Chapter 032 Master Manipulator

KAI-VII

You would think that after I successfully manipulated Winter with all the sweet words in my dictionary, I would have my hands on the Phoenix Orb by now. But I didn't.

In fact, it seemed that with every step I took, the orb got farther away from me. I couldn't bring Winter to tell me anything. I also didn't know where Dawn Holland's lab was located.

Reading her diaries seemed to be a dead end, but I spent most of my time doing that recently. Trying to interrogate Winter hadn't worked as I had expected. She seemed dull and oblivious to what really went on in Seven's life before I killed him.

Her cluelessness was so bad that I had almost slipped up several times in the past few days. It took the fear of incurring Ratio's wrath to not snap her neck any time I saw her around the house.

Since Ratio commanded that I interrogate her and keep her close, I was going to be doing just that until I was certain that she was useless.

"Any luck?" Dr. Longman asked the second I answered his ca