Chapter 2773
Running into that Great Fox in Old Yao's office at noon on friday was not the only thing that upset Zheng Qing that day.
That evening.
During the Seven Deadly Sins gathering, he received another irritating piece of news.
The current "Mammon" had received a commission from the previous "Mammon," who hoped the Seven Deadly Sins could obtain some biological information on several Great Sprites through the school's channels.
As an organization with loose management yet strict rules, under normal circumstances, only the Sin Eater in the Seven Deadly Sins dealt with information regarding outside commissions, while the devils within the organization mostly only engaged in things like "information exchange" and "resource sharing."
A fitting comparison was that the Seven Deadly Sins resembled a café. Every member was a customer there for coffee; everyone could overhear the idle chatter of other customers and see the mission details listed on the little blackboard behind the counter, but no one was strictly obligated to do anything. Yet, like long-running cafés where regulars sometimes brought snacks and drinks to share with others once they had grown close to the owner, the Seven Deadly Sins did not restrict members from posting outside commissions.
At times, Zheng Qing felt that the Seven Deadly Sins' operating model bore a certain resemblance to that of America's CAA, the Creative Artists Agency—flat management, equal cooperation, shared client lists. Every member who joined the Seven Deadly Sins could have the entire organization serve them, and every member also contributed their own resources to the organization.
More importantly, this loose management style gave many old members who had already left the Seven Deadly Sins a chance to maintain lingering ties. Through the relationship between "predecessors and successors," they could retain indirect contact with the Seven Deadly Sins and,