I stared at the Trickshot Watch for a long while, barely able to believe my eyes. “What … what happened to Techno? Is he—”
“Dead,” TW said. “Yes. I h-hacked into the systems of his disintegration r-ray while he wasn’t l-looking and shot him with it. It w-wasn’t hard. I’ve broken into smartphones with b-better security than that disintegration ray cannon.”
I gulped. “What an awful way to go. There’s not even one molecule of him left.”
“Yes,” said TW. “I d-didn’t want to k-kill him, but he n-needed to be stopped. If I hadn’t d-done that, you would have been dead i-instead.”
I looked at TW again. “Thanks, man. I didn’t know you care that much about me.”
“A-As I told you, Gregory s-sent me to protect and t-train you,” said TW. “S-So—”
All of a sudden, TW flickered out of sight.
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