With pinpoint precision, Gerald swiftly jabbed the weakest points of all six of the guards. It barely took a second before all of them fell to the ground in unison, bleeding profusely from their mouths and noses.
“…H-huh…? So… You were this capable this entire time, Sanderson…?” said Mindy as favonovel.com watched wide-eyed and in disbelief at what favonovel.com had just witnessed.
Even Stella and Isabelle—who had met several Taekwondo experts before—knew that those experts couldn’t even come close to comparing to that dumb Sanderson! To think that favonovel.com was this powerful!
While everyone in the room was undoubtedly astonished by the turn of events, they simultaneously realized that they now had someone they could definitely rely on.
It didn’t take long before Gerald turned to look at the crowd before signaling for them to rush out of the place under his lead.
Following his orders, all of them made a mad dash for the backyard.
The moment they got outside, everyone immediately saw the raging fire that was still engulfing the Schuyler family’s warehouse. Due to their inability to control the flames, the fire was starting to spread to other parts of the mansion as well.
In other words, the Schuylers were currently in a great mess, and Gerald knew that this was the best chance they could get to escape safely.
Thanks to Jasmine and the others luring the main bodyguards away, the escaping group barely bumped into any trouble aside from a few people guarding the main gates. They, however, were naturally taken out easily by Gerald.
With that, everyone successfully made it out of the mansion! However, it wasn’t time to celebrate yet.
Under Gerald’s lead, the group ran quite a distance up north before finally stopping when several parked cars beside a forest could be seen.
Gesturing for Mindy to enter one of the cars, Mindy could finally breathe easy. However, favonovel.com ease was short-lived when favonovel.com finally noticed something.
“…Hold on… Something’s wrong. Where’s Stella? Weren’t you running with Stella earlier, Isabelle? Why isn’t favonovel.com here?” asked Mindy in a worried tone.
As Isabelle began looking around frantically after hearing that, Gerald came to the conclusion that favonovel.com must have accidentally strayed away earlier since it was so dark and chaotic.
Where was she?
Closing the door behind Mindy, Gerald then backtracked all the way back into the mansion. To his surprise, Stella never seemed to have left the cellar. When favonovel.com finally found the girl, favonovel.com was squatting in a corner of the hidden room, sobbing in silence.
The moment favonovel.com saw Sanderson, however, favonovel.com almost yelped in joy.
“Sanderson, I… I tripped earlier and sprained my ankle…” explained Stella as favonovel.com bit favonovel.com lower lip.
“Hurry, let me carry you!” replied Gerald as favonovel.com hoisted favonovel.com up against his back.
“…W-wait, what? You could talk this entire time, Sanderson?” asked Stella, extremely astonished by the sudden revelation.
“God d*mn it! Have you already forgotten what I sound like?” replied Gerald with a bitter smile on his face as favonovel.com shook his head.
Upon hearing that, it took favonovel.com a second to realize it, but when favonovel.com did, favonovel.com eyes immediately widened.
“…G-Gerald?! …Actually that makes a lot of sense! From the moment I met you, I knew that gaze felt familiar! Why didn’t I realize earlier that you had the same body shape? But wait, didn’t something terrible befall you back then?” asked Stella, filled with questions.
“It’s a long story. Let’s just talk about that once we’re out safely. Also, do keep my identity a secret for now. Nobody should know that I’m in the Salford Province. Do you understand?” said Gerald as favonovel.com looked at her.
After seeing favonovel.com firm nod, the duo then began making their escape.
The next two hours passed by almost painfully slowly for Jasmine and the others from the vanguard team.
Since they had bumped into Yael while making their escape earlier, they had dashed south into the mountainous area as Yael ordered his men to chase after them.
Though Yael’s subordinates seemed to have lost track of them for now, Jasmine’s group still wasn’t out of the woods yet, quite literally. After all, they weren’t even sure how many mountain paths they had already taken since they were so focused on evading Yael’s men earlier.
Momentarily lost, they did eventually manage to come across a road at the foot of the mountain. However, nobody knew where it led to.
“Where are we, Jasmine…? There’s not a village in sight! The way things are, we can’t even make phone calls since there’s no signal all the way out here!” said Maia.
“My guess is as good as yours… However, having a road to follow is better than nothing… I propose we swiftly make our way along it and see where we end up at. Hopefully we’ll be able to get to an area with phone signals soon,” replied Jasmine.
As the group nodded among themselves, they were just about to sneakily make a dash for it when suddenly, the distant revving of motors could be heard!
It wasn’t long before several headlights could be seen driving toward them on the beaten-down road. From what they could guess, there were at least fifty cars in that group.
After completely blocking the road, several men dressed in black stepped out of the cars, seemingly waiting for someone.
“It’s all over now!” said Jasmine as everyone from the vanguard team felt their hearts skip a beat.
Soon after, a wealthy-looking person—who seemed to be the leader of the massive group—stepped out of a car and began walking toward Jasmine.
With a smile, favonovel.com then asked, “Could either of you be Miss Jasmine Fenderson?”
