Had this been a spur-of-the-moment decision, or had he planned it all along?
Jonas's decision to return to the banquet made the answer clear. The moment he decided to come back, the fate of everyone at the banquet had been sealed.
If Laskin and Miss Amau intended to use the lives of these Chamber of Commerce members as bargaining chips to secure benefits, then Jonas's approach was simpler and more direct.
He would... destroy their bargaining chips.
In a sense, the Destiny Organization, playing the kidnappers, and the Morris Conglomerate, playing the negotiators, should have reached an agreement before the Peacekeeping Forces arrived.
But there would be a significant gap before that happened, and Jonas had exploited that information gap to achieve his goal.
Killing the hostages before the kidnappers even made their demands would completely change the nature of the incident.
The Destiny Organization's operation would go from a threat to an outright terrorist attack, while the Morris Conglomerate would lose all credibility.
The measures originally intended to block outside communications and keep the Morris Conglomerate's role in the incident from being exposed had now become the very conditions Jonas needed to achieve his goal.
Once Rachel understood what Jonas intended to do, she began to feel a trace of fear toward this rational madman.
The girl began to imagine what would have happened if, instead of acting on her own initiative at the beginning, she had followed Amau Sueko step by step through her so-called plan. Her fate would probably have been even more miserable.
Having a sex doll chip implanted in her was hardly any better, but at least she did not have to fight Jonas, that psychopath.
Rachel even felt the twisted sensation of a righteous protagonist who had fallen from grace and become the mastermind's