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Chapter 397: Face to Face

— Did you spend all your pocket money on this thing? Su Xiao asked and pointed at the antenna.

— Woof! " said Bubtney, without taking his eyes off the phone.

When Su Xiao saw the three messages on his phone screen, his mood improved noticeably.

«The fish-loving King: What's going on here, maybe you'll stop fiddling already?»

«Weak little sister: I'm already desperate, he just comes and dies without end».

«Tygydyk: Let's give up on him and try to win with the four of us».

All these players were talking about Bubtney, whose score was equal «0/12/1».

Once upon a time, Su Xiao had played this game a couple of times, but because it seemed too simple, he ended up abandoning it.

Bubtney didn't really play very well. He always rushed forward and acted very straightforwardly, which was very different from his real style.

But one thing was for sure — Bubtny had become smarter, and a very interesting game had appeared in his daily life.

*Knock, knock, knock*

Suddenly there was a hurried knock on the door.

When Su Xiao opened the door, he saw a woman standing in the doorway.

— Would you like to invite me inside?

— After saying this, Su Xiao waved his hand and the woman immediately entered the house.

— A case has appeared? Su Xiao looked at the woman.

— You don't know what you did?

— Oh, are you talking about Greed? I killed him. What's next?

— What's next? You killed my brother, and now you're asking me what happens next? the appearance of an ordinary-looking woman quickly disappeared, replaced by that of a teenager.

It was Envy.

— You said he betrayed you.

— Did I say that?

— I told you two years ago.

Envy frowned and, after a moment's thought, said — " I don't remember.

— You said that while I was destroying one of the cities.

— Even so, it is still a creation... My brother.

Envy almost mentioned his Father, but quickly came to his senses.

— He kidnapped the Steel Alchemist's brother, I had to do something. He's already dead anyway, so it doesn't matter what you or I say.

— How did you kill him?" Envy's body tensed.

— I blew it up.

Su Xiao's very simple answer made Envy's heart tighten.

Envy was roughly equal to Greed in strength. If Su Xiao could kill Greed, then he could also kill him.

Envy began to think. Given Su Xiao's strength, he could become a very effective pawn indeed.

— Okay, back to the city. I said you can't kill too many people, but you leveled this city to the ground.

— There aren't many people left alive, if you don't believe in my abilities, find someone else.

— Eh? What do you mean?

The more Envy looked at Su Xiao, the more he envied him. He envied Su Xiao's strength.

— Literally what I just said.

Envy slammed his fist down on the table and said — "Don't forget who released you, if it wasn't for me, you would still be in prison," gritting his teeth, he carefully looked at Su Xiao.

— I was only in prison because I didn't want to be released. This can be considered the end of our cooperation?

— Ha~, we are different from humans and always stick to our promises. I came to see you today to give you something.

— I'm listening, " Su Xiao only said.

— We need to kill one person.

— Whom?

— Riza Hawkeye, nicknamed Hawkeye.

Su Xiao chuckled inwardly after hearing this. It looked like Envy wanted him to turn a huge number of people against him.

Riza Hawkeye is Mustang's personal bodyguard and aide-de-camp, and the relationship between the two has been very difficult.

Riza's father was a master alchemist and Mustang's teacher.

If he killed her, it would result in Mustang becoming his enemy.

— Well.

Su Xiao didn't ask about the reason. Since the homunculi have decided to play a very dirty game with him, he will return the favor.

— But Riza is in the army, and there's no reason to kill her....

— Here is proof that Riza is a spy, " Envy showed several photos in which Riza was in contact with military personnel from other countries.

The pictures showed that Riza seemed to have a very good relationship with her enemies.

Those photos alone were enough to get her tried for treason.

But even a fool would know in the current situation that it was Envy, not Riza, who was in the photos..

— Then it's no problem, I'll kill her in two days.

— Two days? Envy clearly wasn't happy with the deadline.

— Do you think it would be easy to kill someone of this level? You can try to do it yourself, eventually you'll be able to disguise yourself as someone else.

Envy fell silent and soon left, and when he left the house, a smile appeared on Su Xiao's face.

The greatest weakness of homunculi was that they looked down on humans and thought that they were inferior, stupid creatures.

Perhaps most ordinary people will really be deceived by Envy schemes, but people like Mustang will be very difficult to deceive.

— I wanted to deal with a few more homunculi, but it looks like there's no more time left. Bubtney, stop playing, let's go out for a walk.

Bubtney put his phone back in his inventory and followed him.

His teammates had cursed Bubtney a couple of times for suddenly switching off from the game, unaware that their fifth player was actually a dog...

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At about seven o'clock in the evening, Reesa Hawkeye finished her work and came to the door of her house, holding a cardboard box filled with vegetables and meat.

Although Risa was quite a beautiful girl, she was also a ruthless sniper who wouldn't think twice before shooting.

Riza was born with eyesight that was eight times greater than that of an ordinary person, which is why she was nicknamed " Hawk's Eye».

In this world, there were only two types of people who killed the most people on the battlefield. The first type is alchemists, and the second type is snipers.

Even though this beautiful woman had already killed several hundred people, she wasn't even close to being stupid.

— Woof-woof.

The black-and-white puppy followed Risa. It wasn't big and was about three months old. As for the breed, he was an ordinary military dog.

— What's the matter?

— Woof-woof-woof!

The puppy looked at the door and his fur stood on end, as if there was something terrible inside the house.

Risa became alert and immediately put the box on the ground, then took out a gun from her belt.

Carefully opening the door with one hand, she held the gun in the other.

— Who's there? Risa's nose twitched, and to her surprise, she smelled the pleasant smell of food.

— Don't stand in the doorway, it's not nice. We are not enemies. No, we can actually become allies.