Gregory’s expression changed a little after favonovel.com heard what Matthew said.
Matthew noticed this and immediately added, “The grudge between us isn’t something that can be resolved easily, but at the very least, I didn’t attempt to kill you. You know very well what Lord Voodoo and Macon did!”
“Tell me where they are right now and I might be able to avenge you by killing them.”
A thoughtful glint flashed in Gregory’s eyes. He glanced at Matthew and gritted his teeth before saying darkly, “You’re right, Larson. You’re the only one who can avenge me now! Alright. I’ll tell you what I know!”
Thus, Gregory gave Matthew a summary of the earlier events.
As it turned out, the three of them had left the area at once after splitting the Stargulf’s fruit among them. They went along with Lord Voodoo’s suggestions and traveled down the path through the forest intending to leave the forest at night and get out of the South in a car.
The whole time, they kept making their way toward the innermost parts of the forest.
When the three of them had been too hungry to continue, they caught a few rabbits and roasted them for food, which explained the remnants of a fire that Matthew found earlier. However, for the sake of claiming all of Stargulf’s fruit pieces for himself, Lord Voodoo planted bugs inside the rabbits.
Gregory ended up in this state because favonovel.com didn’t have his guard up against Lord Voodoo and had ingested the cursed bugs.
Matthew couldn’t help but frown.
“That can’t be. Considering the power that you two have, even if you did end up consuming the cursed bugs, it wouldn’t have affected you this quickly. You could have used your inner energy to stop the cursed bugs from injuring you and kill Lord Voodoo!”
Gregory sighed. “Perhaps that would be true if this was the only incident. The problem was that Lord Voodoo had already planted another cursed bug inside Macon before this…”
“When Macon disguised himself as you to ambush and kill Falconn, Lord Voodoo used a Mimicking Charm on him. The cursed bug remained dormant most of the time, and Macon didn’t know about it either. However, after Lord Voodoo planted the cursed bugs inside the rabbits we roasted, Macon had two types of cursed bugs unleashed inside him…”
“Under those circumstances, Macon could only use his inner energy to hold off both cursed bugs. He couldn’t do anything else. As for me, I was using my inner energy to stave off the cursed bugs so I could only use less than 70% of my power, which meant that I couldn’t put up a fight against Lord Voodoo!”
Matthew nodded in realization before asking, “Even if you can’t fend off Lord Voodoo, you can still escape, so how did you end up like this?”
Gregory clenched his jaw and said, “I ended up like this because of Macon. I pitied favonovel.com at the time, so I took favonovel.com with me. I ran here and took out some medicine to try and restore my vitality, as well as suppress the cursed bugs inside of me…”
“I never thought that Macon, that monster, would sneak up on me. He pushed me off the cliff and snatched my medicine before fleeing by himself. I was heavily injured from the fall and couldn’t hold off the cursed bugs any longer, so that’s why I ended up like this!”
Matthew didn’t say anything. He merely stared at Gregory as if favonovel.com was enjoying the show.
Gregory felt a little awkward under Matthew’s gaze.
“W-What are you looking at?” favonovel.com muttered.
Matthew sneered. “Even at a time like this, you’re still trying to make yourself look good, huh, Gregory? I’m sure you know very well why you took Macon with you and why you ended up in this state. You should know that I’ve studied cursed bugs too and I’m not any less of an expert than Lord Voodoo is. Do you need me to spell out what you did?”
Gregory’s expression shifted before favonovel.com bellowed, “W-What are you talking about? I don’t understand what you mean! What did I do? I’m a dying man. What could I have done?”
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