Inside an office, a big TV showed the current news about the incidents last night. The images shown on the screen were of the hotel incident and also of the parking building where Mike took Richard to hide.

"On the last night the incident surprisingly showed very few fatalities and just a few injured persons, but the biggest surprise is this incident was held with the purpose of capturing Richard Stone who had steeped in Aotheles for a business travel"

The TV showed the images of the security cameras during the incident and the face of Richard.

Louis, sitting in the office chair, was not paying attention to the news despite having the TV turned on, like he didn't really care,

And just left the TV on running whatever channel it was; he heard it, he had sharp senses after all, is just that he didn't really care.

The news continued.

"The man itself, Richard Stone, has disappeared that same night while being protected by his two bodyguards, Miles Johaness, who was found dead in a nearby parking lot, and Mike Blood..."

The news anchor took a very short pause while saying Mike's last name, but quickly returned to keep the words coming.

"This last one, survived the attack, but by his own declarations, he lost track of his client, Mr Stone, while fighting against the responsible for the attack. The police are currently investigating the situation yet, while Mr Blood is being held in interrogation for investigation of this case..."

Louis muted the TV while the phone rang in his office.

"What?" He said when answered,

And his assistant was used to that way of him to answer anyway.

"Sir, I have a BHT member on the line..." The assistant could not finish his words when Louis answered.

"Ah annoying guys, connect me"

...

In the police department, Mike almost fell asleep, and he was held to interrogate for hours, they interrogated him and received medical attention last night in the streets, once the police closed the area.

But he did not receive many injuries anyway, still, the police insisted on keep asking useless questions, he told them all about it, not really caring for what they were for.

And during all night until morning next day, he was held by the police and even dragged up to the police station.

He told them all he knew, except for the fact that he was the one who killed Miles, he blamed the telekinesis user.

The police found the combat knife in the area, and given the circumstances and proof, they took Mike's words as the truth. After all,

Who could kill his own co-worker?

In the morning, the two pilots of the jet finally arrived at the station, looks like they were fine, and were interrogated just recently, not from night to morning.

"Lucky guys, they just disappear the night and appear once everything is calmed down. They surely know who was the responsible for all this" That's what Mike thought about the pair.

Richard got two pilots for the jet, not just one, it was to be sure that maybe one of them could be reached in an emergency.

Or who knows what other motives he had, the man disappeared once Mike went to find him.

There are users with mysterious abilities who can find people, so it was not really a surprise the guys had another ability user,

And Richard could be found if searched carefully anyway.

So, in the end, he failed his mission and started thinking that maybe it was better to have killed that telekinesis user and his friend.

Why didn't he pull the trigger at that time?

Because the two men, both of them, tried to keep Mike alive, not to kill him.

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They thought he was an innocent dragged into the mess, and they tried not to kill him.

He knew once since the people never really aimed at lethal areas when firing their guns.

He even confirmed the fact, when the man fired his weapon the first time to fail him on purpose,

And also when while in rage, he fired at Mike's shoulder.

He thought the two wanted to hurt, not to kill, at much.

It was strange anyway, and Mike could not help but to think something was amiss.

Why would they use explosives as Miles said? He heard the explosion and had sharp senses. Mike knew it was not an explosion coming from a c-4 or just a grenade.

"That was a rocket launcher, I am sure of what I heard" Mike was totally sure.

He indeed trained his other senses inevitably while training fully blind, his hearing was sharp.

He heard the trigger of the rocket even while in the middle of that mess.

It wasn't hard to hear it anyway. He just acted dumb in front of those people.

"Sir, prepare yourself to leave, my people already are bringing your luggage from the hotel since you gave us permission for this, and you are leaving soon."

Said a police man taking him out of his thoughts.

"Sure"

Finally, he was leaving, the pilots went to him to chat with Mike, and when the three of them were called, they left at once not looking back.

Mike's weapons were confiscated, his sword included.

They found the antiPhySEC proprieties of his sword, but Mike blamed the airport officials without shame, saying they were the ones who allowed them to get in with his sword.

Lucky Mike, they found no truth on the real aspects of the sword.

They took no action against him anyway since it was really not impossible for a bodyguard of an important person to hold antiPhySEC weapons.

Just they had their weapons taken in the airport with an excuse for them to not have any resistance while the attack started.

After reaching the airport, he got his weapons back, the pistol, the sword, and the special pistol they had taken from him in the airport before.

The travel started quicker than he imagined, they clearly wanted them to leave immediately,

And Mike was happy to leave as soon as possible and forget all this mess.

His first mission was a failure and total disaster, he knew by now Richard must be dead or being held hostage in god knows where.

And on top of that, the police could not even waste time searching for the safety of a terrorist.

Also, the Aotheles government itself prepared all this, so why would they search for someone they have kidnapped?

When they finally left Aotheles Air-space, Mike went to the pilot cabin and kept chatting with the two men there.

He knew from their voice, and their attitude, that they really not care for Richard, not like Mike cared too, but their reputation was not ruined for it.

Still,

They were too nervous sometimes, like hiding something, and Mike gave up on interrogating them;

He didn't want to start a discussion with the two of them, and he made his questions in a way that appeared natural.

His questions were like asking about their adventures in Aotheles and so on, but when being asked something about last night, everything seemed amiss.

He stopped asking because he decided to not know about Richard, he was fucked up already, and nothing would change the fact.

He took a seat, a cup of wine, and decided to drink the wine directly from the bottle; soon he was already drunk and fell asleep until they arrived at Aether.

...

"Ok, don't worry moving the container however you want, we only care for the one inside to be alive, don't care if get injured" Said a man to the gantry crane's operator.

"Sure then!"

They were moving a container to a ship; it was mostly devoid of people in the area.

The first one talking walked in front of the container once they were ready to leave, and opened the door.

In there, the only thing inside was a big chair, and a man tied up in the chair. The last one was Richard Stone.

The man got close to Richard and inspected him.

"He is perfectly fine, why not torture him a little to set up the mood?"

Richard said some words in a language the man could not catch.

"Damn! Man, we talk another language here, say your curses in our language if you dare!" The man screamed but didn't really care for Richard's language.

"Sir, the people from Redzen are naturally stupid, give him some time to think about the translation for that." Said one of the men from behind.

"HAHA! Ok ok, let's set up the mood, but first, let's see if you are ready to collaborate, as a wise man once told me: first is to see their stubbornness and then test their power of will" The man faced Richard,

And with a cold voice asked -Who were the ones who fired that fucking Rocket towards our men?- He was made clear with the question.

Richard was stunned "What?" He knew nothing about the explosion "Wasn't it just your guys using explosives? Are you dumb?" He received a slap on his face.

"Looks like that's his stubbornness, now comes the real challenge, a power of will test, guys, get the tools here, also bring 'that' person here" The man ordered.

Was Mike here, he could not understand too why that question was, but only a certain person in Aether knew the truth, the truth of a third party involved.

But Richard was the one to face the consequences of other's and his decisions, terrorism had serious consequences in Aotheles.