Inside a taxi…
In the back seat sat a woman with big wavy curls, applying a bold red lipstick while checking a compact mirror. She had strikingly alluring features and a voluptuous figure, so captivating that the driver kept sneaking glances and swallowing hard.
He didn't notice the strange madness lurking behind her sultry gaze as she touched up her makeup. In the seat beside her was a young man—he couldn't have been older than twenty.
Clearly aware of the driver's inappropriate stares, the young man looked annoyed.
"Keep your eyes on the road!" he finally snapped.
"Heh." The driver let out an awkward chuckle. He had no explicit sleazy intentions—he just couldn't help but look. She was too gorgeous for him to ignore.
"No worries..." the woman murmured, snapping her mirror shut in a lazy tone. Stretching out a slender arm, she placed her hand on the driver's shoulder.
"How much farther?" she asked.
"Not long now... less than ten minutes," he answered, voice trembling slightly as her perfume drifted toward him.
"Hehe… We're just visiting this city for a little sightseeing. The place I told you to head for—what is it, exactly?" she asked.
"If I'm remembering right, that's a shopping mall," the driver promptly replied.
Neither the woman nor her companion had given an exact address when they got in. The driver had just been following the woman's directions.
"Thanks."
She withdrew her hand but let her fingertips trail playfully along the driver's ear, sending him a jolt of excitement that nearly made him lose control of the wheel. The young man next to her frowned in displeasure but said nothing.
"All right, we should be close now…"
"Mhm, just up ahead."
"Stop here," she said abruptly.
They weren't yet at the destination, but the woman asked the driver to pull over. She and her companion exited the cab. The driver, realizing she hadn't paid, was about to speak up—only for the woman to lean back in, wrap his face in her hands, and plant a sultry kiss on his lips. Their mouths parted with a shimmering thread of saliva, leaving the driver slack-jawed in delirious happiness, slumping over his seat in a daze.
A moment later, the woman strutted away in her high heels, smiling. The young man clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.
Dressed in a tight red dress, hot and sexy, the woman drew countless gawking stares from passersby as she walked, some admiring, some envious, but most simply bewitched by her looks.
"That's the place, right?" she murmured, stopping in front of a certain building. She summoned the system's interface and smiled.
On her screen, a blue dot—a "target location"—was only a few hundred meters away. From where she stood, the mall was already in sight. Scanning the surroundings, she noticed a nearby café and headed over. The young man silently followed.
"The target's not moving. Are they waiting for me?" she thought as she entered and climbed the stairs inside the café. Its upstairs area had a clear vantage point of the shopping mall across the street—perfect for observing the area and the flow of people.
It seemed that her opponent was waiting for her to make a move.
Settling in with the young man, she ordered two coffees from a server. Then she pulled a small pair of binoculars from her bag and peered across at the mall. Outside, dusk was falling. After a while, she put down the binoculars, turning to the young man across the table, who wore a jealous scowl. Curling her glossy red lips into a grin, she leaned forward and kissed him—a deep French kiss that made his breath catch and eyes glaze with infatuation.
Moments later, she broke contact, running her finger over her lips, then sat back. "Kaito, surely you're not jealous of a few random strangers, right? They're nothing but my toys. You're the only man I've truly taken interest in... Don't let me down."
"Selena, don't worry," the young man declared, obviously intoxicated by her. "No matter what you want, I'll do it. I'd even die for you—"
He stopped as she pressed a slender finger to his lips.
"I don't like empty boasts. If you want to prove yourself, back it up with action. Like we agreed: once you've helped me handle this problem, I'll marry you. I'll be yours forever."
Gold-haired Selena pointed out the window at the mall. "The person I need you to kill is in there. I have no info about him, but the moment I see him, I'll know. He wants me dead too. Honestly…I'm terrified."
She delivered the last line with a pitiful look that made one want to protect her.
"If anyone dares hurt you, I'll kill him—and everyone connected to him!" Kaito swore. "I'm a Nen user; ordinary people can hardly threaten me. Don't worry."
"Kaito…"
Hearing that, she feigned relief. Her hand gently slid into his. The man's eyes blazed with devotion.
"I'll go right now!"
Kaito leapt to his feet.
"No, not yet… The time's not right." She grabbed his arm to stop him.
"Let's wait until the mall closes," she mused.
"Okay." Kaito nodded.
They sipped their coffees, each lost in thought. Kaito dreamed of winning her heart by any means necessary, while Selena's mind was on her fellow "player." She wondered what tricky stunt he'd pull. Did he have Nen? After all, half a year had passed since the first Extinction Game. That wasn't a ton of time, but it wasn't negligible either—enough for a player to exploit any "plot knowledge" or personal talents to drastically speed up the process of learning Nen. She'd done something similar, though she only vaguely recalled the anime's details—too distracted during her initial transmigration to pay attention to the system's footage.
Her "talent" had been straightforward: beauty and charm. In this new body, she was thrilled. Before her death, she—or rather, he—had been a notorious criminal, a monstrous predator who took pleasure in tormenting women, eventually sentenced to death. He was despised by everyone, but he'd perversely taken pride in it. To think that after death, he'd join some "ghost game" in another world!
Yes, her soul was actually male. And this new female body was the perfect indulgence for his twisted urges. Good looks were a universal advantage in a shallow world. He found sick pleasure in it. Even this Nen user by her side was just another clueless toy.
Nen user? Pfft. Nothing special, apparently.
She was deep in those thoughts when sirens blared outside. Several police cars zoomed by, one after another.
Selena's heart skipped a beat. That can't be good…
Soon, an employee came upstairs. "I'm so sorry, you two. Something's going on in the area, and the officials want us to close up right away. Ah, don't worry about your bill—our boss said the coffee's on the house," the staffer said nervously to Selena, clearly overwhelmed by her looks.
"So you need us to leave?" Selena asked with a sweet smile.
"Y-Yes, I'm afraid so. I heard they're locking down the block, doing some kind of sweep," the employee replied.
A sweep? Selena glanced at Kaito, alarm bells ringing. Too much coincidence—her enemy must be behind this.
She peered out the window toward the mall, realizing her opponent must have enough pull to mobilize the local police. A wave of anger darkened her expression, and she let out a vicious hiss before she could stop herself.
That sudden burst of hostility startled both Kaito and the waitress.
"It's all right," Selena said smoothly, regaining her composure with a charming smile. "We'll leave right away."
"O-Okay," the employee stammered, heading downstairs.
Her foe could pin down her location, and now a swarm of police cars was outside. Hundreds of officers were sealing off at least a one-block radius, closing her escape routes and forcing her into the open—something she never anticipated.
In her old mind, players were individual loose cannons, capable of leveraging some outside help, but nothing at the scale of citywide officialdom. Could her opponent be someone in power here, like the mayor or a police chief of Kotaki City?
Dammit, this is trouble.
He must have lucked into some advantageous identity upon transmigrating. Otherwise, how could a normal person gain such authority in just six months?
Shit!
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