On Golden Arch Bridge, the torrential rain poured down like a waterfall, washing away all chaos and filth.
Katrina dragged her heavy chain hammer in one hand and pinched the brim of her black leather cap with the other, pressing her long, beautifully muscled legs against the steel bridge's railing.
She opened the pocket watch clenched in her right hand. Its hands turned slowly; this illusion could last no more than fifteen minutes.
By now, ten minutes had already passed.
If Constance still had not finished, Katrina would truly have to consider interrupting the two of them's "underwater rendezvous."
But in the next instant, Katrina's amber eyes narrowed slightly, for she noticed that the churning river had transformed into a black vortex.
A black dahlia, endlessly withering and dying, bloomed from the vortex's center. Countless death lines spread from its pistil, weeping amid the dead silence of decay and desolation.
Yet that wailing black dahlia was dragged into some space by an even more terrifying presence in an instant, without the slightest chance to struggle or resist.
"What's going on?" The smile faded from Katrina's face as she watched a towering black wave rise from the depths of the vortex.
Before she could see what was happening beneath the water, her brows abruptly tightened. Strength surged into her palm, and scorching crimson flames ignited along the chain hammer's links and beneath the brim of her cap.
She violently swung the chain hammer backward. The metal hammer, blazing with crimson fire, whipped up wind and waves, burned away the raindrops, and swept toward the person behind her.
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Stamina: 270 Endurance: 270
Strength: 670 (+200) Agility: 430
Spirit: 1600 Charm: 700
-- Origin Chip