Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

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"I'm so sorry. I thought you were smarter than this, but you're just impulsive." Howard looked disappointed, but it quickly disappeared. S~ᴇaʀᴄh the FɪndNøvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

He had expected her to have backup plans, but it turned out he didn't even need to try too hard. She simply took his word about the hidden passageway and even went inside by herself.

"The room... Did you put something in it?" Pearl found herself getting weaker and couldn't even lift her hand, yet her mind was still sharp.

"I guess you were too anxious to notice the herb incense I was burning."

"You're so cunning." Pearl couldn't do anything other than mock him.

"Have you figured out why I got you here?" Howard's grin grew wider. "Your mom is a great test subject, and so are you."

Howard gestured with his hand, and two men appeared from a shadowy corner.

"Take the woman on the floor back and tie this one up in the inner room."

icy. "I won't let you get away

Howard's expression seemed regretful. "But be careful, staying here too

and Pearl was aware of that. All she had left was

Pearl was

never been in this part of the place, and it was filled with other

only one who seemed a bit lively gave her a sympathetic look when she was thrown in, then they closed

a corner, Pearl noticed another woman her age across the room, seemingly calmer than her. She appeared tortured

the others, she wasn't bound, and she didn't seem interested in escaping, just laying

be in better

Did they bring

Pearl

her ticket out,

a source

information.

woman wasn't in the mood to