Shelley's revetion that the young man beside her was the true ior left everyone in the room staring at him.

  He's our new ior?

  Lucas was equally shocked by Shelley's sudden decision to shoot the "new ior."

  Shouldn't she have lured him to a deserted pce before doing that?

  Now the man y dead in the chair, blood spttered everywhere.

  As the leader, should he sit in that chair or not?

  'Shelley, Shelley, you were pulled out of prison by Agatha but weren't given a signifit position. Don't you refle that?'

  Lucas turo Zane and said, "Go, deal with the body, a me a new chair."

  "Yes, Ior!"

  Zane, being strong, quickly hauled the body and chair out, returning shortly with a new chair.

  Under everyone's gaze, Lucas walked to the ior's desk and sat down.

  He pced his e to one side and put the ior's appoi letter in the drawer.

  Then...

  "I am extremely dissatisfied with the way you hahings! This man should have been discreetly dealt with by me, and then I would have e with the appoi letter to take office.

  Everything would proceed smoothly without arming anyone.

  But because of your reckless as, we've had a major ihat severely impacts the missiorusted to me by the Grand Princess!"

  Shelley and Zane immediately stood at attention.

  "Sorry, Ior."

  Lucas waved his hand, his tone slightly softer, "Si has already happened, I don't want to deal with my future subordinates on my first day in office.

  Today's i is… someone came here with a fed ior's appoi letter to deceive us. As a result, he was reized and killed on the spot.

  Does anyone have any objes?"

  Letting a "message" sit in the Seawall District Secret Intelligence Bureau's ior's office with the appoi letter was a major employment act.

  Especially when it involved a secret mission from the Princess.

  If the headquarters pursued this and found out the cause, everyone in the Seawall District Secret Intelligence Bureau would bear signifit responsibility.

  But if this i was described as a artist trying to deceive them, the Seawall District Secret Intelligence Bureau would not only be free of bme but also gai.

  The ior would take offially. Everyone would be happy.

  "Writing" i reports was the Seawall District Secret Intelligence Bureau's specialty.

  As for Lucas's identity, no one in the room doubted it.

  Zane had informed them earlier not to rush to verify the "new ior's" identity or let him roam freely.

  Everything should wait until Bck Mamba arrived.

  This indicated that he already khere was an issue with the "new ior."

  Bck Mamba, after reading the appoi letter, had ation in shooting the "new ior" and cimed it was uhe Grand Princess's orders, implying she had other els of information about the ior's appoi details.

  Perhaps the orders were in the hidden cipher.

  Moreover, Bck Mamba arrived te today and came with the real ior.

  This practically firmed that Bck Mamba and Zane khe ior and the appoi letter would arrive separately.

  A mistake led to the "imposter" ing with the appoi letter.

  In any case, it was best to downpy the i.

  Everyoogether said, "The ior is wise!!."

  Done!

  Lucas finally felt a weight lift from his heart.

  Gathering the materials needed for the secret ritual would still take some time, and his current strength wasn't enough to wander around this world carelessly.

  Being able to sit in the Seawall District Secret Intelligence Bureau's ior's office was far better than being out there, stantly on edge.

  The important thing now was to collect the items for the ritual as quickly as possible.

  With power, he could handle any ging situations.

  "Since everyone agrees... Karina!" Lucas called out the name of the ior's office fidential secretary.

  Karina was a shy and somewhat introverted young girl, dressed in a light green professional suit, wearing a pair of oversized bck-rimmed gsses.

  Her light blonde hair was bed to the right, c her right ear.

  Lucas khat her right ear had a metal auricle ected to her brain's nerves, giving her extraordinary hearing and memory, but it also made Karina somewhat self-scious.

  "Ior... Ior! What I do for you?"

  "This case report is your responsibility. Make sure to include everyone's tributions."

  "Yes, Ior!"

  Turning a bad situation into a good one, everyone was quite impressed with their new ior.

  "Alright, you don't o introduce yourselves. I know each of your profiles. If there's nothing else, you leave now a on with your work."

  "Yes, Ior!"

  Lucas's "subordinates" left the offie by one.

  As Shelley was about to leave, Zaopped her and then addressed Lucas, "Ior, st night there were two serious murders in the Seawall District. One was at the dock ste area in Windshield Alley, and the other at the headquarters of the Mad Axe Gang, with many casualties.

  Especially at the Mad Axe Gang... Their leader, Jumu, was killed, and almost half of their embers are dead. They've suffered a major blow!"

  Lucas thought, wasn't that my doing?

  And...

  "What does that have to do with us? Isn't that the Seawall District Security Bureau's jurisdi?"

  Zane g Shelley. Shelley was surprised to hear that such a major i had occurred st night.

  She expio Lucas.

  Storm City had a total of six districts, each with a branch of the Secret Intelligence Bureau.

  Although all branches reported directly to the Imperial headquarters and had no hierarchical retionship with each other, the funding for their activities came partly from the headquarters and rgely from the city's finances.

  Thus, the allocation of these funds was trolled by the tral branch.

  "Ior, the funds from headquarters barely maintain our normal operations. The money we get be spent on a few drinks and it's gone.

  The undercents and informants not on the official payroll still o be paid, and there are many visible and invisible expenses.

  The tral bureau... uses taxpayer moo protect taxpayers, prioritizing the new ahy districts. Our Seawall District is three times the size of other districts, yet we receive only a tenth of their funds, if not less.

  Other district bureaus each have over a thousand spies, not including the unlisted ones. Our bureau, with both overt and cents, has only about four hundred people, c such a rge district. How it be enough?

  Therefore, ted sponsorship from some businessmen and gangs.

  The Mad Axe Gang was one of our major sponsors. Now that their leader is dead, many will want to seize their trolled assets.

  As their backers, if we 't protect them now, other sponsors will lose faith in us."

  Zane, uanding more about the unfolding situation, added, "I've already sent a team to the Mad Axe Gang headquarters to block the Security Bureau. We must act quickly, or the Security Bureau will take over the Mad Axe Gang's headquarters!"

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