Reported!

As Sean wondered whether he should sleep in the she-devil's room, a sudden chill ran down his spine.

It felt like something bad was about to happen.

Yuriko also sprang to her feet, instantly on guard.

This premonition...

A purple flash suddenly appeared and exploded right in front of Sean!

The immense force hit Sean like a forty-ton truck, sending him flying!

Yuriko leaped through the air and caught Sean. To absorb the impact, the two of them rolled all the way to the staircase before stopping!

"W~T~F~!"

Sean felt pain all over. That hit had not been pleasant.

Yuriko pulled him to his feet, then extended her long Adamantium claws toward the spot where the purple light had appeared.

As the purple glow faded, a figure was revealed.

But...

Why was she lying face-down on the floor?

It was clearly a woman, curled up on the ground. Her clothes were in tatters, and there were obvious bloodstains on them.

"Did she get into a traffic accident during teleportation or something?" Sean quipped.

Yuriko did not understand what Sean meant. Expressionless, she stepped forward to inspect the woman. Her claws remained extended; at the slightest sign of trouble, she would tear this suddenly intruding woman apart.

However, the woman was clearly in a deep coma and did not react at all.

Black hair, apparently in her twenties.

Unfortunately, she was white.

Her features were quite gentle and pretty, though her ragged state cost her quite a few points.

"Linda, get out here and do some work!"

Sean called out without any politeness.

The commotion had already caught Linda and Ava's attention.

Linda was still getting dressed, so she was taking her time.

Ava had already come out, but the she-devil saw that nothing seemed wrong and immediately went back to slacking off, leaning against the wall with no intention of moving.

"Here for treatment? That's a pretty novel way to arrive. There seems to be a trace of temporal power on her," Ava said lazily, her eyelids drooping.

"Hm?" Sean glanced at Ava. "Time? You mean this woman traveled through time?"

"More or less. I can only sense a slight disturbance in time. I don't have an ability that advanced."

There were not many beings in the entire Marvel world capable of traveling through time.

Sean had no idea which powerful figure this was. How had she ended up in such a miserable state just from time travel?

"Hmm... throw her outside."

Sean made his decision decisively. This person could not stay.

Linda, who had come out fully dressed, looked like she wanted to say something but held herself back.

"You sympathize with her?" Sean asked, looking at Linda.

"Like this... she'll die."

"Die? Tch. What does that have to do with us?"

"That's leaving someone to die."

"Which eye of yours saw that she was going to die? Relax. People like her are tougher than cockroaches."

Yuriko faithfully carried out Sean's order. She picked up the woman from the floor and headed downstairs.

After a while, she returned and said to Sean, "I threw her across the street."

"Good. Nothing else to do. Go to sleep, everyone!"

Linda seemed troubled. Instead of returning to her room, she leaned out the second-floor window and looked at the woman who had been casually dumped on the sidewalk. She wondered whether she should call 911 to help her.

Sean understood Linda Carter. She was a professional medical worker and had her own professional ethics in this regard. Unlike him, a black-market doctor with no professional ethics whatsoever.

Linda Carter was just an ordinary person. She would not understand how terrifying someone capable of manipulating time could be. This woman was either a mutant or some powerful magic user. Sean felt it was best to stay far away from her.

He did not even want to earn that treatment fee.

What if her enemies came after her? Wouldn't he have to take the blame?

At the mention of sleep, everyone froze again.

Linda's face reddened. She quietly returned to her room, though she made a 911 call first.

Ava Ellis looked at Sean with an excited expression, as if she were saying, Come on, come on! Sleep with me!

Sean looked thoroughly disgusted.

Then he glanced at Yuriko, who had no sense of self.

He still chose to squeeze in with Ava. Yuriko had no spark to her—how boring.

The bed was only a meter and a half wide.

It counted as a double bed, though it was a little cramped.

Tch. Why was this she-devil sleeping in the middle of the bed? Who was that empty space for?

"White, when are you going to give me a day off?"

"A day off? What do you want to do?"

Ava leaned against Sean, her eyes seductive like a kitten acting spoiled.

"I haven't been feeling well lately. I need some special nourishment."

"..." Sean's thoughts went in the wrong direction.

He did not want to pay attention to the she-devil. None of these demons were normal. Either their bodies were bizarre or their minds were bizarre. Humans really had a hard time understanding creatures like demons.

Though Sean did not want to pay attention to her, the she-devil was anything but obedient, and she soon made him irritated.

"You can't sleep, is that it?"

"Sleeping is such a waste of time. Let's do something meaningful instead!"

Ava giggled.

Sean watched her for a moment, then nodded.

"Then let's practice wrestling."

"Sure, sure." Ava nodded eagerly.

For the entire night, Linda and Yuriko could hear violent thudding and screams coming from next door.

Linda's expression was extremely strange. Wasn't that a little too intense? Her heart was pounding in fright.

Early the next morning, Linda got up with dark circles under her eyes and washed up. The noise from next door had kept her from sleeping properly all night.

She figured Ava Ellis was probably still asleep, so she dutifully went to prepare breakfast.

The moment she entered the kitchen, she saw Ava Ellis clutching her waist and staring at the food in the pot, groaning in pain.

"Doctor Ava!" Linda was stunned. She had thought that after all that activity last night, Ava would not be getting up at all.

"Linda, watch the stove for me. I need to rest for a bit. That animal White threw me around all night!"

(T_T)

Linda was a little confused.

"Threw you around?"

"Wrestling! We practiced all night! Ah!~~~~ I'm going crazy!" Ava shook her head hard and shouted!

Linda fell silent, thinking, You two really know how to have fun.

And so, a new day began.

Early that morning, Sean called Vanessa to ask whether his girlfriend could come home today. He did not want to practice wrestling every day—it was too boring.

The answer was that three days meant three days, not a day less. He could even hear Elektra squawking like a chicken in the background, and Sean angrily hung up at once.

Strangely enough, whenever Sean was not around, the clinic would receive three to five patients. But whenever Sean stayed at the clinic, patients immediately became scarce.

It got to the point where Sean wanted to buy an almanac and check his luck.

Things in this world could be strange sometimes. If you did not dwell on something, it seemed like nothing would happen. But once you started thinking about it, it was very likely to happen...

Two police officers stepped through the clinic's doors.

Linda looked at them in confusion.

"You're Miss Linda Carter?"

"I am. You are...?"

"I'm Ron Fisk."

"Oh, hello. What is this about...?"

"Someone reported your clinic for practicing medicine illegally. After investigating, we found that you are the legal owner of this clinic. There are no other employees, but you do not have a medical license."

The officer paused there, making the implication obvious: Miss, you were in trouble.

"But we have no evidence that you practiced medicine illegally. However... the clinic must be shut down."

"..." Linda Carter looked at the officer with a strange expression. "It has to be shut down?"

"Yes, miss."

"Then... all right!" Linda sounded oddly happy, which puzzled the officers.

However, neither of them dwelled on it. They had seen plenty of strange people.

Sean had not even put on his white coat yet. He stood in the office doorway with his hands on his hips, watching the two officers leave with a grim expression.

Something was wrong with this.

By procedure, they should have investigated first. At the very least, they should have sent in an undercover agent to gather evidence or sought out former patients for statements.

But they had done none of that. They had simply come to notify them that the clinic was being shut down.

It made no sense.

This was aimed at Sean White!

Who could it be?

Sean: Let me count how many people I've got beef with... Tch, I don't even have enough fingers!

That's all for this chapter. There's just too much going on over the weekend.

There'll be another chapter tonight!

The person who appeared today is a major character and will be involved throughout a long stretch of the story~ I doubt you can guess who it is, so I won't ask.