“What’s your name?” While Gloria was cuffed to the desk, the Detective who took over for Detective Pahaik temporarily iioning Gloria, by the name of “Marcus Cai”, asked her with a gentle smile

  “Gloria Lee.” Gloria looked the detective right in his eyes, then shifted her eyes around just to appear more like a criminal, while in fact she was sing through the files oive Shrevas Pahaik’s desk.

  “Age?” The questioniive still had his eyes on her.

  “28 - but be a dear and mark me down for 26, 25.” Gloria sed the desk one more time, and she found no open files. She could only peek the way she was cuffed right now, thus she o actually open the folders. But there was no way she could do it in front of this detective. She was not sure why, but she could faintly sehat he was not as simple as he appeared.

  “Home address?” The detective seemed to have noticed Gloria’s shiftiness, yet still unaware of her true iions.

  “I live in the uered area of South-Eastern District, I could take you there for a trip but ’t tell you the street number.” Gloria Lee smirked at this detective, trying to annoy him enough that he got distracted: “So, yeah, no address for ya.”

  “Alright.” The detective looked rightfully frustrated, as he tried to write some notes down and fill in the form on the puter: “Why’d you steal from the clergyman?”

  “I didn’t steal from him. But if someone did, that bastard had it ing.” Gloria recited from the story she prepared with Gyuu Park.

  “Alright, alright. ” The detective rubbed his temples and sighed “You know, if the clergyman insisted on you being prosecuted, there was not much we could dht? A clergyman and his influences - ”

  “Oh, I know, trust me.” Gloria nodded, somewhat surprised this detective would actually know anything about the statuses of normal clergyme scoffed internally at the attempt at trig her: “He likes to remind everyone of that everyday, like he’s got something to pensate for.”

  “Alright, and I will go a a cup of coffee. And you keep in mind that the petty theft still be a pain in the ass if you’ve got priors and the victim expressed s about the object being stolen.” The detective seemed to have made the decision to let Gloria stew for a while. So instead of keeping the pressure oood up and started walking toward the small kit area with coffee pots and tea bags on the shelves: “Trust me, I thiive Pahaik would agree with me on this - if the victim insisted, then it’s better if you’d just sign a fession and deal with the fine.”

  “Eh, pass. ” Gloria waved her right hand and sat ba her chair, ready to act: “But you enjoy your coffee, okay? Be sure you don’t lose any sleep tonight.”

  The detective shrugged, then tinued his way to the kit.

  “Fug jackass.” Gloria cursed, then just wheective turned his back, she pulled out the cuff pig tools in her sleeves and started using them on the cuff that bouo Detective Shrevas Pahaik’s desk. After a few jiggles, the cuff clicked and loosened. She immediately flipped open the first folder oable. And just with her luck, it was the right folder. The files seemed freshly painted, with notes, pictures and even a copy of the preliminary forensics report. Without thinking much, she took the files from the folder and bolted at the door. Her movement was too abrupt, and the handcuff ed to the desk dangled and hit the floor.

  When Gloria made it into the small alley beside the prect building, she heard a sound of things moving through the air at high speed ing from behind her. She looked back, and saw that Detective Marcus Cai was ing after her, with some sort ht e glow around his body. Qi, he was a mystic martial arts practitioner.

  Without thinking, Gloria pushed her own Qi to enhance her mobility a onto a tree on the side. Her entire body glowed in blue, a symbol of good mastery of Qi, but she did not have the heart to spectate herself.

  “Stht there!” Detective Marcus Cai yelled, the moment his legs stomped on the ground. His Qi exploded and created a small dent on the ground, ung him right at Gloria.

  The detective’s move brought about a storm before him, f Gloria to jump away again. With the full force of her Qi, she glided in the air at the inner part of the alley she was in. And with a loud boom, the tree on which she was just standing almost got torn down by the detective’s redireg kick. His moves were far from as elegant as Gloria’s, but they got the job down - he was closing in on Gloria once again.

  Gloria ran her hand to a er of the road, grabbing some broken woodes in her palm and started infusing them with her Qi.

  Wheective got to a close enough distance, she turned around and uhe woodes on him. Almost half of them nded, but they were not remotely as effective. They cracked and splintered, while the detective was not stalled for eveep.

  Seeing this, Gloria stomped on the ground and unched herself onto the wall on the side. But just when she was about to run on the wall and hop into another alley, the detective used the opposite way and shot at her with his arm extended.

  Simply evading no longer seemed enough, Gloria backed off, arched her bad readied her pose. Wheective came close in the air, she uhree rapid kicks against him with her right leg.

  The kicks all struck true. While the detective fell off the wall, Gloria recoiled as the rea force from the detective’s defenses caused another jolt of pain to shoot through her leg. But luckily, she was ready and rode the impact to unch herself higher onto the roof of a building.

  The files in her ha lighter - small pieces of them were torn off. Iit seemed that the detective snatched a handful when he fell. He could have hurt her during that move, maybe not necessarily pull her down, but cause her some injuries and make her less likely to escape. But it looked like he chose not to and just to grab the files.

  “It’s almost 15 years - you better watch out.” Gloria thought for a very brief moment, she decided to give out a warning to this detective. He was a mystic martial arts practitioner, and if things were indeed going to get bad, he could be of help. “... not just for yourself.”

  After this, Gloria turned bad ran. Her right aarted hurting again, but not as seriously.