“I know your skills, Arthur. It’s not bad, but you lag behind me a lot. You’re not the only one who can cure her.” Elspeth didn’t believe Arthur one bit. If he was the only one who could heal her, then what would that make all the other doctors in the world? Useless?

“Hey, I can’t do anything if you don’t believe me, but I’m indeed the only one who knows how to treat her at the moment.” Arthur smiled. “There’s a reason your grandfather asked me to help out.”

Elspeth’s heart sank. She had to say he had a point.

“However, the pacing of the treatment is under my control. I decide when she gets better, if ever.” Arthur approached Elspeth, looking down at her. He then said with a smug smile, “Get on my bad side, and I might just slip during the treatment.”

Elspeth crossed her arms. Proudly, she said, “You fail my mother, and you’ll have the whole Joneson Family after you, not just me. Don’t even try to threaten me.”

Arthur wasn’t intimidated by that threat. Instead, he laughed maniacally. “You think I care? You think I care after all you and Callum did to me?”

“What about Emma, then? Don’t you like her anymore?”

The mention of Emma broke something in Arthur. “You don’t deserve to say her name.”

do her every bidding even though she doesn’t like you,

deserve to say her name. Slander her once more and I will wipe you

away. He was still

against Emma again, and I will come after

from head to toe, and then he froze. “W-Why do you have that pear blossom mark on your

but then Arthur hunkered down and tore

slap didn’t make Arthur snap out of it. He looked at the angry Elspeth,

he was serious, and

Arthur seemed to be in a hurry, and he was

go abroad, and Damoria was one of

chubby boy under an old pagoda tree in rural

long trip from Langford to Damoria. Back then, she could be considered a decent fighter, though she looked frail. She was an introvert at school

was a victim of bullying herself, the sight made her furious. Fortunately, there weren’t a lot of boys among the group of bullies. Most of them were just high-school girls trying to be edgy. Elspeth easily kicked one of the boys down, then she stood in front of the chubby

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