After all, Gerald had described Mountain Top Villa in such great detail that it truly seemed like favonovel.com had lived there before, and not for a short time either. How else could favonovel.com be so familiar with that place?
While Cundrie and Riley were most definitely shocked, the Snyders—and everyone else present—barely had any color left on their faces.
Noel’s countenance had changed as well by this point, and favonovel.com was now looking at Gerald much more respectfully. After all, Gerald had just successfully described everything—in an extraordinarily detailed way—there was to know about Mountain Top Villa.
It was evident that nobody else dared to doubt the legitimacy of Gerald’s identity anymore.
Now certain that Gerald was the real deal, Noel quickly descended the stage before bowing slightly to Gerald and saying, “So it turns out that we have a distinguished guest with us today! Please excuse the Snyders for not greeting you immediately earlier. We hope that you’ll forgive our mistakes.”
Naturally, favonovel.com wasn’t paying his respect to Gerald. After all, Gerald was nothing but a subordinate. No, it was evident that favonovel.com was doing so to show his respect to Mr. Crawford.
Riley herself was feeling slightly touched by Gerald now. After all, though their lie had almost been exposed earlier and favonovel.com could’ve just let them deal with the rest, Gerald turned out to be quite insightful and had actually stayed back to help them!
Xyon and his son, on the other hand, weren’t even able to stand still anymore. With their composure in shreds, both of them were currently seriously considering rushing over to kneel before Gerald and begging for his forgiveness.
“T-to think that was Mr. Crawford’s subordinate this entire time…!” stuttered Abner’s girlfriend, fear reflected in favonovel.com eyes.
At that moment, Xyon turned to face favonovel.com before slapping favonovel.com directly in the cheek without warning!
As Abner’s girlfriend fell to the floor, feeling faint as favonovel.com cupped onto favonovel.com now swollen cheek, Xyon gritted his teeth before roaring, “You… You b*stard! Our family is now ruined because of you!”
“Hold it! Something doesn’t add up!” shouted a youth from the crowd out of the blue.
“…Hmm? What do you mean by that?” asked Noel.
“Well, you see, I headed to Northbay to negotiate some business matters a few months ago. Back when I was there, I heard some rumors that a major incident had befallen Mr. Crawford’s family who was living there! Putting it simply, Mr. Crawford had separated from the main Crawford family and shortly after, favonovel.com mysteriously went missing! Mind you though, that this is news from over a year ago.”
“Regardless, from what I heard back then, Mountain Top Villa had apparently been transferred to the Moldell family, and the same went for Wayfair Mountain. Isn’t it a bit odd that Mr. Crawford would reappear all of a sudden? Odder yet is the fact that favonovel.com invited the young lady of the Smith family to head to Mountain Top Villa—which favonovel.com probably doesn’t own anymore—to meet him! I’ll be frank and say that I called up a few of my friends from Northbay just minutes ago. Apparently, Mr. Crawford’s whereabouts is still unknown till this very day!” explained the youth without any doubts in his voice.
“…You have a point!” replied Noel as favonovel.com clicked his tongue, seemingly remembering something at that moment.
Naturally, Riley was stunned by this sudden turn of events, and favonovel.com instantly glared at the youth who had raised everyone’s doubts again.
‘You mother*cker! We had already succeeded in getting them to believe us earlier! Why the hell did you have to talk so much?!’ Riley thought to herself, now so anxious that favonovel.com had to hold herself back from flying into a rage.
Noel himself turned to look at Gerald before asking, “If I may, may I know whether Mr. Crawford has returned to Mayberry, sir?”
“He hasn’t. However, I do know that he’s planning to head back there sometime soon,” replied Gerald.
While the doubtful youth from earlier was clearly unconvinced by Gerald’s explanation, Noel simply raised his hand before the youth could ask anything else.
“Now, now, let’s not get too impatient, ladies and gentlemen! Quite honestly, it’s useless to discuss whether Mr. Crawford’s already returned or not. Let’s just wait for the arrival of that mysterious guest instead! Once he’s here, we’ll all know the truth! After all, the guest in question belongs to the Crawford family as well!” declared Noel with a laugh.
Upon hearing that, everyone instantly grew extremely intrigued. Could Noel truly have gotten into contact with the Crawfords?
“Since you’re Mr. Crawford’s subordinate, I wonder if you know who the distinguished guest attending today is? Could it be that Mr. Crawford didn’t inform you that he’s sending a guest over?” asked Noel again, still quite respectfully.
Noel was a person who was well acquainted with how the world worked. Knowing that there was a chance that Gerald truly was working under an extremely powerful and influential person, favonovel.com didn’t dare offend favonovel.com any more than favonovel.com needed to until favonovel.com got the truth.
Gerald simply shook his head before replying, “I have no idea who’s coming over. As I’ve said, Mr. Crawford only told me to send this invitation card!”
