"We do have a few suggestions regarding funding."
It was Luo Shu who spoke. Although he strongly suspected Tachibana Kirika had yielded the floor to help him establish authority before these senior officials, he naturally had no reason to refuse something with no downside.
"As I understand it, the Union provides some financial compensation for operations to eliminate dangerous races? Generally speaking, how much does that compensation cover?"
Luo Shu kept his eyes on Daichi Fujiwara as he spoke.
Daichi Fujiwara knew nothing about this. He scratched his head and looked at Akira Fukuda.
Akira Fukuda resisted the urge to roll his eyes. His eyes shifted before he answered:
"Nominally, they reimburse 50%, but in practice, it will most likely be only 30-35%."
"So the actual funding shortfall is 70%?" Luo Shu pressed.
"Seventy percent of an unknown figure," Akira Fukuda stressed. "Because we don't know how much this extermination campaign will cost. We can only make a preliminary estimate after the meeting and calculate the final total after the operation."
"Then there should be no problem with SdS calculating an intelligence fee based on the information currently in our possession and including that fee in the total expenditure, right?"
Akira Fukuda immediately understood Luo Shu's maneuver.
They would convert an unquantifiable intelligence fee into a definite figure, fold it into the operation's total expenditure, and extract some funding from the Union.
Akira Fukuda's eyes lit up, and he gave Luo Shu an appreciative look.
"There is absolutely no problem with that. It complies with procedure."
How much manpower and material resources would it take to obtain information on the movements of twenty thousand Ghouls? Those figures could be estimated-or left unestimated.
Now that Luo Shu had asked them to make an estimate, they had room to maneuver with the