I kept my voice calm. “Your boss is hiding.”
His tone sharpened. “Hindi siya nagtatago. Pinapanood ka lang.”
I asked, “Where?”
He laughed again. “Malapit.”
Same answer. He enjoyed saying it.
I heard footsteps behind me—students passing—so I moved slightly, keeping my body angled so I can see reflections in a window.
And that’s when I caught it.
Cap guy, near the back gate path, standing just outside the fence line, pretending to check his phone. He wasn’t a student. He wasn’t staff. He was waiting for me to look.
My instinct wanted to close distance, disable, extract.
But I stayed calm.
Because this isn’t my old world.
This is evidence world.
So I said into the phone, “Tell your boss he’s wasting time.”
Silence.
Then he said, low, “Boss likes wasting time when it hurts.”
I f
