Chapter Six: Destroy the Evidence

-Executive Office, Dammerung-

The evening progressed on into the early hours of the morning, with the CEO having a (not so routine) routine meeting with his four cronies in the office of his personal quarters. The Testaments were silent as corpses sweating bullets in front of Wilhelm's livid gaze. On the CEO's desk, the green light illuminates the remains of a decimated camera and a shattered plant pot on the office floor. The red eyed man growls as he confronts all four of them. "Which. One. Of. You. Did. It?"

"…As I recall, it was the new guy's fault."

"Piss on you, Eric!" Albedo starts screaming as he is flung across the room and slams into the nearby wall. "Ow…" squealed the White Testament.

"Do you fools not understand the ramifications of what we do getting out into the public?!" Wilhelm's exclamation sends the three other men trembling nervously beside each other.

"It looked like a harmless fern," Albedo replies in a strained voice as the pressure around his body intensifies.

"Well, that 'harmless fern' was recording every hour of our lives like a reality show. This is how that hillbilly got information from us in the first place!" Wilhelm growls back with an angry gaze. He begins tapping his finger on the desk trying to calm down. The Testaments, with exception to Albedo being stuck to the wall, stood trembling and watching him fume. "What do we know about this 'Walter'?" He inquired in a demanding voice.

"Sir, Walter appears to be a Vector employee. Though strangely we haven't found his exact department yet to take care of him. However, I discovered there are quite a few people on the Dammerung named Calvin. Approximately thirty and a third of them share the same initials," reported Voyager.

"W-w-we at least figured out where he had hidden the information," Kevin gives a nervous smile with Voyager while Wilhelm continues to glare at them with tranquil fury.

"Yes, in a flash drive of all things. We need to retrieve it before this mess gets out of hand. This is worse than the Alby incident," The white-haired man groans and lowers his head on the desk.

"Well at least nobody almost outed us again," Kevin attempts to jest at Virgil's expense. The Blue Testament nudges his shoulder telling him to shut up when Wilhelm raises his head curiously. "…speaking of which", Wilhelm turns to Virgil with a glance as he overhears the Blue Testament quietly curse obscenities.

"What have you learned recently, Virgil?"

Virgil goes pale in the presence of the vexed Wilhelm staring him down from across the desk. He laughs nervously while the older Testaments expressed their embarrassment through sweat drops on the side of their heads. Wilhelm covers his head like he was developing a headache and says, "You were goofing around again, weren't you?"

"What? No! No, I was doing extensive research on the guy. Right Albedo?"

"Y-yes! So much research! He was observing them through a video monitor and stalking random teenagers with me."

Wilhelm in response starts to stroke the Compass or Order hinting he knew the truth. "So, you were not spending the last 6 hours watching reruns of a Realian themed soap opera while you were supposed to be completing your duties?"

Virgil goes silent in front of them for a few minutes before he argues back with sad puppy eyes,"...but it's the greatest love story of our time." The Red and Black Testament flinch and cringe watching Virgil get pounded to the ground by an unseen force. Wilhelm was tapping on the desk with a disgruntled gaze as he made Virgil's body lift up and then slams him down with his telekinesis as payment for his insolence.

"So help me you fools, I will rip out the souls from your reanimated bodies if you keep being this idiotic!"

"Please Wilhelm, don't kill me! Give me another chance!" begged a frightened Virgil. He starts to flinch seeing a cartoonishly angry and fanged Wilhelm about to attack again, flailing his arms when he blurts out, "I really have been collecting information I swear! But it was getting so boring watching all the different Walters. The only exciting one was some Walter completing a secret weapons deal to some chick named Miyuki." Wilhelm upon hearing the name stops short of holding a casting call for the Blue Testament, extinguishing the killer balls of light surrounding him.

"A Miyuki, you say?" Wilhelm ponders with a devious glint in his eye. He sits back in his chair finally composing himself with a sneaky plan of getting rid of the pain in ass Walter. "Curious, what is this Miyuki's last name?"

"I think it was Itsumi, sir," a shaky and injured Virgil replies from the ground.

"Perhaps I doubted you too much, Virgil. Tell me more about this Miyuki…how is she affiliated with this particular Walter?" Wilhelm's nose twitches saying the man's name, the albino man couldn't contain his annoyance at the human who became nothing but trouble since he showed up.

"Well from what I could tell, besides playing matchmaker to teenagers and programming duties, Miyuki has been meeting up with Walter Calvin trading weaponry and programming materials with each other. Not much of relationship past business, the lady keeps treating him like he's a conspiracy nut who shouldn't quit his day job in the accounting department." Wilhelm and the Testaments start forming sweat drops on their heads after hearing the man reply.

"The meeting ended with a tradeoff of hush money over Miyuki using company materials to make weaponry for KOSMOS, and Walter handing her a flash drive as a gift. The guy was like 'never let the man know you have this and kept babbling on about it being top secret info on one of the higher ups and she was like 'Um ok! Now you keep quiet about my laser invention, and I'll keep your funny necklace safe and sound. (LOL)." Virgil finishes off his report with his last sentence sounding like a valley girl impression of the perky programmer.

"Yeah, that sounds like Itsumi." Kevin responds while pinching the bridge of his nose.

"So, he has entrusted the proof to Miyuki thinking we have no knowledge of her?" Wilhelm continues to give a devious smile.

"Yes, that seems to be the case." Virgil nodded. His subordinates look at Wilhelm like he grew devil horns on his head, the man plotting his next play. "Putting Miyuki's illegal activities aside for now, this sounds like the Walter we've been looking for," Wilhelm maintains a cool calm smile at his cronies.

"How should we proceed, Master Wilhelm?" asked Voyager.

"Given this is just a middle-aged man from the Accounting Department, Voyager seek out Walter Calvin and eliminate him. Take your time of course, Voyager, make sure he goes slowly." Voyager grins while clapping his hands like a happy child given a present as Wilhelm smiles thinking of Walter's tortured screams. He clasps his hands together ending his short moment of sadistic daydreaming to talk to the others.

"As for the rest of you, Kevin, continue with your current assignment with Albedo."

"Ahhhhhhh, I have to take him everywhere," groaned Kevin as Albedo sticks his tongue out at the Red Testament.

"Enough of the sass and finish what was started," glared Wilhelm.

"Yes sir..." The two Testaments grumbled and disappeared from the office, with Voyager teleporting afterwards with an excited look on his face (and for some reason taking a blowtorch with him).

"What about me, Master Wilhelm?" Virgil asked.

"I think you've learned you lesson for now. Continue spying on the Maiden and KOSMOS for the next 24 hours. I suggest you don't disappoint me again..." Virgil could feel the ominous auras behind Wilhelm linger as a warning to him.

"I read you loud and clear there, sir." Virgil nods with a bluer complexion while Wilhelm resumes looking at his computer screen moving on to his next move.

"Wait, Master Wilhelm. What should we do with this 'Miyuki Itsumi'? She's had close association with Walter involving these illegal deals, should we really leave her alive as a witness? Hell, she even has a copy of the evidence too." Wilhelm maintains his smile looking at the computer screen before he pulls out a phone from his pocket.

"Nothing to worry about, I think I can take care of that one easily." The devious man then spins around in a childish manner from his office chair before he looks up the woman's phone number. The man mutely chuckles as he begins typing a flirtatious text to the spunky Asian woman. He waits a moment until a ding sounds and reads 'Hey you (winking face), you're still busy?'

Virgil in a nosy fashion looks over his shoulder with curiosity until Wilhelm's eyes command him to back away. Wilhelm sits in his chair typing on his phone to entice the woman out of hiding. 'Just had my schedule finally open up thanks to your brilliant idea (winking face). I want to thank you for helping me. Could I interest you in dinner tonight?'
Not even a minute until the next ding before the man reads the text saying, '(blushing face) Yes! I'd be happy to go to dinner. When should I meet you?'
'(ponder face) I know it may be a little late, but how about at 9 tonight by the entertainment sector?'

'(excited face) That's okay! I get off at 7:30 anyway. See you then! (Winking devil face)'
'See you then (happy face with sunglasses).'

"Perfect", thought the man without noticing Virgil peeking over his shoulder again. Wilhelm now had the plans in place to retrieve the information from the Vector Programmer. While he was dealing with Miss Itzumi, Voyager could deal with the accountant as he sees fit. As long as he got rid of the evidence and body, that's all he cared about…. The red eyed man appears briefly perplexed by a set of emojis popping up on his phone while he leaned back in his chair. The emoji message was followed by Miyuki sending multiple apologetic texts back to him. Virgil watches Wilhelm become distracted trying to figure out the most enigmatic question at that moment. Virgil did not have the heart to help him answer said question. "What do these eggplant and taco emojis mean?"