Hearing Dico's words, Hite immediately understood what the officer before him wanted.
He wanted more!
That was why he had given Hite such a "warm welcome."
Damn bastard!
Feeling the pain in his body, Hite could not suppress the murderous intent rising within him-the furniture shop owner immediately lowered his head.
He hid the look in his eyes.
In his mind, however, he had already decided what to do.
Facing someone so big and powerfully built head-on would be sheer stupidity. What he needed was to find the man's home address, then...
Seal his doors and windows and burn everything to white ash.
As luck would have it, the house he had kept on Garden Street was perfectly suited to that purpose-he had left more than one "secret passage."
Of course, those were only precautions.
For situations like this!
"Yes! There are more!
I know more than one cheap house on Garden Street!"
While those thoughts ran through his mind, Hite shouted repeatedly.
Dico tossed down the whip, nodded in satisfaction, and left the cell. Hunter and Newt followed. Once Hite was alone, the furniture shop owner who had once been a pirate finally dropped his act-his eyes turned venomous, and his left cheek began twitching uncontrollably.
Then his gaze instinctively flicked toward his right arm.
A moment later, however, he returned to normal, lowering his head in silence.
"Tsk. He really was holding something back."
Watching this from the "secret room" with her pipe between her lips, Malinda could not help laughing.
"Anyone who's kept a dog knows that getting it to obey takes food as well as a stick. I've never met that Blood Scion, but as a member of the Blood Clan, he must be skilled at training 'hounds.' Otherwise, someone like Hite would never serve him