Under the heiress facade

It was a golden bonfire symbol.

Hera was stunned for a moment and murmured, "Vulcan?"

In that moment of distraction, a red alert flashed on her screen, indicating a breach in the firewall.

Hera quickly regained her composure and checked the code alert. She then promptly removed the USB flash drive, kept her laptop, and left ten dollars on the table before leaving.

In Astral Nova's Skyscraper, Bernard successfully pinpointed the opponent's location and swiftly browsed through his files. Just as he was about to copy them, all the stacked windows on the screen suddenly turned gray.

The next second, that person disconnected.

"Next door café," he said to Samson.

Samson promptly brought his people to the café. As expected, they didn't find anyone suspicious.

After Samson reported the situation to Bernard, he planned to find the café manager to check the surveillance.

Just then, Bernard's voice came through the phone. "Don't bother checking. Someone has already tampered with it."

tampered with. Even the street cameras that had a view of the

on the table. He smiled as

had clearly anticipated that. Hence, there was

the whole scenario growing

taunting and testing him. However, Bernard didn't want to catch him too soon,

...

gaze was calm, but in her mind, she kept replaying the bonfire symbol she had just seen and the discussion about another

Was the

him in both attempts to infiltrate. After all, he was a formidable opponent, just like

phone screen lit up with

on it. She was somewhat

"Stop digging deeper into

slightly squinted her eyes. It was a simple sentence, yet it sent a shiver

she was investigating the Killian family. She began to suspect that S had

"That's not something you

get involved in? It was my foster mother who died back then..." Just after Hera finished typing those words, she deleted them. When the

it all, S suddenly stopped her from investigating further. This left her