"Not bad—catching a blade with your bare hands. Let's see how I deal with you!"
The monster was extremely displeased. It yanked hard on the whip blade, trying to pull it back.
Feeling the force in his hand, Luke applied a little strength with one hand.
"Huh? What's going on? Why won't it move?! Damn it, move already!"
The monster howled, straining as if it were constipated, seemingly putting its entire body into it.
Looking at the whip blade in his hand, Luke wore a speechless expression.
"Uh... I haven't even used much strength yet?"
He suddenly realized something. It seemed he had seriously overestimated these monsters' strength?
Then he recalled his earlier performance.
Slap!
He smacked himself in the face in embarrassment, feeling mortified.
He had decided.
He would take this dark history to his grave!
Absolutely, absolutely no one could find out!
"Hey. You weren't acting like this when you faced my companions earlier."
Talk about hitting a sore spot. Seeing that it truly could not pull the blade back, the monster planted its hands on its hips and stalked over with an unhappy expression.
Bang!
A satisfying straight punch.
[Emotional Value from Frank Castle +411]
"What a beautiful punch. It was full of power!"
Frank's eyes lit up. He lowered his gun and praised him.
After taking that punch, the monster's neck snapped to one side, and it died on the spot.
Until its death, it could not figure out one strange question.
The human world... really was complicated.
"What the fuck is wrong with you? Why do you talk so much?!"
Luke lowered his fist resentfully, fuming.
He secretly glanced at the others. Fortunately, their attention did not seem to be on that line.
At least his image was intact.
"Hello. I'm the Punisher, Frank Castle."
Frank strode over and appreciatively extended his right hand.
A strong man like this... was worth getting to know.
After hesitating for a moment, Luke reached out and shook his hand.
"Luke Cage. I guess you could call me... a mercenary."
Nearby, Matt, Chun-Li, and Jessica had also finished cleaning up the battlefield and walked over.
"Hello, Luke. I'm Daredevil, Matt Murdock."
"I'm Chun-Li."
"Jessica Jones. Luke... it's been a long time."
After introducing themselves, Jessica put her hands on her hips, a long-lost smile appearing on her face.
Luke froze for a moment, then carefully studied Jessica's face in surprise.
"Jessica, it really is you?"
They had once been lovers for a time, but they had broken up for some reason. He had never expected to run into her again here.
"Yeah. Fate really is strange."
Jessica sighed, then asked with a smile, "Luke, what are you doing here?"
Seeing that Jessica had run into someone she knew, Matt and the others did not interrupt. They simply stood to the side and watched quietly.
Luke did not hide anything.
"It went like this."
Starting from when he accepted Misty's commission, then found Moka to ask about it, got chased by a blond masked man, and everything that happened up until now, he explained it all in full.
[Emotional Value from Jessica Jones +413] [Emotional Value from Matt Murdock +411] [Emotional Value from Frank Castle +412]
"It's Baroque!"
Chun-Li's sudden outburst interrupted everyone's thoughts.
"Baroque? Chun-Li, do you know him?"
Matt asked in confusion.
"He is a high-ranking operative in Shadaloo, a terrorist organization. He often kills his opponents in flamboyant and cruel ways.
The mask and the steel claw on his left hand are his most distinctive features!"
At that, Chun-Li took a deep breath and helplessly pulled an ID from her clothes.
"I'm sorry. Shadaloo has always been my target, and I did not mean to hide my identity."
"Interpol?!"
Poor Matt could not see, but Jessica's cry of surprise gave him his answer.
However, their reactions were all different.
Matt and Luke had dealt with the police far too often, so learning Chun-Li's true identity did not particularly surprise them.
Frank Castle, the Punisher, was a retired soldier who had been to prison more than once. Chun-Li's Interpol identity was unusual, but nothing worth being shocked over.
Only Jessica was shouting in surprise, looking like she had been scared out of her wits.
"What the hell?"
Patting her chest, she stepped forward and threw an arm around Chun-Li's shoulders.
"Chun-Li, you're an international cop? That's amazing! I always thought you were one of those kung fu masters from East Country movies!"
After putting away her ID, Chun-Li gave a reserved smile, earning another round of admiration from Jessica.
After a moment's thought, she warned Luke.
"Mr. Cage. As an international terrorist organization, Shadaloo's influence is enormous.
They have forces spread throughout Southeast Asia, Europe, and even America.
If the person hunting you really is Baroque, then I'm afraid you're in trouble!"
Seeing that they did not fully understand how terrifying Shadaloo was, Chun-Li went on to explain in detail the many atrocities Shadaloo had committed around the world!
One heinous crime after another, each more horrifying than the last.
As Chun-Li spoke, everyone's expressions changed again and again!
An evil terrorist organization like that was clearly not something The Hand could compare to.
Their scale was on an entirely different level!
"If what you said is true, then that lunatic named Baroque followed me all the way here, but stopped outside instead of coming in."
Luke was no fool. Based on the information Chun-Li had provided, he reached the truth after only a little thought.
"He must have judged that there was no way I could escape alive from this monster-infested nest!"
"If he finds out that someone he believed was certain to die has survived, then he may very well fly into a rage and come back for revenge!"
Matt rested a hand beneath his chin as he joined the analysis.
"And there's more."
Rubbing the gun in his hands, a sharp glint flashed through Frank's eyes as he offered an important clue.
"The dying words you heard from Moka were probably referring to the Irish gang.
But as far as I know, the Irish gang was wiped off the map by an unknown force three days ago."
"Through some special connections, I got hold of a few photos from the scene.
Judging by the wounds on the bodies, they looked like they had been inflicted by some obscure type of cold weapon. And there was most likely only one killer!"
"It was Baroque!" x4
They all spoke at once.
"If it was him, then that makes sense."
Luke had fought the man before and understood his strength.
That guy was unnaturally agile, like a ninja.
As long as he was careful, dealing with the Irish gang's men would have been no problem at all!
But Frank's intelligence report was not over. He continued.
"Out of curiosity, I also looked into the Irish gang.
I found that about two weeks ago, one night, the Irish gang mobilized a large number of people to hijack a shipment."
"I don't know what the shipment contained, but that operation obviously failed."
Many people died, and it also threw the Irish state into chaos!"
Standing off to the side and watching the men enthusiastically discuss things back and forth, Jessica was completely baffled.
Huh? What the hell was going on?
When she turned her head, she saw Chun-Li looking utterly focused, her eyes shining with an expression of sudden realization.
Jessica: "."
[Emotion Points from Jessica Jones +404]
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