DOOMED TO BE A VILLAIN

Chapter 171 CHAPTER 171: INVESTIGATOR LAKE II

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"Did you guys see or hear anything strange since then," he asked, wanting to know if he had missed anything, but they both shook their heads making it obvious that they hadn't seen anything or anyone.

The kidnapping happened within a few seconds and before anyone could see anything, or hear anything apart from the sound of a huge crash and stumbling stones, the kidnapper was gone, along with his mission's objective, Romero.

"That makes things a whole lot harder," Davies muttered, having no intention to hide how bad the situation was.

Just as he expected after speaking, Teresa immediately asked,

"What do you mean?" 

"Well, as you can see, the city is currently experiencing a blackout which means there aren't any working security cameras right now, so it's impossible to try to find any traces that way, so if we don't find any physical evidence that we can use to pick up a trail, then..." he answered, but stopped before saying what would happen if they didn't find any physical traces, but both girls immediately finished his worlds in their minds.

'Finding Romero would be very difficult, if not impossible,'

'Finding Romero would be very difficult, if not impossible,' both girls thought at the same time and their eyes widened, but before any morbid or depressing thoughts reared their head, Davies's voice quickly brought their minds back to planet Leivandage, live and direct,

"Don't worry too much, we'll find him... We'll find something that can help us find him,"

"I'll do my best to help in any way I can," he said, turning away from them once again and turning to look outside the building through the now broken-down wall.

He meant his words, though his intentions for doing so were not the same as whatever anybody else was thinking. 

He wasn't inclined to let someone who had that much fate value disappear from his sights, so he would make sure to find, and drag the little kid back to his sister's side where he could keep an eye on both of them and to do that, he couldn't work alone.

He would have called the police, or even the Mega Protection Association(MPA), but he didn't trust their capabilities... 

While it was not a lie that he did not trust their capabilities, the real reason why he didn't want to involve those suckers was because they were not people he could trust not to mess up the investigation, both intentionally or non-intentionally... That is if they really were as incompetent as he thought them to be.

After knowing that the head of the Santos Family was the head of the MPA, he was not willing to believe that the man wouldn't try to screw him over, especially since he had just beaten his daughter up about a week or so ago. 

Another reason why he wasn't planning to include external parties in this issue was because he didn't want them to know of his interest in trying to find the child as who knew what they would try... And also, the person... That is if it was only one person that kidnapped Romero. The person was at least a 3rd stage Mega.

Someone like that that wasn't without a backing and only people like the really powerful people in this city would have that kind of manpower at their fingertips. 

In fact, Davies suspected that it was someone on the level of the four great families that kidnapped Romero, and even if it wasn't them personally or an organization at their level, then they couldn't be far off from it.

If it became known that he was overly interested in finding a child that had almost nothing to do with him, then a lot of unforeseen circumstances could pop up.

For one, the culprit could go to very great lengths to hide Romero even more... Or something even more troublesome could happen.

For these reasons, he would prefer to have people he could trust with the job to do the job since he didn't have the time as he would have to be preparing to deal with Lee Jung, and even if he didn't have to do that, he still would not be interested in trying to look for Romero unless he was completely bored and jobless.

Luckily, he knew a guy... Or a girl in this case.

Someone good enough at these kinds of dirty work. 

She was a money-grubber as well, and his requesting for her help would probably cost him quite a lot... But he had money to waste away anyway so, there was no problem on that end.

It was better to get her on the job quickly before the trail ran cold, but he couldn't call her here as she was one of his secret contacts-... 'Huh?' he was thinking to himself when he noticed something on the ground a little distance from the building.

'Are those cracks?' he wondered, not sure what his eyes were seeing as he was pretty far away from what he saw, but now he was really interested in finding out, so he took a step outside the wall and towards the open air, surprising the two girls behind him.

Unsurprisingly to him and surprisingly to anyone watching, he didn't gall, but rather a platform of ice that was shaped like an ice crystal formed under his foot that had just stepped out.

He took the next step and another platform of an ice crystal formed while the former ice crystal that he had just taken his leg off of, began to dissipate into the air like snow being blown away by the wing.

Step by step, he walked on the rapidly forming and dissipating ice crystals beneath his feet, not paying any attention to anything other than what he had seen from the building.

Unknowingly Tisha and Teresa had begun to follow him, both of them floating in the air behind Davies due to the influence of Tisha's telekinetic ability.

Davies had long noticed that they were following him but he paid it no mind as he didn't care if they did and he wasn't not trying to hide anything anyway. 

He kept moving, step by step towards the ground where he had seen the cracks and had gradually almost reached the ground.

When he finally arrived at the location, he realized that he was right.

There were cracks in the floor, but that was not all. Not only were there cracks, but there was also a depression in a circular area surrounding the cracks with all the cracks seemingly originating from the center of that circular area.

"Well isn't this interesting," he mumbled a smile rising up his face.

It looked like something had put enough pressure and sudden force on that part of the ground that it had actually depressed and had worked cracks due to the ground suddenly becoming uneven. 

Davies looked at the depressed area with cracks and then back at the Imperium hospital, or more specifically to the room that had its wall blasted out by whoever kidnapped Romero.

It was quite the linear distance, though the distance was a little more than he has expected, this proved to greatly change his thoughts of the suspect.

"It's obvious that the culprit has a very high physical ability... Quite a lot higher than I thought," he mumbled his new calculations.

'So the culprit is more likely to be a fourth-stage transmorpher or weaponizer,' he didn't say this part out due to wariness at what saying this might cause the two girls to think.

Tisha and Teresa seemed to be a little relieved that they had already found a trace of the kidnapper(s).

They seemed more motivated and he could immediately discern their eyes looking for more clues, though they didn't stray away from the location where Davies stood.

He understood their thoughts and did not stop them from trying to find any more clues as it could help Tisha release some of the tension on her, even though he knew that what they were doing was mostly wasted effort and it would be pretty difficult to find another clue if they were looking around aimlessly like that.

If one was looking for a clue to anything then one couldn't just look around aimlessly hoping to find something... Doing so usually ended as more of a miss than a hit.

Looking for clues was supposed to be done after making speculations and creating a scenario that was most plausible in one's head which was what Davies had done.

He had already managed to establish the fact that the culprit that had broken down the wall was a very physical one, so he had been looking for traces in that direction, and voila! There was a clue.

The obvious thing to look for now was to find how the culprit had gotten here in the first place.

Did he walk here?

Did he drive a car?

Did he fly?

Did he roll on the ground?

These were the directions they should be looking, but Davies wouldn't be telling them that, neither would he be doing it himself. 

He already found a clue for the contractor he was planning to hire to do the investigating, so why in hell would he continue searching.

Romero wasn't important enough for him to put down everything else he was doing and wanted to do to begin a game of hide-and-seek with the kidnappers.

For now, he was going to call Daniella and get her to contact the contractor he was planning to employ for the job but before he could even begin dialing, his phone rang with Daniella's disguise name as the caller Id.

"I was just about to call you," Davies began, but before he could say any more words, Daniella's rushed words hit him from the other side of the phone.

*"The company is under attack!"* Daniella exclaimed, almost losing control of her disguised voice.