Chapter 481: Chip of the Old Block

Ash was… unusually quiet throughout the rest of the time after and I only noticed her sudden peculiar behavior when I noticed something even stranger, however, whilst leaning up high, and bending down low… 

"Oh, my apologies, Master, I meant to inform you long before, but in the heat of the moment…" Ash quite stiffly spoke when I inquired about it. "Alas, sadly, I know not of her whereabouts either."

Indeed, Adalia was absolutely nowhere to be seen.

After a brisk walk home, and after also a rejuvenating shower, Ash spent the next few minutes in my bedroom dabbing some disinfectant on my hand, rolls of bandages by bedside, while I did my best rattlesnake impression every time I felt it sear and sting - which was all the time.

That's when Adalia's absence came to mind, as did Ash's strange silence shortly after, and the rest was as follows.