Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2492

Chapter 2492 Dark and Handsome

Saint tried to come to terms with the situation.

She had been attacked by three strange men… they did not seem to have attacked her by chance, and they had not been trying to rob her either. They had come to kill her.

These men were dead now. One of her former patients — a detective from the Homicide Division of the Mirage City Police Department — had killed them with his bare hands, right in front of her eyes.

…Well, he had killed two of them with his bare hands. The third one, he had killed with his car.

And now, here she was.

Too calm to describe her current state as a normal reaction, probably in shock.

'They knew who I was. The detective seemed to have known that I would be attacked, as well. He arrived just in time.'

Looking away from the corpses, Saint brushed the wet strands of her hair away from her face and looked at Detective Sunless with a slight frown. Now that everything was over, she could finally feel the bruises on her face and the cuts on her fingers.

The pain was sobering.𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

"How did you know that I would be in danger, Detective?"

He stared at her for a moment, then let out a barely audible groan.

"Saint, you… you ask a lot of uncomfortable questions when you talk, don't you?"

She did not deign to answer, looking at him impassively.

Detective Sunless shook his head, and then…

Suddenly took her hand.

The unexpected touch made Saint flinch.

"You're bleeding."

There was a dark expression on his face, and a dangerous undertone in his voice.

Taking out a handkerchief from his pocket, Detective Sunless carefully wrapped it around her cut fingers and spoke:

"To answer your question. Well, you see… I knew that you would be in danger because I had met Mordret — not the CEO of the Valor Group, but his evil twin, who is an insidious bastard of epic proportions, as well as a demented mass murderer who dabbles in genocide from time to time on top of that. He and I have never really seen eye to eye, which is entirely his fault, of course. The first time we met, I ended up locked in a cage because he wanted me for my body. And it only got worse from there… wait, no, that did not come out right!"

Saint pulled her hand away. Faced with her indifferent expression, Detective Sunless coughed.

"It didn't, I'm telling you! What I meant to say was that he wanted to possess my body like a ghost, that creep. Needless to say, I was not too keen on the idea. Who would have been? Anyway, he hates me too — for no good reason whatsoever, I might add. All I did was kill his dad… what's the big deal?"

Noticing a slight shift in Saint's expression, the detective added hurriedly:

"Don't get it wrong, though! It's not what you think. He only hates me because I managed to kill his dad before he could kill that insane bastard himself. Let me tell you, that whole family is unwell… was unwell? In any case, they are all crazy… unlike us normal people..."

Hearing that, Saint tilted her head a little.

She regretted not having her notebook at hand.

'Projected patricide fantasies. Oedipus complex?'

He was such a fascinating case...𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Detective Sunless sighed.

"In any case, I met that Mordret here in Mirage City — which is a grand illusion created by an ancient demon, as I mentioned before. He informed me that there is a problem with the… the control system of this entire place, so to speak, and as a result, every real person in Mirage City is in danger. Because Mirage City… is a serial killer."

Saint raised an eyebrow.

Detective Sunless remained silent for a moment, then shrugged.

"It is. There are very few real people in this creepy city, and we are on its victim list: me, you, both versions of Mordret, my partner Effie… oh, and Morgan, as well."

He nodded.

"That is how I knew that you would be in danger."

Then, his expression changed subtly, and he looked in the direction of the mental hospital.

"Oh, right. Morgan!"

Saint frowned, wondering if Detective Sunless was genuinely crazy or simply continuing his act from their last meeting.

"What about Miss Morgan?"

He glanced at her with a somber expression.

Verify captcha to read the contentVerify