Either Quinn Sukina is hiding her strength, but this possibility is small; there's no need to suppress one's aura so perfectly.
Why suppress her aura? To feign weakness and ambush others?
The taller figure didn't think Quinn Sukina was such a boring person.
Moreover, judging from their brief contact, Quinn Sukina was a somewhat typical shut-in. She feared trouble and disliked socializing.
If she had strength, she should release her aura to make others think she was not to be trifled with.
But she didn't do that, so the taller figure could only guess that Quinn Sukina truly had no combat power.
No combat power, yet Malanie doesn't send people to protect her. Is that possible?
Generally speaking, it's impossible. As an ability user of such immense strength, Melanie couldn't possibly be unaware of the dangers of this world.
She would definitely send people to protect those she cherished, such as her sister whose name and appearance were unknown.
But Quinn Sukina didn't have that; she wasn't protected by Melanie.
Therefore, the only reasonable guess is that Quinn Sukina doesn't need Melanie's protection.
She has people protecting her, so she doesn't need Melanie's protection, and those people are the confidence that allows her to clash with Melanie.
"You mean... we can act against Quinn Sukina?" The Divine Envoy didn't think that far; she thought the taller figure meant Quinn Sukina's defenses were weak, making her a breakthrough point.
"No, I mean..." The taller figure quickly tried to explain, but a dazzling beam of light suddenly appeared in the distance.
The light illuminated the three black-clad figures standing in the alley, and then a strong, clear girl's voice rang out, "You three, what are you doing lurking around here!"
The Divine Envoy glanced at the grey-haired girl who suddenly appeared. She was an A-rank Hero. Although she could be dealt with, the effort expended would not be proportional to the gain, and it would attract the attention of the Hero Association.
"Don't get entangled with her, let's go!" The Divine Envoy flung her robe, transforming into a cloud of black smoke and disappearing from the spot.
The taller figure and the shorter figure exchanged glances. They didn't have the Divine Envoy's elusive methods, so, they had to run... "Ha, those two can really run." Leaning against the roadside railing, the long-unseen Captain was gasping for breath.
She had chased for almost an hour, but those two suspicious people still escaped.
In that hour, she had chased almost from one end of Central City to the other, yet she still lost track of those two who clearly weren't good people.
"Leticia, you ran so fast." After resting for a while, the Captain's partner, Miss Momo, an Esper with wind abilities, finally arrived at the scene.
"Momo! Why were you so slow!" The Captain demanded, feigning anger, "You're a wind-type Esper, yet you can't even keep up with me, a prophecy-type Esper?"
Momo poked the Captain's forehead irritably, "Who was it that suddenly ran off in the middle of eating? Don't I have to pay, and don't I have to report this matter to the Association?"
By the time she finished all that, the Captain had already run off to who-knows-where.
Fortunately, she had installed a GPS tracker on the Captain's phone, otherwise, she wouldn't be able to find the Captain now.
"Hmph, what about Huangmao? Is he still training at the Association?"
"He's almost at S-rank, so don't disturb him lately. Let him focus on preparing for the breakthrough." Momo nodded. Huangmao's progress was a step faster than theirs. Through the devilish training these past few days, Huangmao's potential had been fully unleashed, and he was now pushing towards the threshold of an S-rank Hero.
As for the two of them, although they could see that threshold, it would take some time to accumulate experience before they could cross it.
"This place seems..." The Captain looked around and suddenly felt that the area looked somewhat familiar, "It seems to be near Ohara's house."
Did they actually chase them all the way here?
"Momo, why don't we go to Ohara's house for a bit?" The Captain said to her friend.
"Ah, isn't she a demon? Is it appropriate for us two heroes to visit a demon's house?" Momo had some reservations.
But the Captain had already taken her hand and walked in the direction she remembered, "It's fine, even York Rose is friends with Ohara, so who would say anything about us being friends with Ohara?"
Even the Sword Saint didn't care about Ohara's demon identity, so what good would it do for them to care?
People should be more open-minded, wouldn't that make life better?
However, when the Captain and Momo knocked on Leticia's door, they felt that their timing was a bit off.
In the living room, Leticia was holding a black stick and tapping it on the white-haired girl's head. The white-haired girl covered her head with a wronged expression but had no intention of dodging.
Why did it feel like a wife scolding her husband for making a mistake?
Was it an illusion?
"Miss Xue'er, what's going on?" the Captain asked softly.
Luna shrugged, indicating that this was just a daily occurrence between Leticia and Melanie. This time, it seemed to be because Melanie accidentally stepped on Leticia's hair while Leticia was lying on the ground looking at a map.
Then Leticia got angry.
"Captain, and Little Lu, you've seen a spectacle." Because of the arrival of the two guests, Leticia reluctantly put away her magic sword, "Why are you free to come visit me today?"
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"I guess you could say it was on the way. We chased two bad guys to the vicinity, and then thought of coming to see you." The Captain explained, "We both had a day off today."
"Oh, I didn't expect you, Captain, to be such a dedicated person. You're on vacation, yet you're actively chasing after bad guys," Leticia praised from the bottom of her heart, unlike herself, who would never work hard if she could be lazy.
"Actually, I still don't understand how you, Leticia, found those two people," Momo interjected.
The Captain had suddenly run out in the middle of eating, saying she sensed the aura of a conspiracy.
"Because my Esper ability activated! I had a premonition that if I didn't interrupt the conversation between those three, Central City, and even our entire world, would be in great danger," the Captain replied righteously. She was now a great hero who had saved the world.
"Ah, well, you surnamed York, do you believe her?"
Melanie shook her head, "No, I don't."
After all, there weren't many heroes with precognitive abilities on the human side, but the precognitive abilities of these few heroes were notoriously bad in the Association; not a single one of their predictions had ever been correct.
The 'correct' here was a very broad kind of correct. For example, if they predicted you'd be hit by a dump truck today, even if you were hit by a bicycle, it would still count as them being correct.
But even with such broad conditions, the accuracy of these guys' predictions was still quite worrying.
Oh, no, wait, they were very good at predicting what the food would be like today.
"Hey, I'm the only A-rank prophet! Give me some credit, okay!"
"Mhm, I believe the Captain just saved the world," Leticia chuckled. "By the way, can you describe what the people you were chasing looked like? I might have some leads on them."
Actually, Leticia wanted to know if the people the Captain was chasing were her subordinates. After all, two Heavenly Kings had infiltrated Central City with many demons, and Central City was bound to be a bit chaotic recently.
Perhaps her subordinates were discovered by the Captain while they were secretly talking.
"I feel like Ohara, you're just humoring me," the Captain mumbled, then recounted her recent experience to those present.
"One turned into black mist and escaped, and the other two, one tall and one short, were dressed in black clothes. I couldn't see their faces, and they moved very quickly. I relied on my prophecy to constantly take shortcuts, but in the end, I still couldn't catch them."
"Wait, Captain, can you draw the shorter person in black?" Leticia looked up and asked, somewhat seriously.
Just yesterday, a short person in black had thrown a bomb at the entrance of Eriko's manor. Leticia was now extremely sensitive to the phrase'short person in black'.
Maybe it was that person?