As the Sniper vanished into the shadows.
Inside the building, Eating Cat tearfully made a guest appearance as a cushion, catching Jiang Xia's falling body. Crushed beneath him, it let out a long, breathless "Meow."
Beside them, Miyano Akemi happily drifted over and raised her chibi hand toward the cat pancake. Ghost and cat high-fived with a smack.
The skill Miyano Akemi had awakened upon forming her Contract allowed the body to become invincible for one second. To successfully lure out Killing Intent just now, the Ghosts had followed Jiang Xia's instructions: they placed the body out in the open, then activated the invincibility skill at the precise moment Scorpion fired.
If Scorpion had not fired during that second, they would have had no choice but to drag the body back to safety and switch to Plan B... Fortunately, Scorpion was decisive. When she fired, she fired, without the slightest hesitation in silencing someone. Truly worthy of that reliable Great Thief who killed anyone standing in her way while stealing treasures.
The two Ghosts muttered praises for Scorpion as they turned to look at where she had been standing.
There, Matsuda Jinpei had gathered up a huge fluffy mass of sweet-and-sour Killing Intent. He slung it over his shoulder like a giant mushroom cloud and diligently carried it toward the body.
Watching this, Miyano Akemi and Eating Cat both wiped at the corners of their mouths. Thinking Jiang Xia was dead, Scorpion's Killing Intent toward a corpse had sharply diminished, shedding quite a lot just now and temporarily easing the Ghosts' difficult situation of being able to look but not eat.
Tomorrow, when she saw the "dead" Jiang Xia suddenly "revive," an ordinary person might feel terrified. But Scorpion was no ordinary person. Fear would only awaken her ferocity—the more