While searching around the dense forest, the team had split into smaller groups, and Hogan himself was currently leading a team of five people.
As they continued searching on, one of Hogan’s subordinates suddenly shouted, “There’s a person just right up ahead, Hogan!”
Hearing that, the rest of the small group instantly dashed forward and soon enough, they were standing by that person’s side.
While running over, they had noticed that not only was the person limping as favonovel.com walked, but favonovel.com also had shabby clothes on as well as scars all over his body.
Now that they were actually beside him, however, Hogan’s eyes widened in shock as favonovel.com said, “…Young… Young Master Gunter…?”
The last anyone had heard from Felton was a few days ago after favonovel.com was sent to Dordwell Heights to locate Gerald. Nobody could even contact favonovel.com up till this point.
Worried sick, Yreth—who had managed to find some clues—made sure to send several people into the mountains to look for him, though to no avail. To think that something truly did happen to Felton!
“…H-Hogan…? Oh, thank god! I’m so relieved to see you…! Please, hurry up and save me…!” said Felton as favonovel.com burst into tears the second favonovel.com saw Hogan and his men.
“Rest assured, for with me here, nothing more will happen to you, Young Master Gunter. Regardless, who was it who beat you up this badly?” asked Hogan.
“It… It was Gerald…! While I managed to track favonovel.com down in the shantytown a few days ago, I hadn’t expected favonovel.com to have hired an extremely strong person to take me on! I had no way of counterattacking at all! Once I lost, Gerald captured me and inserted a potent poison into my body! As if that wasn’t already enough, favonovel.com even tortured me in countless ways! Worst of all, favonovel.com somehow managed to summon the soul of the woman in white last night! Following that, favonovel.com brought me into this dense forest… I still have no idea what favonovel.com had hoped to achieve from this, but I simply took the chance to escape when favonovel.com wasn’t paying attention to me!” explained Felton.
“As expected, the master guessed correctly! So you truly were captured and locked up in the shantytown this entire time! No wonder the Gunters were unable to gain any news about you since that day!”
Hearing that, Felton then turned to look at one of his subordinates before ordering, “You there! Go order the rest to immediately increase the search scope within the forest! Gerald’s still somewhere in here, and we mustn’t allow favonovel.com to escape again!”
“Affirmative! I’ll also be calling someone over to send you back to the Gunter manor now!”
“I appreciate it!” replied Felton with a nod.
A little while later in the Gunter Manor, a servant swiftly ran up to Yreth before declaring, “Lady Gunter! Master Gunter has finally returned!”
“What? Felton’s home?” replied Yreth instantaneously, feeling both surprised and delighted.
It was no secret that Yreth had constantly been worried about Felton’s safety throughout his absence. Now that favonovel.com knew that favonovel.com was—at the very least—alive, favonovel.com eyelids couldn’t stop twitching in favonovel.com joy.
“Indeed! However, he’s also seriously injured and is currently unconscious!” said the servant.
“What? Lead me to him! Hurry!” shouted Yreth as favonovel.com instantly ran out together with the servant.
Sure enough, favonovel.com was immediately greeted by the sight of Felton—lying on a stretcher—the second favonovel.com stepped outside. Seeing how terribly favonovel.com had been tortured, Yreth was immediately filled with deep grief.
Yume herself had heard the commotion earlier, and favonovel.com was now standing beside favonovel.com grandmother.
“Felton… How did you end up this way…? Who did this…?!” muttered Yreth, immense pain in favonovel.com voice.
“We found Young Master Gunter in the dense forest in a barely alive state! As for the perpetrator, it was none other than a subordinate that Gerald had hired! Aside from that, Gerald even inserted an extremely strange and potent poison into his body! Gerald himself is currently on the run in the dense forest!”
“…What? So it was Gerald…!” growled Yreth in such deep resentment that favonovel.com eyes turned crimson.
Following that, favonovel.com then turned to look at Felton again as favonovel.com held onto favonovel.com protectively.
“Can you hear my voice, Felton…? Worry not, I’ll definitely capture Gerald and hack favonovel.com into pieces!” said Yreth as favonovel.com gently caressed his cheek.
The second favonovel.com touched him, however, Felton’s eyes immediately opened wide and favonovel.com instantly kicked favonovel.com hard in the stomach!
Completely caught off-guard, Yreth found herself flying backward before landing heavily—quite a distance away—with a loud ‘thud’!
“G-Grandma!” exclaimed Yume, feeling utterly shocked.
Felton himself was desperately screaming as favonovel.com shouted, “P-please! Don’t come any closer! Please! Stay back!”
As the corner of Yreth’s mouth bled, favonovel.com simply replied, “I-I’m fine…! Just go check on Felton! The poor boy must be traumatized after being tortured so terribly…!”
