After Crossing Over, I Marked the Empress

As the lowest-ranking bodyguard in the entire team, Andrei couldn’t even get too close to Quintina.

This time, it was only because Joris considered they were in a foreign land that he temporarily assigned him to the bodyguard team.

Without powerful weapons, he had no way to kill the princess.

And if he missed this opportunity today, he would face the most cruel punishment from his organization upon returning home.

The prosperous Ksenrode was not a utopia without evil.

The power struggle between the royal family and the church had never ceased for thousands of years.

The organization Andrei belonged to was affiliated with an anti-royalist church.

They hadn’t found an opportunity to make a move within Ksenrode, hence this planned operation.

However, a problem had now arisen!

Andrei would never have imagined that it was his own thoughts that led to all this.

He believed that if he could reclaim the crossbow, the mission might still be completed.

Moreover, with someone distracting Paul and the others, he might find it even easier to make his move!

Thinking this, he spoke up to Paul: “That Alpha definitely has something hidden in their pocket. They might harm the princess!”

Jiang Xinyue quickly translated.

Shen Han spread both her palms in front of her, then glared angrily at Andrei.

“Jiang Xinyue, tell them that the guy with the mustache added my sister as a nearby friend on a phone app this morning.”

“Mustache said he was a fallen, melancholy prince, and coaxed my sister into transferring him a thousand yuan. He said once he returned to the palace, he’d immediately pay her back a hundred million.”

“I suspect he’s a scammer. We’re not after the hundred million anymore, I chased him here mainly to get back that thousand yuan.”

As Shen Han spoke, Jiang Xinyue simultaneously translated.

As she translated, even she was shocked internally.

‘Captain Shen is too mischievous.’

‘No! How can she make up such lies with a straight face?’

Perhaps seeing that Shen Han had taken her hands out of her pockets, or perhaps because her story was a peculiar mix of novelty, twists, and melodrama.

As the roomful of bodyguards slightly relaxed their nerves, their hearts were immediately stirred by great waves.

So this kind of operation was possible?

When they looked at their companion Andrei again, their eyes had already changed from before.

Andrei, however, was about to explode with anger.

He took a few steps towards Shen Han and Jiang Xinyue, glancing at the bowstrings cradled in Jiang Xinyue’s hands while shouting furiously.

“This is slander! I don’t know your sister at all, let alone received any money from her!”

Shen Han listened to the translation, then stepped forward, closing the distance between her and Andrei.

She pointed at the phone in his hand and loudly questioned: “If it wasn’t you who messaged my sister telling her you were in this shop, how would I have found my way here?”

After hearing the translation, Andrei felt like he was about to burst!

He had taken out his phone to collect weapon parts under the guise of photographing the alpacas!

Who the hell was sending messages to your damn sister reporting locations?

In his anger, Andrei had already launched an attack towards Shen Han.

This move seemed rash, but in reality, he had his own plan.

He knew the Alpha before him was full of lies and had certainly come here with impure motives.

The other likely had an offensive weapon hidden in their pocket. If he could pull it out, not only could he create chaos, but it might even come in handy for himself!

This was the moment Shen Han had been waiting for!

She had originally prepared to stall for time, but unexpectedly, Mustache had given her a surprise!

In one-on-one combat, Shen Han had never feared anyone.

However, since the opponent was also an Awakened, she didn’t dare to underestimate him.

Andrei’s arm was thicker than Shen Han’s thigh, and he used fierce and brutal boxing techniques.

As he threw a hook punch, everyone in the coffee shop heard the ‘whoosh’ of the forceful wind.

At this moment, except for Shen Han herself, everyone else in the room held their breath in anticipation.

Jiang Xinyue knew her captain was an excellent marksman and had repeatedly distinguished herself on missions.

But after all, she had never personally witnessed Shen Han’s true combat state.

She felt a bit afraid, quickly thinking if there was anything she could do.

The bodyguards, led by Paul, didn’t step forward to intervene. Instead, they positioned themselves according to rank, providing good protection for the princess.

They also somewhat felt that the Alpha in sportswear was a bit suspicious, so it was good to have one of their own test the waters.

Quintina stood up from her seat.

She pushed aside Paul, who stood like a human wall in front of her, and looked with slightly worried emerald eyes towards the tall, thin Alpha.

She feared her bodyguard might shatter the other’s nasal bone and eye socket with one punch.

However, the scene of flying blood that everyone imagined did not appear.

Shen Han ducked to avoid the opponent’s hook punch, and with a rotation of her foot, she had nimbly circled to the opponent’s back.

An elbow strike, a grappling move, twisting Mustache’s arm behind his back, she pressed his head against the table surface.

Andrei had trained his body to be muscular, and normally, even taking several punches from a boxer wouldn’t be a big problem.

But Shen Han’s strike just now had hit his lower back.

Andrei felt his entire waist and abdomen cramping in pain, barely able to catch his breath.

He wanted to break free and counterattack, but before he could muster his strength, a sharp pain shot through his elbow joint.

It felt as if all the pain receptors in his body had been fully activated in that instant.

Andrei let out a miserable cry, roaring like a wild beast.

The alpacas in the shop scurried to hide in fear.

Their usually cute calls when facing customers had now turned into sharp chicken-like screeches.

The screeching was so piercing that it momentarily overshadowed Andrei’s howls.

The two servers hiding behind the counter tremblingly dialed the emergency number.

Taking advantage of this moment, Shen Han quickly began to search Andrei’s body.

She then found three small crossbow bolts at Andrei’s ankle.

The bolts were about as long as an adult man’s palm, with wooden shafts and arrowheads made of some non-metallic hard material, exceptionally sharp.

The triangular edges of the arrowheads also had blood grooves.

Shen Han held the three bolts in her hand but directed her gaze towards Paul, the head bodyguard.

“Within the Free Federation, all urban commercial centers prohibit carrying controlled items. Gentlemen, regardless of your identity, you’ve violated Federation regulations!”

She had actually guessed early on that these foreigners must be hiding weapons. As soon as they entered, the head bodyguard had made a very obvious gun-reaching motion.

The reason she had said those words to them earlier was merely to stall until the security team’s Group 1 members arrived.

As Jiang Xinyue translated, she had discreetly moved next to the cabinet air conditioner.

An alpaca was hiding behind the air conditioning unit. Seeing someone discover it, it immediately jumped up with a shriek.

Jiang Xinyue took the opportunity to kick over the feed bucket.

A large amount of granular feed spilled out, and the crossbow limbs and mechanism hidden in the bucket also rolled onto the coffee shop floor.

Before Shen Han could react, Princess Quintina had already exclaimed.

“I’ve seen that in books! It’s a gun used by Free Federation soldiers!”

“Andrei! Why do you have bullets for that gun on you!”

The little princess wasn’t a professional, after all. It was already impressive that she could recognize the crossbow.

The parts she got wrong weren’t that important anymore.

Paul stared coldly at Andrei, who had just recovered, his hand once again reaching into his suit jacket to grip his gun.

He spoke softly to the side: “Report this immediately to His Highness Prince Joris!”

Andrei never dreamed the whole thing would turn out like this.

How on earth had he been exposed?

From the moment he entered this coffee shop, it felt as if he had fallen into a trap set up in advance.

‘It’s all because of that woman!’

‘She knows my plan!’

In that split second, this was all Andrei could think of.

It was now impossible to make a move against Quintina; his only option was to escape first and then find a way to contact his organization.

Shen Han had temporarily released her hold on Andrei to search him.

Now, seeing signs that he wanted to escape, she immediately moved to grab his neck again.

At this moment, Andrei simultaneously released his pheromones and his awakened ability.

A thick alcoholic scent filled the entire coffee shop. At the same time, Andrei’s lips split towards the sides, his facial muscles tearing apart to reveal a mouthful of sharp wolf-like teeth, lunging to bite Shen Han’s hand.

Transforming into beast teeth was Andrei’s ability, with a bite force reaching 600 pounds.

The average human bite force is around 88 pounds.

If this bite landed solidly, Shen Han’s entire wrist bone would be torn to pieces.

Shocked by her opponent’s inhuman face transformation, Shen Han quickly released her own pheromones to counter-suppress.

She narrowly avoided the lunging bite and immediately pulled out the silenced handgun from her pocket, firing a bullet each into the opponent’s left and right ankles.

Andrei howled in pain as he tumbled into a corner of the coffee shop, losing his ability to walk.

At this point, his ability hadn’t completely disappeared. Two rows of sharp teeth were exposed to the air, like a blood-sucking demon crawling out of an ancient Ksenrodian parchment.

The two alpacas hiding in the corner were frightened again.

They spat at the sharp-toothed demon while screaming and jumping behind the bar, squeezing in with the trembling servers.

Shen Han didn’t fire again. She ran a few steps to the now-unconscious Jiang Xinyue and dragged her behind the bar.

“We’re plainclothes police, don’t be afraid. Please look after her for me temporarily!”

After quickly tossing these words to the two beta servers, Shen Han walked back to the center of the coffee shop, gun in hand.

She could already hear running footsteps outside. While waiting for backup, she had to keep those foreigners in check.

To her surprise, the other group didn’t seem to have any intention of making a move against her.

They were just extraordinarily tightly guarding the girl in the middle.

As Shen Han’s gaze swept around, she noticed another strange thing.

That green-eyed Omega seemed completely unaffected by the room full of Alpha pheromones!

The Awakened from earlier was an A-class Alpha, while she herself was S-class. In a situation where both had released their pheromones in confrontation, it should be normal for an Omega to be unable to withstand it.

Jiang Xinyue had already fainted, so what was going on with that girl?

After her initial alarm, Quintina had been curiously staring at Shen Han.

Now seeing the other observing her as well, she tilted her head thoughtfully, then praised in the ‘Federation slang’ she had newly learned: “You’re really amazing. The last time I saw such an exciting duel was the time before.”

Shen Han was slightly taken aback, then replied to her: “Thank you, you said that quite well, but don’t say it again next time.”