“Any target?” Elio asks and that draws the others' attention who are beside him who stop what they are doing at the moment. The room fills in with the sound that only comes out from the tv since the others don’t say anything. Probably because Aquamarine, who is still paying attention at the random channel on tv, and Sapphire automatically thinks how to answer his question. “Hmm… what do you guys want?” Sapphire asks and faces the three of them. Her question makes the new members confused and leaves them to stay quiet in their places. Seeing their reaction, Sapphire can’t help it and giggles which only makes them become more confused. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to make you guys confused since the system is totally different in Sapphire Tiger.” She says. “Did you explain it to them yesterday?” Aquamarine asks even though his eyes are still on the tv. “Yea.. Maybe I forgot again..” Sapphire replies and feels embarrassed as she rubs the back of her neck. Aquamarine chuckles from her replies and turns his face away from the tv to Sapphire. “You were too excited, huh?” He says with a teasing voice and a grin on his face. “Well sorry! It’s been a while since we have new members! They rarely promote people up until now!” She replies and her ears become a bit redder than before. Once again a heart attack for Elio this morning, knowing about one of her 'cute' habits. If Sapphire gets embarrassed, her ears will turn red and that goes straight in Elio's mind. Another chuckle comes out from Aquamarine as he turns his face back to the tv. Sapphire, who just got embarrassed before, slowly turns her face to the other three. They are still silent since they don’t have any idea what they need to say in this situation. “So.. As he just said to me before and yea.. I forgot to explain to you guys yesterday about the working system..” Sapphire says awkwardly while fidgeting her fingers “I will explain it to you guys later.” Hearing what she just said, it only makes them nod their heads slowly and continue washing the dishes. While they are still doing the dishes, Sapphire stands up from her seat and walks into her room. Well of course when Sapphire is on her way there, Elio’s eyes somehow fixate on her and eventually gets a small peek of her room. He keeps staring at her until someone nudges his elbow which makes him turn his face away from her, it’s Howl. “How long have you guys known each other?” She whispers to him since she doesn’t want the person who is watching tv right now to notice them. But what she just asked him only makes him confused and raises one of his eyebrows as glances at her from the corner of his eyes. “What do you mean?” Elio replies coldly. “You know what I meant.” She repeats with an annoyed voice but still not looking directly at Elio. Even after Howl repeats it, instead of answering it, Elio chooses to stay silent without saying anything. This only makes Howl irritated and finally turns her face to look at Elio directly. “Is it really how you are going to treat us?” She asks him but this time there is an angry tone in her voice. She waits for almost half a minute and still doesn’t get anything from him. With that, she rolls her eyes and decides to give up asking him about it. Although she might want to insist, she can’t since Sapphire has already come out from her room with 3 pieces of paper in her hand. At the same time, both of them finish washing the dishes and all of them go to the living room where Aquamarine and Sapphire are sitting on the sofa right now. “Oh done washing the dishes? Come here.” Sapphire says and pats the sofa beside her. “Here.” She continues while the others are taking a seat and gives each of them a piece of paper “I just printed out the rules and how it works when you get here.” Now all of their focus is on that piece of paper on their hand. Rules: 1. You can whenever you want but never go alone, at least have one partner to go with. 2. You can access all of the floor options, except the fifth floor. Only if there is a special occasion or invitation from Diamond Lion. 3. You are able to buy or get anything for your room and your garage space. 4. You need to always listen to your leader and ask if needed or spot any concern and consideration, never decline it. 5. Mandatory to present when having a meeting with Diamond Lions, no excuses. 6. Never go on a mission alone, need at least one partner. 7. Tell the team leader because the leader must know about it. There are seven rules they got and there is one paragraph below the attached rules. Those rules are inviolable so please pay attention to those and never ever slightly dare to break them. No advocacy allowed even though it happened accidentally or unintentionally. Even though it looks like they actually give more freedom of what they want to do, Elio’s mind starts to think that there is something behind all of these. Probably the members of Diamond Lion, the highest team of this company, are his interviewer and the partner. If it only has two members then how powerful can they be to control all of the Onyx and Sapphire team? Is there any other team that he probably might know or notice? Or another party outside of this company? Elio starts to think that something is off but he just passes it away for now because one of the rules actually gets all of his attention, actually it's his greediness. Personal garage place and right now he is allowed to go anywhere and buy the things he wanted for such a long time. From the Onyx team, he already got a lot of money from their robberies and it will take quite a long time to spend all of it. In addition, now he is in a higher class, there is a big chance that his current team will target a lot bigger just like he expected might happen. They already stay silent for almost 5 minutes just by reading 7 rules that are written on the paper. Looking at how serious their faces are, Sapphire feels like they might feel both confused and aware of any possible thing that could happen. She smiles at them and decides that she might lighten their weight even for just a tiny bit of it. “How is it?” She speaks up and draws their attention in an instant “Anything you guys would like to ask?” Since Elio’s and Howl’s mind are busy right now, Spec knows that he probably needs to say something first then later the other two will continue it. “What are the other floors for?” He asks because he remembers that he saw many options for the floor before going to the dining restaurant and their room. “Hmm.. I will just describe it in general, okay. You can check it later.” Sapphire replies and she receives a nod from Spec and the other two as well before continuing. “Alright, on the first floor there are two lobbies and I suppose you guys still remember that the first time you got here, when you got accepted to be in Onyx Wolf, the entry is just a messy room, right?” She explains and receives another nod. “Well, since Tanzanite is the only one that I went out with yesterday, he already knew about the lobby that we are going to use for Sapphire Tiger. You guys will know it later since we will probably be going out today, right?” She continues but stops for a second and looks at Spec’s leg, the one that got hurt before. “Oh wait, sorry. Your condition..” She bends down and touches Spec’s thigh softly “How is it?” She asks with a concerned voice and looks directly into Spec’s eyes. At this moment, their distance is close, not too close though, with each other and Spec actually jolts from the sudden contact that she just made. He holds his breath for a moment, a bit widen eyes, but he manages to let out some words from his mouth. “A lot better.” He replies and thankfully his voice doesn’t crack at all. “But you still need to use your crutches to move around, right?” Sapphire says and her eyes look at his right side where he puts it. It leaves the three of them silent again and only a sound that comes out from tv can be heard. Knowing what she just said, Sapphire quickly takes action to not make an awkward situation for them. “Well..” She speaks up and draws their attention. “It’s actually up to you guys. Just like what the first rule said “You can do and go whatever and wherever you want, together with one of the members.” She briefly explains. “Even if it’s not you, is it still fine to go with?” Spec asks again and Sapphire nods her head with a smile on her face. Spec feels a bit relieved and happy at the same time. It means that he could ask Howl to go out together even without any special occasion. Should be alright if I ask her, right? I mean we are getting closer than before.. That is the first thing that comes out inside Spec's mind. On the other hand, Howl doesn’t think much from what she just heard, while Elio starts to think that they really give them a lot of trust, especially that they just got into it. Want to look from any other perspective, this company is really doing something illegal and crime all the time and it would be easy to report it to the police. But the question is, how come they are still moving up until now? In addition, they owned a huge place here and no one ever noticed it? Did people around here actually never notice that there are people who go inside and outside of this building? When he is in Onyx Wolf, they literally robbed a lot of places but somehow police never notice and know about it. Or is it just that he doesn't know about it? Police did come to this place I suppose but.. there is nothing suspicious? That is bullshit.. It doesn’t make sense when Elio tries to think deeper for it. Elio’s mind is working hard inside of him and it makes him not hear that he is being called for almost a minute. Sapphire slowly moves and puts her hand gently on his shoulder, thankfully that quickly catches Elio’s attention to look at her eyes. She smiles at him, genuinely and pure, which only makes Elio’s train of mind stop. “Hey,” She calls softly and sits beside him “Are you alright? You seem distracted.” She continues and puts her hand on top of his arm. Butterflies.. heart beats faster.. Yep, Elio backs into this position again. After not saying anything it makes Sapphire become more worried toward him and his sense comes back quickly right on time, well a bit too late because he leaves her there almost a minute. “I’m fine.” He manages to say and he can hear a relieved sigh coming from the person right next to him. “That’s glad to hear.” She replies and puts on a warm smile that could melt anything, even an iceberg. Before giving her an answer, actually Elio already thought that she might at least remove her hand from his arm but.. it always doesn’t work as easy as before.. She is sitting pretty close to him where he can feel her arm touching his left side and her hand is still there. Instead of taking her hand off from him, she gives his arm a slow thumb rub which makes the butterflies become wilder and his heart wants to jump out of his body. “Oh!” Suddenly someone speaks up, it sounds like he just gets startled or a spark of an idea. It’s Aquamarine and he finally takes his attention away from the tv to look at them. “How about we fill in your garage?” He suggests something that they might do for today. “Marine…” Sapphire replies and glares at him. “What?” He replies casually and innocently. “One of them is literally still injured from their test.. we can’t do such a thing with his current condition..” Sapphire explains and rolls her eyes. From what Sapphire just said, it makes Howl look at her confusedly with a furrowed eyebrow. But she just stays quiet and watches them first to understand what they are talking about. She might have misunderstood what she just heard from her. “Then? He can be a nice customer without anything to be suspicious about, right?” Aquamarine says as it is explained what they might need for later. “But still! You need to consider that they just got the test yesterday, a heavy one!” Sapphire replies irritatedly to him. From what Sapphire just said, it makes all of the people stay silent as they look at her with a surprised face, except Aquamarine who looks at her with a raised eyebrow. “Well.. it’s up to them, right?” Aquamarine replies and takes out his phone from his pocket. Hearing what he just said to her, Sapphire rolls her eyes and slams her body to couch back again while throwing her arms in the air and sighs loudly. Well what Aquamarine just said is not wrong, it’s up to them, the new members, if they are willing to start their job from today or later on the next few days. After the room fills in with silence for almost a couple of minutes, finally Sapphire sits straight up. “Well.. what he just said is correct.” Sapphire says and receives a scoff coming from Aquamarine who is now playing a video game on his phone. “So.. Do you guys wanna do it now or later? I’m not forcing anything, okay? Just take it easy.” Sapphire continues as she is waving her hands, a sign of not taking anything seriously. Before answering it, Spec takes a look at Howl and eventually she is already looking at him. He almost jumps when their eyes meet but thankfully he manages to stay calm as trying to figure out what is the right decision to take. Howl’s eyes are signaling him that she doesn’t want to do it today because of some personal reason. “Sorry.” Spec replies and looks back toward Sapphire who is waiting for his answer “I will pass it for today.” At first he thought that she is probably getting frowned or angry toward him but what comes is actually the opposite of it. Sapphire smiles warmly at him and lets go of Elio's arm. She slowly walks toward Spec and bends down in front of him as she is holding both of his hands. “Thank you for telling me honestly. I promise I will do the same thing for you too.” She says with a soft voice that makes Spec freeze in his place and too stunned to speak. Seeing her action, Elio feels weirdly disturbed from it as he scratches the back of his neck to distract him. What is this.. He says inside himself and looks away from them, his chest becomes tighter the more he watches them. “Take a full day's rest for now, okay? Please let me know if you need anything.” Sapphire says and finally takes her hands off from him. She turns around to meet Elio who seems to be sulking but she probably can’t think like that easily “What about you?” She asks him and it immediately draws his attention “What is your plan today?” as she is sitting next to him again. The rules suddenly come through inside his mind and he gets an idea of how to answer that question. “Rule number six.” He simply replies and that catches Sapphire and the other two, who just rejected Sapphire’s suggestion, by surprise. After saying those three words, Elio doesn’t say anything and just leaves Sapphire standing there, trying to get his idea. She grins at him and puts her hands on her hips. “Aquamarine.” She calls him. “I heard that.” Aquamarine replies and scoffs just after hearing his name is being called. That nonsense tv show finally gets shutted down and Aquamarine sits properly as he is ready to get into today’s plan. “Which dealer?” She asks with a grin on her face while facing Elio. Elio replies with a chuckle as now the three of them, Aquamarine, Sapphire, and himself, get into a plan discussion. After quickly deciding which car Elio wants, now the three of them are on their way to the garage. Actually it is not just the three of them who left their room, the other two also followed them just to assign their identity check which they accompanied by Sapphire. With that being said, it is just Elio and Aquamarine on their way to the garage because Sapphire tells Elio that he is going to assign himself later when he brings his car back too. Elio just stays quiet as he is still observing his surroundings while Aquamarine seems in a happy mood and whistles along the way to get to the garage. He gets to the identity check to open their garage, the Sapphire Tiger puts all their cars in the same garage. “Behold!” Aquamarine suddenly shouts which makes Elio jolt and glare at him from behind. But when the lights in the garage are all turned on, Elio makes the same expression when he gets into the fine dining place. The garage is huge and there are 3 floors in just one room which each of it is half filled already. There are a lot of sports cars, the ones that are limited produced as well, and normal cars, probably used for disguise or something. When Elio's eyes are running around the room, he doesn’t notice that Aquamarine is watching his reaction all the time. “Heh.” He scoffs and that automatically takes Elio’s eyes on him “These all ours, little cub.” Aquamarine slowly approaches him and puts his arm around Elio’s shoulders. He leads him to step inside furthermore and talks about all of the cars on the first floor. “How is it? Pretty cool, right?” Aquamarine says and lets his arm go from him then goes to one of their stolen cars, Bugatti “You know what it is, heh?” He asks Elio with a chuckle at the end of it. Elio simply replies with a nod but without him knowing it, a small smile of admiration appears on his face. “Guess what?” Aquamarine says and suddenly takes out a gun from his back. He shoots three to five bullets straight to the car and it doesn’t give any damage or even slightly scratch on it. “A hundred percent bullet proof.” He explains and glances at Elio with a smirk on his face. He is not finished yet, he walks to the front of the car and points out there are missiles loaded at the front. “Weapon modified. One shot then boom! You’re dead! Hahaha!” He laughs and looks really proud of his own works. Elio can’t help it but his grin grows wider as he lets out a chuckle as well. “So!” Aquamarine speaks up again with a high voice to take Elio’s attention away from the car “Ready to get one of these?” he asks him with a smirk. “Let’s get it.” Elio replies also with a smirk on his face.
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