Mona was as cheeky as she always was, giggling, "Hehehe... Sorry about that, Master Lawrence. But I''m calling you now, aren''t I?"


    Frank snorted, but he did like the lively brat. "Hmph. Quit trying to distract me, and tell me already... I take it that you couldn''t solve your little problem, could you?"


    "Oh, that''s amazing, Master Lawrence!"


    Mona giggled but soon added mischievously, "Well, you know my stupid grandpa was captured, right?"


    Frank was left blue with shock at Mona calling her own grandfather stupid, but Mona continued excitedly anyway. "Well, I looked around and finally found out where he was held, and after borate ns and preparations, I made it into the enemy''s base!"


    "And? Did you get your grandfather out?" Frank quickly asked.


    "Nope." Mona cleared her throat awkwardly, even adding as if it was natural, "And they caught me too."


    "What..."


    Frank wasughing despite himself, though that was when someone snatched Mona''s phone away.


    "Yo, are you this brat''s mentor?" It was a man, speaking with all the tone and mannerisms of a thug. "I''m telling you, we have your girl and your gramps. You know the rules right? Pay up, and we''ll let them go."


    "How much?" Frank asked.


    But he could already tell from the thug''s voice alone that he was no martial artist, so how did they manage to kidnap Aion Fairfax and Mona?


    "Five mil per head. Pay up, and you might see them again."


    "Okay." Frank agreed to it right away.


    His quick response left the thug taken aback, "Wait, shouldn''t you haggle?"


    "Why should I?"


    Frank was taken aback-who the hell is that thug? He was such an unprofessional kidnapper!


    "Shit! But don''t family members always haggle with the kidnappers in those police movies? To buy time and whatnot..."


    Frank was speechless-the thug''s IQ was no higher than Mona''s.


    That was when someone who sounded like the boss came over and barked deafeningly, "Are you fucking stupid?!"


    There was a yelp, as the thug earlier was obviously given a beating.


    "Hey, brat. You''d beste to the rundown temple in Zamri''s outskirts by nightfall, or we''re gutting your girl and your old man!" And with that, the call was disconnected.


    Frank was left narrowing his eyes as he listened to the static beeping, not


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    Mona and the thug, but also the location the thug boss mentioned. en.swhovels


    The rundown temple in the outskirts of Zamri? Frank had a really bad memory of that ce.


    Just over a month ago, an elderly man with a steel mask covering half his face called to meet Frank there too.


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    really have to fight him, and it fight Frank was not sure he could win.


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    And now that he was going on a trip down memoryne, he could not help getting wary just then.


    To no surprise, when he soon


    arrived outside the rundown temple


    again, he found the thugs standing guard outside... and a familiar suffocating presence.


    The elderly man with a steel mask covering half his face was right there, right now!