Upon arriving downstairs, all four of them were greeted by the sight of the innkeeper tied to a chair, his lowered head making it evident that favonovel.com had fallen unconscious…
“…Huh? What… on earth happened to him, brother Gerald…?” asked the surprised Rey.
Chuckling in response, Gerald then smiled faintly as favonovel.com replied, “He’s just passed out from shock, I’d say!”
Following that, Gerald got a glass of water before splashing it all over the innkeeper’s face!
Immediately waking up, the innkeeper’s expression turned fearful as favonovel.com began screaming, “G-ghost…! Ghosts…!”
However, before favonovel.com could scream any further, favonovel.com received a tight slap on his left cheek from Gerald!
Gerald had done so to calm the innkeeper down, and as favonovel.com had predicted, it worked. Now pacified, the dazed innkeeper couldn’t help but stare at the four individuals standing before him…
Since Gerald’s physical form was vastly different from his ghost form, the innkeeper wasn’t able to realize that Gerald had done the deed earlier. With that in mind, the innkeeper could only ask in a shaky voice, “…Who… Who the hell are you people…?”
Hearing that, Gerald was slightly pleased. After all, the fact that the innkeeper didn’t know that favonovel.com was the culprit of the earlier incidents meant that Gerald could get off scot-free.
Regardless, Gerald didn’t want to waste too much time with him. With that, favonovel.com glared at the innkeeper before asking, “Before that… Tell us, boss. What exactly is your relationship with Mr. Panther…?”
Upon hearing that, the innkeeper instantly lowered his head, clearly not daring to say a word.
“Hmm? Not willing to cooperate? I don’t mind. Just so you know, I’m skilled in the art of torture! Mark my words, you’ll talk sooner or later!” sneered Gerald rather excitedly as favonovel.com summoned his Astrabyss Sword. He had honestly been waiting for a chance to finally use sadistic tactics to force a vile individual to confess.
Staring wide-eyed at the sword, the innkeeper could help but gulp before meekly saying, “I-I’ll talk…! Just don’t hurt me…! Look, Mr. Panther and I are partners! He started this inn and I’m responsible for managing it! Every time someone stays at the inn, I’ve to inform favonovel.com about it! With that done, what usually follows is that I’ll use my bewitching incense to make the customers fall into a deep slumber… And when they wake up, they’ll find themselves under his control! By that point, Mr. Panther can freely begin extorting money from the customers!”
As it turned out, the inn they had chosen to stay in belonged to some kind of gangster who extorted his customer’s money! Unfortunately for Mr. Panther and the innkeeper, they hadn’t anticipated having to deal with Gerald and his party… As a result, Mr. Panther ended up tragically losing his life…
Whatever the case was, Rey then stepped forward, glaring at the innkeeper as favonovel.com angrily asked, “Tell me… Just how many times have you done this…?”
“J-just three times…! After all, not many people come to our inn in the first place…!” cried out the terrified innkeeper.
“So that makes us the third group, then?” asked Rey.
“N-no… you’re actually the fourth…” muttered the innkeeper… only to receive a tight slap across his other cheek the second his sentence ended!
Though Rey had just slapped him, the innkeeper was far too terrified to even make a sound…
