Light-Dark Conversion

Absolute power corrupted absolutely.

That was Wu Pifu's only thought after hearing what these company members had to say.

Once upon a time, the Azure Organization had practically been humanity's hope—the savior organization that had saved everything when humanity was at its most desperate and helpless. Even the organization's founding members had anticipated countermeasures against Azure's future fall from grace. Yet in the end, the Azure Organization had still fallen completely, once again reaching the point where it was about to bury all of human civilization...

"...So what do you want to do?"

Wu Pifu thought it over for quite a while before asking.

The young man and his companions exchanged glances. In the end, it was the stiff-faced, bespectacled man who looked like a tech geek who spoke. "We want to reverse light and dark!"

"What?" Wu Pifu asked, utterly baffled. "Speak plainly!"

The tech geek immediately flushed red. The young man behind him covered his face and pulled him back, speaking on his behalf. "Please forgive him, sir. He is our company's chief technician. Our circumstances are unusual here; technical personnel hold the highest status, so he is our leader. But since he is a technical person, you understand... Put simply, we want the companies to rise to power, while the part of the Azure Organization that still retains justice, integrity, and capability remains hidden in the background, becoming a sword hanging over the companies' heads. By alternating the main body of political power in this way, we can keep it vital instead of allowing long-term power to breed decay!"

Wu Pifu was startled, then suddenly understood.

He had wondered about this ever since learning that the Azure Government had fallen due to the Final Producer. Why had the thirteen Singularity Companies risen afterward? And in terms of