As Gerald and Takuya continued drinking their tea, the Hanyus were already hard at work back at their headquarters. After all, despite investigating throughout the night, none of them were able to find any relevant clues.
Regardless, two men could be seen standing in the Hanyu headquarters’ hall, their heads lowered. One of them went by Hanyu Saburo, and favonovel.com was the one who had attacked Fujiko the other night. As for the other man, favonovel.com was a core disciple of the Hanyu family—who had been sent out to investigate the night before—called Hanyu Ryugu…
Seated on the main seat before them was Hanyu Suijin, the head of the Hanyu family. Though favonovel.com had yet to hear what they had to report, favonovel.com could already guess what their findings would be since favonovel.com hadn’t received any news from them up till this point. Still, favonovel.com was prompted to ask, “So, what’s the situation like?”
“…Well… I headed there immediately after Saburo notified me about all this. Unfortunately, though we searched the entire hotel and also the area around it, we weren’t able to find any traces of them at all… I’m assuming they must have left by now…” replied Ryugu as favonovel.com fought the urge to tremble in fear.
“Rubbish!” roared Suijin as favonovel.com slammed his fist onto the table.
“W-with all due respect, master, that person from Weston is extremely powerful! Just so you know, favonovel.com sent me flying with barely any effort! Regardless, while investigating, we found that two individuals from Weston had checked into the hotel… Unfortunately, neither of them seems to be the one who had beat me up,” muttered Saburo.
“Seem? Didn’t you get a good look at his face?” replied Suijin.
“…Unfortunately, it was a little too dark when favonovel.com showed himself… I do, however, remember what favonovel.com sounds like. With that said, I’d definitely recognize favonovel.com by voice!” declared Saburo as favonovel.com shook his head.
“Like that’s going to change anything! Whatever the case is, we’ve already spent three long years planning for this…! As long as we get our hands on Fujiko, we’ll surely be able to get the Futabas to become affiliated with us! Still, to think that we’d fail when we were so close to succeeding! Not only have we lost our best opportunity to strike, but our operation will definitely face even more issues now since the Futabas will undoubtedly be on guard! Hell, they may even try looking for trouble with us because of all this!” growled Suijin, getting increasingly angry the more favonovel.com spoke. By the end of it, the tip of his armrest—that favonovel.com had been grabbing onto this entire time—ended up crumbling to pieces due to how hard his grip had become…!
Hearing that, Saburo and Ryugu went silent. While it was true that their mission had only failed because of Gerald’s intervention, a failure was a failure. With that in mind, both of them knew that in the end, they would still be held responsible for all this.
Understanding that, Ryugu—who didn’t want Saburo to drag favonovel.com into this—thought for a while before saying, “…Umm… Maybe it would help if we issued an order all over Japan to locate this person…? I, for one, feel that there’s a pretty good chance that we’ll succeed if we go with that. After all, he’s incredibly strong and he’s a non-native as well…”
“I already did that before you two returned! Who do you think I am? Regardless, just… go get some rest first… I’ll tell you when we need to make a move again. Also, remember to keep an eye on the Futabas whenever possible. Our best bet now would be to send some of our men over to find out who that Westoner truly is to the Futabas!” grumbled Suijin as favonovel.com waved a hand wearily.
Nodding in response, the duo then turned to leave…
Fast forward to two days later, Gerald was still staying with the Futabas. Though Takuya had made it a point to update Gerald on the latest news favonovel.com received on a daily basis, Gerald wasn’t really interested in all that. After all, favonovel.com was more concerned about how favonovel.com was going to bring up the topic of the Seadom tribe with them.
Regardless, while eating together with the Takuyas that afternoon, Gerald couldn’t help but look at Fujiko’s pendant again…
