At the same time.
Mio Adrian who meant to be a new mentor is holding her temper, she hides her emotions, but the commander-in-chief has lived for too long, and Mio just has to stand in front of him, Walter is easily understands what she wants.
"Well done, I totally understand how hard this mission is, I already got the report from Rurika."
Walter tries to distract Mio's mind. He is playing a thoughtful boss, Mio is just sick of his acting. She dumps a small jewelry box on Walter's desk. Walter used his clumsy hand carefully and grabbed that jewelry box, his soft expression turning into sobbing.
Mio gets angrier.
"Your attitude hurts uncle my sensitive heart, Mio. I still have to say you finished it in such a short time, it amazes me all the time."
Walter wipes his fake tears out, his eyes are full of appreciation.
"Thank you very much. Now, I will wait for the next mission."
"Don't tell me, you plan to ignore your mentor-mentee duty, Mio?"
Walter focusing on his paperwork, finger casually flips pages, with a careless voice to ask Mio. Mio can't hold her urge anymore, she rolls her eyes.
"I understand you are excellent in your work. And you have to understand, No matter how good our agents are, if people don't follow the organization's instructions. We don't need them."
Walter's gaze finally fixed on Mio, his words like a hammer, heavily attacking Mio's thoughts.
"It's been 8 years since we lost him."
"We don't need to talk about this anymore."
Mio stops Walter to bring her memories up.
"Well, please take care of our new interns. I know you don't want to be a mentor, but Nuée needs excellent people like you to share your experience, they can watch your back to learn how to be a good agent for Nuée. They will want to become you."
Wait for Walter to finish his speech, Mio bows to him without saying other words. She leaves Walter's office quietly while chewing her lower lip.
When Mio arrived opening an office that special class agents were only allowed to use. She saw a young man stand straight near her desk, Mio ignored him, and seat on her seat, However, that young man was eager to introduce himself before Mio asked.
"Excuse me, are you Ms.Adrian?" he asked, his voice steady despite the nerves that lingered beneath the surface.
Mio regarded him with a cool detachment, sizing him up with a quick glance. "Yes, I am. What do you want?"
The young man stepped forward and handed his file to Mio. "My name is Elio Kishi. I graduated from Human Academy, and I'm so lucky that I can learn from the best."
Mio's resolve wavered slightly at the earnestness in Elio's voice. She saw a flicker of determination in his eyes that reminded her of her younger self, eager and ambitious, hungry for knowledge and experience, and full of hopes.
Everything on Elio makes her sick.
Mio holds her breath for a while, noticing there is endless contact information in her contact device, her gaze scans all of the files that have been left since she went to her last mission.
Mio makes a quick decision, she sends every paperwork document to Kishi.
"Well, Nice to meet you Elio, sorry, no time to chat, but I think you will handle your first assignment well."
Elio checks on his device, and there are twenty news glowing, "Ok! I'll finish it as soon as possible!"He said excitedly.
"When you finish all reports, please send them to Mr.Miller and Falcon."
"Yes! Ms.Adrian."
Elio took a seat from the shared area, using free access, once he began to work, Mio already left the office.
Agents in this room heard the whole conversation, and most of them felt sorry about the way Mio treated him, but no one was going to help him, and Rurika who enjoyed this show so much, even put her own files on Elio.
"Elio, I'm sure you can make it!"
“Eh, Is this also Ms.Adrian's order?" Kishi flipped the latest information, Rurika smiled gently, she said, "Of course! I do this mission with Mio!"
"and Issac! It's time to train!"
"OK, just wait for a second."
Rurika pulls Issac to come with her, leaving Elio to do his first assignment.
Next day.
Elio still doing paperwork for Mio and Rurika, they uploaded all the task videos on the cloud, He can easily check with detail and write detailed reports, and while he is fascinated by their collaboration, Mio steps into this office.
Elio turns off the video immediately and greets her.
"Good morning, Ms.Adrian.Um, would you like a cup of coffee or tea?"
"No, thank you. I have things to do, just come here to grab my stuff."
"Then, I should come with you. From the instruction book, I should follow my mentor to every mission."Elio stands up.
Mio shakes her head and forces Elio to sit back in the seat. "That's alright, you still have those documents to sort, don't you?"
Elio insisted, "I can finish them until we solve the mission. I can stay late to finish it. Please!"
As Elio spoke, Mio vanished from his sight like a ghost. Leaving him alone and feeling helpless, Elio has no choice, he resigned himself to returning to his desk work.
He buries himself into his assignment until his Symbol of Life Reminder keeps beeping.
Elio finally stands from the desk, he is eating bread while walking aimlessly.
In the corner of corridors, Elio finds an Armament Improvement & Research Lab, Elio peered cautiously into the bustling research space. The loud exclamation of Donnie caught him off guard.
"Damn it!" Donnie exclaimed, frustration leaking from his voice. "That four-eyes jerk expects me to build everything from a stupid scratch without a manual book. That's impossible!"
Elio approached him cautiously. "Busy day?"
Donnie let out a sigh of exhaustion. "Ah... I'm tired. How about you escort me to grab some food?"
Dismissing his tools with a careless toss, Donnie slipped into a dirty lab coat and motioned for Elio to follow him.
"You won't catch a glimpse of Ms.Adrian around here," Donnie says cryptically.
Elio recalled their encounter earlier. "I just saw her today."
Donnie chuckled. "You look like a lost puppy. Well, I guess now you are thinking 'What kind of irresponsible person I've met, why won't she take me to her mission? Such a cold-hearted mentor,' Am I right?"
Elio shook his head with a weak smile. "I doubt my facial expression can say that much. And I don't even know her, how could I know she is a cold-hearted person or not."
Donnie leaned in, his tone serious. "But everyone in here knows why Nuée didn't require Ms.Adrian to bond with new mentee, Since that incident."
Elio nodded solemnly. "You mean Professor Edmund's incident, right?"
Donnie's expression tightened. "Exactly. But don't mention that name in front of Ms.Adrian or you might find yourself in serious trouble."
Elio nodded in understanding. "Got it. So, How about you, Donnie? I saw you're working on something. looks like you're making a robot."
Donnie shrugged. "Oh, that thing? It's just that four-eyes jerk's pet project. He won't teach me anything until I achieve it to his willing-to-guidance level."
Elio raised an eyebrow can't believe what he heard. "You mean that robot is not even in the standard of his requirement? Gosh, I can't imagine what his standards are?"
"Yeah, that jerk said 'Oh, you have great talent, I'm sure you will be fine without me.' then he deleted the whole manual script on the cloud, leaving me to do the whole project. So, I swear to myself if I finish it, I'm going to use my robot to punch his stupid face!"
Donnie swaged his arms, imagining how to punch his mentor's face. Elio is quite concerned about his mental health, and he can't just let his friend punch the most talented professor in Nuée, Donnie might get fired.
"Just hold that thought.."
"You still have time to care about people, Elio? Don't forget you are standing in a more urgent situation than me."
"I know...I will talk to my mentor."
Donnie suddenly grabs Elio's shoulder and drags Elio to hide behind the closest wall away from them. Before Elio tried to utter a word, Donnie's hand swiftly muffled any sound that might escape from Elio's lips.
In the garden, Mio sat near the flowers while sipping juice, and Cato Quinton was watering the flowers.
"It's quite unusual to see you accept a mentee?" Cato says casually, breaking the peaceful ambiance.
Mio glances at him, her expression revealing a hint of tension. "It's because of that bald vulture threats me. I had no intention of bringing them to the mission, I don't need a new bird to block my way."
From within the confines of the hidden wall, Elio wants to protest, but Donnie grips tightenly, and he can't move.
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