Maeve's Broken Defense

Seeing that Butcher seemed stumped by his request, Leon was in no hurry. After all, haste made waste, and there were only a few female Superhumans who met Leon's requirements.

Butcher had access to even fewer of them now.

So Leon had practically stopped just short of giving Butcher the names outright.

But that would have been a little out of character for the "Soldier Boy" he was currently playing. He was a very dedicated actor.

Click!

After disengaging the Desert Eagle's safety, Leon followed the three-point alignment principle, gripping the gun with both hands and aiming at Butcher's head as he sank into thought.

[Question: Would you like to perform today's sign-in?]

*System, act cute for me.*

[Ding, today's sign-in has been completed. Congratulations, Host, you have obtained "Mercy of Gun God Storatass."]

[Mercy of Gun God Storatass: Because your marksmanship is atrocious and you refuse to improve, Gun God Storatass has taken pity on you—when using firearms, your accuracy enters a "Schrödinger's Cat" state. The more you want to hit a target, the more you fail to hit it; the less you want to hit a target, the more you fail to hit it. However, the probability of hitting your target will never be zero.]

[Description: The path of the Gun God lies within.]

Holy shit!

A conceptual god-tier skill!

Not only did it save Leon from the aiming he hated most, it also gave him an invincible buff where any shot could potentially hit the target.

That Gun God Storatass was pretty damn nice. If he got the chance, Leon would definitely make friends with her.

Bang—

The "reward" from his first sign-in since arriving in The Boys world made Leon impatient to pull the trigger.

Naturally, the target he aimed at was Butcher, the person closest to him.

The psychological suggestion Leon gave himself was, I really want to hit him, while the outcome he actually wanted was, Don't hit him.

A gunshot rang out.

Even though the muzzle of Leon's Desert Eagle was practically pressed against Butcher's forehead, the bullet somehow curved in midair and barely grazed Butcher's right earlobe.

Even Yan Shuangying would have called that trajectory correction professional.

"!!!" × 3

The sharp pain by his ear instantly jolted Butcher awake. Mother's Milk, inside the room, was startled awake by the gunshot as well, and he and Frenchie both stared toward the doorway in alarm and confusion.

Only the badly injured Hughie showed no reaction as he lay in bed. The heartless Kimiko merely smacked her lips twice, curling up with her knees hugged to her chest in the corner of the room as she continued sleeping soundly.

"What happened?"

Butcher touched the blood on his earlobe and asked with a dark expression.

"Nothing."

"I just suddenly remembered a few things from the past."

Leon casually holstered the Infinite-Ammo Desert Eagle on his right thigh, highly satisfied with the result of the experiment.

Since the trajectory could deviate this outrageously even when Leon deliberately wanted it to miss, then when the system forced a hit, it would probably be even more absurd.

Leon even considered firing a few nukes at Thanos's hometown someday to test it out. After all, as long as he fired enough shots, one of them would eventually make it over there.

Never mind how exactly it got there. The probability was not zero, after all.

Just thinking about it filled Leon with immense delight.

This was way too entertaining~

"Fine."

Seeing that Leon was not about to erupt again, Butcher could only swallow his grievances to avoid provoking him.

At that moment.

Near the hotel staircase.

A blonde girl with a single ponytail, wrapped up tightly from head to toe and wearing a mask, hurried toward the room where they were gathered. She was so skinny that she looked like little more than a skeleton.

Ignoring Leon and Butcher, who were talking by the door, she entered the room, removed her mask, and headed straight for Hughie's bed.

"Oh, my God!"

"Hughie—"

Starlight looked at Hughie with a face full of heartache, cupping his pale, weakened cheeks with both hands.

At the door.

Butcher raised his brows at Leon, who was inspecting Starlight, then leaned close and whispered, "What do you think of her?"

Holy shit?

Leon did not answer Butcher right away. Instead, he looked at him in surprise. Come on, man. You really are Hughie's good brother!

He was actually willing to offer up even his brother's friend. Seriously...

Wonderful~

Leon was already starting to feel that he was not perverted enough to fit in with The Boys. When it came to playing wild, Butcher was truly on another level.

Leon admired Butcher's ruthless determination to do whatever it took to achieve his goal—ruthless to his enemies, ruthless to his brothers, and even more ruthless to himself.

Fuck me.

Leon had not even considered it before.

But after Butcher stirred things up like this, maybe it was not impossible?

"She barely qualifies, but she's too skinny. Talk to me after she puts on some weight. Got anyone with more curves? I like them voluptuous. And if she's a little older, even better."

"After all—"

"Women are like fine wine. The older they get, the richer they become."

Of course, being pretty was the prerequisite.

Leon ended his conversation with Butcher using Soldier Boy's famous line.

Presumably.

Leon had made it obvious enough. If Butcher still could not get who he was talking about, then The Boys might as well have had no reason to exist.

The whole reason Leon was willing to play this little game of house with them was the convenience.

Finding someone himself and slowly winning her over would be too troublesome, while using force did not align with his principles.

"Where are you going?"

Butcher asked, watching Leon head for the stairs.

"Going out for a ride."

"And picking up my uniform and shield while I'm at it."

Leon answered without turning around, merely waving a hand at Butcher behind him.

After leaving the hotel.

Leon wound his way around several turns and entered a relatively secluded underground parking garage.

Then, after charging his Chest Cannon slightly, he used the nuclear radiation from its windup to fry the surveillance cameras. Taking the opportunity, he summoned Arcee and his Soldier Boy Suit from the system space.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, my beauty."

Leon tossed the Soldier Boy Suit into the cockpit of Arcee in Motorcycle Mode, then smoothly swung onto the seat and patted her rear end.

"Leon, can you be serious for once? Stop touching me everywhere."

Though Arcee said that, she had already given up struggling.

Leon would not listen to her anyway. Still, Arcee needed to keep up appearances. Otherwise, what difference would there be between her and Leon's other women?

That was the whole appeal~

Meanwhile.

Butcher, who believed in striking while the iron was hot, had already left the hotel alone and secretly contacted Maeve, one of the current members of The Seven.

It had been mentioned before.

She was the one who had supplied Butcher with Temporary Compound V.

They shared the same goal: dealing with Homelander. Thus, without anyone else knowing the details, Butcher had already established contact with Maeve.

"What did you say?!"

"Soldier Boy is still alive?!"

When Maeve was summoned by Butcher and told about Leon, it felt like her entire world had collapsed...

"The reason I chose to work with you was to kill that bastard Homelander!"

"And now you're telling me you let loose a bastard even stronger than Homelander?"

"Fuck you!!!!!"