Seele was telling the children a bedtime story.
Life was peaceful.
Not long afterward.
She knocked on Dr. Einstein's door.
Before she even entered.
There was quite a commotion inside.
Someone was shouting.
Seele tapped on the door.
"Come in. Let Tesla finish venting."
Einstein did not even look up.
The holographic screen was lit.
Tesla's face was flushed bright red. "Talking to those old fossils is like talking to a brick wall! They keep repeating the same few lines. They're driving my blood pressure through the roof!"
Einstein's tone was cool. "I hope you didn't call them that in front of the Federal Senators. Have you determined what caused the incident?"
Tesla slammed the table and roared, "I took those mechs apart and put them back together, then took them apart again! I didn't overlook a single screw! Everything was normal!"
Einstein adjusted her glasses. "But during that day's livestream, a Security Mech suddenly charged onto the stage and hurled abuse at the spokesperson. We have actual footage of that. Tens of millions of viewers saw it with their own eyes."
"Hmph!"
Tesla sneered. "Does telling the truth count as abuse now? A spineless coward who bends whichever way the wind blows-isn't that the plain truth? If you ask me, there's an eighty percent chance their own shaky hands caused an operating error! The other twenty percent is a pure frame-up!"
A frame-up?
Einstein raised her eyebrows slightly, picking up on the key phrase.
The more Tesla spoke, the angrier she became. "It's the same old tired rhetoric! They think we're too lax with Herrschers, and letting Kiana move about freely is irresponsible. I've explained it eight hundred times: without the Gem of Conquest, Kiana's condition is perfectly stable, and she can keep her power under control. They just