Pit Bottom District, Rust Blade Street, in front of Residential Building No. 19.
At this moment, a Black Robed Man was holding a brown cat with an unwilling expression, standing in front of this residential building.
These two were her, Flame Reaver, and Pardofelis as Cifera.
Just as Flame Reaver was about to raise his hand to knock on the door of Residential Building No. 19, the ornament on Pardofelis's right leg suddenly made a faint sound.
"Boss, didn't you say you wanted to catch your clone and bring her in? How did it turn into your clone catching you and bringing you in?"
Flame Reaver's hand paused. Then, Pardofelis glanced at the ornament and whispered:
"Because I think if my clone was caught and brought in, it wouldn't be exciting enough. Anyway, these people can't do anything to me, so I decided to personally experience the feeling of being caught. Is there a problem?"
"No problem, no problem! But... at that time, Boss you told me to go in because I had to open a portal inside to pick you up. But now you've gone in directly, so what's my use?"
"You're stupid. We also need to open a portal when we come out."
"Oh, oh!"
"Alright, shut up quickly, the acting is about to begin."
After speaking, Pardofelis raised her head again to look at the door, and Flame Reaver's hand also knocked on the door.
After a short while, footsteps came from inside the house, followed by a man's voice, identical to the one on the phone:
"Who is it?"
"Bounty commission."
Hearing these four words and the familiar voice, the man inside suddenly fell silent, seemingly observing the situation outside through the peephole. After a while, the door opened, and a man with a knife scar on his face stood behind it.
"Come in."
After speaking, the man stepped aside, motioning for Flame Reaver to enter.
Flame Reaver cooperatively led Pardo into the house.
Once they entered the house, the man closed the door and then sat on a nearby sofa.
He casually picked up a cigarette and then lit it.
After taking a deep drag and exhaling slowly, he asked:
"You said you caught Cifera, is this the person in your hand?"
Flame Reaver nodded.
"Proof?"
Flame Reaver remained silent and began to search Pardofelis's pocket.
This action caused Pardofelis to struggle intensely. Her wrists were both clamped by Flame Reaver, and she could only twist her body, trying to break free from his restraint.
"Let go of me! Don't search my pocket!"
While speaking, Pardofelis's body gradually became transparent. However, when a wisp of purple flame appeared on Flame Reaver's hand, Pardo cried out in pain again and then returned to her physical form.
"Damn it!"
Seeing that her ability was ineffective, Pardofelis gritted her teeth, then flicked her tail. The metal blade attached to the tip of her tail slashed towards Flame Reaver's neck at a speed difficult for the naked eye to perceive.
However, in the face of the attack, Flame Reaver's expression did not change at all (though with a mask, one couldn't see his expression change). The hand that was originally searching the pocket instantly grabbed the incoming tail.
After subduing this restless tail with the same hand, he tossed a coin towards the man.
"The proof you wanted."
Flame Reaver said expressionlessly.
In stark contrast to Flame Reaver, the man's eyes were wide open at this moment, and he even forgot to smoke his cigarette.
He had originally thought that this person was also planning to treat their organization as fools, trying to deceive them for the bounty, so he hadn't paid much attention to it, simply treating it as routine slacking off during work hours.
But the series of events that just occurred made him feel that these two people in front of him seemed to genuinely have strength, at least stronger than his C+ level.
He hadn't clearly seen that tail attack at all, and the Black Robed Man's right hand was originally placed below, searching a pocket, but it appeared in front of his neck like a teleportation, instantly blocking the attack.
"Okay... let me see."
Hearing that Flame Reaver had given him the proof, the man quickly extinguished the cigarette in his hand and then looked at the coin on the table.
The moment he saw the coin, a name instantly appeared in his mind: "Cifera."
"Yes! This is it! Both its appearance and effect are exactly the same as that coin!"
The man instantly became excited, then immediately picked up his terminal and made a call.
The call was instantly connected. Before the person on the other end could speak, the man quickly said:
"Dr. Neil, proof confirmed. It's exactly the same as what was left at Base 036. Cifera has been captured and is here with me now."
"Good, I'll be right there."
The call ended, and the man turned to Flame Reaver and said:
"Mister, I have already notified others to come and take Cifera away. For now, please rest here. Our people will be here shortly!"
"Okay."
Flame Reaver didn't say much. After briefly uttering a single word, he stood to the side.
Pardofelis, still clamped in Flame Reaver's hand, occasionally struggled with a resentful expression, but each time she was restrained by Flame Reaver.
After a short while, the door of the residential building was suddenly opened, and a figure walked in hurriedly.
'Huh? Isn't this the unlucky guy I first stole from when I went to Base 036? What was his name again... Dr. Neil?'
Pardo, who was originally habitually acting, instantly remembered the identity of this familiar figure who had entered. After all, she had to rely on this person's secondary access card to successfully open those two doors.
As soon as Dr. Neil entered, he didn't look at anyone but walked straight towards the coin on the table.
The moment he saw the coin, Neil muttered to himself:
"That's right! Exactly the same!"
Then he turned his head to look at Pardofelis, who was clamped by Flame Reaver behind him, and asked her angrily:
"Are you Cifera? The thief who stole our entire experimental base and destroyed all the experimental data inside?!"
Upon hearing Neil's words, Pardofelis immediately put on a disdainful expression and retorted:
"Are you Neil? The unlucky guy whose secondary access card I stole the moment he walked out the door?"
"You... you!"
Neil was greatly angered by her words. After stammering "You" a few times, he had nothing further to say.
Seeing Neil so provoked, Pardofelis became even more invigorated. "You what? Can't even speak now? Speaking of which, I should thank you. You allowed me to open two doors that required secondary access without any effort at all."
(T/N: Did bottle of castorice aura say anything about how to use it?, so yeah the item get from system has quite flexible way to use...)