𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝘁《𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 ❥ 𝐆𝐍! 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫》

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟹 𓁹『𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙵𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙰𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚜』

❖『Summary』❖

You've exposed Gregory's disguise, but then you realize that the person you need to confront is not him but a real monster...

☆《Notes》☆

- It took me four months for this chapter, much longer than I imagined. I've broken promises to a few readers and I'm really sorry for the delay! Balancing time between work and writing is really difficult, the translation only makes it worse (◞‸◟) I also had some family problems, anyway, luckily all is well now!

I will never arbitrarily promise anything about new chapter updates again. I'm so sorry!

- I finished this chapter in February, but it was so bad that I had to delete and rewrite the whole thing. I was going to end this chapter at 20,000 words, then I decided to get to the end of the Hummingbird Forest in one chapter. The word count continued to increase after that, and then it stopped at 30,000 words. The longest chapter of『Hell Bent』ever! ٩( ᐛ )و

I get short on inspiration so I usually only write a few thousand words a day. Tonight I decided to finish writing before going to bed. Well... I ended up finishing it at 3 am.

- In the end, I decided to keep Gregory's ending as it was in the original draft.

- I want to go deeper into the characters of Shelby and Timothy, but I don't think I have a chance. The three-person character line is enough to give me a headache ╮(╯-╰ )╭

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Your words caused Gregory to immediately fall silent. His gaze seemed as cold as ice, made you feel like an animal with a gun pointed at your head by a hunter, but you tried to put that fear out of your head because you know it's clearly not right to appear weak right now. You continued to stare straight at Gregory, patiently waiting for an answer.

Finally, Gregory ended the stare between the two of you by slowly closing his eyes, then he let out a sigh, looking exhausted as if all his strength had been drained during the conversation.

You didn't know why, perhaps Gregory felt that he had run out of excuses for himself, or was tired of hiding, so he finally agreed to tell you frankly. You can't be sure if he's completely honest or just half-hearted, but at least he doesn't continue to change the subject or use tricks to distract you.

"Yes, I'm the Forestkeeper." Gregory finally admitted.

You widened your eyes slightly, not expecting that Gregory would suddenly admit it, or rather you didn't think he would admit it so quickly. Given how hard Gregory has been trying to hide his identity so far, you'd expect Gregory to try to deny it for a long time. But actually it's good for Gregory to be honest so quickly, you won't have to persuade much more.

The fact that Gregory is no longer trying to lie will also cool your anger a bit. Naturally, you also don't want to continue arguing.

"Why did you lie to me in the first place? What are you worried about?" You fold your arms and start questioning. Seeing Gregory look the other way with a shy look, you can already guess what the answer is.