"Mr. Tunner, I asked you to be careful. Please do not cause any trouble for . I need to deal with a lot right now."
Ashley looked at his assistant. He was a young boy, barely of age. But he had the best resu for his case and he also had a lot of material covered. This was what people called a genius.
His secretary booked all of Ashely's appointnts and also took notes of his schedule. In short, Ashley's secretary did everything that needed to be done and he did it flawlessly.
There was no shortcoming in his assistant's work and Ashely was proud of this face. But he also found it infuriating since it hardly left anything to nitpick.
Not only that, but his secretary was also on Yoko Tsurugi's side. He was an avid believer in the divine guild and would not even think of going against the divine guild's speeches.
So, when the divine guild had made a statent in Yoko Tsurugi's favor, his secretary asked Ashely to reconsider his stand of view and apologize. It had been irritating for Ashely to even think about it.
And that was when his point of view changed.
Instead of becoming the greatest creation of man, Ashley would instead bestow that honor on his secretary. As soone bound to obey Ashely, his secretary could not disobey him.
And then the world would see that Ashely had been right all along. These chiras do not deserve to die.
"Mr. Ashely, are you listening to ? We need to head out for your interview right now."
Ashley sighed as he pocketed his vial of solution. It was ti to finally use it.
His secretary drove him to the conference hall where a lot of people were gathered. Most of them were reporters who waited for Ashely to enter with a keen eye. They would try to corner him as soon as he stepped inside.
"Mr. Tunner, here, have this tea. I think we can resolve this situation if you open your mouth and tell us what happened."
The only reporter on Ashely's side tried to spin the situation in their favor. But no one else followed his lead.
Everyone else was here just as an audience. They already knew what they were going to write in their story anyway.
"Ah yes. Mr. secretary, here, has this tea. I am sure you are parched as well by now."
Ashley mixed his vial into his tea and passed it over to his secretary. The man raised one of his eyebrows in shock at the kind gesture he had not expected to be treated like this.
As far as the secretary knew, his employer was a sadistic man who only thought about himself and what he found interesting.
That was why, the secretary had no thoughts of drinking this tea. Especially since he had seen Mr. Tunner mix sothing questionable in it.
"Mr. Secretary, won't you drink the tea? It will go cold otherwise."
The secretary looked at the reporter in front of him. Any words he said now would be used against him and his employer, so the secretary had to be careful.
"Well, I am on a diet and I cannot drink tea. You can have it if you want to."
The secretary passed the tea toward the other person with a heavy heart. He felt sorry for the one receiving the tea. But the secretary also wanted to live.
The reporter who received the tea was shocked at the kind gesture. But he acknowledges it nonetheless.
However, even the reporter did not touch the tea.
Ashley Tunner finally noticed this happening and he felt annoyed at the outco of his actions. He had used his whole vial so he needed soone to drink the tea for him.
When a cat knocked it down, he was about to reach out for the teacup. So of the liquid landed on the cat's body and into her mouth.
The cat gave a hiss and her fur suddenly grew wild. It was transforming into a small-form chira.
"W-What is going on? Are we under attack? What do we do now?"
People panicked and for good reasons. They had not seen sothing like this happen to them before.
However, Ashely Tunner was not worried. He was fascinated at the process of seeing a chira form in front of his eyes. This was the ultimate life form he desired to observe.
"Don't worry everyone. The cat is alright now. She will not harm you and …"
As soon as Ashely Tunner uttered those words, the cat leaped at the reporter nearest to her and slashed him across the chest.
Green blood began to seep into the red one and the reporter died on the spot.
"This car is venomous. Everyone, hurry and run away."
There was a small yell before everyone began to run away. No one rembered why they had even gathered here in the first place.
Only Ashely and his secretary remained in the room after that. The cat-chira hissed as she looked at them. Her eyes looked pained but the secretary was in no condition to even know what was happening.
"Hey, isn't this great? This is the chira I created. I initially intended to use you for it but this works just as well."
The secretaries blood froze as soon as he heard what his employer said.
Ashley Tunner wanted to use his secretary. Where was the consent in that? The justice.
"Hey, don't worry. This is a small chira and easy to ta. Just wait and watch what I do with it. The world will be a better place after I…"
The cat-chira did not allow Ashely Tunner to finish his words. It leaped at the man and slashed him across the face.
Ashley Tunner died instantly.
The secretary was frozen stiff, no longer knowing what to do. He tried to move but his legs would not let him.
The cat hissed but ignored the secretary. Instead, she kept on ramming her head against the wall to kill itself.
Finally, due to her small bulk, the cat chira succeeded and the secretary was able to feel his legs again.
"Now, where you do think you are going? You saw our experint and you also saw the results. I am afraid I cannot let you go now, Mr. Secretary."
The secretary froze at those words. Soone walked toward him and places a hand on his shoulder. The secretary turned around and his eyes t a familiar face.
"You! You are involved in all this? Why would you-? What will the divine leader say?"
Sean looked at the secretary in from of him with a calm expression. He already knew that he had betrayed the divine leader.
Sean's betrayal was a long way coming and it was obvious to anyone who paid attention.
"Hmm, you do not need to worry about what will happen to , you should be worried about yourself more than myself. Because the bigger question is, what will happen to you."
The secretary had not even thought about his situation before. But now that he had, he was frozen stiff. What would happen to him indeed?
"Are you going to kill ? I would have you know that I am not a good bait material. You will not be able to get a lot of value out of ."
The man tried to negotiate his release but Sean looked unbothered.
"Doesn't matter. Now get up because we have a lot of work to do. I hope you are ready to fight for your life tomorrow."
It did not look as if this man was ready to do anything but Sean needed to clear up this scene soon.
He did not want anyone to know what happened there.
Once the secretary was secured, Sean quickly cleaned up the sight so that none of the Hive's drugs remained on the scene. But he still left enough clues for this site not to look tampered with.
"It's ti to call for Mother and Yoko Tsurugi here. The press would have a field day for sure. And you! You were an accident so what should we do with you."
Sean looked at the dead body of the chira cat in front of him. He wanted to pick it up and take it back. But then he decided that it would be better to just take the cat back for now.
There was no need to complicate things for himself any more than he already had.
The next day, both Amane and Charlie arrived at the scene. There was a lot to unpack here and there were reporters present on the scene as well.
But what surprised Amane the most was the body of a dead cat on the scene. She turned the cat around, only to find a chira.
And just lying a little further away from the cat's body was a dead Ashely Tunner. Amane could guess what happened here.
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