Pursuing Her (Sophie and Tristan)

Chapter 6 Who Did I Offend This Time

whole seconds while he tried desperately to encrypt the firewall. Within that brief time frame, Anglandur’s confidential information had been stolen.“What on earth happened?”“The other party stole our confidential documents.”“What? Who did this? Didn’t you say you were unbeatable?”“It must be Phantom from Wings of Light. No one but that hacker can compete with me.”“I cannot stress how important those confidential documents are. You’d better think about how to explain this to the President!”The Anglanduran hacker swore, “Just you wait, Phantom!”Back at the Tanner residence, Sophie sent the information she stole to Butterfly. Then, she entered a few lines of code and removed all traces of her past activity before shutting down her laptop.Butterfly called her right after she switched off her laptop.“I knew you could do it! I just didn’t think you could even steal their confidential documents in such a short time. You’re really a legend; no one can achieve your heights or defeat you.”Sophie was already numb to such compliments, and she replied, “If there’s nothing else, I’m hanging up.”“All right. Payment goes to your usual card, right?”“Yup.”As usual, Sophie hung up without waiting for Butterfly’s reply.Her hack had dragged another unfortunate victim along with it. Charles stared at the black screen on his computer in shock as he muttered, “Damn it! My laptop was hacked too.”I wanted to catch Phantom in the act! Why did I get hacked instead?Felix failed to suppress his laughter as he teased, “Are you sure you’ve got the chops, Charles?”“This must be Phantom’s doing. No one else can perform such a hack.” There was truly no one else who could achieve that feat in such a short time and not leave a single trace behind.Tristan, who had been silent all the while, suddenly asked, “Do you have any leads?”“A little. I can confirm that Phantom is in Jipsdale.” That was the only useful piece of information he had gleaned.“What? Phantom is in Jipsdale?”Tristan added, “Find a way to get in touch with Wings of Light.” Wings of Light was a