On the screen, the woman sleeping slumped over her desk was jolted awake by the terminal's built-in alarm and snapped her head up.
She had fluffy, short, wavy hair, bleary eyes, and several red pressure marks on her face.
When she saw Milluki's enlarged face on the screen, her drowsiness vanished without a trace, replaced by towering fury.
"Milluki!"
A furious roar blasted out of the terminal, so loud that everyone's ears rang.
"You fucking hacked my private channel! Is the Zoldyck family not giving you enough work? So bored you want to retire early?"
Faced with Piyu's roaring, Milluki shrank back and hurriedly held the terminal farther away, plastering an ingratiating smile across his face.
"Please, have mercy! Calm down, calm down! I didn't have any other choice!"
"No other choice?" Piyu sneered, picking up the rabbit-ear hair accessory beside her and putting it back on. Her entire presence changed. "That's what you said last time, and then I spent three days patching the holes in my firewall! I've had this month's contact number for less than a week! Do you have any idea what a pain changing numbers is?"
"I know, I know." Milluki nodded and bowed, his manner utterly earnest. "But you keep disappearing. You don't answer messages or pick up calls. Where else am I supposed to find you without hacking in?"
That seemed to hit a sore spot. Piyu's fury subsided a little, but she still sounded irritated.
"Spit it out. What do you want? If you dare tell me it's about another limited-edition game console, I guarantee you won't catch so much as a glimpse of a data packet on my next encrypted channel."
"No, no!" Milluki hurriedly turned the terminal toward Bai Zhu. "This gentleman has an extremely urgent matter that requires your