Mazaròl Lions

Chapter 8 : Still Unknown

"I'm still not forgiving you, nerd!" Spinel shouts from his room which is the last sound that Elio hears before he shuts his room's door.

Right after he locks the door then turns his body around and slams it to the door.

"Hahh... " Elio lets out a loud sigh and slowly his body slides down as he sits there.

He looks exhausted and breathes heavily.

"This is not good." He says to himself while putting one of his palms on his head.

From the first mission, Elio learned two things that he needed to immediately improve for the next around 26 hours.

First, he realizes that some of the codes are still out of his range which makes him only gain a few access and takes a bit longer than usual to break it.

Second, never relied on the information given from his leader.

This one could be just an optional improvement which is learning how to fight back in a physical way.

After sitting there for a few minutes, Elio finally managed to calm himself down.

He lets out a sigh once again as he stands up from his seat.

Just about entering his working place, suddenly his phone fibrates in his pocket.

Takes out his phone and his eyes widen a bit from the contact's name that is appearing on his screen now.

It's Lucas.

Again, two things come up in his mind right now.

Does Lucas suddenly know about his new job? But that sounds impossible since Elio didn't tell anyone he knows about this.

Or just an ordinary call? Like he usually did back then when they were still in university.

Option number 2 is the most possible thing that could happen.

With that, Elio sweeps away the first idea and picks up the phone.

"Hello?" Elio greets him right after he puts the phone to his right ear.

"Hey, bro. How are ya?" Lucas asks.

At this hour, he must still be in his office room, doing all of his boring tasks from his boss again.

"Well pretty much as usual." Elio answers and walks toward his sofa in the main room.

"Oh? You were not drinking last night?" Lucas suddenly says which catches Elio a bit off guard.

Lucas really knows him well even though it is just a voice call yet he already knows that Elio didn't go for a drink last night.

The whole last night he spent was reading the book that was given to him.

He solved the codes from the book as much as he could to prepare himself for his first mission which is still not enough for him.

"Yeah, gotta prepare for something." Elio replies without hesitation.

He doesn't want to lie to Lucas but at the same time he still needs to hide it from him about his current work.

"Wow.. What's got into you, bro? Such a long time that you are finally doing something seriously again hahahah." Lucas says jokingly.

Well, that's true.

All the jobs that Elio has entered before, he never put this much effort into it.

Probably because his life is in this company's hands.

Elio only responds with his laughter, hoping that Lucas won't notice his awkwardness.

"Yea. Don't need to try hard to do the Tech Lead tasks, right?" Elio scoffs, remembering those tasks that were given to him by Jana.