Going on a Rampage

At that thought, Charles looked at the researchers behind him destroying the data and urged them coldly, "Move faster. If the Great Britain Alliance finds any evidence of your involvement, it won't just be you who's finished—even I'll be done for."

The researchers bent over their work paused, then moved even more swiftly.

Charles had originally planned to check the other laboratories, but a loud bang suddenly came from somewhere farther away. He froze, looking confused, thinking some laboratory had suffered an accident.

But then the piercing alarm began to blare, and shouts from outside reached him—some researchers were yelling about intruders. Only then did Charles realize that, aside from Ian's previous blunder, this institute hidden beneath the mountain range for so many years had encountered an invasion for the first time!

Charles shoved aside the panicked researchers and quickly pulled up the corridor surveillance footage, only to freeze.

The door to Area B-1 had just been opened. It was Sophia's access card.

To save himself some trouble, Charles had disguised Sophia, one of the institute's security personnel, as a newly hired bodyguard and assigned her to follow Ian, lest that unlucky fool whose mind was already failing cause more trouble.

He had even temporarily lent her the weakest Genesect from the GT Series and given her a prototype cartridge. Could Ian have pulled some stunt again?

Frowning, Charles brought up the surveillance footage for the B-1 corridor, and his expression froze again.

Ian had been tossed onto the ground like a dead dog, while Sophia had been blasted directly into the wall by some force. It was unclear whether she was dead or alive.

At that moment, Charles realized something was wrong. His fingers flew across the keyboard as he pulled up footage from several more corridors.

When he