"Alliance Leader, Bronya's side has received new intelligence. A subsidiary of Anti-Entropy..." A blonde woman with long, wavy hair looked at the screen in her hand and reported the latest information to the man before her.
If Feng Chen had been here, he would have recognized exactly who the "Alliance Leader" the woman mentioned was.
His seemingly unkempt stubble and brown hair were utterly ordinary. The only particularly noticeable thing about him was the scarf around his neck.
That had been Feng Chen's first impression of Teacher Yang at St. Freya. However, this first impression could just as easily be applied to Anti-Entropy's Alliance Leader.
"I know. Leave the documents on the desk and go."
"Understood."
The blonde woman—Cocolia—placed the documents on the desk before leaving.
After Cocolia left, a light-blue-haired girl with curly hair emerged from the shadows nearby.
"Your physical condition is far from optimistic."
"I know."
"Then why haven't you accepted Tesla's proposal? You know that if you did, you wouldn't have to avoid the burden the Herrscher Core itself places on your body."
"I can't do that."
"But you're Anti-Entropy's Alliance Leader. If those people who covet your position learned how terrible your physical condition is, what do you think they would do?"
There was no doubt about it. They would first force him to abdicate. If they could beat him, they would seize the position; if they couldn't, they would take hostages. It was a very simple course of action.
"I know all that."
"Then why..."
The man slapped the desk, sending the documents on it sliding a short distance.
"Because I am Welt! I am the one who inherited this name. I can't abandon everything he worked so hard for! Even if..."
Welt paused, biting his lip as he looked out the window.
"Even