Invisible Rich (The Invisible Rich Man 2)

Chapter 1161

Although he had not even begun to think about what the dark light of— that had escaped the black coffin—, Gerald really did not dare to think about all of this any longer, at least not for now.

The stress of all this just felt like a time bomb weighing on his mind.

“... By the way, where is Chester?” gerald asked, suddenly remembering about him.

"Ah. Well, the young master had been in a coma for quite a long time as well, but he regained consciousness about half a month ago. However, he suffered quite a lot of physical injuries, especially his leg. Even to this day, he still cannot get out of bed, ” replied one of the bodyguards.

"I understand. Good enough for me that he survived!”

While the way Gerald and Chester got acquainted was dramatic, Gerald recalled how Chester risked his life to protect him back when he nearly fainted. Because of his heroic actions, Gerald felt very touched.

“...Also, aside from our signal, are any of you able to detect Miss Gunter's signal.?” ask Gerald.

"About that... We searched for him for seven days and seven nights, but we didn't manage to find him at all, Mr. Crawford!" answer the same guard from before.

Upon hearing that, Gerald was instantly filled with self-deprecation.

Before descending into the sea, Gerald had decided that he would protect her because he had brought her down the waves with him. However, in the end, he had almost failed to protect himself!

Therefore, he charged Yume. He did not even know if he was currently alive or not. If only he hadn't gone there with her, he could have stayed safe…

Thinking about it made Gerald clench his hands tightly.

While he initially thought that he could only do what he liked with his current abilities, in the end, it was all just a hopeless endeavor ... He's been lying to himself all this time.

Thinking that only a few small Dead Annies were needed to make him unable to fight ... If he hadn't set up support above the sea back then, Gerald knew that there was a high chance he would have died in the depths of the ocean by now.

Even so, the saddest person in this entire event was Yume…

'I'm sorry…!' Gerald thought to himself, his expression pale.

When Jasmine saw that expression on her face, her initial excitement of — about her finally waking up — instantly disappeared. Instead, an overwhelming sense of loss began to fill his heart.

As Jasmine thought about it, Gerald himself had already scanned the immortal coffin again.

No matter how often he saw it, the coffin did not seem to be a fake.

'...Then...maybe I really saved that woman in white...? Problems keep growing... After all, it seems like grandfather knew about the origin of the Dead Annie flower... Once I meet him, I'm sure I'll be able to understand more about his mystery…'

'Speaking of grandfather, since a month and a half had passed, he and the other legends should have long since started their journey towards the promised holy water... I want to know how they all are...'

'However, while I originally promised to meet with grandfather and the others once I found the corpse of the woman in white, I don't even know where her body is now ...'

His path of thought was cut off when the miserable shrieks of bodyguards suddenly sounded outside the manor!

A few seconds later, the sound of the door being opened could be heard!

“What are you doing? Anyone without an invitation is prohibited from entering this place!” gerald shouted as he ran out to see what was happening.

Upon arrival at the scene, Gerald sees some of his bodyguards face off against a young woman who appears to be around twenty years old. The woman herself looked extremely cold and unapproachable.

Gerald also saw more than ten seriously injured bodyguards—who were all holding their chests— lying on the floor.

Before he could take down anything, the few remaining guards started rushing towards him while shouting, "You're looking for death!"

Raising his arms and waving his hands slightly, the bodyguards quickly found themselves flying backwards as if they were all just broken kites!

As Gerald watched his men fall everywhere, he felt his eyelids twitch rapidly as he shouted, "Retreat, friends!"

After making his subordinates stop attacking, Gerald turned to look at the woman better.

While her purple and black eyeshadow and relatively dark lipstick make the woman look very charming, that's not what Gerald has in mind right now.

After all, he now knew who that woman was. She was none other than Linus' kind-hearted niece, Queena!