Chapter 1264: 853 Chapter: Ladies Night_2 Chapter 1264: 853 Chapter: Ladies Night_2 As she spoke, Mary turned her head to look around. Yes, this was indeed her guest room.

“How come, haven’t you woken up yet?”

Seeing Mary’s puzzled and flustered expression, Duanmu Huai chuckled.

“Wasn’t it you who asked me to stay last night?”

“Ah… ah…!”

Hearing Duanmu Huai’s words, Mary was momentarily stunned, then she suddenly remembered something and quickly blushed, retreating back under the covers.

“… Sorry, I’m really sorry! I am awake now, fully awake!”

“That’s good.”

Duanmu Huai stood up at this moment.

“Go take a bath and change your clothes, then we can have breakfast and head to the Strategy Bureau. Investigator Amon just called saying he has something important to discuss with us.”

“Okay, I’m going right now!”

Mary wrapped herself in the blanket, listened to Duanmu Huai’s footsteps gradually fading away, and after he closed the door, she carefully peeked out from under the covers and looked around before sighing in relief.

“Phew…”
Relieved, Mary finally left the covers and got out of bed. She then remembered that last night, having drunk quite a bit of red wine, she was a bit tipsy and felt very secure leaning on Duanmu Huai. She had unconsciously wanted to act coquettishly towards Duanmu, which led her to inadvertently say those words…

“Ooh…”

Thinking of this, Mary’s face turned red and she was tempted to hide under the covers again. Although she had been drinking, her behavior might have been too forward. As a lady, she shouldn’t have spoken to a gentleman in such a manner… Thankfully, it was Mr. Duanmu; had it been someone else…

It seems it’s better to drink less in the future.

While reflecting on this internally, Mary went to the bathroom still dressed in her outfit from yesterday, which appeared to be in order.

…………
Why do I feel somewhat unwilling?

After that, Duanmu Huai also returned to his room, took a shower, changed clothes, and when he came out, Mary was already waiting outside for him.

“Good morning, Mr. Duanmu.”

Though Mary was greeting him, Duanmu Huai felt as if there was some resentment in her tone?

Hmm, it must be an illusion.

After breakfast, they left the hotel and went to a family restaurant near the Strategy Bureau, where they met Investigator Amon.

“Hey, good morning.”

Duanmu Huai greeted Amon, cheerfully observing the man whose eyes were surrounded by dark circles, looking like he had pulled an all-nighter.

“Looks like you didn’t sleep well last night?”

“What do you mean ‘didn’t sleep well’? I didn’t sleep at all last night…”

Hearing Duanmu Huai’s inquiry, Amon was speechless. Duanmu Huai and Mary had gone home to eat and sleep after dealing with the ghoul, but he had bad luck. Since the ghouls included an SSS Rank, and his partner Investigator Mahoru had gone for treatment due to injuries, Amon was left alone and almost interrogated by the higher-ups in the Strategy Bureau all night.

Actually, it was normal for the higher-ups to react this way. You report that you’re going to handle ordinary ghouls, and then you come back saying you’ve taken out their leader, of course, they’d be shocked!

You should at least give us some mental preparation! This isn’t surprising, it’s frightening!

Thus Investigator Amon had to describe everything in great detail from the beginning to the end. Of course, since he and Investigator Mahoru had operated separately, Amon wasn’t very clear on most of the details until later clarified by Mahoru. Regardless, after the Special Strategy Bureau understood the whys and the hows of the incident, they were greatly shocked and also gained a deeper understanding and respect for the Tribunal’s capabilities.

Actually, similar incidents are not unfamiliar to the Strategy Bureau themselves, like when incidents of ghouls eating people arise somewhere on the streets, and investigators check it out, only to inadvertently discover that the culprit is an S Rank or even higher-level powerful ghoul. In such cases, if lucky, they can still report back, unluckily, they might get eaten on the spot.

Hmm, in the case of the Tribunal, it’s not about luck, it’s about capability–faced with the One-Eyed Owl without any preparation, it would be a massacre for the Strategy Bureau, but the Tribunal eliminated it effortlessly, so quietly like they were dealing with underlings…

After recognizing this, a new decision was made within the Strategy Bureau.

“We hope you can help with a tricky case.”

As he spoke, Investigator Amon handed two files to them.

“A tricky case?”

“Yes… it’s an underground auction.”

“Underground auction?”

“Yes, it’s an auction organized by ghouls that has been under investigation for a while. According to the information and clues we’ve gathered, ghouls capture and kidnap humans to bring to the auction where powerful and renowned ghouls are participants. They either eat the humans they purchase or keep them as pets…”
“Oh, how interesting.”

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai raised his eyebrows. Although he sounded intrigued, his tone was ice-cold, filled with chills.

“However, due to the auction’s secrecy, and it likely involves SS Level ghouls, we still haven’t grasped the specific details about the auction, not even the personnel or location… Thus, the Strategy Bureau hopes to entrust the Tribunal to investigate and handle this case.”

“No problem, leave it to us.”

Duanmu Huai finished reading the file and nodded, while Investigator Amon also sighed in relief.

“Thank you both, you can contact me anytime if there’s any issue.”

After saying this, Investigator Amon stood up, bowed to the two, and then left.

“I never thought that these ghouls would actually auction off humans as commodities…”

Even Mary looked upset after hearing Investigator Amon’s explanation.

“So, Mr. Duanmu, how should we act?”

“This time it’s much simpler.”

“Simple?”

Hearing Duanmu Huai speak, Mary blinked in surprise.

“Yes.”

Looking at the girl beside him, Duanmu Huai chuckled and patted her shoulder.

“Well, it happens we have some Monk Tang meat right here.”