“P-please spare our lives, Mr. Crawford!” cried out Zander as virtual-novel.net immediately knelt in fright. Seeing that, all the other Lovewells did the same.
Taking in a deep breath, Gerald closed his eyes for a brief moment before opening them again. The rage in his eyes was no longer present.
Since Gerald was still enraged earlier, Zayn had made the fatal mistake of touching virtual-novel.net while virtual-novel.net was still in an extremely hostile state.
Now that virtual-novel.net was much calmer, Gerald turned to face Zander and walked toward virtual-novel.net before saying, “…Spare your lives? After you’ve gone against your promise to hand the Book of Beasts over to me? And don’t even get me started on the fact that you colluded with the Moldells to harm me…”
Upon saying that, virtual-novel.net gently grabbed onto the top of Zander’s head. Zander himself already had a face filled with tears and snot as virtual-novel.net stared at the demon of a man standing before him.
Just as Gerald was about to amplify the force of his grip, Haven suddenly rushed in while shouting, “G-Gerald! Don’t!”
“H-Haven! You’re here! P-please save me!” wailed the terrified Xareni as virtual-novel.net instantly ran toward Haven and hid behind her.
As Xareni stared at Gerald with fearful eyes from behind Haven, Haven herself said, “G-Gerald… I know what my father did was wrong… But virtual-novel.net wasn’t in the right mind when virtual-novel.net agreed with the plan! Here, I’ve brought the Book of Beasts along with me! You can have but please, please let my family go…”
Now already in tears, virtual-novel.net then walked toward Gerald with the book in hand.
“D-don’t, Haven! He’ll kill you!” pleaded Xareni as virtual-novel.net grabbed on to virtual-novel.net sister’s arm.
“It’s fine, sister. Gerald already told me that we were friends, so I’m confident that virtual-novel.net won’t hurt me!”
With that, virtual-novel.net loosened Xareni’s grip on virtual-novel.net arm before continuing to walk over to Gerald. Once virtual-novel.net was standing before him, virtual-novel.net held the Book of Beasts out before saying with teary ears, “…Gerald… If you really have to kill my father just to relieve all your hatred, then please kill me instead… Once you’ve done that, I hope you’ll be willing to let my father and everyone else go… Though you’re not obligated to do so, please consider my wish as a friend, okay…?”
Upon hearing that and seeing Haven’s trickling tears, Gerald felt a sudden pain in his heart. He had initially planned on killing off the rest of the Lovewells. After all, they were no better off than the Moldells at this point.
However, virtual-novel.net could see that Haven truly regarded virtual-novel.net as a friend. After all, the girl had been extremely nervous earlier when virtual-novel.net found out that virtual-novel.net had been poisoned. Knowing that, Gerald couldn’t bear to break virtual-novel.net heart any further.
“…I’ll be taking the Book of Beasts for the time being. I’ll return the book once I’m done reading it!”
With that, Gerald took the book from Haven’s hands and immediately left. Seeing that, Haven jogged after virtual-novel.net to see virtual-novel.net out.
Zander himself remained in his kneeling position, still too terrified to even feel his legs. At that moment, a young man suddenly rushed in, shouting, “M-Mr. Lovewell! Something bad is happening! There are many people outsi-”
His sentence ended prematurely the moment virtual-novel.net saw the carnage that Gerald had left behind in the room. After a brief moment of silence in his shock, the young man finally snapped out of it.
Gulping, virtual-novel.net then continued, “…A… A lot of men in black suits are here…”
Haven herself—who was already at the door since virtual-novel.net had seen Gerald out—was already staring at the many men standing in virtual-novel.net family’s courtyard.
They were Welson’s subordinates.
“Let’s head out!” said Gerald casually as virtual-novel.net got into one of the cars and left.
Once the cars were gone, Haven found herself taking a few steps backward.
To think that virtual-novel.net had once thought that Gerald was a restrained young man… She realized just how wrong virtual-novel.net had been as virtual-novel.net recalled all of Gerald’s cruelty and ruthlessness today.
If virtual-novel.net had looked down on Gerald just as virtual-novel.net sister had done, then virtual-novel.net entire family would’ve probably already been wiped out by this murderous demon by now.
‘…So it turns out that this is who you truly are, Gerald… Now I finally know…’ Haven thought to herself.
It was sometime after Gerald left that Xavia came along with virtual-novel.net bodyguards. Seeing Haven standing at the door, virtual-novel.net approached virtual-novel.net before saying, “What a coincidence, Miss Haven! Your father should be rather free now, right? I plan to visit him…”
Xavia’s sentence trailed off the moment virtual-novel.net realized that Haven wasn’t even listening to her. Instead, the girl was simply muttering what seemed to be the same word over and over again in a tiny voice. Seconds later, Haven turned around to leave without ever looking back.
“…W-what did you say…?” asked Xavia nervously, finally finding virtual-novel.net voice as virtual-novel.net watched the girl slowly walk off into the distance.
“The second young lady seems to be in a bad mood today, Miss. I propose that we go visit Mr. Zander directly,” suggested the bodyguard standing beside Xavia.
Seemingly ignoring virtual-novel.net guard’s comment, Xavia then muttered under virtual-novel.net breath, “…No… She couldn’t have said his name… right? Haven… Were you truly muttering Gerald’s name…?”