"We've got a problem," I said.

Five more people on the outside had the mark. All of them were wearing blue robes. It would have been funny if it hadn't been so sad. If I went and attacked him now, they would instantly realize that there was something that I could tell about them that they probably sort of figured out. I was absolutely certain that they could see each other's marks.

What I was also absolutely certain of was that they were confidently sure that no one else could. This was not a problem for future me. Just was a problem for me. And my crew right here which meant that judging on their level, I was going to be in a hell of a fight. Three of the five were at third realm, meaning that I couldn't leave my Spirit beast or Egiya to fight with them one-on-one.

"Fuck what do you want to do here?" I asked Lee.

Egiya crowded me, putting a hand on both of our shoulders. What would have previously felt reassuring was now messing with me. I might be over killing women who got into the game, but I was not over letting these two die needlessly because I got them into the wrong situation.

"Where's Feng?" She said.

It took us all a second to find him. He was talking with one of the local officials. He was presenting his badge from Western Jewel and the writ that had brought us here. Of course it was nothing that I'd ever seen. I was here because I wanted to be here at the request of the Mandarin. This shit was good about to spiral out of control.

Not only did we see him, it appeared that the five were looking for someone to blame for this incident. They were making a beeline for him as he talked to one of the inspectors that had to be a normal regular cultivator.

Is it sad that I immediately assume that every blue robe is just an idiot cop? Or is it just experience speaking to me and bodily shaking me to recognize the reality of the situation.

Fucking Murphy.

The best that I could do was to not have this man get pulled away to be questioned by these five very suspicious individuals who just so happened to arrive on the scene with the rest of the guys from this cultivator gala.

In my mind, I was thinking about what they would do to raise money for inner city youths here. It was probably putting them into some sort of fight club or something.

Fuck.

"Alright let's distract them-" I said. "Lee you're on uh...."

She slapped me so hard that it made my ears ring.

"You bastard!" She yelled. "How dare you touch me like that!"

"Yeah! You dare!" Egiya said, yelling and keeping her tone.

"Officers! Arrest this man!" She yelled at the five in particular. I could see Egiya running over to grab ones hands.

"Sir! He just groped me and tried to have his way with me. He's despicable and needs to be stopped," she said.

If I wasn't so surprised and shocked by it, I would have smiled. But I needed to play along.

"And you'll get much worse if you deal with those coppers," I said, snarling. "Stay out of this, blue robe if you know what's good for you."

Now, I had all their attention. Peggy, I was trying to drag two to come over here and beat me up and the other ones were just watching with a bemused expression. That was good but we needed all and it looks like one was trying to break away.

"Oh, officer please you must be an inspector. This man needs the death penalty! He fondled my buttocks!"

And here I was thinking that she liked that yesterday. Oh well.

"Settle down. Settle down," one said approaching. "What seems to be the problem here?"

"Officer this lech just grabbed me and molested me in plain sight," Lee said, her part completely on point. It was damn sexy in fact, how good she was acting.

"Officer! She lies."

I was playing into her role. He wanted to be some sort of savior. He had some male complex about saving women that she was tapping into hard. Like even though he was evil, he was getting a justice boner.

I checked my veil and it was good. He placed an arm on me, though not strong enough to do anything more than stop me.

"Take your hand off me, pig," I said, clearly tossing the insult in the wrong culture. "Oink, Oink."

He might be strong, but I was playing a part.

"I think that we're going to have some questions for you and-"

That was the cue. He would have by now figured out that I was more powerful than him and his three friends that were paying attention all were closing in.

The fifth man? He was still heading towards my charge.

"I think not," I said.

Using his own hold on me, in one swift movement, I detached my robe and threw him into the fifth man from across the street. The three blue robed demonic cultivators in the center all decided that they were not fast enough to catch the man and looked confused.

My bare chest showed over my gi pants. Of course I was going to have to get another robe, but for now my chest was covered in bandages from the last big fight I had with demonic cultivators.

I let them take it in for a second.

"You dare put a hand on me?" I said, hamming it up. "Suffer the wrath of the five fold gentle parenting technique."

I ran to the first of the cultivators, who decided that now was the time to square up against me as my two lady friends watched.

He expected a throw or something. I don't know what he expected.

"Take him down!" I heard from the back as I folded the first man in half like a pizza box, then tossed him in front of Feng.

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I heard some of his bones break. It was either me crushing his spirit or his contact on the ground. It was a faint sound, but he was definitely down for the count.

Lee wailed as the man contacted the ground.

"He's a murderer! He almost killed that blue robe! You have to stop him, officer! Save us!" Lee said.

"Take him down!" The inspector barked and all of the blue robes around me were now watching the fight.

Feng made eye contact with me, disgusted at something. I winked. The mother fucker rolled his damn eyes, then motioned for me to continue.

He wasn't ready to admit that they had infiltrated the force. I had no such problem.

The remaining demonic blue robed cultivators closed in. I smiled.

"This ought to be good," I whispered, low enough for only the to hear.

"Let me unleash my demonic defense against these implacable foes!"

They rushed me. I dodged right, towards Lee.

"Great work," I whispered. I could see her smile.

I was past her, running towards the folded man as the inspector tried to pull him out of the reverse fold that had mad him look like a laundry rack. Egiya was already on top of Feng, talking into his ear beyond those two.

This inspector had to have made his way up, somehow never being subject to a test of the nature of his cultivation. I was about to check his notion of invincibility.

He stood up and stopped me from punching him through a wall. It was a very close all and he punched my stomach. I coughed blood.

"Great shot," I said. "But I only need to touch you to get you."

"What?"

He tried to pull his hand away, but it seemed to not want to leave. It unleashed my tactile telekinesis to fold him as well.

It turned out that the crunch I heard was from when I folded him, not from the throw.

"Two demonic cultivators, as requested," I said, putting the second laundry rack near Feng and the high ranking man next to him. "I've got three more to take care of."

"What?" the blue robed man in the middle said as I announced his business to the world.

That was when Lee, Feng and Egiya took up a fighting stance.

The regular cultivator behind us had decided that this was the day that he was too old for this shit.

I was absolutely certain that nobody was understanding this fight more than my team. Everyone else was just watching the display, kinda shook.

Lee jumped into the first man, pushing him into the second. If they weren't hard men in for a fight, both would have fallen over.

She reads through the two of them, not going over and then hitting the other. Neither one of them expected it. The third one meant an idea head on as she decided to join the prey. I was so proud of that girl and she knocked him down with the force of an entire junior varsity girls track team. Not everyone will get that reference, so let's just say that it was very rough on the poor guy.

I walked over to execute my five fold gentle parenting technique on the remaining three.

"Care to explain why you've nearly broken five blue robes backs?" Feng said.

"Five Red Fang enforcers backs. These guys were moles in your organization," I said. "Demonic cultivators, like the one we found inside."

I looked at the guy who had been talking to Feng.

"Who is this guy and what does he have to say for his organization, now that we all know that a demonic cultivator made it to the rank of inspector?" I said.

"This guy is the chief inspector for this district," Feng said.

"A pleasure to meet you," I said, extending into a bow. "I have several men here that I think you might be interested in getting to know better."

The man in the top knot sighed.

"You're the one that had the Mandarin get these two over here?" He said. "Well done on finding all of these demonic cultivators and their victims."

He bent down to look at the broken former Inspector.

"I always hated you. I'm glad that you were just as evil as I thought," he said, kicking the man. I wanted to say something but I didn't know what to say.

Telling him not to kick the mole in his organization? That would not have gone over well. I really wish that I could have done something about that. My best guess was that they knew each other intimately and this Revelation just put together many puzzle pieces for the chief inspector.

"Is there anything that you need me for chief inspector?" I said.

"I'm going to test these five men. My new buddy here tells me that you know how to find demonic cultivators. Is that correct?"

"That is correct," I said, realizing that the rest of my day was about to get fucked sideways.

"You wouldn't care to tell us how that happens, would you?" He said.

"It's just a part of my path," I said, trying to be mysterious. He gave me a look that said that he knew something was up. But I told the Mandarin I wasn't going unless they wanted cultivators to know all of my secrets. Telling this one man could exacerbate my problem because he might tell the people. Based on their carb, they had been in a formal dinner and this entire debacle had become such a problem for him that several aides had been running up to ask him questions the entire time that we fought.

I just wanted the rest. I sat down in the lotus pose, watching the aftermath of my five-fold gentle parenting technique. I had named it because there were five of them and I folded them all into half.

Each one of them looked like they were going to have a very excruciatingly painful time until all the questioning was done. I was pretty sure that none of them could walk properly anymore, and just being bent over backwards was making me so happy at that moment. If there was a cultivation pass that let someone generate, that would be great.

These guys definitely didn't have it. And if they did, they would have fixed themselves already. That they hadn't yet meant that things were going on inside the bodies that were just setting them up for failure.

"This has been a very interesting evening," Egiya said.

While we stood there, three more aides came and talked to the chief inspector. We waited until they left before giving him our full attention.

"Your methods are strange, but we do see the merit if they are proven to be demonic cultivators," he said looking at the five folded humans. "We will make sure to send you the discovery fee that the emperor requires."

"Ah, wonderful. Have your people call my people," I said.

"We need to understand your methods," he said, the crease around his eyes crinkling.

I was not going to give away my methods. Not only that, I don't think that they could get it. They didn't have the abilities that I had and I don't think they were going to go down my path. I was beginning to think that it might be a thing that I got because it was some dear. That would be pretty terrible.

That meant that they had an incentive to kill any one that came across who could figure out their schtick.

Not me of course, as I was too beautiful for this world, but other less gorgeous men probably. There were only so many therapists in the city and I was all of them.

Feng rejoined us, after a brief discussion with the chief inspector

"I think that you have flummoxed him enough for one day," he said. "Where to next?"

There were no more big city where they had an enclave. We were going to have to figure out a way to get them to talk. Or at least that was what the blue robes were going to have to do. Me? I was done with this damn game.

"Do you want to call it a day?" I asked our handler.

"That would be appropriate," he said. "I'll finish up here and gather my partner first though. We can meet you at..."

He looked conflicted.

"If you're going to ask me to parade through their entire group then..." I said.

"Don't do it without asking for money," Egiya said. "This is definitely worth a steak dinner, at least."

"Oh at least!" Lee said. "With some wine?"

"That would be marvelous," Egiya said.

"Hey you guys, you didn't mean anything you said during the distraction part, right? Guys?