I'm Really Not the Demon God's Lackey Chapter 262: Great, You Are Spirited!

If unable to handle it, how about having Joseph do it?

Andrew’s face paled immediately. He was well aware of the implied meaning and it couldn’t be any more obvious. This was the bookstore owner saying, “I don’t have a need for incompetent people. You have no value to me if you aren’t able to solve the problem quickly. Plenty others are willing to be at my service and would naturally fight for your position if you are incapable of doing so!”

Joseph, a former Great Radiant Knight and current chief of the Intelligence Division at Secret Rite Tower. An absolute force among Destructive-ranks, he was on par with Andrew in all aspects, and perhaps might even be more suitable.

In other words, he was absolutely capable enough to replace Andrew in investigating this matter.

The Truth Union had started their own investigations without alerting Secret Rite Tower, but if the bookstore owner asked, Secret Rite Tower would naturally be able to act unimpeded.

And it was precisely because Margaret had gotten into some trouble that Andrew got this opportunity to redeem himself for his previous disrespect to the bookstore owner and pledge his loyalty to him.

If the bookstore owner were to change his mind now, who knows whether these old debts might be revisited. And if things were to go south, the punishment would be even more severe.

Whatever value Andrew had would be lost instantaneously.

Once a tool has lost its value, the consequences are simple…

Only death awaits a forsaken pawn!

As such, Andrew was scared out of his wits that he nearly fell to his knees. He instantly cried out in panic, “I will do my absolute best to locate Margaret, please do not worry about it!

“This perpetrator possesses quite some inconceivable ability, so we weren’t able to detect him or obtain any clues. However, someone of his level couldn't possibly act out against us all the time… After this incident, the existing moles that infiltrated the Truth Union would feel compelled to take action. We can single every one of them out by l

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