Chapter 171

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“This…” The air seemed to become still for a moment after Elliot was done speaking, and for a moment, no one was able to react, staring dazedly at him. Immediately following this, however, all hearts collectively skipped a beat and an audible gasp escaped from everyone present.

The landlord, most of all, looked utterly stunned, as though he had just witnessed the most difficult-to-believe thing in the world.

His jaw slackened, disbelief radiating from his wide eyes as he pointed a trembling finger.

Although he couldn’t see the speaker’s face clearly due to the darkness of the night, it didn’t matter.

No one—absolutely no one—had ever dared to defy him before. Not in this neighborhood, where he had long sown the seeds of fear in everyone, so deeply that they had grown into an impenetrable forest. Yet here was someone standing against him, shattering that long-standing terror.

Although he had been the one to challenge the speaker to step forward, he had done so only to mock
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