"All right, you may leave."
Afanisi spoke softly. The attendant beside her seemed to want to say something more, but couldn't bring herself to speak. After a moment's hesitation, she left as instructed.
She had wanted to suggest that the Saintess pay closer attention to suspicious people within the organization. After all, if a mole surfaced at a time like this, all their efforts over the past while would have been for nothing.
But a "mole" had also sparked their earlier conflict with the Alt Conglomerate. She worried that bringing it up might upset the Saintess, so after hesitating briefly, she decided against voicing her thoughts.
The Saintess thought much further ahead than she did. Surely nothing would go wrong.
She reassured herself with that thought, ultimately swallowing everything she had wanted to say as she withdrew through the door.
The Star of Dawn.
Amau Sueko drew a deep breath as she looked at the information her subordinates had compiled.
Gathering intelligence on the Alt Conglomerate was no easy task... at least, that was certainly true for the Star of Dawn in its current state.
The Star of Dawn's insider at the Alt Conglomerate had not contacted them of their own accord since the last operation. And according to the intelligence they had gathered, the Alt Conglomerate hadn't done anything to that senior engineer... as though they hadn't discovered the engineer's identity.
From that perspective, although the plan had failed, at least their backup inside the Alt Conglomerate remained intact... that should have been something for the Star of Dawn to celebrate, but Amau Sueko couldn't shake the feeling that it wasn't so simple.
First, there was the Alt Conglomerate itself. With Jonas's intelligence, he must have deduced that someone inside the company was leaking information. He had always