Chapter 336 - Luciano's threats

"Don't start me with your smart mouth, young lady! I am your father, how can you do this to me?" The man on the line responded aggressively at first then changed his tone to a bullied child on the latter part.

Hearing him made everyone's under-eye twitched. After some time, Tito's brows raised as he thought the voice was quite familiar.

"I have been here in this deserted island for years and I'm starving daughter… I'm dying!" 

"Call me on your death moment, I'll light you a candle." Seraphina unenthusiastically replied. 

"What? It's my death moment that's why I'm calling! You really are unfilial child, tsk! I didn't get to eat for years; not a tiny bit and haven't even had a nice bath -- I'm living like Tarzan!" The man's drama intensifies as he sought sympathy from Seraphina. Her confidant who heard him could not help but cringe. Can't he make up a better lie than that? He could afford stuff to gain access to X's system yet he has no food? Wow, the man's blatant lie really left them all speechless.

"Yeah sure, you didn't get to eat, not a tiny bit -- I could clearly see it by your dying voice. Rest in peace," Seraphina's patience was running thin hence, she uttered words that could trigger the man to spout his agenda.

"Wait, wait, wait--! I'm kidding, alright? Why are you so impatient? *sigh* I really made a huge miscalculation to let you inherit my name." The man mumbled. 

"I already warned you, didn't I?" Seraphina tightened her grip on X's shoulder to the point that X winced and flinched in pain. Even so, he managed to keep his mouth shut. His slight movement snapped Seraphina and instantly retracted her hand from his shoulder. 

"Hmph! Fuggedaboutit'" Luciano humped in dissatisfaction. "Well, goodbye~" with that said remarks, the call ended.

The whole room enveloped an awkward silence after that. Her confidants were rendered speechless by Seraphina the old Luciano's interaction. After hearing how Luciano's whimsical tone was, they could not believe it! 

Aside from Tito, none of them met the infamous terrifying man in the underworld. What

shocked them to the core was not only he did infiltrate x's security system but his goddamn personality!

"X, delete every important information we have and reprogram your system from scratch --now!" Seraphina ordered aggressively which X abide without wasting a second. X never felt insulted before in the world of hacking as he was confident with his hacking skills and how he builds his defenses to trace if someone attempted to infiltrate his system.

Hence, his fingers worked much faster than usual as he does what Seraphina commanded. While he's at it, X inquired,

"Boss, should we trace it?"

"Don't. It will be futile." Seraphina replied without batting an eye. She knew him very well that the attempt to trace him back would be a waste of time to do that. Also, she understood the reason for his call… he was threatening her!

He wordlessly dragged one chair up to Seraphina's side; unbothered by the hostile gazes from Seraphina's underlings. Since they were six keyboards on the desk, he slid the other two in front of him since the other four keyboards were being used by X and Seraphina -- two keyboards each.

Seraphina cast him a quick side glanced and saw him slowly tapped a few keys by his index finger like an old man. Since she was short in manpower who could help her and X to do everything at once, she didn't stop Dragon from jumping in.

Dragon stretched his finger after he warmed up before placing both his hand on each keyboard. The moment he started typing, his pace gradually leveled with X and Seraphina.

Only their tapping fingers resonated across the room and each monitor displayed different files and alien programs that the audience couldn't comprehend.

"Eh? That's Luciano? He sounded like Ace. Doesn't sound intimidating at all." Riggs commented as he retracted his gaze from the monitors that could make one dizzy just looking at it.

"Such an interesting man," Jack chimed in as he nodded in agreement.

"No one is much more interesting than my boss, duh?" Venus rolled her eyes. As usual, her craze over Seraphina made her blind and deaf as if she'd start a cult one of these days.

"That's… weird," Wren's brows knitted from the short conversation between Seraphina and Luciano. Granting that it seemed to be that the short chit-chat bore no relevance, alas, he had a hunch that there's something more behind it.

"He's a terrible liar," Alexander Han spoke his mind as well. He didn't know if Luciano was just teasing Seraphina or not, but to him, it just doesn't make sense at all.

"Doesn't sound intimidating, terrible liar, weird, interesting man… huh, Luciano is, in fact, a good liar. He'd show you a person of whatever he wants you to believe he was, just like her." Tito solemnly informed them as he thrust his chin to Seraphina's direction. He continued as he placed his elbows on his knee.

"He's a smart man and if a person who doesn't know him, just like the rest of you… his words would make no sense." Tito clashed his hands together and held it firmly which showed his huge veins beneath his skin.

"But for me and to boss, it was a warning. He first flaunted his power by infiltrating X's security system then uttered lies after lies indicating she won't know anything and he abruptly cut the line to say he always has the last laugh. Ha, such a cunning and smart man. Reminds me of those days..." Tito translated Luciano's real message on that brief call to them which left them dumbfounded.

How come that simple whimper bore such a threat? If what Tito said were all true, then… they subconsciously shifted their gazes back at Seraphina direction and they could feel the tension emanating within her.