Chapter 276 The Truth

The two combatants lowered their weapons on seeing the familiar faces. Kate was a young woman, twenty-one years old, with raven-black hair tied in a practical ponytail. She was lean and youthful, clad in a sleek black tactical suit. Kate was Victor's sidekick—a vigilante known as the Raven in Springfield's underbelly. Britta looked Amazonian as always, voluptuous and athletic in her rugged leather gear. "Britta contacted me," Kate explained to Victor. "She pieced together all the signs. It was strange that you’d attend Princess Michelle’s courtship banquet all of a sudden. You two were headed for a standoff for no reason. We couldn't let it happen without intervening." Victor relaxed, and his transformation receded until he looked human again. Starfall flung itself from the floor towards him, turning into a bracelet mid-air in a swirl of shadows and clasping itself on his wrist. "And the world freeze? No one should be able to enter this veil." Kate held up her own wrist, revealing a sl