After venting his anger through curses, Tommy Lloyd calmed down a little.
After thinking it over again and again, he still decided not to give Vice President Boca any time to prepare—after all, his situation was different from Boca's. He was under tremendous time pressure.
If he had no choice but to kill Boca but failed to capture Aleister, he would have to start searching from scratch. Even if he managed to capture Boca alive, there was no guarantee he could interrogate the correct information from him... And even if he did obtain the correct information, it might change at any moment.
There was also another slight possibility—that Aleister truly wasn't one of Boca's people, but belonged to the Noble Red Society.
"They're using this method to mislead us into killing each other..."
Tommy muttered to himself, "Could that be possible?"
After all, everyone knew that he and Boca had a long-standing grudge. Their mutual suspicion at this moment seemed more like an excuse to convince themselves to take action.
But after thinking for a long time, Tommy still felt that possibility was unlikely.
From the Noble Red's perspective, although they wanted to cause trouble and harbored intense hostility toward Iver Moriarty, they wouldn't deploy a Shadow Demon at a time like this. A Shadow Demon beyond the bounds of cognition and one whose existence was widely known were entirely different in terms of danger.
Not to mention that Aleister had only just reached the Second Level.
If he continued developing, he would be able to bring out even more of the Shadow Demon's power. Once he reached the Third Level or even the Fourth Level, if the timing was right, he might even be able to threaten the life of a Fifth Level transcendent.
Although their goal of restoring