Pirate: It’s not a phantom beast, it’s a phantom god!

Chapter 220 Fireworks
"So, are these all the assets owned by your families?"

After carefully looking through the asset lists submitted by each company, Willy took off his gold-rimmed glasses and rubbed his swollen brows.

To be honest, even though he was well prepared, Willy still felt his head swelling when he saw the expressions of the leaders of the various families in front of him, as if they wanted to eat him alive and cut him into pieces.

But there is no other way. For the sake of my lovely daughter, I have to bear any pressure no matter how great it is.

……

"Oh! How dare we hide it from you!"

"President Willy!"

Snapped!
The leader of the Sendog family, who looked like he lacked masculinity, put his feet on the conference table and spoke these two sentences word by word through gritted teeth.

"Yeah~"

"President Willy has connections everywhere. Who would dare to play tricks on you, son?"

"If you make a small report, our lives will be in danger~"

Mrs. Kuger held her tone in a certain tone, but she didn't even look at Willy above her, she just admired her nails.

As the saying goes, cutting off someone's source of wealth is like killing their parents, let alone simply packing up and selling off someone's centuries of accumulation?

The reason why the leaders of these families are still willing to sit at the table and listen to Willy's speech instead of twisting his head off and kicking it like a ball is purely because of the lesson learned from the past.

Just yesterday, a family that refused to cooperate was wiped out in a swift and sudden manner, like killing a chicken to scare the monkeys.

The head of that family wanted to follow the example of old Mediah and escape to the four seas, but before he even got on the boat, he was beheaded by a black flame monster.

When the photo of hundreds of skulls piled in a pyramid shape and burning in the family's ancestral home was delivered to these people overnight... even though they hadn't slept all night, miraculously no one was late for the meeting this morning.

"Eh~"

The oldest person in charge said nothing, but just kept sighing.

"..."

"Eh~"

Willy also sighed. The pressure from the beasts above and the pressure from the families below in the past few days had exhausted him mentally and physically. His already old face now looked even more haggard.

If I take my daughter out now, she’ll probably mistake me for a grandfather and grandson…

"Since there's nothing else to do, we'll take our leave, Mr. President."

The old leader, leaning on his crutches, stood up and left without waiting for Willy's consent.

Seeing this, the others pushed their chairs away without even saying hello and prepared to go home.

They don't want to stay here any longer.

"Wait~"

Just as the sound of the chair being dragged stopped and everyone had gathered at the door of the conference room, a voice suddenly came from behind them.

"Everyone sit back down."

The young voice carried a hint of frivolity and arrogance, as if deliberately teasing everyone.

"Ok?"

"Caspar, you little brat..."

"Kid?"

Hearing the other party call him like this, Caspar raised his eyebrows.
"You said 'little devil'?"

He stood up and walked to the family leader who had just spoken, and placed one hand on his shoulder with familiarity. Caspar used his other hand to caress his chin wantonly.

"You're just the boss of a family. Is it really okay to talk to me in this tone?"

"Ah~ Should we go tell the adults of the Beasts that another family is unwilling to cooperate with our actions~"

"you!"

Upon hearing the name of Baishou, the person in charge, who was about to slap Caspar away, stopped in mid-air.

"You, please don't slander me! I handed over all the family assets as you requested..."

"Oh, is that so?"

"But why didn't I see your family's three underground factories on Handy Island in the list you provided?"

"It seems that the two mines in the Dibianxia Kingdom are not included~"

"Okashine~Did you forget?"

As he spoke, Caspar gently patted the head of the man who was his uncle's generation in charge.

"This this……"

Sweat uncontrollably oozed from the forehead of this middle-aged leader with slightly graying temples.

"Um, Caspar, I..."

"Hmm ↑ 'Casbah'?"

His voice suddenly rose to a higher level, and Caspar patted the other person's cheek while correcting him word by word:
"It should be 'Vice-President', right?"

[The dog relies on the power of the master!]
Everyone present, including Willy, couldn't help but think of this word in their hearts.

"Don't go too far, Caspar."

"After all, we are all your elders..."

The elder who left first spoke.

"Ah, yes, yes, yes~ You are right~"

Upon hearing this, Kaspar obediently released his grip, returned to his seat with a ballroom-dance-like gait, picked up the list, and flipped to a certain page. "But, 'elder,' I remember your family should own seven factories, right? Why is only four listed here?"

"Is it because I'm old? So I forgot?"

"That won't do. After all, if you forget this, you'll lose your head."

Caspar looked at the old man in front of him with a smile on his face.

"I think you should just go home and enjoy your retirement. You don't have many years left to live, so stop trying to make a living."

“You! You…! Cough, cough cough!”

"Master Mu, are you okay?"

Seeing that the old man was having trouble breathing for a moment, Willy hurried forward to help him catch his breath.

"Caspar, just keep your mouth shut! We're all in this together, don't go too far."

"Oh my~ Uncle Willy. No, it should be Mr. President."

"Are you defending them?"

As he spoke, Caspar raised the list of properties in his hand, his tone becoming increasingly dangerous.

"Knowing that these people were concealing their own assets, they still chose to protect them..."

"You... seem a little disloyal."

"..."

"I……"

Seeing that Willy was also speechless, Caspar felt even more proud.

"I just don't understand—taking inventory of assets, rebuilding factories, unifying supply and marketing... why can't these things, which benefit the beasts above and you below, be implemented?"

"You've all made false reports, concealed information, and made misleading reports! Do you really think you can hide it from me?"

Wow!
Caspar threw the stack of lists in his hand hard, and they immediately scattered in front of people like flowers from heaven.

"I'll say this one last time—"

"Submit the new list of assets here at this time tomorrow."

"This time, not even a single toilet plunger can leak, got it?"

"Humph!"

After saying all this, Caspar walked away, leaving everyone with different expressions.

……

"Eh~"

After a long time, Willy sighed, then bent down and picked up the list scattered on the ground.

Looking at his back, he looks like a young wife being squeezed.

"Hey~ It's not easy for you either."

The elderly man who had already recovered said.

Upon hearing this, Willy paused while packing up his materials, then gave a wry smile:
"That's all for today. I think everyone is tired, go back and rest."

"Ah."

"You too, Willy. We'll have to rely on you in the future."

"Yes, after all, we are all in the same boat now, so we should help each other in the future."

"Don't get too tired."

……

After watching the leaders of each family leave, Willy put away his bullied expression and smiled helplessly.

He probably understood why his superiors asked Caspar to be his deputy.

People always like to compromise.

For example, if you say that the room is too dark and you need to open a window here, no one will allow it.

But if you insist on removing the roof of the house, they will come to reconcile and be willing to open the windows.

With Casba, the demolition man, standing by with a sledgehammer, my job of breaking the window with a small hammer became much easier.

"But this position isn't so comfortable..."

Willy knew very well that the joint reform of several major arms families would affect the interests of too many people. Every step forward would face countless resistances, offend countless people, and accumulate countless contradictions... These were all hidden dangers in the future.

Therefore, someone is needed to cut off the tentacles of those interests, to offend those who need to be offended, and to take on the resentment and malice accumulated in the hearts of various families during the reform process.

When all the steps are completed and the military-industrial complex of the Beasts is formed, that is when the scapegoat who has taken on everything will become the fireworks at the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

All the grievances, dissatisfactions, and contradictions in the reform will be released the moment the fireworks explode into pieces in the sky.

Willy thought that person would be himself, and he was prepared.

But unexpectedly, Baishou found a more suitable guy, a mad dog with no way out.

Even though he had seen countless people, Willy couldn't help but sigh at the beast's accuracy in judging people and being able to accurately choose Caspar, a rare talent.

This guy's talent in attracting hatred really opened his eyes. Just now in the meeting, even though he knew that the other party's behavior was beneficial to him, he was still very angry at this kid.

People are emotional animals. Even if people can see that some of the people in charge are playing the good cop and the bad cop role now, they will subconsciously accept this kind of role over time.

[Phew~ How terrifying... all those beasts.]
[I don’t know if that silly boy noticed this.]
(End of this chapter)