Nut City. "A New Experience in Reading"
After taking out Muba and those lackeys of his, Hauge could not wait even a second before rushing back to the shop to find Gan Lin. But Gan Lin was already gone, and there was a pool of still-wet blood at the entrance, clearly spilled not long ago. Hauge did not order the Golden Lion Puppet Beast to destroy this shop that filled him with shame, nor did he kill the revolting manager who made him want to vomit at the sight of him.
All he wanted to know was where Gan Lin was.
"H-he, he just left not long ago. Young Master Muba's men took him away. It has nothing to do with me!" The manager, his face covered in blood, trembled like a leaf.
"What do you mean, it has nothing to do with you? Hauge, that blood on the ground was spilled by him! Muba's lackeys took Gan Lin away, and he chased after them with that puppet staff he usually used to beat us, smashing it into Gan Lin's head..." A clerk who had once worked as a laborer alongside Hauge saw that Hauge had risen in fortune and now possessed a Gold-grade Lion Puppet Beast that only a city lord was qualified to own. Courage immediately surged through him, and he stepped forward to expose the manager's brutality.
"If anything happens to Gan Lin, you will die without a burial place!" Hauge glared at the manager, who had wet himself in terror, like an enraged lion. He truly wanted to slam the wretch in his hand into the ground and crush him like a flea.
But after instantly killing Muba, his fury had instead cooled into calmness.
Killing the man would be easy.
What truly tormented people was