"I can tell you're a smart man, Glenn. Otherwise, you wouldn't have had the Unity Society run smuggling operations while also winning over the people's hearts, turning the residents of Bahamut Town into your eyes and having them willingly cover for you. You rose to power with the help of ordinary people, yet unlike other gangs, you neither preyed on merchants nor bullied civilians. Instead, you focused on expanding smuggling and aiding more oppressed commoners."
"As a gang, you didn't bully the weak. Instead, you united them. I have to say, that suits my tastes quite well."
"Moreover, although you came from the slums, you never stopped learning. At sixteen, you earned a lawyer's license from the Golden Rose Kingdom through your own abilities and used it to further the Unity Society's development, making your gang's smuggling operations more stable. I greatly admire your intelligence and ambition."
"If your leader hadn't tried to assassinate me before this, I would have been more than willing to recruit the entire Unity Society into the Empire."
"Unfortunately, things rarely go as one wishes. After your leader caused this mess, regrettable as it may be, I can only make an example out of you to warn the rest."
"Otherwise, if someone could assassinate an Imperial major and the gang he belonged to still survived, it would undoubtedly be an insult to the Empire."
"And as the price for insulting the Empire, that person and the organization behind him have only one possible outcome in my view. That outcome is..."
Facing Glenn's constricted pupils, John calmly spoke the final two words.
"Death."
As John's words fell, the Administrative Office abruptly sank into dead silence. The atmosphere became inexplicably suffocating.
Tap!
After hearing the other man casually expose the Unity Society's years of development, even laying