“!!!” The President widened his eyes in shock. “What? Missing?”

The minister nodded. “Yes, Sir. We’re trying to find him, but it seems he has been missing since last night.”

“Huh? Last night? Then, why are you just informing me now?!” The President roared while glaring at him. The trial for the Vice President was supposed to be held tomorrow. If he rescheduled the client, the public would lose their trust in the government.𝗈𝐕𝓵xt.𝒞𝒐𝓂

On the other hand, he remembered something.

“Now that I think about it, that Theodore Griffith acted calm the whole time… as if he had prepared for what was going to come. Don’t tell me…” The President gasped. “Did he predict the Vice President would be missing?”

The minister couldn’t answer that question since they had no proof. But if Theo knew about the Vice President’s plan, it wouldn’t be weird if Theo took advantage of it to get the people’s support.

“Not good. We’ve been had!” The President widened his eyes in shock. “He knows the Vice President will be escaping from the prison. By using it, he can turn the situation around.

“No, wait. Don’t tell me, he’s the culprit? He’s the one helping the Vice President? Now that I think about it, he didn’t fight with his clone…”

Both the President and the minister looked at each other, thinking the same thing. Theo must have used his clone to free the Vice President.

“Then, we should immediately mobilize our people to search for his base to get the Vice President.” The minister suggested.

“Are you insane? The people are supporting him right now. If we are going straight to his door for whatever reason, they’re going to scrutinize us. It won’t be long before the entire government collapses. Are you seriously suggesting that?”

“Then…” The minister scratched the back of his head and asked, “Should we tell the people that he’s in his territory?”

“Who’s gonna believe it? The people are rethinking the bad opinion of him. If we’re using this card, people won’t believe us anymore. And even the Time God couldn’t find his home, let alone if he uses the Griffith Family’s help to hide him.”

The President bit his lips, realizing he had been playing in Theo’s arms this whole time.

There was also the matter regarding the King of Fighters, who helped Theo instead.

“No, don’t tell me… The King of Fighters isn’t that smart, yet, he managed to capture the Vice President with all the proof. And after that, he came to the battlefield to help Theo.

“Then, does that mean the one providing the King of Fighters the information about the Vice President was him? In other words, the fight between Theo and the King of Fighters is just a plan to get the King of Fighters’ help in exchange for his forgiveness.

“I didn’t know why he went all the way to offer help against the monsters from the previous battle. It turned out he was planning to make us look bad. He knew we were trying to get a hold of him.

“He created an opportunity for us to act and knew the Time God would go straight to his territory due to Theo’s mysterious power that could hide his base.

“And he knew we didn’t have the manpower to handle the three Transcendent Level Experts on his side.

“By making us focus on him, he gave an opportunity for the Vice President to escape. With this, we would be held accountable by allowing the Vice President to escape…”

The President gasped, realizing Theo’s entire plan. He started to wonder how far ahead Theo could see. But if this entire scheme was his plan, he didn’t know what to do anymore. After all, Theo might have predicted what he was going to do next.

The President gulped down and his breath started to become rough as if there was a pair of hands grasping his heart.

He thought he managed to get some advantage against Theo. Sadly, it turned out to be the other way around.

He couldn’t help but remember what the previous president had said to him. He was the first president to meet Theo.

At that time, he warned him, “Whatever you’re doing… Even if it means putting national security at risk, don’t go against him. Even without strength, he is smart enough to escape from whatever I’m planning. If he has enough strength and backers, no one can tell what he can do.”

It was simply too ridiculous that one person could be above a country. But Theo managed to pull it off.

And now that he had ignored the warning, Theo was going to make him pay.

He sucked a cold breath, realizing what Theo was capable of.

What hero? In the people’s eyes, he might look like a hero who had protected the people from a colossal threat. But for those in the government or people against him, Theo was nothing but a devil.

Hero was the last thing they thought of when going against him. He tricked the people with his good side and people bought it.

The President gritted his teeth, realizing he had lost all his advantage. There were only a few options left, but none of them would work for him.

The President bit his lips and said, “Try to find a solution. If possible, we have to reschedule the Vice President’s trial. During that time, mobilize all units to find him, but you can’t touch Theo’s lands. We’ll need to come up with a solution as soon as possible to solve this situation.”

The minister knew they had lost most of their options. And the current biggest option was none other than to beg Theo for forgiveness.

But there was one more thing they could use, it was the Vice President’s facility. If they could get it, they could burn it down while showing it to the public. This way, there was no need for a trial since they could just tell them the Vice President had passed away.

People would think the Vice President had been sentenced to death for all his crimes.