chsdbacks Chapter 405 The night is as bright as day, and footsteps are as light as dust.
Chapter 405 The night is as bright as day, and footsteps are as light as dust.
Chapter 407 The night is as bright as day, and footsteps are as light as dust.
Faced with the nurse's sudden outburst, Hugo remained calm and unmoved.
The next moment, Miss Skirt's "Flying Leaf Blade" whistled past his ear, severing a section of black hair, but it drew a strange, subtle arc in mid-air before heading straight for the throat of the nurse doctor next to the hospital bed!
Clang!
The sharp clang of metal clashing pierced the air.
A Magneton had somehow appeared in front of the doctor, its electromagnetic field from the three pairs of magnets repelling all the flying leaves in front of it.
Under Mr. Morikawa's horrified gaze, the originally gentle and refined doctor suddenly sprang to his feet.
His white coat billowed as he leaped backward with astonishing agility, barely dodging the second wave of flying leaves. Upon landing, his demeanor had transformed from that of a healer saving lives into that of a skilled warrior.
"Such skills are unlike those of an ordinary doctor."
The nurse's smile remained gentle and warm, but she had already released a wind sprite from her hand. The cotton-like sprite silently circled behind the doctor, attempting to form a pincer attack.
"Heh." The doctor sneered. Scizor's crimson form suddenly appeared in the red light of the Poké Ball, its pincers crossed to block the sneak attack. Seeing his identity exposed, he simply tore off his pretense and looked mockingly at Detective Hugo before him: "When did you find out?"
"Although I really wanted to say that from the beginning, it wasn't that exaggerated."
Before the kidnappers realized the hostage's value, Hugo quickly helped Morikawa up and escorted the injured man to the door. The police search was conducted in secrecy. Logically, the kidnappers inside the Champion's Road cave shouldn't have had any way of knowing about our pursuit. However, they changed their tactics midway, suddenly abandoning the mother near the cave's open area and escaping with their daughter using a "digging" technique, completely shaking off the pursuit through "teleportation." This can only mean that someone must have informed the kidnappers of the police search's progress from the outside.
"Ah, could it be around that time?" Morikawa Shigeto's eyes suddenly widened, his right hand trembling as he pointed at the doctor. "You're the real kidnapper. You approached me during your hospital visit just now to find out about the investigation's progress?"
"Hmph." The doctor pulled open his white coat, revealing a tactical vest with a sharp dagger inserted, but he wasn't in a hurry to start a fight with the nurse. "Thanks to you for telling me about the police finding the vehicle, I was able to change my strategy in time. Otherwise, my partner might already be trapped by the police. Things are really different now. In my memory, the United States police didn't have this high efficiency."
"but.""
The imposter drew two tactical knives from his waist, the cold metallic gleam reflecting on his icy expression. "I'm quite curious, how did you manage to see through a 'temporarily transferred' nurse?"
"Mr. Morikawa's arm received timely treatment when it was burned, so the wound is in much better condition than it looks. Even if it needs bandaging, it doesn't need to be changed frequently." Hugo glanced at the patient behind him. "And you not only used this as an excuse to frequently enter and leave the ward to extract information, but you also deliberately left a messy signature on the nursing records."
"Oh, is there a problem?" The guy who was pretending to be a doctor played with a dagger, the silver blade dancing between his fingers, drawing dangerous arcs.
"Your disguise isn't up to par." The speaker was a nurse who was confronting the thug. She wasn't intimidated by her opponent's intimidation at all. "In this hospital, the nursing department is independent of the medical system. You sneaked in by taking advantage of this loophole, didn't you? But that's why you're not qualified to fill out the nursing logs that should be the nurses' responsibility."
"That's brilliant." Sui Tu whistled. "So that's why you attacked me the moment you saw the medical record. Excellent decisiveness. You can't possibly be an ordinary nurse at this hospital, can you?"
"Who knows?" The nurse smiled sweetly, avoiding a direct answer.
"Leaving aside the bombing at Alliance Airport."
Hugo suddenly interjected, "You were in the hospital for the entire later stages of the kidnapping incident. Did they remotely control Pokémon to commit the crime for you?"
"Technology changes lives, my dear friend." The kidnapper, now revealing his true form, bared his gleaming teeth. "The police can use radios to contact their subordinates operating in the cave, so isn't it reasonable for me to make a few calls to my elves?"
"Quite composed, huh? Are you some notorious criminal? I don't recognize you." The nurse tapped her chin, sizing up the enemy before her. "Or perhaps a rookie trained by Team Plasma?"
"I belong to no organization, I only fight for money and for myself—remember the names of those who are about to be killed, I am a professional assassin, 'White Night'!"
The kidnapper swung his dagger forward with a sudden, sharp screech. With a piercing metallic clang, a crimson figure tore through the air like a bullet—"Scizor, let them remember this name forever—'Bullet Punch'!"
"So it was you. You've been roaming the Unova region lately?"
For some reason, the nurse seemed to recognize the other person's identity. At the same time, her two Grass-type Pokémon also sprang into action.
As if it were a prophetic foresight, the Wind Fairy cast a "Protect" defensive barrier, while Miss Skirt held up a flower bud, summoning dazzling sunlight indoors.
"Pfft, he's definitely not easy to deal with—"
Scizor's pincers slammed into the barrier in front of Whimsicott. LieTu's pupils contracted in the bright light, and he turned to point at the latter, who was using "Sunny Day"—
"Magneto, the Three-in-One, 'Cannon Beam'!"
In an instant, all six magnets of the Magnet Pokémon pointed in the same direction, and a torrent of silver-blue metal erupted out, shattering the hospital bed into pieces under the impact of the energy.
Miss Skirt was directly hit by the violent beam of light. Her petite body, covered by flowers and leaves, crashed through the door frame and slammed against the wall of the corridor.
"Champion Hugo, please take the patient to a safe place first." The nurse turned her head slightly, her voice calm and clear.
"Don't you need my help?" Hugo supported Morikawa with one hand, his gaze sweeping over Miss Skirt who had been knocked away.
"No, you should escort Mr. Morikawa to the police station downstairs first." The nurse straightened her nurse's cap, which had been askew from the aftershocks of the attack. "Champion, don't you have a constitution that causes Pokémon moves to fail? It would be better if you left the battlefield for now. I can handle this guy by myself."
"Heh, quite the boast." The kidnapper's laughter came from deep within the ward, his heels slamming against the shards of glass. "The Wind Fairy's 'Protect' is used up. Don't you know I have the game firmly in my grasp now?"
Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly sprang up!
"Magneto – Electric Net! Scizor, keep your eyes glued to that little skirt-wearing lady!"
A burst of light erupted from the ward, silvery electricity exploding like a spiderweb, blocking everyone's escape route. Crimson insect shadows transformed into cold metallic light, heading straight for Miss Skirt, who had just gotten up from the ground.
Meanwhile, the assassin himself had already pounced forward like a ghost, his twin daggers drawing a cold arc—just like a spider's pounce when hunting—and headed straight for Hugo, who was leaving the ward, with a determination to kill!
"I see." Hugo finally confirmed his suspicions. "Your employer is with Group Plasma. From the airport bombing onwards, this whole series of actions was all for this moment, wasn't it?"
To exact revenge on Ghettoss, and to assassinate himself, the Unova Champion.
"You're really clever—relative to a single body!"
In the blink of an eye, under the cover of the two Pokémon, the assassin had closed in on the detective who was supporting the patient.
Unlike Pokémon moves that always fail when they're near a champion, this deadly strike from a human will never be affected by any special physical condition.
But he still failed to achieve his goal. "To actually ignore me in a Pokémon battle—Mr. 'White Night,' your courage is truly admirable."
A cold voice rang out behind the assassin. The nurse, facing the Scizor and Magneton that pounced on her, revealed a contemptuous smile.
"The timing is perfect."
At that very moment, Miss Skirt, who had been driven back to the end of the corridor, had already regrouped.
It gracefully stretches out its long, emerald-green leaves, and the ball of light gathered in its palm expands continuously under the clear sky—it is a "weather ball" that has been transformed into a fire attribute by the weather!
"Wind Fairy, 'Help!'"
Thanks to the "Mischievous Heart" ability, Whimsicott's support moves are even faster than Scizor's proud "Bullet Punch".
With the help of her companions, Miss Skirt's "weather ball" expanded to twice its original size again.
As this move was unleashed, the flames illuminated the entire hospital corridor—not only instantly devouring the Scizor that had just exhausted its Whimsicott Belt, but also grazing a Magneton's clone in a straight line and knocking it to the ground.
A scorching wave of heat created a wall of fire in the middle of the corridor, completely cutting off the assassin's pursuit of the detective.
"I said one—"
Luna Silvia, the chief agent of the United States Intelligence Department's Infiltration Investigation Division, known as the "Silent Footsteps" and feared throughout the underworld, silently approaches the assassin whose path is blocked by a wall of fire.
"Your opponent has always been me."