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THE GREATEST REVENGER SYSTEM Talking Plans
The ride to Thenma’s apartment was silent, save for the occasional hum of the engine. Laura wasn’t sure why he had brought her here instead of discussing the plan elsewhere, but she didn’t question it. Not yet.The apartment building was tall, sleek, and modern—one of those places where the city’s wealthier residents lived, far removed from the chaos below. The 11th floor gave a perfect view of Blostom’s restless streets, yet inside, it was eerily quiet.Thenma unlocked the door with an effortless motion, barely knocking before pushing it open. The moment it swung wide, a bright voice greeted him."Thenma!"A girl rushed forward, her excitement clear in her tone. Katarina Whittaker—young, bright-eyed, carrying the kind of energy that could light up a room. Her long, honey-blonde hair bounced slightly as she reached for him, but then she froze.Her smile faltered.Her warm brown eyes flicked from Thenma to Laura.Someone she didn't recognize.And even though Katarina didn’t say a word,
THE GREATEST REVENGER SYSTEM Wolf's Den
The air outside Verona Lounge was thick with humidity, carrying the scent of city smog and the lingering aroma of cheap perfume from the women who worked its sidewalks. The neon sign flickered in crimson hues above the entrance, casting an eerie glow onto the pavement below. It wasn’t just another nightclub. It was a place of power. A place where shadows lurked in the corners, where men with deep pockets and darker secrets indulged in pleasures that couldn’t be spoken of in daylight. And tonight, Katarina Whittaker walked into it willingly. Getting in hadn’t been as simple as she expected. The underground broker she was forced to meet had slid her a note with a single, cutting remark: “Verona Lounge doesn’t take random city whores. If you’re not from Anony, you’re out.” That in itself was enough to raise suspicion. Katarina had worked through Blostom’s nightlife before. Clubs like Verona Lounge were supposed to be filled with girls from all backgrounds—runaways, desperate wome
THE GREATEST REVENGER SYSTEM James Found Out
It hadn’t taken long for Katarina to become the center of Rover Verelli’s attention. With her sultry voice, stunning beauty, and her practiced persona as a charming drinking companion-for-hire, she quickly found her way into Rover’s inner circle—just as Thenma had instructed. She hadn’t told her father what she was really doing at Verona Lounge, and she had no intention of doing so. Thenma had agreed to keep it between them.Before returning home each night, Katarina always made sure to change out of her seductive attire and slip into casual clothing—something she would’ve worn on any ordinary day. With a calm expression masking her double life, she stepped through the door of her home that evening.But she didn’t expect what was waiting for her.“Thenma… what are you doing—?”Her question was abruptly cut short.Her eyes widened in horror as she saw Thenma reel backward from a powerful punch to the face. Standing over him was her father—James—his face a mask of fury.“How dare you us
THE GREATEST REVENGER SYSTEM Something In Anony
The sleek black sports car sliced through the night, its low hum blending with the cold wind that wrapped around the city’s outskirts. Thenma hadn’t spoken a word since they left. His hands gripped the wheel with perfect precision, his eyes fixed forward, lips sealed tight.Katarina sat beside him, feeling the silence thickening like fog. After what happened back at home—after those words, those fists—she thought he brought her out to say something. To hear something. Anything. But the only sound in the car was the engine and the distant whisper of the road under them.She didn’t dare breathe too loud.Thenma’s eyes glinted briefly with the city’s lights as they approached a familiar riverside lookout. Across the water, the city glittered like a fallen constellation. He parked the car and stepped out without a word, walking over to an old wooden cabin-like bench near the railing. The city’s reflection rippled in the water below.Katarina hesitated for a moment, unsure if she should fo
THE GREATEST REVENGER SYSTEM Under Control
Thenma didn’t accompany Laura on the follow-up investigation into Edward Montgomery’s money laundering in Anony City. Instead, he took a different approach. He sent Katarina back—back to Verona Lounge, back to Rover.This time, however, her mission had changed.He wanted her to dig deeper—not into finances, but into something far more personal.Lily Hayes.But uncovering information about the missing girl proved more difficult than expected. Katarina scoured conversations, lingered in hallways, pressed lightly on blurred boundaries—but no one spoke her name. Not even once.Still, Katarina didn’t back down. She knew how the Verona Lounge operated. The girls weren’t just hosts. They were filtered—graded. Newcomers were shown off, displayed like luxury, fed to the regular clientele. But the real secrets, the truth buried beneath polished smiles and crystal glasses, lay with the “seniors”—the women who served the Lounge’s elite guests, escorted in by Rover himself.To find Lily, Katarina
THE GREATEST REVENGER SYSTEM Highlife Clues
The room smelled like cologne, sweat, and something sour that clung to the silk bedsheets. Katarina sat still at the edge of the bed, her back facing the door, the sequins of her tight dress catching a faint glint of light from the ceiling chandelier. Her long, black hair fell over her shoulders in slightly tangled strands, the once-meticulously straight locks now damp with frustration.Her lips, swollen from Rover's greedy kisses, pressed into a tight line.She tugged the strap of her dress back onto her shoulder with a flick, adjusting her neckline and glaring at nothing in particular. Her reflection across the room stared back with the same dead-fed up expression—icy blue eyes dulled with irritation."Goddamn it," she muttered under her breath.He’d left her. Just like that.After everything she’d done to tolerate his touch, to hold back the shiver of disgust crawling up her spine—and he left her with nothing. No slip of information, no loose tongue, not even a whisper about what s
THE GREATEST REVENGER SYSTEM Almost Was Never Enough!
Kato let the silence stretch, lips curled in mild amusement, like a man sipping wine over a private joke.“You’re quiet,” he said, smoothing the wrinkle on his lapel as if it mattered more than the woman who had just evaporated into mist. “No sharp words? No twisted proverbs from your father's old sermons? That's new.”Thenma didn’t answer.His fingers hovered near his pocket, subtly activating Reve's surf mode. A flicker of blue light scanned his iris, unseen beneath the shadows of the corridor.Kato leaned against the opposite wall, arms crossed loosely, clearly enjoying himself.Thenma waited.A chime pulsed quietly in his mind.Surfing complete. Accessing encrypted layers. Result: No identity found. No biometrics registered. Data: NULL.Thenma’s brows furrowed.Blank. The system found nothing.Just like Lily Hayes.A ghost in the machine.His jaw clenched almost imperceptibly. That woman’s escape wasn’t just coincidence. She wasn’t meant to exist in the system.“You know,” Kato sa
THE GREATEST REVENGER SYSTEM City of Smokes
Rain fell like a fine mist over Anony City, diffusing the neon lights into hazy glows that pulsed against damp sidewalks and shuttered storefronts. It was early—too early for most of the city’s vices to rise—but not for Laura Finch. She had never been one to wait for the night to draw the worst out of people. Evil, she knew, wore watches and drank expensive coffee at dawn.The temporary office they had commanded on the top floor of Hotel Auria overlooked the eastern edge of Highlife—Anony's middle class residential quarter. From up here, the towers of glass and silver looked almost innocent. Almost.Laura sat hunched over her laptop, its faint blue light casting hard shadows under her eyes. The coffee beside her had long since gone cold. Data filled her screen—financial records, resident registries, and the reconstructed timelines of shadowy investments she had begun threading together since arriving in Anony two days ago.So far, the investigation into Edward Montgomery’s money laund
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Don't Trust The Clock
Rain hammered the streets of Blostom as if trying to wash the city clean — but nothing could cleanse what lurked in the alleys and shadows.Thenma stood at the edge of the hospital’s deserted parking structure, staring out into the wet night.His jacket clung damply to his frame, the bloodstains blending with rainwater until they were indistinguishable.[Reve: Optimal Route to Central Terminal Calculated. Risk Assessment: 81% Hostile Encounter Probability.]Thenma ignored the warning.He already knew it wasn’t going to be easy.Nothing worth surviving ever was.A faint buzz rattled in his ear — the commlink connecting him to Collin."You sure about this, boss?" Collin’s voice crackled over the line."You're walking into a setup. You know that, right?""I don’t have a choice," Thenma muttered, sliding a fresh magazine into his sidearm and checking the safety. "Joey's alive. Or someone wants us to think he is."Silence.Then, quieter:"Katarina wants to come."Thenma’s hand froze mid-ch
Do We Failed?
The hospital corridor smelled of bleach and something far less clean — desperation.It clung to the cracked linoleum floors, the scuffed walls, the faded plastic chairs bolted to the floor.Thenma sat hunched forward on one of those chairs, his elbows on his knees, staring at the floor as if the answers he needed might somehow crawl out of the tile grout. His jacket was still damp from the rain outside, the cold seeping through the thin fabric, but he barely noticed.Across from him, Laura Finch lay motionless on the hospital bed behind the glass partition.IV lines tethered her to machines that beeped in slow, measured rhythm, like a clock counting down seconds she couldn’t afford to lose.She was awake now — but barely.Her eyes flickered open and closed in exhausted intervals. She hadn’t spoken since he arrived; just the occasional faint movement of her brow, a silent acknowledgment that she recognized him.Thenma scrubbed his hands through his hair, tension knotting every muscle i
Barely Breathe
Somewhere deep beneath Blostom’s rotting heart, far below the streetlights and laughter, Joey Douglas sat chained to a chair that groaned with every shallow breath he took.The room around him was a tomb — low, damp, stinking of mildew and old rust. A single bulb swung from the ceiling, its weak light carving sharp shadows across cracked concrete walls.Joey’s face was barely recognizable anymore.One eye swollen shut. Blood dried in a crust along his temple. His lower lip split open so deep he tasted iron every time he moved.He slumped forward, wrists cuffed so tightly his hands had turned a sickly color beneath the shackles. Every small movement sent jolts of pain up his arms, but worse was the steady, gnawing ache in his ribs — cracked, maybe broken — from the last time one of the men had decided to remind him of his place.And they were still here.Three of them, standing just beyond the thin halo of light, their faces blurred by shadow and menace.Watching him. Waiting.Like gri
Ripe Enough
The rest of the drive unfolded in heavy silence, though not the brittle, wounded quiet from before. This was different—charged with thought, reflection, a thousand unspoken decisions forming behind Katarina’s downcast eyes.When Collin finally steered the car into the narrow private driveway of their safehouse, the night had deepened into a heavy, oppressive calm. The house itself was an unremarkable structure tucked behind a thicket of ironbark trees—ordinary enough to be invisible to the casual passerby, fortified enough to hold its own against anything less casual.Collin parked neatly beside the porch, cutting the engine with a smooth flick of his wrist. The moment the keys clicked out of the ignition, Katarina unbuckled her seatbelt, but didn’t immediately move to open the door. She sat there instead, the interior lights soft against her pale face, her fingers threading nervously together.He waited, patient.After a long moment, she finally spoke, her voice steadier now, though
I Smell Something's Off
Katarina turned around, it was Collin who came straight to Katarina quickly and snatched the drugs out of Katarina's hands. "What are you doing?" the man asked, just enough to make Katarina sigh tiredly.Though there was only a little more .... to go"You're trying to cause trouble with Silas again?" asked Collin, he looked furious but still tried to contain it. "What exactly are you thinking, Katarina? Please leave Silas alone, let him calm down!""Can you feel at ease if the real villain is still roaming around Thenma?" Katarina asked back, leaving Collin with a look of astonishment. Katarina returned Collin's gaze boldly, then she took the drugs back from Collin's hand. "I'm trying to find the real culprit, Doctor, I don't suspect Silas alone and I've searched every room in this house. And do you see what I'm holding? These are the drugs you checked when Adie bought them from outside, the ones that replaced the fake ones you used!"Collin gave Katarina a sharp look, seemingly unabl
Keep The Distance Far
Katarina was stunned. No matter how many times she listened, she still wondered why Joey was trying to stay away from The Elites, even to the point of indoctrinating her family like this and making it seem like The Elites was a bad ex-employer who let her out while causing trouble.The more she thought about it, the more suspicious Katarina became. If she had experienced it firsthand like this, she could no longer think badly of Collin and his prejudice against others. What Collin suspected was real, and Katarina felt it."If Lady is really someone from The Elites, please don't follow me anymore. I will pay for her hospital fees, but please don't see me or my family again." While Katarina was busy pondering, Lily suddenly said something like that. Katarina wanted to quickly evade but she restrained herself when she saw the girl's face which was really pleading, as if she did not want to be bothered by anything related to The Elites anymore.Katarina sighed. It almost occurred to he
Chase Me
Katarina felt like her world was turning upside down. Or was it? After trying to protect the girl who was almost hit by a city transit car, Katarina couldn't help but let herself take the place of the child as she tasted the tip of the speeding metal.Katarina was only grazed, but the factors following her managed to make her fall more dramatic than that of the child she was helping. Katarina toppled over so many times, she couldn't count them to even realize whether her head hit the road or not. She was reckless.But when her head felt like it was spinning violently, the girl came to her with a look of deathly anxiety. Her expression was much different from the cold look she had shown earlier. "Lady... Lady okay?" she asked, then hit herself on the head for asking such an obvious question. Katarina was not okay!People who had seen what had happened earlier and those who hadn't, flocked to where Katarina lay limply now. Even the driver was responsible enough to come down and ask h
To Find The Girl
As Katarina had previously guessed, apparently Collin's fever was not a fever that healed overnight. It had been three days, and Collin still didn't have enough stamina to return to his normal activities. So Katarina insisted on telling him to stay in the room, and let Katarina take care of the things she usually took care of.One of them is like what Katarina is doing right now; negotiate with one of the people Collin suspects—Joey, the former head mechanic of The Elites family.This afternoon Katarina decided to come directly to meet Joey and talk to him, perhaps the middle-aged man would talk to her because he and Collin certainly had a lot of pressure. Collin had said himself that maybe Joey was afraid to talk to him because Collin had a strong intimidating aura, so Katarina would try to speak softly at this opportunity.Katarina steeled herself and stepped into the house Collin had told her about earlier. One of the houses that was neither luxurious nor small, a simple house that
Shocking Missing
The emergency lights flickered once more before stabilizing, casting a pale, sterile glow over the hospital corridor. Thenma leaned back against the wall, folding his arms tightly across his chest, forcing his breathing into slow, controlled rhythms. Across from him, Alex shifted his weight, grimacing as the movement tugged at his injuries. "You asked what happened," Alex rasped, his voice low and rough. "I'll tell you." Thenma gave a short nod, bracing himself. "Laura was working late," Alex began, his gaze distant, as if seeing the events unfold again in front of him. "Digging through her files. Cross-referencing a string of data leaks we’d picked up from the Montgomery case—Edward Montgomery’s money laundering through Highlife Apartments. She’d found something... something serious." "Serious how?" Thenma asked quietly. Alex gave a small, bitter laugh. "Enough to put half his empire in front of a judge. Enough to finally crack the ones shielding him." Thenma’s jaw tightened. L
