"Creak..."
The wooden door slowly opened. The red-haired girl stared at the man before her, froze slightly, then raised an eyebrow and said in a peculiar tone:
"How come a grown man knocks like some lady?"
"Shit!"
Danitz's face immediately darkened. He was about to fire back with a sneer when Gehrman Sparrow's voice suddenly came from behind him—
"Don't block the doorway."
"...!" Danitz swallowed his rage, but intimidated by the Madness Adventurer, he could only glare fiercely at the woman before stepping aside.
Though he looked like a brute, his mind worked quickly enough. Seeing Gehrman step forward, his frustration immediately eased a little. He turned sideways to look at the woman, seemingly waiting for her to snap at the Madness Adventurer.
"Hehe, go on, insult him! Insult him! Then you'll find out how terrifying that lunatic is!"
Danitz imagined Gehrman being cursed at by the woman, followed by Gehrman beating her up. But in the next moment, something happened that left him dumbfounded—
The woman, who had seemed ready to bite someone's head off just moments ago, actually stepped aside respectfully!
"Shit! So you only pick on me?"
Danitz stared at the woman in disbelief. Did she know Gehrman? Otherwise, how could she know that this scholarly-looking fellow was not someone to provoke?
"Keep up!"
"Oh!" Danitz jolted, then immediately followed him into the house. There, he saw that damned fellow who had given him nightmares for days!
Elsewhere, at the Perrdax Ancestral Home, Audrey sat before the viewing platform, quietly reading Beware of Spectators in the gentle sunlight. The maid had been right; it was indeed an entertaining book. More precisely, it was a detective novel involving Beyonder powers, telling the story of a Seer Pathway Detective battling wits and courage against Beyonder Criminals from