The Siege

Electric Flash

Even with all its power, France's Lihai'er Conglomerate wouldn't dare openly use lethal weapons in a sovereign country like Japan. Even drawing a knife in public would immediately bring interference and resistance.

And the first to react wouldn't be the police, but the local Yakuza.

Defending their territory was the Yakuza's duty.

In a sense, the Yakuza shouldn't be translated as "gangsters," but rather as an independent, commercialized militia organization, one that also bore responsibility for maintaining public safety and order.

The men Chairman Demville had brought from France weren't bodyguards, but corporate security guards. They were, in a way, the Japanese Yakuza's counterparts: professional enforcers who worked exclusively for the Lihai'er Conglomerate.

At a command, the conglomerate's guards surrounded the two Demonesses and opened fire without hesitation.

Taser darts crackling with electricity, high-strength nylon nets that expanded in an instant, and tiny injection needles filled with fast-acting anesthetic descended on Qingyao and Hong Li.

The tour guide and cameraman accompanying them were stunned.

Yet in the very next moment, all those incapacitating weapons stopped dead two feet from the Big and Small Demonesses.

"What kind of junk is this?"

Qingyao Demoness curiously pinched a Taser dart between her fingers. High-voltage electricity wound around her fingertips like a tame little snake, utterly docile.

When it came to playing with lightning, that was the Azure Flood Dragon's natural talent. The small jade-colored horn on her forehead was a symbol of her command over thunder and lightning.

Everyone watched as the Demoness caught a stun dart powerful enough to knock out a grown man on the spot, yet remained completely unbothered. They couldn't help but feel the hairs on the backs of their necks stand on end.

That was a Taser, not a child's foam dart gun.

"H-how could this