"Though I don't know who you are, this is Kazimierz."
"Interesting. You made such a huge mistake, yet you're warning me? Don't you know that after this blunder, you'll probably lose your position as spokesperson?"
He did not even need to say the rest. This was not as simple as losing the title of spokesperson. The Commercial Federation was exceptionally strict with its spokespersons. Not even the slightest mistake was tolerated; once they failed, they were replaced.
In the original Grand Championship storyline, strictly speaking, Charnay had not made any major mistake.
The appearance of Radiant Knight Nearl was simply not something he could have prevented, not to mention Rhodes Island and Kazimierz's Council of Elders afterward.
Yet strangely enough, the Commercial Federation stripped Charnay of his spokesperson position while appointing Markvitz, the man he had recommended. They were probably confident that no one could refuse the temptation of capital. And indeed, going from an unknown nobody who might not even have a secure tomorrow to a spokesperson holding immense power was a temptation few could resist.
There were far too few people like Charnay, who had occupied the position of spokesperson for so long without being corrupted. Even whether Markvitz could retain his original aspirations later on was hard to say. That was precisely why, at the very end, Charnay had given Markvitz one final lesson: using his own death to make him remember all of this.
"I have matters to attend to. Goodbye."
Charnay did not respond to Shen Fei's words. He turned and prepared to leave. Naturally, he understood his own situation, but against the Commercial Federation, he had no power to resist. The only thing he could perhaps use was this life of his, to make someone understand capital's true face.
To most people, a spokesperson