“There are never enough hands when it comes to affairs of state. The Administration Bureau wanted to manage the situation themselves, but frankly, wouldn’t that have been beyond what their manpower could handle? Especially with the press so determined to stir everything up……. In the end, the Bureau Director and the Director of the National Intelligence Service came all the way to Seorak themselves to ask us. They wanted to know whether Haeta could protect the subject for just a little while.”
The Administration Bureau had personally witnessed the Third Elder raging at the scene, insisting that the subject had to be killed.
For that reason, the Bureau Director had wiped the sweat from his forehead and admitted that opinions were divided even within the Center.
However, the people who knew as much about the second S-rank as the Administration Bureau did were also Haeta.
「The nation—no, all of us—have decided once again to place our trust in Haeta, which has always inspired faith in our homeland. Please.」
“Mm.”
“At the time, our own opinions were split exactly in half.”