Chapter 59: Uniform Swap.
"Uwah, I might’ve done it this time..."
Taking a flashbang to the face had left it covered in tears and snot, which forced the woman with the red cloak to remove her mask and hood.
Hiding her identity was pointless from the beginning, but for some reason, her partner insisted that she do it. She brushed her long red hair back while taking in the aftermath of her rampage, pursing her lips as she understood what kind of trouble she was in.
"Clyde is gonna be really pissed..."
Several mistakes led her to this situation, the first among them being underestimating the young man she was told to play with. Her partner had already stressed the fact that the boy was someone special, and even though she knew the Peace Keepers had many Awakened who could produce items from games and fiction, she still let her guard down after seeing the test tubes.
Her second mistake was thinking the flash bang was a normal grenade. She was so relieved that the cylinder wasn’t the boy’s meat sausage that it didn’t even occur to her that he might have added another layer to his trick.
Despite being impenetrable barriers, Force Fields work in a way that lets some things pass through. Air, sound, and light were the main examples, and without cranking up the Force Field’s output to the maximum they could still reach the user.
Since she was only bracing for the physical damage of a mere grenade, the red hood saw no need to go all out. That decision led to her taking the sudden burst of light directly, and as if that wasn’t bad enough, the loud explosion caused her eardrums to pop.
That was only the start of her bad luck, however.