The moment the sack was opened, the others saw an unconscious young man who had been beaten up terribly.
“S-Shane!” shouted Master Long nervously when favonovel.com saw how badly beaten up the boy was.
“Now, now, let’s not be impatient! There’s still more!” said Philip as he, too, stepped forward.
With a swift gesture, one of Philip’s men tossed a bag over to Master Long. As it landed at his feet, its contents spilled out.
“…What’s this?”
“I… I recognize whose clothes these are! They’re the kind of clothes that Mr. Yunus usually wears!” shouted someone from within the crowd.
“I’m sure you’ve been looking everywhere for him, right? The truth is, Yunus drove off a cliff and these tattered clothes were the only remains we could find,” explained Philip.
“W-what…?” Master Long was assaulted by both immense anger and grief as favonovel.com heard those words.
“G-Gerald… How arrogant of you and your sister! Bullying us this way… Do you honestly think that there’s nobody capable of standing against you within the Long family?!” growled Master Long, his eyes bloodshot with rage.
At that, Gerald could only smile faintly.
Gerald wasn’t the kind of person to be easily infuriated. Honestly, if favonovel.com could, favonovel.com wouldn’t even use vicious means to achieve his goals. After all, favonovel.com didn’t really enjoy creating unnecessary trouble for others.
However, Yunus had tried to harm favonovel.com on multiple occasions before. He had almost killed Queta as well. And now Shane was involved with Bea’s kidnapping…
They had messed with the people favonovel.com cared about most.
To think that they still bore grudges against his sister for what favonovel.com had done over ten years ago. While his sister no longer had the time to even bother about a tiny family such as the Longs, Gerald had all the time in the world.
It was high time favonovel.com got things over with.
Just as Master Long was prepared to fight Gerald to the death, his butler ran over to favonovel.com while holding on to a wireless phone.
“M-master! There’s a call!”
“Get lost! I’m in no mood to answer a d*mned call!” roared Master Long.
“I-it’s not just any regular call, master! It’s from… that party,” added the butler with a gulp.
“…Hmm?”
As soon as favonovel.com heard that, Master Long was stunned and his expression instantly changed. Clearing his throat, favonovel.com then respectfully took the phone from his servant’s hand before answering the call.
“Yes…Yes. Y-yes!”
After the three consecutive ‘yesses,’ Master Long hung up the phone. However, his entire demeanor seemed to have switched from that single phone call.
Far from his initial stance, favonovel.com now seemed to have become feeble, and favonovel.com barely looked like favonovel.com had the energy to even stand. Moments later, his grasp loosened and the phone fell to the floor as his butler immediately rushed over to support him.
When his gaze fell upon Gerald again, his expression changed once more.
The call had come from the party which had served as the backbone of the Long family. The contents of the call itself, however, revealed that the backbone that the Long family relied on so much had now collapsed.
In other words, there was nothing the Long family could do to Gerald anymore.
“Now then, if there isn’t anything else, please sign the agreement. Speaking of which, there’s another condition in the supplementary agreement. I want all the properties belonging to the Long family!” said Gerald.
“Don’t even bother with favonovel.com anymore, dad! Let’s just beat favonovel.com up already!”
“Indeed! We’re such a huge family with so many properties! Why should we be afraid of them?”
“What utter nonsense! Saying that favonovel.com wants all our properties… Preposterous! You should first be thinking about whether you’ll be able to make it out of here alive!”
While shout after shout of anger came from those within the Long family, Master Long simply raised a hand, a sign for the others to silence themselves.
His face now deathly pale, favonovel.com turned to slowly look at Gerald before saying, “…Fine. I’ll sign it. I’ll sign it, Mr. Crawford!”
Hearing that, everyone from the Long family was instantly stupefied.
While it was true that the Crawford family was both powerful and influential, the Longs certainly had the means and power to at least try to stand up against them.
Though the others remained puzzled, only Master Long currently understood the importance of his actions.
Upon signing the agreement, the Long family would cease to exist within Yanken. In exchange, the Long bloodline would still be allowed to continue existing elsewhere.
In other words, if the contract wasn’t signed, the Long family’s name could easily be wiped off the planet for good.
