Curtain Call and Entrance

(Big Bird Spin Spin Bar)

"Then..."

Platinum looked at Charney before her, just about to speak, when he waved a hand.

"Forget the rest. Just tell me the answer."

"You really are straightforward... But you already know the answer, so why ask me?" Platinum shrugged. Dealing with people like this was exhausting.

"It was only a guess... So, was it because of Namba Heavy Industries?" Charney had not paid much attention to the matches. He had been pondering where exactly things had gone wrong.

Then, a company he had noticed before but never paid much attention to entered his sight: Namba Heavy Industries.

It was an emerging company, unheard of before. Its first appearance had been during Maria's match against Plastic Knight.

After that, whenever Maria competed, it was always there.

And this time, the company backing Blanket Knight was Namba Heavy Industries.

Charney did not even need to think to arrive at the answer.

"You could say that..." Platinum nodded. "A new player has joined the game, and most importantly, for certain reasons, the Commercial Union's board had no choice but to accept this player."

Charney sighed.

"I see. So Fartooth Knight is fine as well?"

"No comment..." Platinum did not answer again.

Facing the Armorless Union knight's lukewarm response, Charney finally felt the change in his status firsthand.

He was no longer that smooth-talking spokesperson.

In just a few short hours, he had fallen from the heights of Kazimierz.

In truth, the Commercial Union was not a united front. Those big shots on the board had joined forces only to keep a firm grip on the table, but deciding how to divide the cake on that table still required plenty of open and covert struggle.

Charney had been chosen as spokesperson, but he had originally belonged to Mesh