Yandere Monster Evolution: My Blind Wife Will Become a Demonic Queen
Chapter 157: Bang!Before we could jump straight into climbing an eight-hundred-foot cliff in Sector C-9, we needed real-time intel. Satellite maps and old Vane drives were great, but security rotations, door codes, and patrol routes changed daily.
"Black doesn’t run his whole operation from a dark mountain cavern," I said, leaning over the kitchen counter as I zipped up my dark jacket. "He has a front. A low-profile branch right here in the lower city."
"The cover establishment?" Carmilla asked, tightening the straps on her leather boots.
"A flower shop on Sixth Street," I smiled slightly. "Bloom & Stem. On paper, it sells orchids and lilies to high-end hotels. Underneath, it’s a small administrative branch for the Black Faction. They process perimeter passes and shift schedules for the mountain facility."
Viora handed me two small, clear earpieces. "I have synced these to our home channel. I will monitor local police frequencies and guild networks while you two investigate."
"Wait... You can do that?" I stammered.
"Keep it quiet," Carmilla said, sliding her earpiece in. "We are going as information gatherers."
"Exactly," I nodded, checking my belt to make sure my iron dagger was concealed under my long shirt. "Detectives for a day. We get in, find the shift logs for the northern cliff face, and walk back out without pulling a blade."
By 10:00 AM, Carmilla and I were walking down the busy sidewalk of Sixth Street.
The morning crowd was thick. Office workers, street vendors, and students filled the paved walkways under the bright sun.
Carmilla wore a long beige trench coat over her clothes, her dark hair pinned up under a simple sun hat. Her red eyes were hidden behind dark oval sunglasses. She looked like a quiet, elegant tourist walking alongside me.
We stopped across the street from a small corner shop with a green awning. Bright glass display windows showed pots of colorful red roses, yellow sunflowers, and fresh green ferns. A small sign on the glass door read Bloom & Stem - Open.
"Looks harmless," Carmilla murmured, her head barely turning as she looked through her sunglasses.
"That’s the point," I replied smoothly, keeping my hands in my jacket pockets. "Notice the three men sitting at the outdoor café two doors down? Heavy shoulders, tactical boots under their jeans, and ear wires. They aren’t drinking coffee. They’re watching the entrance."
"And the shop window," Carmilla added softly. "The glass is reinforced mana-tinted crystal. You can’t see into the back room from the street."
"Let’s go buy some flowers," I chuckled.
We crossed the street together, waiting for a white delivery truck to pass before stepping onto the curb in front of the shop.
I pushed open the glass door. A small brass bell chimed softly overhead.
RING-DING.
The sweet, rich scent of damp earth, fresh cut stems, and sweet lilies hit us instantly. The air inside was cool and humid. Rows of wooden shelves held glass vases, potted plants, and bundles of colorful blossoms.
Behind the front wooden counter stood a young woman in a green apron. She was trimming the stems of white roses with a pair of sharp shears. But as soon as the door bell chimed, her body stiffened for a microsecond before she forced a pleasant smile onto her face.
"Good morning," the clerk said, her voice smooth and polite. "Welcome to Bloom & Stem. How can I help you today?"
"Morning," I said casually, stepping up to the counter while Carmilla slowly browsed a shelf of potted ferns near the window. "I’m looking for a specific arrangement for an office event. High-tier orchids."
The clerk’s eyes flickered down to my hands, scanning my posture, my simple jacket, and the small freelancer badge pinned to my belt.
"High-tier orchids are kept in our private back cooler," the clerk replied, her tone turning slightly cooler. "We usually only supply those to registered commercial clients."
"I have a referral," I said, leaning my elbow on the counter. I pulled a small paper business card from my pocket and slid it across the smooth wood. "Manager Vane said you handle custom delivery routes."
The clerk looked at the card. Her eyebrows twitched.
She picked up the card, turned it over, and saw the small handwritten code stamped on the back: C-9-LOGS.
Without a word, the clerk reached under the wooden counter and pressed a hidden button.
CLICK.
A heavy bolt unlocked near the back wall of the shop. A door hidden behind a rack of hanging ivy swung open an inch, revealing a dimly lit concrete hallway leading downward.
"The manager is in the back office," the clerk said flatly, her friendly shopkeeper persona completely vanishing. "Go straight down. Don’t touch anything."
"Much appreciated," I smiled.
Carmilla stepped away from the fern display, falling into place right behind my shoulder. We pushed through the hidden door and stepped into the concrete corridor.
The moment the door shut behind us, the sweet smell of flowers was replaced by the cold, metallic stench of gun oil, stale tobacco, and electric mana hum.
We walked down a short flight of concrete stairs into a spacious basement office.
The room was lit by harsh fluorescent tube lights hanging from the ceiling. Steel desks were cluttered with computer monitors, paper stacks, and radio chargers.
Four men in dark tactical vests were sitting around a heavy wooden table, cleaning automatic handguns and eating takeout noodles.
At the far end of the room sat a large, muscular man with a shaved head and a thick scar running across his nose. He was wearing an unbuttoned black dress shirt, leaning back in a leather office chair with his heavy boots propped on a metal desk.
When we stepped into the basement, all four men stopped what they were doing. Their hands drifted toward the guns on the table.
"Who the hell are you?" the scarred man asked, his voice rough and deep like grinding rocks.
"Ghost and Red," I said clearly, keeping my arms loose at my sides. "Freelancers under Manager Vane. We were told this branch handles local shift rosters for the northern sector."
The scarred man stared at us for five long seconds. His eyes lingered on Carmilla’s calm, silent stance, then shifted to my face mask.
"Vane’s people, huh?" the scarred man grunted, leaning forward and dropping his boots onto the floor with a loud BANG. "Vane doesn’t usually send freelancers to my shop. If you want perimeter shifts, you talk to the main guild hall on Eighth Avenue."
"The main hall is too loud," I replied smoothly, taking two slow steps toward his desk. "We want quiet work. Specifically, the maintenance roster for the northern cliff face in Sector C-9."
The scarred man’s eyes narrowed into dangerous slits. "The northern cliff? That’s a restricted operational zone. Nobody gets those logs without Senior Enforcer Black’s direct stamp."
"We aren’t asking to change the roster," Carmilla spoke up, her voice dropping into a cool, smooth melody that echoed off the concrete walls. "We simply need to verify the sensor maintenance times for today’s delivery."
One of the guards at the table stood up, resting his hand on his holster. "Hey, Boss, these two don’t look like regular freelancers. Look at the girl. She’s hiding something under that trench coat."
"Sit down, Jax," the scarred boss barked, though his own hand quietly drifted toward a hidden drawer under his desk. "Let’s see your badge verification first, kid."
I knew what was in that desk drawer—a silent alarm button linked to the café guards outside. If he pressed it, six armed men would surround the shop before we could leave the basement.
We needed the data off his terminal without starting a gunfight.
’Time for some detective work,’ I thought.
I reached into my pocket, acting like I was pulling out my freelancer badge. Instead, I pulled out a small, high-density mana-disruption coin Viora had gave me this morning.
"Here’s my badge code," I said softly.
I tossed the coin casually onto his metal desk.
CLINK.
The moment the metal coin touched the desk, a pulse of invisible blue mana expanded outward in a three-foot radius!
BZZZZZZT-FLASH!
The main computer monitor on the boss’s desk flickered violently and shut down. The hidden electrical circuit in his desk drawer fried instantly, emitting a small puff of grey smoke.
"What the—!" the boss yelled, jumping out of his leather chair.
The four guards at the table scrambled to their feet, pulling their handguns from their holsters.
"Hostile!" Jax shouted.
They were fast, but Carmilla was already moving.
She didn’t draw her black sword. She didn’t use red lightning.
Instead, she glided across the concrete floor like a shadow, using pure physical speed. She stepped inside Jax’s guard before he could raise his pistol, caught his wrist with her hand, and twisted it sharply downward.
CRACK-THUD!
Jax’s pistol dropped into her left hand. She instantly popped the magazine out, cleared the chambered bullet with a flick of her thumb, and tossed the empty metal gun into the face of the second guard!
BANG!
The second guard stumbled backward, clutching his bloody nose.
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