Chapter 2431

"Stay away from her, monster!" Everything happened so quickly that Eddie couldn't stop the name-calling in time. "It's not a monster…" After hearing Olivia's scream, Shannon doubled back upstairs. When she saw Albany, seething and cloaked in swirling black smoke after being smacked by the talisman, she sighed and extended a hand. "Come over here, Albie." She realized it was her own fault for not explaining things clearly to Olivia. Until then, only she and Benjamin could communicate with Albany. No one else knew that the flying turtle could not only understand human speech but also talk back. For Olivia, this was a first—and clearly a shocking one. Still fuming, Albany huffed and floated over in his usual dramatic smoke-cloud, then flopped onto Shannon's back like a grumpy backpack. At that moment, Carlos had just reactivated the livestream. Viewers barely had time to settle in before Shannon's POV came into focus, right as a black smoke-shrouded turtle, the size of a human fo