The Illicitor's Code #1

048: A Mission on Dim-Dim's Birthday

Oriyan left Amma's room, and Amma kissed Dim-Dim's lips once again. "Listen," she said. "Don't let my jerk brother ruin our relationship."

"What relationship do we have anyway?" Dim-Dim asked.

Amma shrugged, then smiled. "Who knows. You're the boyfriend I've never had."

*****

Traveling by jet was quite enjoyable. But as he lounged on the plush sofa, examining the map of Vermont and trying to trace his fingers over its surface, he realized that the luxury he was enjoying was directly proportional to the hard work he had to put in.

Now, almost every day there was a mission. Even with the Venator numbers increasing by almost a thousand percent (now they had two thousand Venators worldwide), monsters were still attacking settlements like crazy. The fewer humans outside the Safe City, the fewer cities to be attacked. And since last month's incident, when monsters attacked nuclear power plants in various countries and caused power outages, human civilization has been increasingly threatened