Since Sanchez had assumed that Gerald had died, he was understandably shaken to hear the boy’s voice!

“Of course, I am, and you’d best be grateful about it. Otherwise, you’d be trapped in this place till the day you died!” scoffed Gerald.

While it was true that Gerald still wasn’t powerful enough to deal with Sanchez yet, they were still in the Realm of the Sleeve, and Gerald was way more familiar with how this place worked now compared to that old man. In other words, Gerald knew that Sanch