Open Sesame

Seeing Toga leave, the Werewolf instantly became anxious and shouted at Barus, "Do you know what you're doing? I'm from the Dark Shadow faction! We have a collaborative project!"

"Dark Shadow?" Barus was surprised, but his gaze quickly turned cold. "Impossible. Dark Shadow wouldn't produce a scoundrel like you who lays a hand on a little girl. I'll take you to confront the person in charge."

The Werewolf was getting a little frantic. Could he say that his mission was to capture that girl? In private, Barus might tacitly allow Dark Shadow to do some shady business, like this new product launch, but if it came to openly capturing a girl, Barus wouldn't pretend he didn't see it.

But this was a mission given to the Werewolf, and the thought of the consequences of failing it sent a chill down his spine; he didn't want to bear that kind of price again.

Seeing that the Werewolf remained silent, Barus assumed that the other had given up on the idea. He shrugged and turned around. "Aren't you one of the Dark Shadow? I just happen to be passing by your leader's room. Why don't you follow me and we go find him together?"

"Excuse me, I need to pass through here!" the Werewolf roared, extending its claws toward Barus's back!

A few minutes later, at the casino.

"Boss, you caught the girl who ambushed you!" The Werewolf's two henchmen rushed up in surprise. They saw the black-suited man with a normal human face tying up the blonde girl with rope. At this moment, Toga was still struggling like a vicious little dog being led on a leash.

By this time, most of the gamblers had lost interest in gambling and left due to the earlier Vibrate. Others were also asked to leave by the waiters, who were worried about potential accidents. Now, only these two guards remained in the casino.

The man in black scoffed, "Hmph, this brat is really hard to catch. What bad luck, running into Captain Barus on the way."

As he spoke, he grimaced and touched his shoulder with a pained expression, as if he could still feel the injury.

"Ah!?" The two henchmen panicked and hurriedly said, "Boss, the captain told us that we absolutely cannot clash with the captain this time! This ship is their territory, and we have to rely on him now!"

The man in the black suit paused for a moment, but quickly recovered and said gravely, "Hmph, I know, but we have a mission. Even if this conflict happened, it was unavoidable. I'll take her to report to the captain later."

The two subordinates looked at Toga with a hint of pity. As a girl whose appearance evoked their protective instincts, it was truly a waste to send her to the captain, who was only interested in dolls. Perhaps the captain would use her as fodder and start surgery on the ship without even trying.

However, this is not something people like them can easily comment on. They can only pray that the girl didn't suffer too much before she died.

"However, before I go to the captain, I need to go and see 'Little Red Riding Hood' first," the man in the black suit suddenly said.

The two subordinates exchanged a hesitant glance, then said tentatively, "Boss, the captain assigned this matter to the two of us. Theoretically, you shouldn't be allowed to enter."

The leader of Dark Shadow was worried that some of his subordinates might not be able to control their desires and would target Unit-01 "Little Red Riding Hood." So he assigned two of his most extreme subordinates, who were only interested in two-dimensional anime characters, to guard the room and prevent anyone from entering, fearing that they might be attacked. Thus, he sent this powerful man in the black suit to be in charge of their safety.

The man in the black suit suddenly became impatient and Rage, "You're wasting my time! Use your stupid brains! This girl only attacked me once and then ran away. Are you sure nothing in this room hasn't been taken? Are you sure they didn't have other means of getting into the room?!"

The two hesitated. Indeed, they hadn't seen anyone enter the room during this time, not even the two of them who held the keys. But, in areas out of sight, had no one really entered the room?

The man in the black suit said with exasperation, "You two idiots! Anyone eyeing Little Red Riding Hood must have some kind of wall-penetrating Quirk. This girl might just be trying to distract us; she's probably already stolen Little Red Riding Hood from us!"

The man in the black suit said coldly, "It's fine if you won't let me in, I'll leave. But if anything happens to Little Red Riding Hood, you two... humph"

With that, the man in the black suit turned around and was about to Toga away from the casino.

"Boss, wait!" The two men exchanged a glance, immediately called back the man in the black suit, and said anxiously, "Please go in and check now. If anything has really happened to Little Red Riding Hood, please plead for us!"

"If you'd said so earlier, everything would have been fine sooner," the man in the black suit snorted, turning around to say, "Open the door."

"Sorry, it might hurt a little," one person said, rolling up their sleeves.

"It's okay, hurry up." He lifted the front of his shirt, squatted into a horse stance, and gritted his teeth in response.

Without hesitation, the man shouted and swung his claw towards the other man's abdomen. Incredibly, his claw did not cause any harm to the man who had lifted his clothes; it was as if the man did not exist, like a ghost, and it pierced right through his stomach!

Even the man in the black suit was utterly astonished. How could those two do something so hurtful to each other?

He was about to ask a question, but when he saw the brass key revealed from the claw that the subordinate had pulled back from his stomach, he stopped himself from speaking.

The key was hidden inside the abdomen? That's truly an unexpected hiding place! Unless you're a sadist who enjoys torturing and dismembering others, no one would guess the key would be there!

Seeing the surprised expression on the man in the black suit, one of them, sweating profusely, chuckled and said, "Boss, you haven't seen our Quirk yet, have you? My Quirk is Steel Stomach and Intestines. Even if there's something I can't digest, it won't cause any damage to my body. That way, I can stay up late watching anime without feeling unwell."

Another person handed the key to the man in the black suit, smiling ingratiatingly, "My Quirk is the Intangibility Hand, which allows my hand to pass directly through a thin barrier. That way, when I see exciting parts of anime and can't calm down, I can just..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the man in the black suit, who was frowning. "That's enough, no need to say any more. It's better to check on Little Red Riding Hood's condition as soon as possible."

The two knew this wasn't the time to talk, so they nodded heavily and watched solemnly as the man in the black suit opened the red door.

As the door creaked open, one of them suddenly asked, "Boss, isn't it a bad idea to bring this girl in? What if her accomplices are inside?"

"Then what should we do? Tie her to the door?" the man in the black suit said coldly. "This girl is incredibly cunning. If we don't keep her by our side, who knows when she might run away? Will you be responsible then?"

The two shut their mouths and stopped questioning. After all, the person in front of them was their boss; it was best not to upset him over such a trivial matter.

As soon as the door swung open, the two rushed inside and arrived at the stage at the far end of the room. There, on the stage, sat a shimmering crystal coffin. They leaned over it, excitedly telling the man in the black suit, "Boss, Little Red Riding Hood is still here! No enemies have come to invade!"

The man in the black suit smiled knowingly and said softly, "Now we have it."