"Damn it, I knew something was off about this guy all along, but you just wouldn't listen to me, just wouldn't listen to me."
He repeated the same phrase twice at this moment, as if this was a problem he had foreseen from the start.
Yet in truth, everyone knew, before he said these words, he had not once stood up to alert others to the issue.
Like everyone else, when confronted with the situation before them, discovering wealth that seemed valuable at a mere glance, he too had frantically stuffed it into his pockets.
And now, when things had started to get much worse, that is when the present scenario unfolded before their eyes.
Suddenly, he acted as if he had been on a different timeline, in another dimension, telling everyone what should have been said.
No one at this point was foolish enough to be blind to his hysterical pretense, the feigned response, and affected actions regarding the problem.