At that moment, the doors to the villa were opened, and in stepped a few bodyguards, dragging Rita along with them.

Rita herself was struggling quite a bit to get free as she shouted, “Unhand me! Unhand me this instant!”

“Cease this at once!” shouted Gerald as he immediately began walking over to them.

“…Gerald?” muttered Rita in a rather surprised tone the second she saw him.

From the moment her cousin had gone missing, she hadn’t met or even heard any news about Gerald.

Snapping out