(To ensure the story's completeness, here's an extra chapter!)
Hobart, having changed his appearance once more, returned to the manor with Selena. The Wood family hurried over to ask what had happened. Selena introduced Hobart to her family. "This is my Mysticism tutor. Luckily, he saved me.
"You don't need to worry either. As long as my tutor is here, we won't be in danger anymore."
Those two enormous gray moths had left the family deeply traumatized. If not for several plainclothes police officers—the Red Gloves—stopping them, they would have rushed out to look for Selena and then fled the manor.
Of course, that was assuming they could leave.
Hobart said to Selena, "We'll have a proper talk later."
He went over to Daly. "How about we make a deal?"
Already overwhelmed, Daly casually asked, "What deal?"
She did not know how many marionettes the Mist Demon Wolf had, but since they could form an entire village, there were probably quite a few.
Yet she had only two subordinates at the moment. The two people she had sent for reinforcements had not returned either, and she had no idea how things were going on their end.
"I'll stop those marionettes myself, but on one condition..."
Daly glanced at Hobart. "What?"
At first, she thought Hobart was joking, but his serious expression said otherwise. Hobart repeated himself, "I can stop those marionettes, but the condition is that all the Extraordinary Characteristics on them belong to me!"
After learning about the "source of contamination," Hobart had come up with a way to deal with the enemy. If it had been contamination from another Ancient One, he would not have dared to be so bold. But contamination from the Mist of Uncertainty? Hobart now held the Country of Disorder in his hands, and