Baccano!, Vol. 18: 1935-A Deep Marble by Ryohgo Narita & Katsumi Enami
Author:Ryohgo Narita & Katsumi Enami [NARITA, RYOHGO]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2022-01-11T00:00:00+00:00
Still expressionless, Chané dried herself off with a white towel.
Sheâd heard that Ladd Russo would be back tonight at the earliest.
Sheâd settle her score with him then. She wouldnât let him take the initiative.
Chané didnât want to cause trouble for Jacuzzi and the others, so she resolved to act on her own, without returning to the Genoard familyâs mansion.
Just as sheâd made that decision, her sharp, focused senses caught the faint creak of a floorboard.
â!
The sound had come from outside the bathroom, probably from the bedroom.
It had been so quiet that she would ordinarily have missed it.
Chané didnât remember hearing the door open or close, but she was certain.
Somebodyâs here.
The only one who knew she was using this apartment was Claire Stanfield. Nonetheless, he wouldnât have opened the door stealthily, and if heâd heard that she was in the shower, heâd immediately have said, Okay if I peep?
Quietly narrowing her eyes and holding her breath, Chané picked up the knife sheâd left beside the sink. Even though keeping one in the bathroom would risk the tool rusting, sheâd chosen to keep it within armâs reach, a choice she was glad of now.
She slowly opened the bathroom door. She could see the bedroom at the end of the hall.
The intruder seemed to be standing in a blind spot beyond the doorway; she couldnât see him from the hallway. However, there was definitely a shadow moving on the floor of that room.
Calculating where the intruder would be standing from the window and the position of that shadow, Chané erased all emotion from every cell in her body.
It was probably best to assume this wasnât a thief whoâd just happened to break in. If anyone knew about this apartment, it would probably be one of the former Lemures.
Spike.
The name of the sniper whoâd been her colleague came to mind. On the other hand, she couldnât see a sniper deciding to come to a cramped place like this, where heâd be at a disadvantage. In that case, was it his companion, the former Felix?
Either way, she couldnât afford to get careless or hold back. She also didnât need to; if that shadow belonged to Claire, heâd probably stop her knife easily.
Coming to that conclusion, Chané jumped as noiselessly as a cat and reached the door in a single leap. She didnât wait for her opponent to hear her land and turn around as she made her next move.
From a low stance, Chané unleashed a low-trajectory uppercut.
The hilt of the sharp knife was in her fistâsheâd sink its blade into her opponentâs neck.
That was all she had to do.
Without hatred or regret.
She just had to accept the fact that sheâd killed her opponent.
That alone would be enough to solidly return her to the past.
Howeverâ
Just before the blade reached the intruder, Chané froze up.
It wasnât just a physical response.
â¦â¦?
â¦â¦
â¦â¦â
â?!â
Her heart passed through several stages of emotion before it went completely blank.
Incidentally, the manâs clothes, which were reflected in her eyes, were so very, very whiteâand they made his glossy black hair stand out in even sharper contrast.
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