemed to understand.
She truly was "dark." She actually possessed the ability to erase outsiders' memories of her appearance. It was practically a tailor-made method for underground workers such as assassins!
Unfortunately, no matter how powerful that ability was, as long as it had not reached the Saint level, it could not affect the deep impression someone left behind through Perception... Xu Xiaoshou remembered everything.
Looking up, he saw Night Owl's deathly silent gaze pierce through the darkness beneath her hood from not far away. Xu