Juniper: [OK.]


    Binary Oracle: [They''re iming they can find J within a week.]


    Within a week? If she didn''t want to be found, they could have thirty years and they still wouldn''t find her. A bunch of amateurs.


    Juniper: [I don''t need to teach you how to be sarcastic, do I?]


    She bit into a slice of orange, the crunch echoing her annoyance. It was clear how much she despised the people at Sigma Network, not just their hacker collective, Cybeic Shadows.


    Binary Oracle: [Nope, we''re experts at it.]


    Binary Oracle and Cybeic Shadows were bitter rivals, constantly trading barbs online. They knew the drill.


    Juniper: [Tell them if they find J in a week, Binary Oracle will be theirckeys.] Binary Oracle: [...]


    Damn. Wasn''t that a bit extreme? J wasn''t aplete ghost; finding J wasn''t impossible. Why was the boss so confident? Did she know J personally?


    The team member didn''t dare ask. They posted Juniper''s exact words online, making sure the people at Cybeic Shadows would see it by making the title bold, oversized, and tagging them directly.


    Cybeic Shadows: [???]


    How arrogant!


    Furious, the members of Cybeic Shadows immediately took a screenshot and sent it to their Leader.


    Shanley was in the kitchen, cooking for Juniper. When his phone vibrated, he nced at the picture his subordinate had sent. A meaningful smile crossed his handsome face, his deep eyes narrowing slightly. After all these years, the people at Binary Oracle were still so bafflingly overconfident. It seemed it was time to teach them a lesson.


    Shanley nced back at the beautiful girl on the sofa, his smile widening.


    J, was it? So far away, and yet so close. He could find her whenever he wanted. He just wasn''t sure of the client''s intentions, so he couldn''t reveal Juniper''s identity just yet.


    Shanley: [Tell them that not just any trash can be ackey for Cybeic Shadows. And we may not even need a week to find J.]


    [Yes, Leader.]


    The team at Cybeic Shadows mimicked their rivals, taking a screenshot and posting it.


    Binary Oracle: [Our boss said it''s impossible, so it''s impossible! Wanna bet? If you lose, Cybeic Shadows has to call our boss ''Grandmaster''!!!]


    Cybeic Shadows: [Our Leader said it won''t take a week. Just because you''re useless doesn''t mean we are.]


    Binary Oracle: [If you''ve got the guts,e face us in person!]


    Cybeic Shadows: [Youe here!]


    Binary Oracle: [No, youe here!]


    Cybeic Shadows: [Youe here!]


    The two groups engaged in a furious war of words, neither willing to back down, but neither brave enough to reveal their actual location.


    Trash? Huh?


    "Thud-"


    Seeing the response from the leader of Cybeic Shadows, Juniper was so enraged she threw her phone on the floor.


    UT


    That old bastard! He''d better hope she never got her hands on him, or she''d skin him alive. Whatever her Binary Oracle did, Cybeic Shadows always had to interfere. The resentment between them had been building for years ready to explode at any moment.


    "What''s wrong?"


    Hearing the noise, Shanley quickly put down what he was doing and rushed into the


    living room. The phoney on the floor, its screen dark.


    "Ran into an idiot," Juniper grumbled, looking up at Shanley. She was so angry she


    had lost her appetite for orange.


    "I see," Shanley said, picking up the


    phone wiping it clean and cing it


    Ther


    table. He gently stroked "Who was this idiot?"


    He leaned in closer, his voice a soothing murmur. “Tell me, and I''ll take care of them for you."