Chapter 42: Hacked!

July 18th.

I was hanging with Lars, Cattleya, Willow, Boris and Selene at Café du Pécheur.

"Charlie almost caught you guys, huh?" Cattleya wondered,

"Yeah…" Lars replied, "She and the others were in Ren's room going through his belongings and didn't have a hold of anything."

"Something seems off around here." Willow said,

"Definitely." I said,

Boris was then trying to access the Phantom Phan-site on his phone, but something was off.

"Huh, I can't even get to my brother's site." He said, "Error."

"Really?" Cattleya wondered, "Why?"

"I don't know…"

"Here, let's go to my laptop." Willow said as she pulled out her laptop,

"Did your brother's site get hacked?" Selene wondered,

"Maybe?" Boris replied, "Maybe not."

Willow went to the Phantom Phan-site through her laptop and noticed that the site was working on her end.

"Well, the site's working through my laptop." She said,

"Oh that's good." Boris said, "Let's see who's heart we can–"

Then, Willow's laptop started glitching up.

"What the hell?!" Willow shouted, "My laptop! I didn't download anything malicious!"

Willow was pressing keys until her laptop was shown to have a chat with someone by the name of ByteSmyte66.

"Huh?!" Willow shouted, "A chat?!"

"And look at the User you're chatting with!" Lars said, "ByteSmyte66."

"Wonder what he, she, they or it wants." Selene said,

ByteSmyte66 then responds first with: "Hello, I am ByteSmyte66."

"Why did you hack me?" Willow typed,

"Let's see if she can actually respond." Willow said to her friends,

We wait for a few seconds until ByteSmyte66 replied with: "Because I'm jealous of your success as the Phantom Thieves." That shocked us.

"What the?!" Lars shouted, "They know we're the Phantom Thieves?!"

"And why are they jealous of us?" Selene wondered,

"I don't know…" Willow replied, "Here, let me type this in to them."

Willow then typed in: "How did you know about our existence and why are you jealous?"

Later, ByteSmyte66 replied with: "I'm just jealous of your existence as Phantom Thieves. As for my hacking, I've hacked the site and hack anyone that comes across this site. It's an instant loss for you guys."

"What a response." Boris said, "Hacking my little brother's website only because you're jealous of The Phantom Thieves."

ByteSmyte66 then replied with: "Wanna know the consequences of those that I hacked?" In which that concerns us.

"Ok, this is getting freaky." Selene said,

Willow replied with: "What consequences are you talking about?"

ByteSmyte66 replied with: "On August 15th, I will leak your information to the police."

We all got shocked.

"The police?!" Boris said, "Are they crazy?!"

"Seems likely!" Cattleya replied,

Willow then replied with: "You're taking this too far."

ByteSmyte66 then replied with: "I do what I want to do if I want to come out on top."

"Probably an attention seeker." Lars said,

"Does this look like an attention seeker?" Cattleya said,

"Hey, don't fight." Willow said, "Let me finish up the conversation."

Willow responds with: "What do you want from us?"

ByteSmyte66 replied with: "Meet with this group tomorrow, July 19th. I've already hacked them before you since their boss is too stupid to even go to the website."

"What group and who's boss are they talking about?" Boris wondered,

Willow replied with: "Can you be specific?"

ByteSmyte66 replied with: "The Immediate Murder Professionals."

"Wh-THEM?!" Cattleya shouted,

"You know them?" Boris asked,

"No, but I've heard of them!"

"What do they even do?" I wondered

"Basically, they're a group of imp assassins here in Pride and they pretty much help sinners kill their targets for whoever killed them back on Earth."

"Sounds like a mouthful." Lars said,

"Here, let me show you guys their commercial. It's corny as fuck."

When Cattleya got to her phone, she went to the internet. Unfortunately, it got hacked.

"Satan damn it! The internet got hacked!" She shouted,

"Was it ByteSmyte66 that did it?" Selene wondered,

"Let me ask them that." Willow replied,

Willow asked ByteSmyte66: "Did you also hack the internet? A friend of mine wanted to show me a commercial created by The Immediate Murder Professionals."

ByteSmyte66 replied: "Yeah." Cattleya sighed.

"Well, what do we do now?" Cattleya wondered,

Willow replied to ByteSmyte66 with: "What do you want us to do with The Immediate Murder Professionals?"

ByteSmyte66 replied: "Go to their location and talk to them. I'll leave you all from there."

"There's no way in this ring that we're gonna go see a group of literal assassins!" Lars shouted,

Willow's computer was then glitching up again as it returned to the home screen of her computer as if The Phantom Phan-site wasn't present.

"Seems likely we are." Willow said, "And the hacker said tomorrow we gotta meet them."

"Well, it looks like the internet's back up." Cattleya said, "Here, now is the good time to show you all their corny as fuck commercial."