Chapter 6

You can't just randomly save men you find on the street.

But a man connected to BOC GeneTech? I might actually kill him.

I slowly walked forward. As soon as I entered the bushes, I was grabbed by a man who was clearly drugged and out of his mind.

"Thank god, a woman..."

After his exclamation, he suddenly realized he couldn't pull me.

He struggled to clear his head. After seeing my body shape, he blurted out, "Holy shit."

He muttered to himself, "No way, how am I this unlucky? Not only did someone drug me, but the person I run into is you, this..."

"Even though I'm drugged, I still can't bring myself to do it with someone like this. I'm totally screwed."

Drenched in sweat, he pulled out a bank card from his wallet. "Girl, here's money. There's a million in this card. Go find me a woman, someone clean."

I took the card and put it in my pocket.

Just as the man thought I'd agreed to help, I slapped him hard across the face.

"Wait, what the fuck..."

Another slap.

The man's cheeks swelled up instantly.

His speech became slurred. "Do you, do you know who I am?"

"Don't you feel like the drug's effects have faded a bit?" I asked back.

The man was actually stumped by my question.

He looked thoughtful, as if he agreed with what I said.

Those two slaps hurt him so much he gasped for air, which naturally created the illusion that the drug was wearing off.

"I won't help you find a woman, but I can help you deal with the drug's effects."

"How are you going to help..." The man suddenly looked at me with suspicion and defensiveness, as if he was determined to protect his virtue.

I knocked the man out cold.

Although the man had been drugged with BOC GeneTech's specially made, powerful aphrodisiac, and if he didn't have sex to resolve the effects, he might become permanently sterile, dealing with the drug's effects was as simple as eating or drinking water for me.

I took out my backup acupuncture needles and treated the man, inserting them into specific points. After that, his body started sweating profusely.

As if all the water in his body was draining out.

But this was all normal.

I ran to the nearest convenience store and bought a bottle of mineral water before returning.

I opened the bottle and poured it all over the man's face.

The man slowly came to, looking completely drained.

He looked panicked and touched his intact clothes, his Adam's apple bobbing.

Smelling the stench of sweat on his body, his lips trembled. "Girl, you, you didn't do anything to me, did you?"

"You know that's rape, right?!"

I frowned. "You're overthinking it. You're quite safe-looking."

"What?"

"In all of Silverlight City, no one has ever said I, Joseph, am ugly. Girl, take a closer look!" Joseph Miller got worked up.

"Can't bear to look."

I turned my face away.

Joseph, "..."

"By the way, how did you save me?"

"Beat you half to death."

"What?" Joseph didn't quite believe it, but the soreness all over his body made him somewhat believe it.

"Really..."

He looked up at me. "Girl, what's your name?"

"Not telling you."

"You're interesting. Don't worry, I'm not a bad person. I'm asking your name because I want to repay you."

"One million, barely enough."

I said flatly.

"I don't think it's enough, but since you don't want to reveal your identity, I won't force you. Take this."

Joseph handed me the snake bracelet that still carried his body warmth.

A man connected to BOC GeneTech—I definitely needed to keep an eye on him.

I took the snake bracelet.

"Girl, if you ever run into trouble, you can bring this snake bracelet to the Miller family in Silverlight City to find me. I'll help you solve it."

"I'm leaving now!"

After just a few steps, Joseph's legs went weak and started shaking.

He turned back to look at me, and seeing that I was also watching him, he immediately tried to straighten up.

I looked down at the snake bracelet in my hand.

Silently thinking to myself.

The Miller family.

BOC GeneTech...

What's the connection between these two?

...

Three hours later.

The Miller family, Silverlight City.

Joseph came to see his cousin Michael with his swollen, red cheeks.

"Michael, I escaped from those sneaky bastards at BOC GeneTech. Damn it, they disguised themselves as waiters and drugged me while I was doing a business deal!"

Michael, sitting on the sofa, looked up at Joseph. Shocked by how swollen his cheeks were, his deep eyes narrowed slightly. "They hit you?"

Joseph shook his head. "No, they gave me an aphrodisiac. I guess they wanted to do something with my excellent genes, but I managed to escape."

"This was from my savior hitting me."

Michael looked puzzled. "Hm?"

"Who saved you?"

"A girl, I'll call her that anyway, because I really don't know her name. But her body shape...!"

Joseph gestured a barrel shape. "She's about this fat."

"Man, I've never seen such a fat girl. She looks pretty young, and her face is actually quite pretty, just way too fat. It looks kind of off!"

"But it was this girl who helped me deal with the drug's effects."

Michael didn't care about Joseph's description of her appearance. "You said she neutralized the drug in your system? How did she do it?"

"She said she beat the drug out of me."

Michael's eye twitched. "You believe that?"

Joseph scratched his head awkwardly. He actually did believe it.

Otherwise, he couldn't explain what that girl did to him. It couldn't be that she... took advantage of him, right?

Joseph felt scared, but the problem was that he had no way to verify his innocence.

Michael looked thoughtful.

He asked, "Any news on V's whereabouts?"

Joseph slapped his forehead, as if he'd just remembered the main issue. "I went to the island where V appeared, but when I got there, I heard that a family on the island had died in an explosion."

"A middle-aged couple and their adopted daughter."

"I heard this adopted daughter was very talented, a promising student for a top university. Many people on the island felt it was a shame she died. The local police are investigating the explosion."

"I suspect that talented high school girl was V."

Otherwise, how could an ordinary high school girl bring such a deadly disaster upon herself?

"So... V might already be dead."

Joseph's voice got quieter as he spoke, since this was very bad news for his cousin.

Because Michael's son had a genetic defect—he was born without the ability to feel pain and could only be protected like a porcelain doll.

And the legendary "V" who escaped from BOC GeneTech ten years ago was supposedly the only person who could treat genetic defect diseases.

Michael had been searching for V's whereabouts, only to receive news of V's death.

He frowned.

But could V, who at just eight years old had escaped from BOC GeneTech's tightly woven net, really die so easily?