“I’ll go too.” Laura Hayes raised an eyebrow as well. The restroom looked empty, making it a good place to discuss clues.

The two walked in together. Brian Clark stood at the sink, looking at Laura Hayes in the mirror, and said casually, “You’re really good at basketball. What do you do for a living? Is it related to basketball?”

“No, I’m just an ordinary student,” Laura Hayes recalled the information given by the system. “Basketball is just a hobby.”

“Really?” Brian Clark said coolly. “Today seems to be a weekday. Don’t you have classes?”

Here came the options! Laura Hayes’s class schedule showed he had a lot of classes today, but he was hanging out in the arcade instead. Should he admit to skipping class, or make up an excuse?

“I skipped class,” Laura Hayes decided to use honesty to gain the uncle’s trust. “Maybe it was fate telling me I’d meet you today, so I came to the arcade.”

Brian Clark: “……”

No, he really couldn’t control the urge to beat this guy up.

At that moment, Eric Webb was reporting to his superiors. After getting approval, he immediately said to Brian Clark, “Boss, headquarters approved you to capture him alive!”

After stalling for so long, Brian Clark finally got permission. He pressed his palm against the back of Laura Hayes’s neck and laughed heartily, “Is that so? I think it’s fate too!”

With that, his hand gripped Laura Hayes tightly. At the same time, with a thought, he released a space just big enough for one person, trapping Laura Hayes securely inside.

To prevent Laura Hayes from using a similar spatial ability to escape, Brian Clark’s hand was also locked inside the space.

“Got him.” Brian Clark said.

Eric Webb and the others rushed into the restroom and saw Brian Clark’s right hand had vanished into thin air. David Reed waved his hand a few times where the right hand had been and said in surprise, “Laura Hayes and your hand are right here?”

“Yes,” Brian Clark frowned, “he’s attacking my hand with a hot weapon. It hurts a bit. Let’s get back to base quickly!”

“Why is your hand still here, but we can’t see or touch it?” David Reed asked.

“It’s parallel space. Anything I put into my space exists in a parallel dimension to ours. So it’s not that I made an invisible space, but rather I opened a space independent from the world.” Brian Clark said with a hint of pride.

Moreover, all abilities are weakened to less than a tenth of their power in his space. Trapped inside, Laura Hayes seemed to be attacking his hand with a gun, but due to the spatial restriction, Brian Clark only felt a slight pain, not much real damage.

Even so, if Laura Hayes used a truly terrifying weapon, Brian Clark’s hand might not hold out. They had to get back to base as soon as possible.

Director Miller had instructed them to capture the saboteur alive if possible. Their world had been safe for fifteen years; the reappearance of a saboteur meant something was wrong. They needed to find out the reason from the saboteur.

Even if the saboteur might commit suicide under interrogation, they still had to try.

The group quickly brought Laura Hayes back to base—a subterranean facility capable of withstanding a nuclear attack. Director Miller and other once-famous guardians all put on face-changing masks. They nodded to Brian Clark, who opened the space and released Laura Hayes.

The rather good-looking Laura Hayes was now in tears. He’d been too careless. How could a world that had wiped out all challengers be so easy to conquer? Traps, all traps!

He glared hatefully at the handsome uncle who’d caught him, stubbornly wiped away his tears, and pressed his lips together. “Who are you people? I don’t have any money, why are you kidnapping me?”

Laura Hayes knew the main god didn’t allow challengers to tell the natives about the system. If a challenger was forced to talk, the device the main god had implanted in their brain would make them commit suicide. So he had to pretend he knew nothing—he absolutely couldn’t reveal his identity!

Everyone: “……”

Is this guy a bit dumb?

The handsome uncle Brian Clark sighed, raised his injured hand, and said, “I caught you with my space ability, and you blew my hand to pieces with a hot weapon. After all that, you’re still pretending to be an ordinary person?”

Director Miller shook his head too. This was the worst saboteur he’d ever seen. Fortunately, Brian Clark’s performance in this operation was beyond his expectations. Every time he saw Brian Clark with Helen Grant, Director Miller thought the nation’s top guardian had gone to waste. But this time, Brian Clark’s strength was astonishing. It seemed he was just lovesick and silly in front of Helen Grant, but otherwise pretty normal.

“So you already know who I am?” Laura Hayes said in despair. “How did you find out? Did the ultimate boss send you? I’m so stupid, I thought you were a clue character, but you’re the enemy? No wonder it’s the final mission. How could a rookie like me clear it? I’m doomed, wuwuwuwu…”

He finally couldn’t take the pressure and burst into tears.

Everyone: “……”

-

While the guardians were interrogating Laura Hayes together, Helen Grant, who had stayed home and used all her strength to make dinner while quietly waiting for Brian Clark to come home, received a message from Brian Clark: The police are short-handed for field work, we’re going to help. Working overtime tonight, might not come home.