The moment Diloss teleported into S.T.A.R. Labs' control room, he ran into Cisco Ramon, who was drinking juice.
"Mmph!"
Diloss' ghostlike sudden appearance nearly made Cisco spray the juice from his mouth.
Cisco's face and neck had turned bright red, and he looked utterly miserable. It took him a tremendous effort to finally swallow the juice.
"Diloss?" Caitlin Snow, who had been processing data nearby, was naturally startled by Diloss' sudden appearance as well. Her heart seemed to skip a beat, and her pretty face turned deathly pale. It took her quite a while to recover before she snapped at him.
"Could you please stop coming in like that every single time?! If you scare me like this a few more times, I'm going to have a heart attack!"
"Exactly!"
Having recovered, Cisco immediately added angrily, "We're just ordinary people, okay? We don't have healing factors or super strength. We're fragile!"
"Uh... sorry. I'm just used to doing it this way. It won't happen again." Seeing how exasperated they were, Diloss smiled sheepishly, realizing his mistake and quickly apologizing.
"Oh, right. Where is everyone else?"
Diloss looked around. Seeing that only Cisco and Caitlin were in the entire control room, he could not help asking. (P.S. It was mentioned earlier that S.T.A.R. Labs had safeguards against telepathy. For certain special circumstances, the protagonist had not removed them.)
"They're all in the training room. I'll notify them now," Cisco said, immediately contacting the others.
A few minutes later, Diloss looked over the Superpowered Guard Team members who had all gathered, then at the red-haired beauty who had joined them—Bette Sans Souci.
Diloss widened his eyes as he looked at everyone, only then noticing that every one of them looked somewhat pale. There was a trace of worry in their expressions, as