Manhattan, Sky Apartments.
After entrusting the repair shop matters to his landlord, Sean, and leaving him enough funds for the repairs, Russell drove his Porsche 911 back home.
Although the route home happened to pass by the American Museum of Natural History where Diana worked, Russell had no intention of picking Diana up after work.
Firstly, Diana drove herself.
Secondly, Diana didn't like Russell picking her up after work.
When they first became a couple but hadn't yet moved in together, Russell had picked Diana up a few times.
But Diana always felt that doing so would trouble Russell.
So, Diana, who had a strong independent streak, had a serious talk with Russell about this issue.
Since then, unless they had already planned to go out on a date in the evening.
Otherwise, both Russell and Diana would drive back to the apartment separately.
After returning to the apartment, Russell first took a comfortable hot bath, changed out of the clothes that weren't stained with blood or dust, washed himself clean, and patiently waited for Diana to return.
Whether the clothes were dirty or not wasn't the key.
The key was that after killing someone, Russell always felt like he had some invisible blood aura clinging to him.
Although this was just psychological, when conditions allowed, he would change out of the clothes he wore when killing as quickly as possible and throw away the changed clothes.
Because of this small habit, the money he spent on clothes was even more than Diana's.
The closets at home also showed the unusual scene of his clothes occupying most of the space.
After washing up, he whistled his way into the kitchen and started preparing dinner for the evening.
Most of the time, Diana prepared dinner.
But he would occasionally cook to change things up.
The food culture in the beautiful country was a bit too limited; it was easy to get tired of it after eating it for a while.
Because the knife skills he honed from close-quarters combat were just as useful in the kitchen.
Russell prepared dinner in a cheerful mood.
Just as he was about to finish preparing the home-style four dishes and one soup, Diana returned home.
Because of his constant recommendations, Diana not only grew to like the food culture of the 'Flower Country' but also taught herself how to make many home-style dishes.
Today, Diana was wearing a brown leather jacket over a black deep V-neck base T-shirt, revealing eye-catching cleavage.
She wore black jeans on her lower body, perfectly showcasing her long, straight beautiful legs and round, perky buttocks.
The high-heeled boots on her feet made Diana, who was already 175cm tall, appear even more statuesque and full of heroic spirit.
Luckily, Russell was tall enough; otherwise, he really wouldn't dare walk with Diana when she was wearing high heels.
As soon as she entered the door, Diana smelled the wafting aroma of food.
The warmth of everyday life!
This was something Diana liked.
"Welcome home!"
Before transmigrating, Russell had fantasized about some beautiful scenes of cohabitation or married life.
For example, after a busy day at work, a gentle and lovely girlfriend (or wife) would be waiting for him at home.
Soup would be simmering in the kitchen, dinner would be ready, and his girlfriend (or wife) would be lying on the living room sofa reading a book or playing with a cat.
When he returned home, she would say welcome home and then come over to give him a warm hug.
What a pity!
This scene had never appeared before he transmigrated.
Instead, it was after coming to this world that he experienced this scene from his fantasy.
The only difference was that there was no cat at home, and the one waiting for him was not a gentle and lovely girlfriend, but a heroic and cool older sister type.
Although there was some discrepancy from the scene in his fantasy, he was content.
Diana revealed a gentle smile, quickly walked forward, and gave Russell a hug.
After eating and drinking their fill, and entrusting the chore of washing dishes, which could easily affect their relationship, to the dishwasher, Russell and Diana sat on the living room sofa, leaning against each other, sharing the things they had experienced.
What Diana shared were always some ordinary little things.
For example, what interesting things happened at the museum today, what interesting tourists she met, and what 'antiques' were brought in that needed research.
Although Diana shared only small things, Russell listened very attentively every time.
When there was no commission, he would also share some small things with Diana.
But when there was a commission, he would talk to Diana about the commission.
The reason he would talk to Diana about commissions was that he had heard about the 'tragic' experience of a fellow assassin.
This fellow wasn't an assassin from the Continental Hotel but belonged to another assassin organization. His name was John Smith.
His wife was named Jane Smith, also an assassin, but belonging to another assassin organization.
More importantly, Jane's assassin organization and John's assassin organization happened to be sworn enemies.
It was precisely because they never shared their real work experiences with each other that they only discovered each other's true identities five or six years after getting married.
But by then, it was too late; they almost killed each other, and their organizations decided to team up to eliminate them.
Although they ultimately killed the assassins sent by their organizations and destroyed their respective organizations, their lives were still inevitably affected.
Russell wasn't worried about the Continental Hotel sending assassins after him; he just didn't want the concealment of his true work to cause any unnecessary impact on his relationship with Diana.
He was very satisfied with Diana as a girlfriend and had no intention of breaking up.
"I've also heard of the Brotherhood organization. If you just wiped them out like that, won't there be trouble?"
Although Diana used to pretend to be like an ordinary person, she wasn't ordinary after all.
The fact that she wasn't acting as a superhero in New York didn't mean she knew nothing about New York's underground world.
Moreover, she had Russell, her live-in boyfriend who was both a detective and an assassin.
"There won't be any major trouble. The Brotherhood was already an anomaly in the assassin world, and my dominant reputation in the industry isn't new. At most, some people might think I went a bit too far."
Russell wasn't worried at all that the Brotherhood incident would cause him any trouble.
Compared to the Brotherhood, he was more concerned about the Punisher, who was hiding somewhere unknown.
According to Cross, the Punisher was specifically targeting him.
It just so happened that he wasn't at the agency at that time, so Cross became the Punisher's target.
Both he and Cross were assassins, and both were targets of the Punisher during this period.
"How do you plan to handle that Punisher?"
Diana changed her posture, resting her head on Russell's thigh, and said slowly.
"Find a chance to take him out. He's a ticking time bomb! If we leave him alone, maybe next time he'll just blast our home with a rocket launcher."
The Punisher wasn't purely a bad guy, but if you were to call him a good guy, he wasn't that either.
In a sense, he and Russell were the same kind of people, both choosing to fight violence with violence.
However, Russell was better than him in one aspect: Russell wasn't as extreme as him and wouldn't necessarily decide that anyone guilty must die.
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