Revenge of the Hideous Lady by Moonlight

"She was talking before she suddenly died. The pathologist is here to investigate the cause of her death," Zack Cassidy told them.

Nobody had expected things to end that way.

Sharon Lindt, Xyla Quest, and Stanley Batton all wore shocked expressions.

"Let me know when you find out," Stanley said before hanging up.

"She died just like that. After hurting us so badly, it seems too easy on her," Xyla lamented, still wishing she could shred Betty Starmount to pieces.

Her shocking death wasn't enough to appease her. She wanted to question Betty about the location of that nine-tailed demon fox, but now that plan was ruined. Perhaps, this was all pre-determined as everything happened by fate.

Xyla couldn't have her way just because she wanted it.

She probably wouldn't find the nine-tailed demon fox until it executed its plan, but she wasn't about to give up.

She wanted to change her fate, not allowing anything like her father's tragedy to happen again.

It was the only time she would ever experience losing a loved one.

Meanwhile, Yaksha also had a shocked look in his eyes.

He hadn't expected this, either.

He immediately took a step back upon hearing the news. "The clue is gone," Yaksha grumbled as he let out a long, helpless sigh.

"She died so suddenly. Could the nine-tailed demon fox have shown up? But then, it was injured badly, so it couldn't possibly resurface so soon. "Could it be -?" he added but then stopped himself.

Xyla frowned as she looked at him. "What is it? What do you suspect?"

"Perhaps the demon fox didn't offer her the cure after poisoning her? Could that be why she died?" he asked.

"What do you mean?" she questioned.

fox poisoned her so that she would do things

resulting in her death. "Perhaps, it is also possible that the nine-tailed fox was too weak to show up to give her the cure," Yaksha

he said made sense. To Xyla, it sounded like the things Betty said proved his

she did, Xyla would never forgive her or stop hating

if she

We'll have to wait

Xyla nodded.

With that, Yaksha directly turned around and left, leaving Xyla, Stanley, and Sharon in

knew, it was

addition, they randomly came up with an excuse that Xyla wasn't in

and the others couldn't see the

a reliable person, but he tended to drunkenly ramble on about things he

didn't dare to tell him the

also took part in the plan

staff were all instructed

she had been poisoned with enterotoxin, a kind of poison that would cause

condition did not have a cure within a short time unless Betty were to take a pill

point even more clearly, resulting in him checking out Betty's body at the scene of the crime. Apart from the

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as her wound recovered well,

were also improving and becoming better looking, their skin even fairer than

recovered and the

Batton family organized Jeremy Quest's funeral with Xyla observing

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to return home with her children after being discharged

Wilson Batton, Ron Batton,

Sebastian Brenand, Rachel Wood,

Gary Lakes, Henry Armstrong,

Georgie Clementine, Josh Batton,

alDwaiting for