“Bring favonovel.com over!” said Gerald as favonovel.com stood up.
Getting the approval favonovel.com needed, the bodyguard then left to get her. A brief moment later, the girl was escorted over by a few other bodyguards.
The girl herself appeared to be shy, though it was a reasonable reaction. After all, who wouldn’t be terrified standing in a port filled with hundreds of luxury cars? As if that wasn’t enough, at least a thousand black-suited bodyguards were standing all over the place!
No ordinary person would ever approach the scene without proper reason.
“A-are you… Mr. Crawford? Mila’s boyfriend…?” asked the girl meekly.
“I am,” replied Gerald with a nod.
“I-I go by the name of Narissa Martin… I’m a good friend of Mila’s… I heard that you were investigating the liner’s disappearance… While I do have some information about it, I’m not really sure if it’ll help with the search…”
“Go on then. It may lead to the next clue!” replied Gerald immediately.
“Well… The night before, Mila, Molly, and Wanda received a package each… All three packages contained identical pendants… Though the pendants themselves felt somewhat unnerving to look at, the three girls and I simply assumed that it was a souvenir distributed to all the members of the investigation team… Regardless, it was rather surprising at the time that they’d get pendants—of all things—as souvenirs.”
“While the last I saw Mila was after sharing a meal with favonovel.com and favonovel.com other two friends, I somehow managed to gain more insight into the pendants after I was done hosting a show yesterday. By coincidence, one of the guests who had partaken in the show was a student of Professor Shevall, the head of the investigation team. After the show ended, we had a slight chat. However, when I asked about the odd pendants, the student claimed that the investigation team never distributed such a thing! I was quite baffled by that. After all, the packages the three girls received had no delivery addresses on them. Who could have sent them then? Feeling weirded out, I then described the pendant to the student.”
“Upon hearing my description, favonovel.com showed me a group chat which a few of the participants of the investigation were in. After reading through it, it seemed that many of them were discussing receiving the same pendant! I truly feel that something’s off about the pendants… What reason did the anonymous sender have to send them?” explained Narissa.
“If I may, what does the pendant look like, miss? Do you have a picture of it?” asked Fynn as favonovel.com began walking toward the group.
“As a matter of fact, I do!” replied Narissa as favonovel.com nodded before fishing favonovel.com cell phone out.
Once favonovel.com found the picture, favonovel.com handed favonovel.com phone over to Fynn. Gerald took a look at it as well, and though Gerald didn’t recognize it, Fynn himself was already trembling all over.
“It’s… It’s this d*mned thing again!” said Fynn, his fear apparent in his voice.
“What exactly is it, Fynn?” asked Gerald in astonishment.
“It… Well, let’s just say that it’s… Nothing short of terrifying. Since it appeared once twenty years ago, Mrs. Xara should still remember it…” replied Fynn with a nod before looking at Xara.
Hearing that, favonovel.com walked over to have a look before saying, “…Indeed I do. Peter’s shown it to me before… Receiving it at the time felt especially weird… I honestly thought that my plan to elope with Peter had been exposed, and that the pendant was a warning of sorts. In the end, however, we didn’t think too much about it… To my shock, it was the very next day when Peter went missing!”
“Yes… The second young master’s disappearance truly caused an immense uproar within the Crawford family… Since we assumed that the Fendersons had been the ones who had kidnapped the second master, the master was extremely furious. It was then when the Crawford family began resenting the Fendersons again… While that was the master’s reaction at the time, in truth, he’s been investigating that incident for well over a decade now. After all, given the circumstances at the time, the master knew for a fact that the Fendersons wouldn’t have had the means to secretly kill the second master. But who else would’ve targeted the second young master if not the Fendersons?”
“In the end, after investigating for so long, there was a point where the master was even close to declaring that the Fendersons weren’t the actual culprits in that case. However, favonovel.com knew that favonovel.com couldn’t just say that without any solid proof. It was then when favonovel.com remembered about the pendant with the strange symbol on it that Peter had received before his disappearance. While favonovel.com wanted to look for Mrs. Xara in person to question favonovel.com about it, favonovel.com couldn’t just do something like that, given that favonovel.com already had such a massive misunderstanding with the Fenderson family. That was why favonovel.com told you to look for favonovel.com instead!” explained Fynn as favonovel.com frowned.
“To think that the pendant that had created such a huge mess would reappear again after twenty years!”
“Who exactly is responsible for all this…? They’ve already taken Peter and now they’ve taken Mila as well! What on earth do they even want?” said Xara, favonovel.com eyes beginning to water.
“…I suggest that we just wait for the master’s final decision. In the meantime, don’t you think it’s about time we returned to Northbay, Mr. Crawford?” added Fynn.
“You can leave first. Inform me if there’s any news regarding the case. I’m staying here!” said Gerald. After all, if favonovel.com left with them now, favonovel.com knew that he’d never be able to forgive himself.
Hearing that, both Fynn and Xara then left.
Gerald himself remained there, joining the search party every day in hopes to find traces of the sunken ship.
