Nonetheless, Frank hesitated for a while before clapping Susan on the shoulder. "I'm sorry, Mrs. Turnbull now isn't the time. We need to find out what happened." "What happened...?" Walter murmured, confused even as he looked around at members of his extended family gathered around him.

He then smacked his head and frowned as he recalled, "Hold on, shouldn't I attend Denise Laine's coming-of-age ceremony? How did I get here?"

"Jet brought you back." Glen turned toward a towering man with hardened facial features, looking around his thirties.

"Jet...?" Walter was stunned, as Jet was leader of the Turnbulls' blackguards and an adopted son of George Turnbull.

If Walter's family had to send the blackguards to bring him back, that meant things had gotten troublesome.

"Do you remember what happened at the ceremony yesterday?"

"Yesterday?"

Walter grimaced as he worked hard to recall and shook his head in pain. "I remember Sif Lionheart offering me a toast, and then I got very sleepy... I don't remember anything else."

realized immediately that the

right then. "Could you find out

did not need imagination to

the wine Sif

him that. "I knew Walter would never do that! I mean, molesting the

never

"You said I molested the

I said, it was a set up,"

Walter on the shoulder

have no proof, and the Martiat Alliance wouldn't believe our testimony and would

it as an excuse."

head and sighed. "If anything, I'm sure their patience would have run out, and they'll

member of the Martial Alliance arrived outside just then and presented Silverbell with

"Lady Silverbell," he exclaimed.

now solid evidence

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