Just as Jonas had said, Mr. Mister was indeed caught between a rock and a hard place.
Because of how he had handled the incidents involving Kogal Wetting and Bellock, Mister, the acting chairman, had lost the trust of the other board members.
But as acting chairman, Mister had to make decisions, even if they might harm the board's interests.
With Jonas holding an overwhelming advantage, any attempt at a cover-up could give him ammunition to attack the board.
Rather than drag things out, it was better to make a clean break.
Yet few of the other board members understood this. They only saw that Mister, a fellow board member, had ruled in Jonas's favor, and they could not help resenting it.
Smellica District, the Wetting Conglomerate.
Mister watched the people coming and going below his window, a dark glint flashing in his eyes.
Recent events had left him overwhelmed. Jonas Wetting was far harder to deal with than he had imagined, but the biggest problem was the other board members... Their interests were clearly aligned, yet those idiots insisted on believing rumors that he would betray the board.
Naturally, he knew who had spread those rumors. Plenty of people coveted his position as acting chairman. Those ambitious, useless bastards had been planning to fight among themselves long before this incident.
Now that they had finally seized an opportunity, of course they would use it to attack him relentlessly.
Mister gave a cold sneer, and a hairline crack appeared in the wineglass in his hand.
A bunch of useless fools who ruined more than they accomplished. All they could do was hold their own people back.
-Beep, beep, beep.
An electronic alert sounded abruptly. Mister glanced at the caller, and a flicker of surprise crossed his gloomy eyes.
Because the