DOOMED TO BE A VILLAIN

Chapter 173 CHAPTER 173: SQUAD A's WHEREABOUTS

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'If someone who could really see the future was behind this chain of events... Then wouldn't I be walking into a trap by going to the Imperium building?'

"Hmmm... Maybe..." he muttered with a slight smile.

He wouldn't mind walking into a trap as long as he knew that it wasn't lethal to him and promised some amusement. 

Also about how it was the same person who caused everything to happen, he doubted it. 

There were too many possibilities for him to try to conclude on a single one. As a matter of fact, he still didn't know how the blackout even occurred in the first place.

The only thing that he was able to conclude after all this was that Lee Jung was a luck son of a bitch... 

Not only had the time he was escaping coincide with the time that a blackout occurred making his movements almost untrackable, but as if that was not enough, a couple of problems had already arisen that would keep Davies occupied should he not be willing to give up on finding Lee Jung... Little did they know that he had already given up before all this had happened. 

As for what had been the cause of the blackout, he didn't know yet as he hadn't had the time to try to find out, but it could very well be that the people who attacked his company, blocked Daniella from arriving and kidnapped Romero, had a hand in it... In which case it would mean that there wasn't anyone that could see and tell the future, but rather this had all been a well thought out plan... But even that didn't make much sense. 

If this really was the case, then why was Romero the one who was kidnapped?

Why him specifically and not Tisha instead? 

It really didn't make any sense, but even if it was a slight over thought and he had been kidnapped because of some reason other than the fact that he was awakened before he was ten years old and without even going to a tower, the moment they had discovered it, they wouldn't let him go so easily.

All in all, the situation was a mess and he couldn't come to a conclusion or determine anything about the situation so there was nothing he could do but to first deal with the situation and after everything had quietened down he could deal with finding the one responsible for all of these things.

For now, he should go and see what was happening at the Imperium building...

Since Tisha and Teresa we're not very far away from him, they saw when he had picked up the phone and seen from the little facial expressions that bad managed to show up on his face, that whatever the caller had said was not something good.

"What happened?" Teresa was the one to break the silence after seeing Davies not move or say a word since he took the phone away from his ear.

"... Uhm, there has been another attempt to steal technology at the Imperium tower," Davies said after a slight pause.

"What?!" Teresa couldn't believe her ears. Even Tisha who wasn't in the mood to care about anything than about her brother was surprised at the news.

Since they indirectly worked for Imperium Technologies, they had heard of the attempt on Davies's technology just a few days and she remembered being warned by the higher ups that should they meet with Davies in a the next few days, they should try not to get on his bad side or make any suspicious moves as it was guaranteed that he wouldn't be in the best of moods and may be overly suspicious of people right now.

Teresa wasn't a technological genius and neither was Tisha, but even they knew that Davies's constant breakthroughs in the magical engineering field were extremely sought after and the only reason these attempts hadn't been present before was because he had hidden from everyone so the sharks that we're inevitably after his treasured works didn't have a place to target, but now that he had surfaced, they obviously thought that this was their time to shine...

But even then, wasn't an two attempts in just over three days a bit too much.

One would think that Davies had created an elixir of life the way people were attempting to steal his technology... Though that was a bit of an exaggeration. 

"They're still there and Daniel is currently being blocked from going there to stop them," 

"I may have to go there myself," Davies continued, making it seem like he was having a hard time making the decision to go instead of waiting here with Tisha and helping her to search for Romero.

Just as he expected, a complicated look immediately appeared on their faces when he mentioned that he would have to leave.

They didn't have any words for this situation. Obviously they couldn't tell him not to go when his life's work hung in the balance, yet the selfishness in their hearts couldn't out rightly tell him not to go and to stay back and help them woth finding Romero instead.

As the one behind the emotional conflict they were in with themselves, Davies knew what they were feeling, and this was exactly what he wanted them to feel. 

He didn't want to just run off as the repercussions it could have on Tisha's mental state may be too troublesome for him to deal with later.

He didn't want her feeling like he had deserted her because she was not as important as his work, to him.

He was willing to bet that doing that was enough to send her into an emotional spiral that would explode sometime sooner or later, and since he didn't want to have to deal with that, he decided to take this approach.

While he had been playing his cards he had stumbled upon a sudden thought which was,

"What about the A-Squad of the Imperium Troops?"

"Do you know what they're doing right now?" Davies directed the question to Teresa as she was the only one that would answer the question right now.

"They should be able to take care of the situation in my stead," he continued, making clear the reason for his question. 

"..." Teresa went silent instead of answering the question immediately even though she understood the urgency of the situation and that every second, counted. 

"... Unfortunately, they went into a gate this morning and they wouldn't be back for a while," she finally said hesitantly as she was aware that they weren't helpful words, but rather were words that would infuriate Davies, and she was right.

"The fucking idiots!!!" Davies scolded in a low tone, even then his annoyance could be seen.

"They're never present during important times. They always magically are always in a gate whenever shit hits the fan," he sounded annoyed as he spoke. 

Now that he mentioned it, it was actually quite the suspicious coincidence that they were never around anytime something problematic happened or was about to happen. 

As a matter of fact, he hadn't even met any of them officially, yet.

Teresa had also had a flash of surprise and suspicion flash across her eyes when she had heard Davies's words, but they disappeared soon after as her head was currently occupied with one trouble and adding another was not in her interest.

Davies said a few more annoyed words because despite his plan to play on their emotions before leaving, he had found himself hoping that he could get them to help take care of the situation so he wouldn't have to leave Tisha's side for now.

His interest in going to the Imperium tower to deal with the technology thieves wasn't that high after realizing that he may be walking into a trap.

If they had been available, then he would have had a few powerful scapegoats to help him take on the burden of putting their lives on the line, but those fuckers were "in a gate"... Just like back when he had wanted to take them into a gate to blow some steam, but they weren't around and he had to go with the B-Squas, and we all know how that turned out... 

Nothing short of a life threatening disaster.

He had almost been wiped our by a huge ass mana bomb.

In the end, the job still fell to him. He would take care of those bastards that were always in gates as soon as this was over... But for now, he needed to find someone that would deal with the "Romero's whereabouts" investigation. 

Someone who was extremely good at finding people, though she was more of a finding and exterminating or destroying the target... But it didn't really make that much of a difference as she was only going to be doing the first part of her job in this case... 

At least until she saved Romero... After that, well... 

Nobody would notice if a couple of criminals suddenly went missing, would they?