Super Detective in the Fictional World

as’s sake that Jack had listened to him so far.

Luke could only nod.
“Alright, I’ll wait for you here.”

Half an hour later, Jack and his team returned.
Many of them smelled terrible.

Luke hurriedly stayed away from them.

He wasn’t sure if the monsters’ reddish black body fluid carried any viruses or germs.

Also… It was too smelly! It was as if these agents had just crawled out of a sewer.

But none of them were missing or heavily wounded.

Jack didn’t look good.
Obviously, the battle against the monsters hadn’t gone as planned.

Luke naturally wouldn’t point that out.

He had warned the guy, but the guy hadn’t accepted it.
What could he say now?

Hey, see, you should’ve listened to me?

He would be an idiot if he said that.

The three women looked a lot better.
Clearly, they had been protected and hadn’t gotten involved in the battle.

Suddenly, Brenda charged at them, shouting, “Ah, you b*tch, you abandoned us.
I’m going to kill you!”

She was yelling at Selina.

Luke gazed at her coldly, but Selina showed no reaction when Brenda ran at her with her hand raised.

Luke moved to step between them.

Brenda’s hand hit Luke’s chest.
Luke looked at her calmly and asked, “Can you go back now?”

Dazed for a moment, Brenda shouted, “Why? Why did she abandon us?”

Luke chuckled.
“Because she couldn’t nor was she obliged to save you.
If she could save you, she wouldn’t have been caught in the first place, would she?”

Brenda cried, “Liars! You liars! I’ll kill you…” She waved her hands and was about to scratch Luke’s face.

Pa!

Brenda was slapped away and she fell to the ground.
She was completely addled.
What’s going on? My head is so dizzy.

Luke, on the other hand, dragged Selina away and asked in a low voice, “Why didn’t you dodge?”

Selina hesitated.
“I… I did abandon them.”

Luke grinned and shook his finger in her face.
“No, I was the one who abandoned them, not you.
You’re my partner whom I rescued, not an officer who went to rescue them, right?”

Selina was dazed.
“Huh?”

Luke said indifferently, “I was the only one who had the power to choose whom to save.
You didn’t get to choose at all.
So, are you responsible for abandoning her? How are you guilty? Should you give in to her just because she’s stupid?”

Selina was deep in thought.

“If one day, you have to choose between helping two strangers and helping me, who would you choose?” asked Luke.

“You,” Selina replied without any hesitation.

Luke opened his hand.
“That’s right.
If that happens, I won’t feel guilty toward the two strangers at all, because it was my partner’s decision.
I don’t want her to feel that her decision was wrong.”

Selina lowered her head and said, “I’m sorry.”

Luke said, “No need for that.
Just remember to slap back next time anyone touches you.”

Unlike him, Selina didn’t have a system which restricted her, and she didn’t have to consider the gains and losses all the time.