Jimmy didn't see Halla.

He waited at the door for a long time. Rebecca asked him to leave several times, but he didn't listen. After Nellie came out, Hal still didn't show up.

This time the plan failed.

But he was absolutely certain that Hala was a shape-shifter. Whether he saw the disappearance of the viper with his own eyes or Bain's weird behavior, it all hinted at what kind of creature was hiding under the girl's appearance.

He shouldn't wait any longer.

The clock is ticking.

So he went back to the coffee shop.

Jimmy looked at the woman in front of him and said:

"Holla is a shapeshifter. When my friend Bain and I went to surround her, she suddenly disappeared, and then a strange adult walked out."

Witcher Marlene said:

"That's enough. I have been monitoring her in the past few days and found some strange things. The rest has nothing to do with you. I will confirm whether she is an evil shape-shifter.

"When everything is over, I will tell you the result. Regardless of whether she is an evil creature or not, your actions were very heroic.

"No matter what you were like in the past, you are doing good things now, and you are foiling possible evil plots.

"Thank you, Jimmy."

Jimmy's expression was very dull:

"It's okay, but you don't need to tell me the result."

Marlene asked:

"Oh why?"

Jimmy said:

"I thought this would make me better and be like before, but it didn't happen. Instead, everything was heading in the direction of worse chaos.

"But it didn't."

Marlene nodded:

"Okay, if you see her missing, it means you helped a demon hunter destroy the evil shapeshifter."

Jimmy lowered his head.

Marlene stood up:

"Thank you, kid."

Marlene left the cafe.

As Jimmy wishes, they will never meet again.

smart kid.

He gave the correct answer.

Just as Marlene expected.

It's been a long time since she's been a witcher.

To be precise, since her father died, she had no energy to hunt monsters. When she finally adjusted her condition, the monsters had disappeared.

Although her family is a shapeshifter killer, like most demon hunters, her main task is to deal with other monsters such as ghouls.

Because there aren't that many evil shapeshifters in the world for them to kill.

Ever since Hvendrenger and several demon hunters, including her ancestors, issued regulations to protect non-human intelligent races, the hunting of shapeshifters has decreased a lot.

At the same time, the retaliatory activities of shapeshifters against humans have also become much less frequent. After learning this news, most of the shapeshifters have also formed a consensus among themselves not to actively harm humans.

Even some unresolved hatred will disappear after a few generations.

But at the beginning, their line of witchers would begin to specialize in the technology of hunting shapeshifters, and even use countless generations to perfect the weapon called the Staff of the Face-Flayer. This was because her husband and daughter died in the shapeshifting.

At the hands of monsters, she lived for five years with the shapeshifters that replaced her family.

Until she discovered the truth one day.

She raised the sword while her "husband" and "daughter" were sleeping.

The ancestors knew better than anyone how terrifying the shapeshifting race was. They could bring far more than just death, but also endless emptiness and sorrow.

She hunted all kinds of shapeshifters with vengeance and summed up a lot of experience. The reason why she was able to keep hunting shapeshifters was also very simple, that is, she no longer trusted anyone, even friends who had been friends for many years.

I suspect the other party is a shapeshifter.

And the most precious secret she left behind was a weapon called the Staff of the Faceflayer.

At that time, the function of this weapon was only to give a slight heat warning when the shape-shifter changed its appearance, and it could only target some not-so-sophisticated changes.

But with improvements from generation to generation, this weapon can eventually not only be used to search and identify shapeshifters, but can even help the wielder kill them.

Until a witcher adopted a five-year-old girl.

Her sister - Meryl.

Meryl's parents were killed by robbers on the roadside when she was five years old. As a young girl, she witnessed all this happened until her father arrived and took her back to the warm wooden house.

Marlene was nine years old at that time.

Meryl was not a lovable child when she was a child. Although there was no problem with them getting along, there was no problem at all.

She regretted that she did not discover Meryl's suppressed madness at that time.

If she could go back in time, Marlene would definitely drown her in the river.

Dirty, despicable villain!

Marlene remembered that Meryl also knew another young demon hunter at that time, who seemed to be named Grim. Her sister often had a smile on her face at that time, but later they parted ways for unknown reasons, and Meryl became more gloomy.

Already.

She was too persistent in proving herself, but failed repeatedly, and finally indulged in alcohol and hallucinogenic dust that numbed her brain.

She fell in love with the Staff of the Faceflayer.

At that time, my father was seriously ill and had less than two years left to live.

Because he was unable to hunt monsters, but a dangerous and evil shapeshifter appeared, so he asked Marlene to deal with this shapeshifter.

Wait until she comes back.

The father is dead, and Meryl disappeared with the peeling pin.

Only the body lying on the bed and a large pool of blood were left.

The Staff of the Face-Flayer was the only inheritance left to her by her father.

But if Meryl had made it clear early on, she could have completely dispensed with the Staff of the Facer. Although she had always been the more outstanding of the two, she had never felt that hunting monsters was her destiny.

It's just a heavy responsibility.

But it's too late.

What happened cannot be changed.

Meryl is a smart person. After she disappeared, she stopped using her real name. Even if some of the aliases were recognized by Marlene, she could not confirm the location of the other person.

But there are some things both of them know.

That is, the current Staff of the Face-Flayer is not complete yet.

It also requires a mask.

A shapeshifter's face.

If she can capture a shapeshifter, she can create a trap.

But even though she has been honing her skills every day for decades, it is impossible for a mere master demon hunter (5) to face or hunt a shapeshifter.

She must be lucky enough to meet a new, weak shapeshifter who doesn't have many powerful postures.

How lucky.

A Makini man.

The lonely Makini man.

Jimmy is just bait to divert attention.

However, if you really want to use this shapeshifter as bait, there must be a prerequisite.

That's Meryl just like her.

She also wants to forge the complete Staff of the Faceflayer.
Chapter completed!