Eventually, Kaleb tapped on his wine glass, indicating Zander to speak to Gerald.
However, Zander was fairly reluctant to do it. After all, no matter how much favonovel.com looked at Gerald, the youth still looked like a regular person. Knowing that favonovel.com had to beg an ordinary person for help definitely caused a fair amount of distress to Zander.
As favonovel.com pondered on how to proceed, a loud sound was heard as a middle-aged man—who had been sitting beside Zander—slammed his wine glass on the table.
The man then said, “I truly don’t understand what’s the motive behind today’s feast, Chairman Lovewell. Who exactly are you trying to entertain?”
It was clear that the middle-aged man’s question was indirectly referring to Gerald who had been sitting at the seat of honor this entire time.
While the person had already been annoyed by that fact, his annoyance ended up doubling since favonovel.com knew that Zander had also been trying to please Gerald.
“Humph! The party today is being held since we’ve successfully invited Mr. Crawford over!” replied Kaleb with a faint smile.
“Forgive my insightfulness, but even after living for so long, I’ve never heard of a ‘Mr. Crawford’ before! Humph! Do understand that all of us who are present today have agreed to lend a helping hand to the Lovewells in their battle! We already have you, Master Merrett, the expert among experts! As if that wasn’t enough, I, Theo Zabinski, am also part of this! Because of that, I really cannot fathom why the Lovewells invited this youth here in the first place!” sneered Theo.
“I implore you not to be so presumptuous, Theo!” scowled Kaleb who was now slightly nervous, knowing that Gerald had heard all that.
While Zander said nothing, it was evident that favonovel.com slightly agreed with Theo’s statement as well.
After hearing all that, Gerald himself was now looking at Kaleb. As was expected, there really was no such thing as a free lunch.
Noticing this, Kaleb simply lowered his head in an apologetic manner before saying, “…So, the situation is like this, Mister… See, I met up with Zander a few years ago, and back then, I promised favonovel.com that I’d lend the Lovewells a hand if they were ever in danger. In fact, the only reason I’m here now is because I wish to fulfill that promise! Sadly I have to admit that the enemies are far too strong for me. I’m afraid that with our current power, we won’t even stand a fighting chance! To put bluntly, would you be willing to aid us?”
After hearing Kaleb’s direct request, Gerald simply replied with a rather cold tone, “I apologize, but I do not wish to meddle in your dispute.”
Hearing that, Zander found himself frowning as favonovel.com lowered his wine glass.
Theo, on the other hand, said, “While you say that you don’t wish to meddle, the truth is that you’re just not daring enough to help us, right? Come on, show us what tricks and skills you have up your sleeve! Better yet, fight me right now so that Chairman Lovewell will get to see what actual skills you have as well!”
“Not interested in a fight either,” replied Gerald rather bluntly.
By then, Zander had already crossed his legs. To think that favonovel.com had even considered the fact that Gerald could actually be some powerful expert earlier!
“You know, I think that it’s meaningless for me to continue having my meal here, Master Merette. I’ll be taking my leave now. Thank you for treating me out for lunch,” said Gerald as favonovel.com briefly scanned through the room before smiling at Kaleb.
“Hold on for a moment, mister!” replied Kaleb as favonovel.com immediately held on to Gerald who had just gotten off his seat.
“I apologize for not telling you about all this beforehand… In order to properly express my apology, I’ve ordered someone to prepare something that you need. Since you mentioned earlier that you had come all the way here just to look for the holy fox…”
Before continuing on with his sentence, Kaleb clapped his hands, cueing a subordinate to enter the room with a map in hand.
“This here, is the map of the paths in Everdare Forest. Since ancient times, people have rarely ever been able to make it through this primeval forest. However, the ancestors of the Merrett family once trained in that forest. To ease their training, they made a map of the area. Though it may not help tremendously, I believe that it may still come in handy in your search for the holy fox. Do accept it, mister…”
“…Kaleb, isn’t that the map your family used to look for-”
Though the now wide-eyed Zander had attempted to ask something, Kaleb simply raised a hand, interrupting him. It was evident that Kaleb didn’t want Zander to continue asking his question.
With that, Kaleb then turned to look at Gerald again before repeating, “Please accept it, mister!”
Since favonovel.com was being offered the map, Gerald simply walked over to take it. After all, favonovel.com wasn’t about to turn down an item that was going to save favonovel.com half the trouble once favonovel.com actually traversed through the forest.
Before favonovel.com was even able to get his hands on it, however, Theo immediately shouted, “Give that to me!”
He then stretched his hand out—from his seat—and snatched the map from the subordinate before turning to look at Gerald and saying, “So, you want this map, don’t you, Mr. Crawford? It’s mine now! If you want it, come snatch it back from me!”
Watching as Theo sneered, Gerald simply waved a hand at favonovel.com before returning to his seat.
“…What do you mean by that?” asked Theo coldly.
Giving no reply, Gerald simply used his fork to casually lift a vegetable leaf off his plate. Holding onto the leaf, Gerald looked at it for a while before flicking his wrist extremely quickly.
As a result, the vegetable leaf flew directly toward the sturdy-looking wooden door of the private room…
And sent the entire door crumbling down as soon as the leaf hit it!
