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Chapter 18 : The Hospital Five Years Ago
It was six in the morning, Elias had not slept. Since the previous night, the final warning from the Book of Debts had been turning over and over in his mind. Do not trust every piece of information that has been given to you. And one name had appeared right after that message: Arman Pratama.Elias sat in his office chair, staring at his laptop screen. On the desk before him lay three things: the Book of Debts, the black folder retrieved from Warehouse 17, and an old photograph showing Hartono standing beside Arman.They felt like scattered pieces of a puzzle that had not yet found their proper place. Still, Elias refused to draw conclusions based only on a system warning. Arman had stood by him when no one else would. He had given Elias work. He had given him a chance. He had even made certain that his father’s belongings were safely delivered into Elias’s hands. If Arman was indeed hiding something… Elias needed to understand why first. He would not accuse him without proof.He clo
Chapter 17 : The Erased Name
Rain fell as Elias left the port district. The night sky looked dark and heavy. Water streaked the windshield, while streetlights blurred into long, trembling lines of light. His hands gripped the steering wheel, but his mind was far away.The black folder he had retrieved from Warehouse Seventeen lay on the passenger seat beside him. He glanced at it several times. The golden scale emblem on the cover felt increasingly familiar — not because of its shape, but because it had appeared too many times. First in the Book of Debts, then in the black leather journal left by Hartono, and now in this folder his father had hidden away for years. Three objects. One symbol. It could not be mere coincidence.It was nearly eleven at night when Elias arrived at his apartment. The living room light was still on. He opened the door quietly and found his mother asleep on the sofa, her light blue scarf still wrapped around her neck. Elias paused guilt washed over him. He had left without saying where h
Chapter 16: Analysis Mode
"Five years we've waited for someone to open that safe."The large man's voice echoed through the dark warehouse."And finally… Hartono Pratama's son has arrived."Elias stood perfectly still. His gaze shifted between the three men who had blocked the exit one stood directly in front of the door, while the other two slowly spread left and right, surrounding him. They were trained. Not ordinary street thugs. Elias kept his breathing steady. But the next moment, the Book of Debts inside his bag vibrated. A mechanical voice only he could hear rang clearly in his mind: «Threat Detected. Targets: 3. Activating Auditor Analysis Mode…»Instantly, the world around him seemed to slow not time itself, but his own mind working faster than ever before. A glowing golden interface appeared before his eyes, floating in mid-air. Thin lines of text began filling his vision:Target 01 Threat Level: BCondition: Old injury to the right knee.Fighting Pattern: Left-handed dominant.His gaze shifted slig
Chapter 15: The First Trail
"Trust no one… not even the person closest to you."Those words kept echoing in Elias's mind all the way home. His car cut through the city streets now glowing with evening lights. On the passenger seat lay the wooden box left behind by Hartono Pratama, resting beside the black leather journal he had just found. Yet one question kept weighing on him if his father had known betrayal was coming… why hadn't he stopped it long agoBack at his apartment, the living room light was still on. His mother sat on the sofa, knitting a pale blue scarf. The moment she saw him walk in, her face lit up."Have you eaten?" Elias smiled gently. "Yes, Mom." "That's a lie. I know that look on your face you haven't eaten a thing."Elias chuckled softly. Even after everything they had lost,his mother could still spot the smallest lie."Let me make you some noodles.""Mom, really "But she was already on her feet, heading toward the kitchen. "Your father always said he'd eaten too. And then he'd end up fin
Chapter 14: The First Lesson
"I know exactly where to go." Elias’s voice broke the silence in Arman’s study. Carefully, he refolded his father’s letter and slipped it back into the brown folder. His gaze was far steadier now than it had been only minutes before.Arman watched him closely. "Which place did Hartono mean?" Elias shook his head slowly. "Not the office. Not our home. Nor any place connected to Arunika Capital.""Then where?" Elias gave a faint, knowing smile. "The very place where Father first taught me what trust truly means." Arman fell silent for a moment. Then, as though recalling something long buried, the corners of his mouth lifted. "That old shop…" Elias nodded. "Yes. It is the one place Rafael would never think to look." One hour later A black sedan pulled up before an old street on the city’s outskirts. The buildings here still stood much as they had decades ago—faded paint, weathered wooden signs, and great, spreading trees that shaded the sidewalk, lending the whole area a warmth tha
Chapter 13: The Last Legacy
"There is something I should have given you five years ago." Arman’s voice still echoed in Elias’s ears as the older man slid an aged brown folder across the desk toward him, in the upper right corner, written in familiar handwriting, was a name he knew all too well. Hartono Pratama. Elias’s fingers froze on the folder’s cover. His chest tightened with a feeling he could scarcely name. Since his father’s passing, nearly all of his belongings had changed hands. Some had been seized along with the family assets, others vanished entirely when Rafael took control of Arunika Capital. But this folder he had never seen it before."This belonged to Father?" he asked, his voice barely above a whisper.Arman nodded slowly. "Hartono entrusted it to me just a few months before he passed away." Elias looked up, a faint frown creasing his brow "Why only now?"The older man sighed deeply before leaning back in his chair. "Because it was your father’s wish."The room fell into silence."He said,
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