Executive conference room.
Of the twenty-odd senior executives seated at the long conference table, just under half immediately voiced their agreement with McCoy.
Sitch glanced impassively at the smug McCoy, taking note of the faces of those who spoke up. His furrowed brow soon relaxed again.
He had long since noticed that certain people were privately forming little cliques among the Association's executives, and seemed to contact wealthy tycoons from time to time to hold some sort of private event.
But none of the internal investigators he had previously dispatched had managed to make any substantive progress.
Still, based on the information available, they could already be reasonably certain that the director of Headquarters' Second Operations Room was one of the core members, and very possibly the original organizer.
As for what exactly those private events involved, they truly knew nothing!
Now it seemed these people had already gained considerable influence and no longer even wanted to keep up appearances.
"It seems more than a third of our colleagues are opposed." Sitch considered for two seconds, then suddenly put a sincere smile on his honest-looking face. "In that case, why don't we get the Z City Branch on a call?"
"I've received word that the two initiators of the joint recommendation, Super Police and Silver Fang, are currently at the Z City Association Branch. Why don't you discuss it with them face-to-face?"
Sitch made the suggestion with a smile that did not reach his eyes.
"Huh?" × N
At those words, quite a few Association executives visibly paled.
In name, all the executives present held authority over the management of professional Heroes.
In practice, however, the S-Class Heroes at the pinnacle of the Hero ranks did not necessarily have to obey the Association's orders. They were entirely free to carry