Raymond turned back towards Akira and his eyes were filled with nothing but gratitude and warmth. He took a deep breath and taking a hold of his emotions he said,
"Let's have faith in God now. We have done our best and I am just thankful to all of you for that. I couldn't have asked for more".
His teammates heard him speak and the whole booth started reverberating with nothing but warm feelings. Nobody spoke a word but they all slowly came forward and huddled together. They stood there all united and everyone's eyes were fixated on the scoreboard. It was a now and never scenario for them.
And then the screen flickered.
At third place - MetaFile - 79/100
Raymond closed his eyes as he was now too nervous to even look at the scoreboard. His heart was racing hard and he was unable to calm his nerves.
The screen flickered again.
At second place - Gamma Corp - 86/100
