Chapter 460.

Chapter 460.Chapter 460. An Exciting Night with Two Girls Outside the City: The Alleged Haunted Castle. (3/10)

Vrrrrrr. Vrrrrrr. Vrrrrrr.

“Rosa, aren’t yuh going to answer that?”

“Huh? What?”

“Isn’t that your phone vibrating? Yuh’re getting a call, aren’t yuh?”

“A... call? Oh... you’re right... I am... aren’t I?”

“What’s wrong? What are yuh just blankly staring at your phone for? Yuh’re not going to answer it?”

“Well... the thing is... Did you forget where we are right now?”

“A castle, what about it?”

“Not just a castle. Where is this castle located?”

“Down a dirt road surrounded by a bunch of trees. What about it?”

“Don’t you remember why we couldn’t call your dad earlier?”

“Ah. The reception...”

“Yeah... do you have any reception right now Dawn?”

“Hmm... no... yuh’re not saying...”

“I’ve got... none...”

“Then... who’s calling?”

“Take a look.”

Huh? She’s showing her? That wasn’t part of the plan she told me about. Had things gone wrong and a real devil was actually calling her right now?

“6... 6... 6?”

“Yeah, that’s definitely what it shows on the caller ID alright.”

“The... devil’s calling yuh!” Dawn exclaimed in shock.

“Considering how I have no signal... it definitely seems that way.”

“But why? Why doesn’t he show up? Why does he need to communicate through a phone?”

“Maybe it’s because he can’t show up in person. Maybe devils don’t have physical bodies or something and perhaps they also don’t speak in the audible range for humans to hear either. Their voices might fall within a higher frequency range or something and they require a phone to modulate and filter the signal to extract their voices so they call within the auditory range of humans.”

That was actually a plausible explanation even I could buy. I don’t know if it would fly with Dawn though.

“I don’t get it... but it sounds like yuh’re saying something really smart.”

Haha... as expected. Modulation and filtering out undesirable frequencies were concepts commonly used in electrical engineering.

Who was that explanation meant to fool here exactly? Dawn or me?

Something smelled a bit fishy here.

“Yuh... don’t know?”

“Heh... heh... heh... of course... I know... Tis it not... for thy mother... and father?”

I could actually hear her nervously gulp down a mouthful of saliva even from up here.

“Then... since yuh’ve come... will yuh... help me?”

“Heh... heh... heh... of course... little mortal... certainly... so long as... you agree... to the terms...”

I clapped my hands together as loudly as possible for it to echo all throughout the castle before I continued, “The contract... is on... the podium... read it... carefully... or not... it’s up... to you... whether you... agree... or not... These terms... are... final.”

“What? Where’d this come from? This... definitely wasn’t on the podium earlier... when I was looking around.”

“I am... a devil... such a thing... is but... child’s... play.”

In reality, Rosa had sneakily put it down there in advance when I was walking out of the room and Dawn was distracted by me leaving. It really looked like I’d used some sort of magic from Dawn’s perspective.

“Is it... fine if my friend read the contract too?”

“Feel... free...”

“Rosa... help...” she sounded like a frightened puppy.

“Relax. He’s not going to pull a fast one on you with me around.”

“But... he said these terms are final.”

“If they suck and he refuses to negotiate, then we just have to say no and summon another devil who’ll offer some better terms.”

“Insolent... little mortal.”

“Blah blah blah,” Rosa retorted in a nonchalant, unphased fashion.

“Rosa! Don’t upset him! What if he does something bad?”

“Let him try it and see how I kick his stupid devil ass.”

“Rosa! Stop!”

“You dare... challenge me?”

“Of course. How do we even know you’re legit and can really fulfill these terms? Do you even really know where Dawn’s mother is?”

“Of course... I do...”

“And we’re supposed to just trust you on that?”

“If you don’t... trust me... then forget... about... ever finding... Aurelia... this pitiful... little mortal’s... mother...”

“Now hold on there a second. Aurelia? Dawn, is that your mother’s name?”

“Uh... yeah... it is... for this devil to know that... he must know where she is as well.”

“Do you really know?”

“Of course... I naturally... know...”