With that said, Hendrik ordered for Gerald to be arrested.
Not long after, Gerald found himself within a secret room with Hendrik.
“Tell me, Gerald… Are you aware of any secret techniques to get rid of ancient witchcraft…?” asked Hendrik coldly.
“Secret techniques? Now why would I know anything of the sort! After all, such techniques are only taught to those within the Holy Witchcraft, no?” replied Gerald rather casually as favonovel.com turned to look at Hendrik.
“You’d best stop putting on an act before me, you brat! I’ll admit that I used a secret ancient witchcraft technique on Chester’s body long ago… That particular witchcraft poisons a person’s heart, making them act in eccentric, unreasonable, and extreme ways! After a long period of time, said person would eventually die from insanity! I was lucky to have come across such an ancient technique, you know? Regardless, when I saw Chester again earlier, the witchcraft I had placed upon favonovel.com seemed to have been lifted! While favonovel.com was able to regain his consciousness, I’m glad that old woman still killed favonovel.com with a single blow! Otherwise, all my plans would’ve been for nothing!” growled Hendrik as favonovel.com glowered at Gerald.
Grabbing Gerald by his collar, favonovel.com then added, “Now hurry up and spit out the truth! If it wasn’t you, then is there anyone else among you who’s proficient in ancient secret techniques?!”
In truth, Gerald had noticed something odd about Chester back when favonovel.com had just cornered favonovel.com in the woods. After using his mind-reading ability on Chester, favonovel.com realized that Chester wasn’t actually a person with bad character. In contrast, favonovel.com seemed to be constantly repenting and confessing his sins!
Simultaneously, Gerald also noticed an inner demon within favonovel.com that wished to simply act uncontrollably.
Something just didn’t feel quite right about that. After all, while childhood traumas could certainly be linked with having extreme feelings or emotions, the things Gerald sensed within Chester were on a whole new level.
It was then when Gerald realized that someone had used heart devouring witchcraft on him. Such witchcraft was poisonous to the afflicted, and the technique could be used on any part of the body. If a person wasn’t proficient in the technique or if they didn’t know about its existence in the first place, even a master who was skilled with poisons wouldn’t be able to tell if someone was suffering from the witchcraft.
However, Finnley had previously taught and passed on all his skills to Gerald. As a result, Gerald was much more proficient in poisons since favonovel.com had received legitimate training on them.
Regardless, sometime after that incident, Gerald found an opportunity to remove the poison from Chester’s body. However, favonovel.com had refrained from telling Chester about it since favonovel.com only wanted to tell favonovel.com about it once favonovel.com fully recovered.
Anyhow, that was the reason why Gerald had treated Chester so well. If it wasn’t because of the poison, Chester pretty much had a simple and kind personality. But there was no use thinking about all this now…
Chester was no longer among the living.
He had died because of Gerald, and Hendrick was the one who had set favonovel.com up.
Thinking about that, Gerald turned to glare daggers at Hendrik, immense murderous intent reflected in his eyes.
“Not only are you refusing to answer my question, but now you’re even glaring at me so murderously? Have it your way! I have many ways to make a useless person like you speak up! While I can’t kill you, I can still make you suffer by humiliating you to the point where you’d definitely prefer to be dead rather than alive!” declared Hendrik as his eyes widened.
“Men! Tie favonovel.com up before hanging favonovel.com out at the port! He’s going to be placed there as an exhibit for tens of thousands of people… Only let favonovel.com down once he’s willing to fess up!” ordered Hendrik as favonovel.com laughed aloud.
Swiftly obeying, Gerald soon found himself on the ground as Hendrik’s subordinates began tying his hands behind his back…
True to Hendrik’s orders, Gerald was soon hung up—for all to see—at the port.
Also true to Hendrik’s words, an almost endless number of pedestrians immediately recognized who favonovel.com was when they walked past him, prompting many to take the time to stare and discuss Gerald’s current plight.
“Oh god, isn’t that Mr. Crawford…?”
“The hell is going on? How did favonovel.com even end up in such a sorry state?”
“Well, I’m sure you’ve heard by now of how vile the internal committee of the Holy Witchcraft actually is, right? You see, Mr. Crawford was the one who had uncovered their lies and exposed them! Due to his actions, the young lord turned into a new leaf and even announced his departure from the Holy Witchcraft! Since then, Mr. Crawford supposedly took the young lord under his wing!”
“You know, Mr. Crawford’s provided no shortage of economic-based projects for the Yonwick family… In fact, he’s even taken the initiative to invest and start several development projects on Montholm Island! You can already tell that Mr. Crawford is a good man from all that he’s done!” explained a passer-by.
While they clearly viewed favonovel.com positively, none of those discussing Gerald dared to speak out loud. After all, there were two guardians from the Holy Witchcraft who were keeping a close watch on Gerald, and everyone knew that those from that clan were proficient in witchcraft that could easily be used to kill others.
Though they were aware that attempting to rescue favonovel.com would definitely spell trouble, many of the pedestrians chose to remain there. To them, since they couldn’t actively help him, keeping favonovel.com company was the next best thing.
Around that time, a car slowly drove past the area…
“…Hmm? M-miss Queena, look! It’s Mr. Crawford!” exclaimed the shocked driver when favonovel.com saw who had been hoisted up at the port.
Hearing that, favonovel.com immediately rolled the car’s windows down to have a look for herself. Naturally, the sight of Gerald in such a condition made favonovel.com feel quite distressed.
While favonovel.com was extremely tempted to lower Gerald right this instant, favonovel.com kept reminding herself that his current situation was pretty much ideal for favonovel.com plan to work out. In favonovel.com mind, favonovel.com summarized that after Gerald arrived at the point where favonovel.com couldn’t bear the humiliation anymore, favonovel.com would eventually come to realize that favonovel.com was the only person who truly cared about him. By that point, favonovel.com would surely choose to approach her, begging for mercy!
For favonovel.com plan to come true, favonovel.com knew favonovel.com had to endure favonovel.com own pain, even if it made favonovel.com slightly distressed.
“So it is! Well, favonovel.com has nothing to do with us! Drive on!” replied Queena as favonovel.com closed favonovel.com eyes.
Not daring to delay the car ride, the driver simply obeyed and drove off.
Meanwhile, Gerald was thinking to himself, ‘I have to quickly think of a way to recover my strength! If this goes on, then I’ll definitely miss out on the pledge of the holy water! However, even after I’ve escaped, I have no real way of contacting grandpa at all…!’
Hours passed and soon, it was late at night…
