"Promotion isn't a problem. Ever since news of the Ability User Tournament was released, the public has been eagerly anticipating it.
We barely even promoted it, yet it has already spread to countries all around the world.
Everyone is looking forward to the first Ability User Tournament six months from now and hopes to watch the matches in person.
The problem is that you proposed in the plan that, considering the safety concerns of ability user battles, holding it in a city would be inconvenient. You wanted to buy an isolated island near New York and host this World's Greatest Ability User Tournament there.
However, after our professionals investigated, the islands that meet your requirements are all extremely expensive.
And to hold the tournament, the entire island would need to be renovated in advance. That would be another huge expense..."
Listening as Susan listed expense after expense, Hawking understood what she was trying to say.
It was actually very simple. If they handled the World's Greatest Ability User Tournament entirely according to Hawking's requirements, the company would run out of money.
Thanks to the advertising value of Super Heroes and the various products derived from licensing rights, the company had indeed made quite a lot of money by now.
But not all of that money went into the company account. They also had to pay salaries to the Super Heroes and employees.
Meanwhile, Hawking had acquired companies, invested in games, supported Mariko, and now promised to fund Reed's experiments. The company's finances were already stretched to the limit.
If they bought a suitable isolated island and then developed and built upon it, it would take time on one hand, while on the other, they truly did not have enough money.
"So what do you mean?"
"I mean, could we postpone