"What do you think you''re doing?" Hearing this, Ebony Fox, who had been


    expressionless, now had a murderous glint in her eyes. "If you dare touch my family,


    I''ll kill you."


    "Hahaha..." Ewan found this hrious, hisughter echoing in the spacious room. "Kill me? With that broken body of yours?"


    Twenty years of poison, even with the antidote keeping her alive, had left her with half a life. He had thought that if she remained obedient, he might grant her a peaceful end... but who knew she''d get ideas about cutting ties with the Huntsman Institutepletely.


    In his world, pawns he couldn''t control had only one fate: death.


    "I did everything you asked," Ebony Fox said, forcefully shaking off the man''s filthy hand, her gaze as sharp as a poisoned de. "You promised the mission in Orient Country would be thest one."


    "I''m not a man of my word," Ewan sneered, his smile sinister and cruel as he looked down on her as if she were an ant. "Ebony Fox, you are the Huntsman Institute''s most prized instructor. How could I possibly let you go? If you don''t behave, I''ll have your entire family killed. Take her away. No food, no water."


    Ewan turned his back, his voice merciless. "And no antidote. This time, she needs to learn her lesson."


    Meanwhile, Juniper checked into a hotel within the Huntsman Institute''s operational


    zone.


    After settling in, she called Binary Oracle. "Did you find him?"


    "We found him, Boss," her subordinate replied promptly. "The address and details have been sent to your phone."


    The file showed a boy of about fifteen or sixteen with curly hair. He was Cole, the illegitimate son of Ewan, the director of the Huntsman Institute.


    Ewan was a wicked, profit-driven man. His first two sons had been killed by his enemies, and he had gone to extreme lengths to protect this youngest one, raising him in secret, so well-hidden that no one at the Institute even knew of his existence.


    Unfortunately for Ewan, digging up such secrets was Binary Oracle''s specialty. "Boss, do you need us to send backup?" her subordinate asked respectfully. "After all, the Huntsman Institute isn''t an ordinary ce."


    "No need," Juniper said tly and hung up. She slung her backpack over her shoulder and headed out.


    Soon, on the west side of the Institute''s territory, she found Cole just as he was parting ways with his degenerate friends.


    "You''re Ewan''s illegitimate son?" Juniper asked bluntly, leaning against a wall and looking up at him.


    Cole shot her a nce. Very few people knew he was illegitimate. An Orient Country girl? Could she be one of his father''s enemies?


    Cole''s face changed. He instinctively took a step back and opened his mouth to call for help.


    "Shh." Juniper was faster. In one swift motion, she mped a hand


    over his mouth and grabbed hi


    by


    the neck. "If you don''t want to the be quet."


    The boy stared at her in terror and nodded vigorously.


    Juniper loosened her grip.


    "Hel—" The boy tried to shout, but the moment his mouth opened, Juniper knocked him unconscious.


    "What a pain," she muttered, hauling the boy up and tossing him into her rental car.


    Then she drove off, appearing alone at the gates of the Huntsman Institute.


    The guards stared at Juniper, frowning. This girl looked vaguely familiar. Juniper stood with her hands in her pockets, chewing gum, her cool gaze fixed on them.


    Huh? One of the guards paused for a second, then pulled out his phone to check the Huntsman Institute''s most-wanted list. At the very top was a thirteen year-old girl whose features were strikingly simr to the young woman before him.


    Could she be the ''little hellion'' who defeated all the senio


    instructors


    and nearly burned the tent


    the ground before she


    Holy crap!!!