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His last memory before blacking out lingered on the mafia’s ambush — gunfire, shouts, and searing pain. In the
midst of that haze, a hand had pulled him from the brink of death, accompanied by an oddly calming presence. It
was Alice.
“Yes... yes, | did,” Allison stammered, her voice trembling as though she had revisited the terror of the moment.
“I got scratched by sshards when the coffee can exploded in the break room, so | picked up sbandages.
Never thought I'd end up using them on you. What are the odds, right?” Her laughter was brittle, her breathing
uneven as she struggled to calm herself.
“I really thought you were going to die back there. Your breathing... it was barely there.”
Deep down, she knew well that such feats were possible for test subjects. It was like a deeply ingrained instinct,
suppressing their breath to diminish their presence.
He smirked, though it didn’t quite reach his eyes. “I'm not that easy to kill.”
But survival was a fleeting luxury, and staying here was courting disaster. If their pursuers caught up, his luck
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“Handyour phone,” he said, his voice devoid of warmth.
“Alright.” Allison didn’t argue, her hands trembling slightly as she handed over the device.
She could already guess that he had someone to contact. Verruckt’s fingers moved swiftly, dialing a sequence
ingrained in muscle memory.
“It's just as we suspected,” he said into the receiver, his tone sharp enough to cut steel. “Someone sprung the
trap tonight, and they didn’t waste any time. What's the situation on your end? Any idea who pulled the
strings?”
On the other end, Jareth sounded frazzled, his words laced with unease. “We’ve got leads, but no concrete
answers yet. Mr. Shaw, where are you right now?”
“Southeast of the clock tower, at an abandoned factory,” Verruckt replied. His eyes swept over his bloodied form
and then briefly landed on Allison, whose nervous glances betrayed her unease.
She wasn't a threat — not to him, at least — so he saw no point in keeping secrets. “Keep going.”
“Yes, Mr. Shaw. What we know so far is that Immortality Pharmaceuticals, the mafia, and the old forces from the
Sanric district were all involved,” Jareth explained. “Oh, and that gang run by the one-eyed man, Yashiro...
they're completely wiped out.”
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