Chapter 734: Chapter 238 Insider_3
But Leonard Churchill didn’t pay any attention to the fat lady at all, his target had never been her.
Instead, it was the guard who was now walking in.
The guard came in and closed the door behind him.
Mrs. Merlin looked at him without moving and urged impatiently, “What are you standing there for, move your hands already!”
However, what happened next left everyone flabbergasted.
No sooner had her words fallen than a “clang” of a blade being drawn rang out.
A head rolled to the ground, and blood splattered the wall.
Vera Williams, still in deep grief, failed to comprehend what had just occurred when she saw a headless body spurting blood like a fountain.
But the dead person was not Leonard Churchill.
It was Mrs. Mela!
Leonard Churchill felt no surprise at the bloody scene, only sneering in his heart, “So the insider was this guy...”
The killings in the cellar had been deliberately staged to mimic a left-handed assassin. Were they meant to lead people away from suspecting him, a Black Knight of the Professional Sequence?
Tsk tsk, a professional spy indeed.
No wonder.
....
Vera Williams was completely dumbfounded.
Her mind seemed to have frozen in place, unable to grasp why her own guard would kill her aunt.
Although...
But...
With her thoughts a muddled mess, before she could sort them out, she saw Captain Loki fixing a murderous gaze upon her.
Only then did Vera realize: Captain Loki was the insider!
She had been suspecting who betrayed her and ruled out many suspects, but it never occurred to her that Loki could be the one.
He was not a guard from her father’s side; he had come with her aunt, a guard from her own family.
A commercial spy, or what?!
But before the smile could fully spread across his face, Loki suddenly found his dagger had been immobilized!
Turning his head, he saw a pair of arms, cast as if in golden lacquer, gripping the blade of his short knife with bare hands!
“What the hell!”
Loki’s face turned pale with shock, and when he tried to pull the dagger free, he found it completely stuck.
As a Second Tier Black Knight whose strength had developed, he was astounded to be overpowered by a Gunman?
How terrifying must that strength be?
In an instant, the professional spy’s alertness made him realize something was terribly wrong: this man was not a Gunman!
He realized he might have been led into a trap.
Since the beginning, it was as if the net had been cast, just waiting for him to jump in.
...
Leonardo held the dagger with both hands, breathing heavily.
Catching it had not been easy.
Struggling against a Second Tier, he complained in his heart, “Eh... the recovery isn’t enough, still struggling here.”
In his current state, he was even having difficulty summoning the Curse Seal.
Just barely managing to cover his hands with Tyrant Body, he had almost exhausted his Curse Power.
If the fight were to drag on, it was not certain that he would come out on top.
Loki was an experienced Second Tier, after all, and reacted very quickly.
Unable to withdraw his captured short knife, he only hesitated for a moment before decisively letting go.
Withdrawing another blade from his waist, he swiftly slashed diagonally at Vera Williams again.
The whooshing sound of cutting air “swooshed” as the blade was already nearly touching the delicate neck.
With just an inch to go, her throat would have been slit wide open.
In this critical moment, another astonishing event occurred.
Leonard might have been a bit slower in muscular response than Loki, but he had already anticipated the man’s move.
Slightly bending his knees, he delivered an “Iron Mountain Leaning” technique that resounded with a “thud” against the burly Black Knight.
Though it was just a common striking Martial Skill used by Fighters, at that moment, Loki felt as if his Curse Power had stalled, his soul nearly knocked out of his body.