Code: Remote Support (pt 2)

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After about 20 minutes of idle chit-chat between the three and some tag-team cooking, the other house guests all emerged from their temporary rooms.  Well, Atsushi was practically a permanent resident now so I guess his room isn't temporary... but you get my point.

Naomi and Haruno giddily sat at the table and told Atsushi all about an episode of a dating show they watched last night on "Y/n's massive flt screen".   Naomi constantly commented how all of the guys were sub-par to her brother in every way.

Atsushi was quietly biding his time at the counter while the two women relentlessly barraged him with their take on the latest episode.  The poor boy just wanted his tea on rice, not to hear about how Fabio was voted out of the pool house this week.  The President had migrated to the living room where he was reading the reports Y/n compiled at her small glass-top coffee table.

Dazai had finished helping Y/n cook and was now leaning against the counter beside her reading the reports while she finished the breakfast.  Dazai was skilled with a kitchen knife and could easily chop any ingredient she placed in front of him, but once when he tried to help her cook on the stove he caught some ramen on fire.   Now, once everything is brought to a boil he is banned from touching anything.

After some time, the dish was ready and she began scooping the dish into bowls and passing them around to her house guests, who all happily accepted the non-traditional breakfast meal.

With no room at the counter to eat, Dazai and Y/n took their food to the living room and sat at her coffee table alongside the President.  Y/n brought a bowl for the older gentleman, who gave her a faint smile and said, "Thanks."

Dazai and the President continued to read her reports.  Every now and then, one of the two would ask her a question about something they noticed in the reports, but Dazai asked one question in particular that sparked a deep conversation.

"Y/n, this report is about a group of hackers from Russia?  Did you mean to print this?  What's their connection to anything going on right now?"

Y/n took a bite of her tea on rice before she said, "Well, if you keep reading, you'll see there is almost no trace of them whatsoever, and that is saying a lot coming from me. nNothing on the internet can hide from me, yet they're doing a dang good job of that.  Even without any solid trail of their activities, they've been reported as having run-ins with the Guild, and on three confirmed occasions the Guild has paid the group for their 'services,' though the services were never discussed anywhere that I could find.  I mentioned them because depending on how desperate the Guild is in achieving their goal, they may call in some additional forces.  The next two reports are on similar groups that the Guild had business with.  We should know the basics of each just in case we have a run-in with them.  Then, should we discover one of these groups are involved, I'll dig deeper then.  After all, we can see already the Guild has no issues kidnapping to get what they want, why should we expect them to not pay for additional support?"

Both Dazai and the President listened into her debrief before Yukichi asked, "This group, in particular, has significantly less information than the other two reports. Were they really able to cover their tracks that well?"

Y/n took another bite of her meal whilst nodding in confirmation.

Dazai was looking over the report with a blank expression before he mumbled out, "The Rats in the House of the Dead, huh? Interesting... and you've checked over the Port Mafia's server already too, right?"

Y/n nodded in confirmation and pulled up her database in front of her as she said, "I've checked every database and server that I have access to, and that is all I found. If I somehow had access to the Guild's servers, or the Gifted Operations Division's, I'm sure I'd find a gold mine there."

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