Chapter 28. Counter Attack

"Do you think that by avoiding my sight, you can get rid of the influence?"

After seeing Ryan leap behind the counter, Killgrave's face gradually relaxed.

Stepping in the direction of the counter, the blackened muzzle of the gun that welcomed him only slightly froze the smile on Killgrave's face.

However, he soon noticed the stiff fingers on Ryan's grip on the handle of the gun and the smile that had frozen at the corners of his mouth curled up again, "Looks like I won."

"Stand up."

At Killgrave's command, Ryan, who was hiding behind the counter, stepped forward.

Killgrave's gaze shifted from the muzzle to Ryan's numb expression, "Unfortunately, it was close. If you had moved a little quicker, maybe this wouldn't be the situation we're in now. It seems that luck is on my side ..."

"I don't think so."

"What?!"

The sudden voice in the antique shop caused Killgrave's previously confident expression to shift. When he looked up, he saw Ryan, who he had thought was under his control, twitching the corners of his mouth in a stiff smile toward him.

"Turn around!"

At sight, Killgrave's eyes subconsciously widened and almost without thinking, he shouted.

At Killgrave's command, Ryan, who was facing him, then stiffened up and turned his body to the side. In the next second, the sound of gunfire rang out in the narrow space of the antique shop.

Opening his eyes, Killgrave looked down at his still intact body and Ryan's turned body across the room. He couldn't help but let out a wild laugh after the slip-up, "Haha, I still won in the end ..."

"You... sure ...?"

Under the influence of Killgrave's ability, Ryan had completely lost control of his body. However, under the control of his conscious brain, he still replied with difficulty, word for word.

"Don't play this game again. You have completely lost the possibility of turning over!"

Ryan's repeated actions had obviously had a huge impact on Killgrave's mind. At the moment, his heart desperately wanted to kill this threat.

Raising his hand, he was about to give Ryan the order to shoot himself.

A fierce sense of crisis from behind made Killgrave look back, and the next thing he saw was the bullet Ryan had just misfired flying around the corner, magically flying toward him.

This time, Killgrave wasn't so lucky. He could only watch as the bullet pierced his body.

[Reputation points from Killgrave +135]

　　...

Bang bang --

"Hey! Are you all right?!"

Even with Killgrave's control, jack and the few ordinary people wouldn't be able to hinder Jessica too much.

After successfully subduing several people, Jack's presence made Jessica worry about the antique shop's owner. Although her past encounters had caused her unshakable nightmares, Jessica was still essentially a good person with extraordinary abilities.

If it weren't for Purple Man, she might still be an active superhero at the moment instead of an alcoholic and violent private detective from Hell's Kitchen.

When Jessica opened the door of the antique shop, she saw a mess of antiques and an expressionless Ryan with a gun in his hand.

Looking back from the purple blood on the ground, Ryan glanced at the wooden door Jessica had slammed and subconsciously huffed, "Do I look like I'm all right?"

Although, having already had a number of confrontations with superheroes or villains, either actively or passively, the encounter between Ryan and Purple Man was undoubtedly the most perilous one since he possessed the cards. If it weren't for [Wesley Gibson]'s ability to resist Purple Man's abilities and [Curved Ballistics]'s turning bullet being somewhat beyond the norm, all Jessica would have seen at the antique shop would have been Ryan's dead body on the floor.

"You, met him?"

The expression on Jessica's face then turned heavy at Ryan's answer. Although it was clear in her mind that there could be no one other than the Purple Man who had caused all this to happen, Jessica still had a false hope in her heart, hoping that none of it was true.

Ryan's next answer, however, extinguished all her hopes.

"If, you mean the guy in the purple suit, yes, I did meet him. That much is proven by the blood on the floor."

Jessica looked at the purple blood in front of her and was silent for a moment before asking in her own husky voice, "How did you ... hurt him? I mean ... with his powers, there's no way ..."

[Reputation points from Jessica Jones +85]

Even after seeing the evidence, Jessica still couldn't believe it. She knew Killgrave's ability to control anyone he saw and carry out 100% of his orders at will. There was no way anyone could harm him under those circumstances.

"You know who he is?"

Although, even without Jessica's explanation, Ryan already knew that it was Purple Man who had attacked him. But in order to play his own role, he still reacted as if he didn't know and asked, "So, tell me, who is this dangerous guy who suddenly came and attacked me."

"..."

In the face of Ryan's questioning, Jessica was silent for a moment before replying back with an expressionless, icy face, "His name is Killgrave, or you could call him Purple Man, a ..."

After escaping control, Jessica had been trying to escape the damage Purple Man had done to her, constantly numbing her memory with alcohol. At the moment, faced with the blunt question, she had to reveal the bloody memory.

"... in short, he is just a very dangerous, terrifying existence."

Having finished her description of Killgrave, Jessica subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief and squeezed her eyes shut to suppress the emotions that were fluctuating within her before she looked at Ryan again and asked, "So, shop owner, I've told you everything I know, so please tell me also how you managed to get out of Killgrave's control and managed to hurt him too?"

Jessica didn't think that an ordinary person could hurt Purple Man with his terrifying mind control powers, so Ryan, who was the owner of this antique shop, must have other secrets.

"Have you heard of the Brotherhood of Assassins?"

Faced with Jessica's question, Ryan subconsciously curled the corner of his mouth and asked in return.

[Reputation points from Jessica Jones +25]

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