Bone Claws Erupting from His Fists!

Elizabeth seemed to realize what he was about to say, her expression changed drastically, and she quickly shouted to stop him.

"Don't want!"

Elizabeth's obstruction instantly agitated Thomas, who turned and roared at her.

I want him to know!

"Don't do this!"

Elizabeth then pleaded softly, saying that although she had made a mistake, she did not want it to be made public.

Thomas remained unmoved.

"Stop deceiving yourself!"

"James..."

However, James had no time to care about what the two were saying. At the moment his father died in front of him, James felt his mind go blank, followed by boundless pain, anger and hatred. A deep pain, accompanied by a strange feeling, arose in his heart and quickly spread throughout his body.

Something seemed to be awakening within his frail body!

Finally, this strange sensation concentrated entirely within his arms, as if something was rapidly forming inside and slowly moving towards the very tip of his arms.

Feeling this strange sensation, James clenched his fists involuntarily.

Soon, the thing inside the arm moved to the position of the fist, but it showed no sign of stopping and continued to move slowly forward, as if it wanted to break through the skin and crawl out of the body.

James unconsciously raised his arm and looked down at his hands.

Under his utterly astonished gaze, three sharp, white bone spurs were slowly protruding from the gap between his four fingers on his fist, piercing through his skin.

Elizabeth and Thomas, who were opposite James, also noticed the amazing changes in James's hands and involuntarily stopped arguing, staring at James in astonishment.

Victor was equally shocked to see this. He arrived a step later than John Howlett and witnessed Howlett reprimanding Thomas.

He was initially worried that the two would fight, but he never expected that Thomas would not say a word after seeing John Howlett, but would simply raise his shotgun at him and pull the trigger.

The sudden turn of events had already shocked him, but then he witnessed James rapidly growing six sharp bone claws, each over a foot long, from his hands. This bizarre and unbelievable scene was even more shocking to him than the shooting of John Howlett by his father.

Seeing the long, sharp bone claws on James's hands, Victor couldn't help but look down at his own hands. The few untrimmed nails on his left hand, though not as long as the bone spikes protruding from James's fingers, were just as sharp and razor-sharp! Like the claws of Beast!

Is there some connection between the two?

Before the others could recover from the sudden turn of events involving James, whose claws had fully grown out, suddenly raised his head and stared at Thomas with incredibly fierce eyes. A dangerous glint flashed wildly in his eyes, something Victor, who had grown up with him, had never seen in him before.

With arms outstretched and a furious roar like that of a Beast, James suddenly lunged forward, his bone spikes extending forward as he Speed toward Thomas!

At this moment, the speed he unleashed was much faster than that of an adult!

Thomas, who was still stunned by what he saw, instinctively raised his shotgun and pointed it at James was rushing towards him.

Seeing that Thomas's index finger was already on the trigger, Elizabeth, who was standing beside him with his arm in hers and had just witnessed him shoot John Howlett without hesitation, knew that he really would pull the trigger, even if that person was James!

Elizabeth, not wanting him to continue killing, suddenly lunged at him from the side, grabbed the gun barrel, and pushed it aside.

"Bang!"

Another loud gunshot rang out, but Elizabeth pushed the barrel away in time, and the shotgun bullet flew into the air to the side, missing James.

James, who was in a berserk state, ignored the threat of the shotgun from beginning to end and did not stop moving. As soon as the gunshot rang out, James rushed in front of Thomas. With the force of his forward charge, six bone spikes, each more than 20 centimeters long, easily pierced Thomas's chest, all the way to the root, leaving six finger-thick bloody holes in Thomas's body!

Thomas's tall body seemed to lose all strength instantly, propelled by the force of James's charge, and slammed hard into the wooden door behind him.

"James!"

Elizabeth, who had fallen to the ground after grabbing the gun barrel and lunging to the side, turned around and saw this scene, screaming in terror.

Although she didn't want her son to be killed by Thomas, she also didn't want Thomas to be killed, even though he had just killed her husband with his own hands.

Victor, standing to the side, was stunned by this series of events. He hadn't yet recovered from the shock of seeing claws grow from James's hand when his father, whom he hated so much, died under James's claws. His expression was incredibly complicated; he didn't know whether he should be happy or sad.

Thomas, pinned to the wooden door by James's bone spike piercing his chest, felt all his strength rapidly draining away. He lowered his head in pain, looking at James, whose hands were pressed tightly against his chest and who was glaring fiercely at him, and said slowly in a weak voice.

"He... he is not your father."

James was taken aback by what he heard. His fierce expression gradually disappeared, replaced by a sense of bewilderment. He slowly turned his head to look at his mother, who had fallen to the ground, trying to get confirmation from her.

Elizabeth met her son's gaze, hesitant to speak. Although she didn't say anything, James still understood that Thomas was telling the truth!

It turns out that James, whom John Howlett raised as his son, was actually the child of his wife Elizabeth and the Gardener Thomas, born from an affair.

But he's dead now, and he'll never know this secret in his lifetime.

However, this might be a better outcome for him. Otherwise, he would have been in unimaginable pain to find out that the son he doted on was not his biological child.

"Son!"

Thomas, whose chest had been pierced by James's bone spur, felt his life rapidly slipping away. He stared intently at James in front of him and used the last of his strength to utter his final words.

James was taken aback by the word "son" and retreated in horror, as the six finger-thick bone spurs embedded in Thomas's chest were pulled out.