126 Frame Me! (1/2)

”Liar!”

How can his ability manifest without his intent?!

Even if it did, why would it land on the chair just when Athol took a seat?!

”I'm not lying,” Zed looked hurt by their reactions, ”My hand has turned numb after I blocked the green arc of light.

”I was just waving the hand to lose the numbness but unconsciously a small amount of my power manifested.”

Everyone did recall Zed waving his hand up and down as an exercise to ease the numbness.

Could he be speaking truth?!

But this still didn't explain why the streak of fire landed on the chair!

”Besides how am I supposed to know a great police officer would be affected by my meager amount of power?”

Loren, Jessica, Suzane, Eloise, the four fools and others looked at each other to make sure they heard it right.

”He is now blaming Athol for this?!”

”It might be a meager amount of power but he caught Athol off guard!”

”Not to mention no one can handle an attack of fire on their ass!”

”Athol was lucky his main asset is still safe!”

The four fools especially shuddered when they spoke about the 'main asset'. They recalled how Zed has burned away 'main asset' of a poor fellow named Finlay.

The four fools felt their stomach churning as the horrifying scene flashed in their mind. They now felt Athol was truly lucky to be spared.

”Zed, you think this is y---”

Athol was in the middle of making a statement but then he stopped as he saw Zed taking out his cell phone.

Zed turned his body around to make the camera in 'selfie' portrait to ensure everyone was in the phone's camera.

”What is he doing?”

”Is he truly taking a selfie in the middle of this?!”

”Are you fucking kidding me?”

~Click~

The sound of a photo being clicked in the room.

”Good pic,” Zed muttered while he stood up from the couch and stepped towards the desk.

”What are you doing?” Athol was having a hard time controlling his anger.

This kid first insulted him by words and then set his ass on fire! Now he even took a selfie!!

This kid needs to be taught a lesson!

He didn't really think Zed as anything special even though he blocked the earlier green arc of light.

Athol has only attacked lightly without any intent to kill, so while it was surprising for him when Zed blocked it, he didn't think much of it.

”Calm yourself,” Edgar's father once again reminded him about the propaganda spread by the masked terrorist.

The impression of the investigators in the city was already ruined with people believing them to be in charge of some freak experiment.

Now the investigators couldn't afford to be caught in some murder scandal. This was why the parents of the four fools wish to use the law and order to get Zed into jail.

In ordinary times they could easily kill or cripple the target but now the present scenario demanded utmost care even in a frame-up.

”I'm posting this pic on my social media,” Zed's voice waked Athol from his thoughts, ”So I wanted to ask for some cool headlines.”

Zed turned his cell phone around to show everyone the 'selfie'. The picture showed the faces of everyone especially Athol whose expression couldn't be uglier. There were even remnants of burned pant lying around in the picture.

”WHAT?!”

”Posting on social media?”

”He couldn't be serious, right?”

Zed looked at the blank expression of everyone.

”Haah,” Zed let out a sigh, ”How about #meetingwithfools, #corruptcop, #freakinvestigators?”

Athol and the four investigator parents looked at Zed with plain hate. Just what type of hashtags they were?!

”I have already posted the earlier video of Sir Athol attacking me,” Zed showed them a short video, ”It has got 10K+ likes!”

”WHAT?!”

No one dare believed Zed has recorded the video from earlier. They didn't see switching on his cell phone but the video proved them wrong!

Looking at the camera angle in the video, they were sure the video was captured while the phone was still in his shirt pocket.

How did he do it?!

Athol's eyes turned wide in disbelief.

He was recording the entire situation and even shared it?!

The investigators, on the other hand, were even in worse condition. They trembled in horror as Zed showed them the title of the video: ”Powerful investigators forcing a corrupt cop to attack an innocent!”