Chapter 166: Surprise Appearance
Liam tried to make Jason let Millicent go, but Jason’s eyes narrowed.
"She’s not going anywhere until she answers my fucking question."
Millicent groaned while trying to pry Jason’s hand off her neck!
"Cough! Cough! I... I don’t know what you’re talking about!"
"Like hell you don’t. I don’t think you understand how badly I want to rip you apart right now. Is this secret really worth your life?"
Jason’s hands tightened again, and Millicent cried out in agony as she felt something crack in her neck! At that moment, Jason was just trying to use intimidation to make Millicent tell him what he wanted to know. Jason knew that he couldn’t kill her while they were outside a gate like this. If they were in a Gate, then Jasn wouldn’t have to worry about repercussions, but now that they were outside, killing her would not only make Jason a criminal in the eyes of the law, but it would also make the news reach his mother. Mira would have a fucking heart attack if she heard that Jason killed someone!
At his side, Liam frowned while racking his brain for a solution to this problem! He was the one in charge of superhuman relations, so if anything happened here, then it would be pinned on him!
"Jason, don’t kill her! For fuck’s sake, Jason, look at me!"
Jason turned to Liam with a cold stare, and Liam spoke quickly to try and calm Jason down.
"There are other ways to make her talk. The Enforcers—they have lie detectors and mindrunners. They can get inside her head and find out all the information you want to know. But that is only after she has been declared guilty by the court! Jason, look, I know you’re angry. I’d be angry too if someone tried to kill me, but this isn’t how things are meant to be done. I swear to you on my honor, I’ll bring you the information you need. Just let her go."
Jason took a deep breath while glancing back at Keith. Keith might not be on Jason’s side, but Jason trusted Keith’s morality, and Jason knew that Keith would not lie to him in this situation. Keith nodded seriously to his brother’s words and told Jason that his brother was right, and Jason finally released a calm huff.
Jason looked angry on the outside, but he was calm enough on the inside to accept Liam’s words as the best course of action. Jason clicked his tongue in irritation before tossing Millicent aside and she landed on the ground in a rough heap! She began coughing to try and get some breath into her lungs, and both Liam and Keith released a collective sigh of relief once they saw the situation calming down!
Liam could sense from the amount of mana rolling off Jason right now that Jason was far stronger than he had been when they last met! Jason was definitely an S-rank now, so there was no way they would be able to stop him if he actually wanted to kill Millicent! They would have had to call in a commander from the Enforcers and that would have led to a fight that might wipe this entire city block off the map! There was a reason why the Enforcers were allowed to use lethal force against Stroner superhuman! It was better to kill a single rouge superhuman in cold blood than to allow them to cause billions of dollars in damage while rampaging around the city.
Jason’s voice drew Liam’s attention back to him.
"I’ll hold you to your word, Liam. After saying all that, it’ll be disappointing if you don’t do as you promised."
Jason was looking at Liam with a heavy stare, and Liam could feel intense pressure coming from Jason at that moment. Liam gave Jason a single nod in response before he called on some agents to take Millicent away! The agents were still shocked by everything that was happening, and Liam had to shout at two of them to get them to snap out of their shock and answer him! The agents came forward and grabbed Millicent, and Millicent struggled in their grip as she pushed them off.
"Get off me! What the fuck is this!? You think you can just arrest me! I’m the director of the SMD! You work for me!"
Liam raised the file he was holding towards her, and Millicent frowned at it angrily!
"I filed a legal complaint with the Enforcers about your misuse of power in the recent assessment. You’re being put on trial, and you will be court-martialed. So no, you aren’t the director. Not anymore. Take her away."
Liam said the last words to the agents, and they nodded as they began taking her out of the office. Millicent still tried to fight back, but the agents ignored her protests since they now knew that Liam had legal backing for her arrest. Liam turned back to Jason and spoke.
"The Enforcers would also like a word with you since you were the one targeted. They’ll be here soon, so we should head downstairs."
Jason ran a hand through his hair with a calm sigh and started to walk out of the room as well. Everyone moved out of the way to make space for him, and Liam followed after Jason with Keith trailing behind them.
Keith looked around at all the agents that were gathered there and made sure that none of them had their phones out at that moment. Keith didn’t want any of this to get out to the public, so they had to make sure there were no recordings. Once he was sure that none of them were stupid enough to take a video, he sped up to catch his brother and Jason as they walked into the elevator.
The three men were silent as the elevator went down, and Keith glanced at Jason as he leaned back against the wall with his hands folded. There were many questions that Keith still needed answered, but he decided that it would be better to wait and see how things progressed before asking anything. The past few hours had been far too tense, and everyone needed to calm down before they started talking about these things again.
But suddenly, the tension in the elevator increased as Jason perked up! Jason’s eyes narrowed, and both Keith and Liam turned to him curiously.
"Jason. What happened?"
Keith spoke up with a frown, but Jason didn’t answer for a few seconds. Jason had just gotten a message from one of his subordinates that there was a foreign mana signature close to his house! The subordinates had not seen what was responsible for it yet, but the fact that there was something unknown close by was enough to make Jason anxious!
’I have to get back!’
This thought passed through Jason’s mind as a feeling of anxiety filled his heart and he turned to Keith and spoke quickly!
"I won’t be able to do the meeting today. My girlfriend is in trouble, so I need to go home."
Liam frowned.
"What...?"
Ding!
The elevator door opened to the ground floor, and Jason didn’t bother to wait or explain anything as he started making his way to the exit! Liam called out to Jason from behind as he tried to get him to stop! They needed to talk to the Enforcers before Jason went anywhere! But Keith had a more understanding look on his face as he allowed Jason to walk away. Keith had seen the seriousness in Jason’s eyes and he knew that Jason was not playing around! Keith also had a girlfriend, so he knew that he would have the same look if he ever heard that she was in trouble!
But before they could go far, the door leading to the SMD building opened and three people walked in. Two of them were lieutenants from the Superhuman Enforcers, but the third person was someone who made every single person in the room pause in shock!
Commander Agiel.
The commander entered the SMD building with her hands in her pockets and a hard look in her eyes. She was wearing her Enforcers coat over her shoulders like a cape, and it seemed like the entire room ground to a halt the moment she appeared. Keith let out a curse from behind Jason, and Liam felt shock pass through his body once he set eyes on Commander Agiel! What the hell was she doing here!? The Enforcers said they were only sending lieutenants, so what the fuck would they send a commander!?