Underground casino in A City.
Peter Barnes stood before the one-way mirror, elegantly holding a cigarette between slender fingers and puffing out smoke rings: "Miss Ruth, is your Sister Natalie really dead?"
Ruth had pink-dyed long hair, with makeup exaggeratedly overdone, looking like a problematic teen. Upon hearing this, she burst into tears: "How many times do you have to ask?! I wish she were alive too!"
"Miss Ruth, let's speak frankly. Others may not know Sister Natalie's abilities, but I do. Even an old fox like me was manipulated by her, my assets and life all under her control. Whoever she told me to marry, I had to marry. Can she be beaten to death by some idiot?"
"What idiot? That was Harry Hunter's most trusted personal bodyguard! No one can rival his martial arts talent, and he has been systematically trained by Ben Hunter. Nobody in A City can defeat him; you wouldn't survive three moves under his hand! My Sister Natalie fought him for a whole month!"
