Since this matter had been settled, there was no longer a reason for us to stay there any longer.
As soon as the reinforcements that Shaka had called for arrived, we left that place.
They had come with plenty of carriages, so it was easy for them to carry everyone away without attracting too much attention. After all, this was the bad part of town, so it was normal for them to see things like this.
People wouldn't look too deeply into things and would turn a blind eye since that was the best thing for them.
If they involved themselves in something unrelated to them, all they would be doing was putting themselves in danger.
No one was dumb enough to do something like that.
As for our group, we headed back to Haley's store.
I wanted to leave her father behind and let him find his own way back, but she asked us to take him too. So in the end, we brought him along and took him back to the store where he just sat there in a daze.
When we came back, all of her employees immediately came over since they had been worried about her.
I had told Kevin to get the others to look around for her and since they hadn't found her, they had all been worried about her.
It wasn't every single employee of hers that were here, but most of them quickly came back as soon as they heard that she was back.
They had been so worried that they had even closed the store and all gone out to look for her.
They even glared at me when I helped her back since they thought that I was the one who did all of this to her. But Haley quickly explained what happened and they all started comforting her.
The way that they looked at me also changed after that.
Instead of looking at me with hostility, they looked at me as if…they were looking at their next new boss.
But I chose to ignore these looks as I focused on Haley's father.
He had been silently sitting there the entire time, not even moving a single inch.
If it wasn't for the fact that we could still see his body moving from him breathing, we would have thought that he was already dead.
Haley also watched him from the corner of her eyes since in the end, he was still her father.
All of a sudden, Haley's father stood up and turned to leave.
That is he took a single step before turning back to look at Haley.
Haley couldn't help being taken aback when she saw this, but she still looked at him and waited for him to speak. Her employees who had been around her suddenly came forward as if they were about to protect her, but she shook her head to them and they moved back.
After another long silence, Haley's father said, "It's your life, you can do what you want. I'll send you the deeds to this store and pass on paperwork to give you the stocks of this store that my company owns. It's yours from now on."
Without even waiting for her to respond, he turned to leave.
As he walked off, there was an almost dejected look to his figure, as if he had lost twenty years in an instant.
When he moved past me, he looked up at me with a complicated look. He gave a sigh before saying, "I'll leave her to you from now on."
Once again, he didn't wait for a response as he walked off.
I felt like there was a misunderstanding, but at the same time, there was a part of me that didn't want to correct him.
Haley didn't say anything as she watched him leave. She just gave a slight bow to him after he said what he said about her store. Then when her face was slightly hidden from this bow, there was a blush that appeared from hearing what he said about Zwein.
She never expected her father to suddenly give his approval like this, but there was also a part of her that didn't want to correct this misunderstanding.
Once he was gone, everyone went back to what they were doing before.
But when I looked at Haley and our eyes met, we both couldn't help looking away awkwardly.
…
The next morning, I was just lazing around in my room when Shaka suddenly appeared.
He had disappeared last night, saying that he was going to check on the Crow Gang who had been captured. He was gone all night, so while I didn't know what had happened, I was certain that something big must have happened.
When he came in, he came over to me and said, "The master wants to see you."
I was taken aback when I heard this, but I gave a nod in response since I had the time now.
After all, there was nowhere that we would be able to go right now.
Haley had just been rescued, but it wasn't as if she was in any condition to head out now. Not to mention, I wasn't in any condition to leave her like this by herself during this time.
Right now, Haley was staying in another room that we rented with Jessica and Nicole taking care of her in turns.
We planned on staying another week for her to recover before heading out to my town.
So during this time, we didn't have anything else to do.
The two of us left the inn together without anyone following us.
Jessica had wanted to come along, but I stopped her in the end.
I didn't know what the noble wanted, but I knew that he was someone who liked his privacy. That was why he had gone through all that trouble to invite me alone that day at the count's manor.
Plus, I could tell that there wasn't any hostility coming from Shaka, so it should be fine.
While Nicole and Jessica weren't assured after hearing this, they still had to follow my orders as the baron.
So once again, I appeared in front of that manor in the ill reputed area.
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