qWhen Charlotte heard their words, her mind wandered to Danrique. He, too, enjoyed keeping beasts as pets. No wonder he and Francesco are on such good terms.

“What else is there?” she asked.

“That's all we have.” Hayley shook her head earnestly. “Actually, Bruce asked the same questions when he called. I didn't remember these two points despite racking my brains back then.”

“It's fine. I'll let him know.”

With that, Charlotte quickly shared the new information with Bruce before continuing her search in Dr. Felch's study.

Suddenly, she stumbled upon an old photo. In it was a figure kneeling beside a young wounded wolf.

It was a photo taken from the side, and the photographer seemed to be standing quite far away. Also, it had turned yellow as if it had been submerged in water before. Hence, the already blurry figure was harder to discern.

In spite of that, one could still make out the slender figure in it. He seemed to be a short-haired youth in his teenage years, wearing a pair of pants with camouflage prints, a green t-shirt, black rubber shoes, and a straw hat.

Charlotte asked Hayley

Francesco,” the latter answered in delight. “Charlotte, where

underneath the light to get a better look. Nonetheless, it was simply too blurry to make anything out of

Hayley nodded. “When I first came here, the photo was here in the study. However, it went missing after some books and medications were moved. How did you find

any other

Charlotte took a picture of the photo and sent it to Ben and Bruce so

one.” Hayley was sure of it. “Dr. Felch said that some university students took this photo by accident. After

do you address Francesco by his name instead of his title? Isn't he a senior to you?” Charlotte asked while sending

to learn modern medicine because he thought traditional medicine was all that was needed. When Francesco

him as an apprentice anymore,” Sam chimed in as he picked

his tongue at mid-sentence,

they were still trying to hide the truth from her on behalf of Zachary,

“Uh, that's true.”

the moment the realization

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