100 Days to Seduce the Devil

Day Twenty Seven…

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"Black Rose??!" Chantha arched her eyebrow at the mention of that name.

"Who is she? Is she your lover? Who is more beautiful between Black Rose and me?" Chantha added, asking Spade. She didn't know Black Rose.

Nathan and Axel gave her a cold sharp glare because of her interruption. Violet could only shake her head as she dragged her sister.

"Sshhhh!" Violet motioned her twin sister to just keep quiet.

But surprisingly, Spade still responded to her query due to the effect of the truth serum.

"Black Rose! The expert hacker of the Phantom's Guild Assassin. She is not my lover. But I would love to become her lover! Urgh…For me… She is more beautiful than you!"

Chantha: "..."

"Pfft!" Axel tried his best to hold his laughter. Chantha's stunned expression looked so funny. He could tell that Chantha didn't expect to hear that.

Joker, on the other hand, glanced at Nathan, thinking about Black Rose. He already heard that name. She was famous in the online world.

"Supreme Leader… Black Rose played a very important role in the guild. She was doing the background check on their targets, gathering vital information related to them." Joker informed them.

A deep crease appeared on Nathan's forehead, his eyes sharpening while clenching his fists. "There was another survivor? Aside from Phantomflake, another member stayed alive at that time…"

"What are you up to? What is the deal between your organization and that woman?" Nathan asked Spade once more.

"Just recently, we discovered that Black Rose was alive. We wanted to recruit her as our new member." Spade was spilling more information voluntarily.

"She was the one who told us that Phantomflake might still be alive. She offered us a deal. If we could get Phantomflake out of your territory, she would join our organization."

Nathan's expression darkened at the thought of this mysterious woman. He began to wonder what kind of person Black Rose was. Would she become a treat to him? But what could one woman do against him and his organization?

'Perhaps… Abigail is Black Rose?' Nathan recalled Abigail's words. If he was not mistaken, he heard that name from Abigail's mouth. However, he was not certain.

"Where did you hide Phantomflake?" Nathan finally asked Spade the most important question.

Spade groaned as he felt a throbbing pain in his head. This might be one of the side effects of the new formula of the truth serum.

Nathan grabbed Spade's shoulders and he leaned closer, making Spade look into his eyes. "Where is she? Where did you hide her?!" He said in his cold deepening tone.

Spade blinked his eyes as he tried to focus his vision on Nathan's face. He sneered at him and said, "In our Sanitarium at Country J."

Nathan hastily let go of Spade's shoulders and turned to face his comrades.

"Joker, investigate Black Rose. Get as much information as you can regarding Black Rose– her face, her background, her real identity." Nathan commanded him.

"Got it, Supreme Leader. I have to leave now to do my next mission." Joker tapped Spider's back, smiling at him meaningfully. He failed today's mission so Joker wanted to do another mission to keep himself busy. He was the kind of guy who liked to challenge himself.

Nathan just bobbed his head and shifted his gaze back to Spade. "You can continue interrogating him about Black Rose and the Red Dragon Mafia. You still have Twenty Five minutes left before the effect of truth serum will disappear. Keep him in the prison cell afterward. We still need him…"

Chantha immediately raised her hand and said, "Supreme Leader, leave him to me. I will deal with him… carefully..." A playful grin stretched from ear to ear, brightening up Chantha's face.

Violet and Axel squinted their eyes on Chantha. They knew that she had another motive as to why she volunteered to handle the interrogation.

"I will do it! Not you!" Axel butted in, opposing Chantha.

Nathan, Spider, and Violet darted their gazes back and forth between Axel and Chantha. They started bickering once more.

The two were still arguing when Spade suddenly spoke up, catching everyone's attention.

"Is SizzlingAugust08 here? Can I talk to her? I want to see her! She is my idol. Can I have her autograph before you kill me? SizzlingAugust08 is the greatest hacker of all time! It's my dream to meet her… and I can't believe SizzlingAugust08 is a woman… she is sizzling and cool. Haha!" Spade spoke spontaneously, expressing his admiration toward SizzlingAugust08.

Nathan: "..."

Nathan was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect to hear his old account's name. And what the hell Spade was talking about?

'Did he just say that I am a woman? Is he referring to me or another hacker?' Nathan mused to himself, eyeing Spade confusedly.

"Black Rose and SizzlingAugust08! You like hackers! What is so good about them?!" Chantha stomped her feet. She was disappointed since Spade kept ignoring her. Her charm didn't work on him at all.

"Sis, behave!" Violet warned her sister.

"Who is he talking about? SizzlingAugust08? The legendary hacker?" Spider became interested and intrigued.

Nathan just kept silent. His comrades didn't know about his other identity as the legendary hacker of his time! Only a few people knew about it.

"Yes! I'm talking about her! She is working here right?! In your organization! Please let me meet her once more." Spade begged them as if he was a child asking his parent to buy him his favorite toy.

"We don't know her! No SizzlingAugust her, just Sizzling Hot Chantha!" Chantha presented herself proudly.

"Haha! You are lying! I just met her at the airport two days ago. When I hacked your security system, I had an encounter with her. She even sent a virus that destroyed my computer."

As Nathan listened to Spade's words, he figured out that Spade was referring to his son, Ethan. Ethan told him the same story. But he was a little bit confused since this Spade was telling them that he met a woman whom he believed was SizzlingAugust08.

"Black Rose and I were about to leave the country together but SizzlingAugust08 stopped me! She even threatened me not to contact Black Rose again and to stay away from her." Spade chuckled and began mimicking Abigail's threat whom he mistook as SizzlingAugust08.

"Stay away from Black Rose. Don't try to use that woman. And… you should tell your Boss… he should return Phantomflake's body to where she belongs… otherwise, you and your organization will meet their demise!" Spade repeated Abigail's warning in front of Nathan and his subordinates.

Chantha looked at Spade strangely and whispered to Nathan. "Supreme Leader, does the new version of truth serum have defects? Why this guy is talking some nonsense? I don't know if he is telling the truth or if he is just delusional. Does he know what he is talking about?"

Nathan gazed at Chantha for five seconds with an indescribable expression. After a while, Nathan bobbed his head in agreement. Spade's words didn't make sense to him at all.

"I think that woman is fake… a poser? An impostor? She pretended to be a member of our organization." Chantha blurted out, looking at Spade ridiculously. "We must capture her, Boss! She is using our organization's name to deceive someone!" She added.

Axel, Spider, and Violet could only sigh helplessly. Chantha was so frank, not even filtering her words, just expressing what was on her mind.

But Nathan thought of the possibility that Spade was still telling the truth because of the truth serum.

"Spider, kindly find out and confirm if this guy truly met someone who pretended to be Sizzling– I mean if she pretended to be our members and if she is claiming herself as SizzlingAugust08."

Spider snapped his fingers in excitement. He finally received another mission from Nathan. He was competing with Joker in accomplishing missions!

"I'll work hard on this task, Supreme Leader. I gotta go now. See yah!" Spider also left, not wasting his time.

"I will leave him to the two of you. Axel, come with me. We need to locate the Red Dragon Mafia's Sanitarium in Country J. We will take Phantomflake back," Nathan mumbled with so much conviction.

"I understand, sir," Axel politely replied.

Nathan and Axel left the interrogation room. They could still hear Spade's voice, asking them to bring SizzlingAugust08. Nathan just maintained his poker face and feigned ignorance about it.

But Nathan was still curious about the woman who threatened Spade using SizzlingAugust's identity. 'Only a few people know who is the person behind SizzlingAugust08…'

'Black Rose, the woman version of SizzlingAugust08 and… Abigail… I wonder if the three of them has relation to each other. Or this is just a great coincidence?' Nathan had more puzzles to solve.

'I should find Phantomflake first… and this time… I'm going to use my computer skills to find her…' Nathan decided to use his hacker skills and his old account SizzlingAugust08 in tracking Phantomflake.

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Meanwhile, at Dragon Lord's private villa in Country M, he got a piece of bad news from his underling. He was enjoying his coffee in the pool area when his assistant came running to him.

"D-Dragon Lord… something disastrous happened to our two hideouts here in Country M!" The Dragon Lord's assistant reported.

The Dragon Lord frowned and asked him, "What happened?"

"One hideout was attacked by the Syphiruz Mafia and the other one was attacked by the Sawada Clan… We can't reach Jack and Spade!"

"WHAT?!!!" The Dragon Lord couldn't believe it. He was utterly shocked to hear this bad news.