Chapter 91 Harley Quinn, The Fallen Cat
Under the night sky, the rainforest had once again fallen silent.
Task Force X—or rather just Captain Robert and Peacemaker—had easily wiped out the dozen rebel soldiers inside the military helicopter.
King Shark Nanaue wiped the corner of his mouth discreetly, suppressing his urge at the sight of the corpses on the ground. He stood still like a statue, resembling a shark-shaped chair.
"Cat… Boss, there's still one alive here."
Captain Robert carried a large burlap sack with a person inside and stepped down from the helicopter cabin. He spoke to the small black cat resting on Nanaue's head.
The sack squirmed—
A woman twisted her curvy body violently and slipped off Robert's shoulder, landing on the ground. At once, several members of Task Force X surrounded her cautiously.
As the sack was loosened—
Xi Nian's ghostly blue eyes, in the form of the three-in-one black kitten, reflected the image of a twin-tailed girl with hair dyed in multiple colors.
The girl's pale and delicate face was covered in clown-like makeup. Around her neck was a black mechanical collar, like a pet's restraint. She wore a cropped vest jacket exposing her navel and slim waist, paired with tight red hot pants that clung to her curving hips. Her fair thighs were wrapped in fishnet stockings, and she wore high leather boots with heels.
It was a wildly rebellious outfit.
Even more striking were the tattoos across her exposed skin—English words, playing cards, hearts—that lent her an air of madness and dangerous allure.
The girl crawled out of the sack, dazed, patting her own cheeks before glancing around at those encircling her.
"Harley Quinn, why are you here?" Captain Robert, Peacemaker, and the others exclaimed in surprise. They immediately recognized her.
After all, this seemingly delicate girl was notorious both in Gotham City and in Belle Reve Prison!
Harley Quinn—codename: "Clown Princess of Crime."
"Oh wow! Finally, some familiar living faces!" Harley jumped up and greeted them warmly, then threw up her hands with a dramatic sigh. "I was with another Task Force X squad. Everyone else got killed off horribly, and I'm the only one left."
Whether she was truly saddened was impossible to tell.
Of course, anyone called Harley Quinn naturally carried an unpredictable, erratic nature.
"By the way, how did you guys bring that big bird down from the sky? Who's the sharpshooter here?" Harley blinked at the military helicopter wreckage lying in the jungle clearing.
"Well…" The members of Task Force X hesitated, unsure how to answer, and all glanced toward one spot—
"Oh, it was this shark-looking hunk? Didn't expect you to be so strong!" Harley clapped in admiration, walking up to King Shark and giving his rock-hard abs a punch.
"Eh? A kitty? You actually brought a cat along on the mission!"
"Wait! Harley, you've got it wrong!"
The squad collectively gasped.
But quickly they realized—the Boss Cat didn't seem angry.
Xi Nian gazed at the girl's clown makeup and felt a strange sense of unease.
Truthfully, his first impression of Harley Quinn wasn't favorable.
Someone so clearly unstable—borderline psychotic—even if she was a young woman in her twenties, normally Xi Nian would have no desire to get close.
But now he wasn't in his "normal" state. He was in his three-in-one fusion form.
Compared to madness, extremity, and evil… who could surpass the amalgam of Venom symbiote and Flerken instincts within him? Only the last scraps of his humanity and reason kept him from plunging fully into darkness.
And so—
The insanity and chaos embodied by Harley Quinn strangely matched his current state.
Of course, not in the sense of romance.
But as a pet.
To Xi Nian, Harley seemed like a more suitable pet than even King Shark Nanaue. He didn't mind her attempts to fawn over him.
He even felt an urge to lock her away in a dark, silent room…
Wait!
The kitten's face twisted grotesquely. For a moment, his human side almost crossed the line, nearly dragging him into endless darkness.
"Mm!"
Harley Quinn, unaware of Xi Nian's inner struggle, hugged the little black cat tightly, rubbing him against her chest. Darkness and softness swallowed his vision completely.
The other members of Task Force X stared at the sight of the kitten pressed into Harley's jacket, all swallowing hard.
"Ugh, but I was first…" King Shark muttered resentfully, his tiny eyes glaring jealously at Harley Quinn.
"Alright. Since we've got ourselves a working military helicopter, we can head straight into the capital city!"
Captain Robert coughed lightly, realizing why Boss Cat Xi Nian hadn't destroyed the helicopter earlier.
"Do you even know how to fly it?" Ratcatcher II asked with suspicion.
"Flown a few times," Robert said confidently, thumping his chest.
…
Morning dawned faintly.
In the capital city of Corto Maltese, the rebels' leader resided in a fortified mansion.
Atop the mansion, a spacious open rooftop served as a landing pad for helicopters. Even in daylight, rebel soldiers stood guard there.
Just then, the humming of rotor blades echoed in the distance as a military helicopter approached from the skies.
"They're back!"
A rebel soldier waved a small flag on the rooftop, signaling the helicopter for landing.
But—
When the chopper closed to within a hundred meters, it suddenly tilted off course and came crashing toward the platform!
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