Astonishment. Silence.
After the Empire's excessively young Chief Executive Officer gave his order, the conference room was instantly engulfed by that atmosphere.
Almost everyone wondered whether there was something wrong with their ears.
What had they just heard?
Suspension? Investigation?
Why!?
There was no cause, no reason. After making a round of greetings that sounded almost like empty pleasantries at this sort of meeting, he had directly singled someone out and announced such an unprovoked severe punishment.
The abruptness, arrogance, lack of reason, and sheer irrationality of it were unbelievable.
Most of the people sitting here were department heads in their respective fields within this "information hub," representing the connections behind those fields.
They had only just met and did not even know one another, yet he had raised a hand and fired someone outright. Every one of them instinctively felt shocked and suspicious.
Was he trying to establish his authority?
But such a crude method would not achieve anything. People turned their gazes toward the figure he had pointed at, who was not someone important in any particular field.
He was merely a non-core member of Ke Si Group's management.
"Wait! Executive Officer, this is..."
Quickly recovering, Fabian felt indignation, doubt, and incomprehension at the fact that the first order issued by this newly appointed superior was to severely punish one of his employees right in front of him.
As he frowned and spoke urgently, he looked toward Adeline, who was closer to him, as though appealing against this "atrocity."
With her calm eyes lowered against her snowy, indifferent features, Adeline merely lifted the coffee in front of her. Temporarily relieved of her assistant duties, her bearing and presence were impossibly lofty and cold.
"Announce the investigation results and the punishment internally to all employees."
She raised her other