366 In Dire Straits! (3)

"You'll regret it!"

When Ellie abruptly cut off the call, Jacob's expression warped because this didn't go as he expected it to.

"That bloody tramp!" He cursed furiously before a bitter expression appeared on his face. His luck was getting worse ever since he had come to the Epic Plains, and he started to doubt that it was all the result of that good luck in the Rare Plains.

Nevertheless, he quickly calmed down and started to think about how he should proceed now with the bombshell Ellie just dropped on him.

The first thing he did was stowed away his Star Watch in the pendant since he wasn't sure anymore about not being monitored, especially when he thought about those Star Hackers he learned from Captain Free Sword.

As for calling Lucy to reconcile, he was not going to do it since it might expose his whereabouts. He was just bluffing to get some sort of reaction out of Ellie, and he even thought it was her who was going after his life under the pretext of Lucy.