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.

guess, but maybe the nine-tailed demon 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

he said made sense. To Xyla, it sounded like

if Betty had been forced to do the things she did, Xyla would never

if

only a guess. We'll have

Xyla nodded.

get some water for Xyla to wash her face. I'm going out for some fresh air." With that, Yaksha directly turned around and left, leaving Xyla, Stanley, and Sharon in the ward. They didn't want anyone else finding out about the various mystical elements in recent events, so they didn't allow Wilson Batton

was the police who

Xyla wasn't in the right frame of mind to

others couldn't see the children even if they

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

and the rest didn't dare to tell

took part in the plan to keep everything

all instructed to keep

Betty's autopsy report confirmed that she had been poisoned with enterotoxin, a kind of poison that would cause a

unless Betty were to take a pill every month to extend her

in him checking out Betty's body at the scene of the crime. Apart from the traces of poison, he

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as her wound recovered well,

becoming better looking, their skin even

and the important matters

that, the Batton family organized Jeremy Quest's funeral with Xyla

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later, Xyla was finally able 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,

for her when she