Thea waited patiently at home after giving Callan a call.

She waited for an hour, during which every second felt like a year. She did not know how she managed to endure the excruciating wait.

An hour later…

As Thea was sitting on the swing, a figure suddenly leaped from outside the villa and appeared before her. Taken by surprise, she jumped in fright and stared at the unannounced arrival of the guest.

It was Callan.

He looked at Thea, who was startled, and said, “How do you do, Thea? I’m Callan Maverick.”

As soon as she heard this, Thea breathed a sigh of relief and asked anxiously, “Hello, Mr. Maverick. Well, I expected you to be older than you look… In any case, how’s James at the moment?”

Callan’s expression turned grim. He had just learned of James’ demise as well. He even went searching for Sky to learn about the specifics. Sky narrated to him the chain of events that unfolded on the island─from the discovery of Dragon Abyss to provoking the man who had lived for a