LET ME FEEL THE HYPERNOVA
Hope Giver

"Hi.." said Leon just like that, Jojo's eyes were tense enough that he needed to melt the atmosphere.

Jojo opened the fence made from his arm, so the distance between them was slightly stretched.

"You work here?" Jojo asked, cold.

"Yes, he's an employee here!" Josh from inside.

Jojo nodded then swept Leon's appearance from top to bottom.

"I've never seen you before, but, whatever department you're in, I want you not to tell anyone what you saw before."

"I didn't see anything" Leon said.

"It's good to pretend you didn't see anything!"

"But..."

"Joo.." In the middle of Leon and Jojo's conversation, a young man comes to Jojo.

"Oh, you?"

"Here, for your breakfast. Work with passion, by the way..."

"At least call me brother, I'm older than you!"

The young man came just to give him two cheesecakes and a bottle of strawberry-flavored yogurt, Jojo's breakfast menu every morning on duty. The man smiled happily while waving his hand.

"Why bother?" His inner. As usual, Jojo is always overwhelmed with guilt whenever anyone likes him openly.

Once again, Leon witnessed unexpected scenes, making him think that the first woman he met was quite popular at KNJ.

"Just pretend you didn't see it."

Jojo said it with a gloomy face, then left as if the man he was talking to was no longer useful.

Leon tilted his head, looking at Jojo's back while wondering for catching something strange from a woman who wasn't quite happy to be given attention.

"You're gonna shut up? Work properly!"

Josh's sudden shout interrupted his daydream, making him rise in blood. Leon gets back in the car, "I'll fire you later!"

Josh is 5 years older than Leon, but Leon doesn't treat him like a parent to be respected. Since young Josh has worked for Leon's father, taking care of Leon, and taking care of him up close, so Leon has been considered like a brother who should have been protected.

Josh chuckles, "You're not in?" Ask later.

"Ckk, I'll go in after everyone else comes in, so attention will be on me" Leon replied with a proud smile.

"Is this guy amazing?"

"Shut up, don't be noisy!"

...***...

Jojo clasped the bag full of bread and yogurt, he patted his chest despite knowing it had no effect on stabilizing his heartbeat due to meeting Geri and then received more attention from colleagues. He tries not to think too much.

His office was on the 5th floor, when the elevator door opened he was able to find a new batch of reporters waiting for instructions from Satya Bayu, as the managing editor.

Jojo ignored the reporters, he walked through the hallway made of bookshelves, then arrived at his desk.

"Morning," said Jojo.

"Sister Jojoo." a woman ran towards Jojo and hit him on the arm.

"Heard you were pickled? You're all right, right? No one was hurt, right?"

"I'm fine, but now I'm hurt from being hit. Wait, how did you know?"

"Joshua was screaming hysterically, of course everyone knows." Answer the other partner.

Jojo clucked, indeed the fat man could not keep a secret.

"I'm going to find a big sister to no longer go home alone."

Milly is famous for her talent in the office. Already many colleagues who get rid of the status of single thanks to his intervention. With the exception of Jojo, Milly was always curious why for one this felt so difficult.

"So how much it's gonna be, but Milly, if you make it, I'm gonna use my savings to buy you a vacation ticket."

"Woah.. Are you sure your wife won't get angry if she finds out?" Jojo chuckled, Joshua seemed to be frustrated because his comrades in arms were still at the same point he thought.

"I'm not sure you'll make it, he's too old for friends your age." Exclaimed Fika Anastasya, you could say he is Jojo's nemesis.

"Why is there an incense smell here? Who is playing the ghost calling game? The ghost has arrived!" Jojo pretends to be surprised, replying to Fika to be even more annoyed is his forte.

"From year to year, Jojo is single. I'm tired of asking when you had a boyfriend? When did you get married?" His partner in the corner.

"Hey, do you think when marriage is a question worth asking? How do I know when I'm getting married!"

Joshua pulled Jojo's shirt and spoke softly, "Joo, there's no need to get married, the most important thing is that you have a lover so you don't hear these words."

"So you don't get too stressed out thinking about work either..."

"For your life to be more colorful..."

"You're too busy with your own world..."

Apparently everyone can still hear Joshua's speech so that it comes along. Hearing it does not make Jojo calm, but makes him more upset.

"No one really understands, I enjoy it, don't talk anymore!" He shouted, removing Joshua's hand from his shirt.

"Joo, you can do it, I really hope for you."

"Hopeful to me? You must be wrong, I just gave up on myself, how can you?"

Fika smiled fiercely, this woman that Jojo called a 'witch' has always been a bitch.

"What are you all doing? Quickly assemble!" Ridho's voice as an editor shrill, completely shaking everything in the room.

"Ready captain!"

Reply simultaneously to the senior reporters, one by one of them came out while bowing their heads.

...***...

Jojo and his colleagues stood behind Satya Bayu and Ridho, in front of them was a junior reporter who from the look of his face looked so excited and ready to work. The faces of the first day of work are always like that.

Satya had finished his speech and he gave Ridho the opportunity to read out the division of the team based on their decision. After that, he returned to his room.

As usual, Ridho uttered the words with firmness. Everyone he mentioned his name felt quite satisfied because it got a satisfactory location and according to their expectations.

"Rosa will join Fika Anastasya. Rosa, Fika is an exemplary and accomplished reporter, make good use of her knowledge, huh?" Hearing that Rosa was happy, Fika was so.

"Cchh... What example? Though his skills steal people's news!" Cibir Jojo from behind.

Jojo is one of the people whose work is often stolen when it is up to 89% completed. If it is not stolen, then Ridho will ask him to submit an investigation to Fika. If it's like that all he can do is curse from behind, Jojo hates the commotion.

"All right, there's two people left, okay you're gonna be a team..."

"I'll team up with him!"

There was a foreign voice suddenly, all eyes looking for the origin of the sound, then found a charismatic figure like an anime character out of the comic.

"Who are you?" Tanya Ridho was quite surprised.

"You said you'd be on which team?" Ridho asked, he was still busy flabbergasted.

"He!" Point Leon right in front of Jojo's face, making Jojo surprised because he thought his eyes would be plugged in.

"Me?"

Leon nodded and smiled again, making the several pairs of female eyes seem enchanted as well as envious.

"Yesterday you weren't in training, who got you out, huh?" Ridho asked, his voice booming again.

"Ah, I got a connection to work here."

"At a while." Ridho's palm gave a restraining gesture, he went to ask Satya who had not long gone from there.

Jojo kept silent looking at the face of the man who met him half an hour ago, his eyes constantly pounding on Leon until not blinking in the slightest. He silently stared, his head showing a memory that reminded him of someone.

The man's eyes were round, clear as the rabbit's eyes he used to see. A name in my heart, Ranoar. Yes, the man's eyes resemble those of a child he hates at home. His slight parasites showed a cute side exactly like his half-brother Ranoar.

"Joo, you're fascinated too?" Milly nudges Jojo with his shoulder, making Jojo sober and immediately shakes his head, preventing his mind from wandering everywhere.

"No!" Answer Jojo, lightly.

"Why do you want to be my partner?" Jojo asked with a calm look.

"Because only you seem to have no hope. I was born to give new hope to the desperate." Repet Leon, he so frankly said what was in his head.

Everyone who was there looked at each other, it was unexpected that there was a junior who dared to say such a thing to his senior.

"You mean I'm desperate?!" Jojo asked, raising his voice.

"But he's right!" Follow his friends at the same time. Except Fika who smiles happily.

His premonition was right, today was a tiring day, especially tired in his heart. If beating people is not an act of violence, then Jojo wants to show the taekwondo techniques that Nara often teaches.

"Hey, you don't know me, nor do you know how I treat my partner. Before you regret it, you better choose another!"

"Joo... jo?"

"I heard the man who kissed you earlier called you Jojo."

"Man?"

"Kiss?" Jojo's colleagues who had known him for a long time became rowdy.

"Yes, the other man who gave her bread while smiling sweetly also called her Joo."

Jojo was speechless, he told Leon not to say anything he saw, but this guy said everything clearly. He wanted to stuff the guy's mouth.

"FREQUENT!!"

"FINALLY THIS OLD MAN HAS A BETTER CHANCE OF LIVING!"

"Oh, I forgot! Didn't you ask me to keep this a secret?" Leon patted his forehead, earnestly forgetting to keep his mouth shut, and sincerely regretted. This man's mouth is hard to stop when he talks.

The murderous gaze from the pair of plump eyes rained down on Leon, Jojo not kidding if already annoyed. With red eyes, red ears, nose blazing fire, Jojo rubbed his thumb against his neck, referring to the threat of snuffing Leon in case it bothers him again.

"Oh, have you come?" Satya's breath was so stung from running, she had just read a message from Josh and the head of HRD that her close friend since Junior High would be working under her kamando.

Leon smiled and bowed, pretending to be a foreign employee who had never known a respected person at KNJ News.

"I've read messages from HRD, he's a new reporter too. Welcome to KNJ News."

"thank you. Oh yeah, I'll team up with Jojo, won't I?" Leon asked with a smile.

"Jojo?" Satya wonders for herself, there is no such deal, but Leon's eyes force her to say "yes". Want not Satya will obey him.

"Sure! Joo, he'll be your partner."

"I refuse, Kapt."

"Ah, Ridho please," Satya is not the type of leader who easily nags, so he handed sadistic rants to Ridho. Ridho immediately lectured Jojo in front of everyone.

"Ah fuck!" Jojo cursed in his heart.

...***...

Leon's first assignment as a reporter was to help Jojo dig up the news as Ridho had instructed. He needs to pay attention to what his senior usually does, especially before he did not get training.

"We're not officially acquainted yet, are we?" Leon followed behind Jojo as they were about to start work.

"No need!"

"Joo. Joo..."

Jojo kept quiet and accelerated his pace.

"Have you forgiven me?"

"What's the point of being angry?"

Hearing him made a boxy smile on Leon's lips. It turned out that in addition to her seemingly hopeless face, the woman also easily ignored the ones that had already passed, Leon thought.

"You get confessions often?"

"No!"

"really?"

"Why? You want to express love to me? Are you interested in me?" Jojo stopped his speech, speaking to Leon.

"Cch I've got a lover. I'm not interested in you." Leon showed a picture of his girlfriend mounted on a mobile phone screen. The wavy long haired lady who was smiling knots while grasping the flowers.

"Don't say no, someone who already has a lover can be attracted to others, has often happened in the world."

"But not in my world." Leon said, Jojo's words sound pretty shitty.

"I love my girlfriend so much, her name is Jane Zoedan. He's a doctor in New Zealand, we've been dating for a long time..."

"I'm not interested in hearing your story!" Jojo's words were full of emphasis, plus his sadistic gaze, made Leon instantly speechless.

But, as Leon put it, just a few seconds later he started snoring again, "The guy who gave you food, you realize he likes you?"

"Look, there's a limit to being my partner! You can only ask about work, no private chats, no confiding about your life. I'm keeping that line very much..."

"Also, your dress style, isn't it an exaggeration for a reporter who works outside more often than in the office?" With cynics Jojo continued his steps.

Leon was flabbergasted, he saw his appearance, for him there was no harm in wearing after a suit like this.

"I'm dressed neatly because I'm ready to appear on television to cover the news, and I don't know!" The batteries. No one has ever treated him like this. Even Satya complied with what she wanted, but this woman? Leon was at a loss for words.

"Have you ever thought people would hate you?"

"People like me don't care about that." Jojo replied calmly and Leon grew flabbergasted.

"The problem is that there are no more people like you!" Shouted Leon later. Even his identity as the granddaughter of Pasha Kenaju was like nothing if he became a reporter like this.

"Leon, just your presence alone is a trial for others, lest he be your ordeal." He was alone with pursed lips.

...***...