The Reincarnation of the Kingmaker

Chapter 48: The Reality of the Dragon Beast Republic

"Now that you've mentioned that, I guess we can narrow the suspects down to just a few individuals," Mayor Sebastian felt impressed at Kayn. He won't be prompted to think in another direction if it wasn't for the latter.

"That's great!" Kayn felt thrilled but was still silently hoping deep inside that World President Nicholas was one of the people that Mayor Sebastian would suspect. After all, Mayor Sebastian is part of the Dragon Beast Republic, which World President Nicholas is also a part of, and they both do their best to give the prime interest of their nation. Moreover, the latter is literally the king of the world, so why would he bother doing something to someone insignificant for him, right?

"If we include all the World Leaders, I believe there are more or less only sixteen people who can possibly find that assassin even if he has the Gift to disguise himself as whatever he wants,"

"Does that include World President Nicholas?"

"He's the number one, and second to him is the President of Pandora,"

"Fair enough," Putting World President Nicholas aside, the President of Pandora is someone who can literally find anyone he wants on Earth. Regardless of where one would hide, he'll no doubt find that person one way or the other. That's the reason why he became the President and founder of the number one assassin organization in the world in the first place.

Albeit that wasn't what he wanted to know. "So, between the two, who is the most suspicious of all?"

Finding out about that was what is considered important for him!

"Hmmm…" Mayor Sebastian fell into deep thought once again.

For others, it might be difficult to pick between World President Nicholas and the President of Pandora. That's because these two individuals are extraordinary and powerful people who can't be bothered with small and insignificant things as they have bigger problems to deal with in their hands and huge responsibilities to take care of due to their great power.

However, for Mayor Sebastian, there's a significant difference between the two which serves as the critical reason why one of them would try to do something for his family regardless of what their position is.

A brief moment later, Mayor Sebastian continues, "I guess between the two, it would be World President Nicholas,"

That's right! He suspects World President Nicholas.

"Why? Aren't you both part of the Dragon Beast Republic?"

Honestly, Kayn indeed wanted Mayor Sebastian to be suspicious of World President Nicholas. That was what he intended to do, after all. But he didn't consider that it would be this easy. It was similar to back then when Mayor Sebastian simply wanted to know the logic behind his choice of pointing out the blades of grass from the other.

Perhaps smart and wise people have their own ways of getting the information that they want. He was never that kind of person, to begin with, at least that is what he believes, thus that should be the reason why he can't understand what's going on inside Mayor Sebastian's mind right now.

Fortunately, as if to enlighten Kayn, Mayor Sebastian started explaining.

"That's all the more reason why I picked him," Mayor Sebastian paused to take a breather. "You might not know about this, but the political world of the Dragon Beast Republic isn't as peaceful as it seems, especially since it is the head of the Four Beasts Alliance,"

"On the surface, people would see all of us cooperating with one another to raise the nation to the top. But in reality, there is actually a lot of infighting going on between all of us,"

"Do you know that for starters, in order for them to become one of the most influential people in the nation like me, one has to gain support from the other giants of those part of the Four Beast Alliance? Otherwise, forget about becoming a Mayor or anyone part of the political scene, since you won't even be able to enter the political world,"

"You heard that right! It might seem like the Dragon Beast Republic is the leader of the Four Beasts Alliance, but the truth is, our nation won't be formed if it wasn't for the other three. Simply put, it was through the accumulated effort of the Tiger Beast Republic, Phoenix Beast Republic, and the Tortoise Beast Republic combined together that the Dragon Beast Republic was born,"

"That fact could be seen throughout the numerous Hero Academies around the Dragon Beast Republic where you can see that there are only a few Heroes actually coming from the nation itself, while the majority are citizens of the other three nations part of the Four Beasts Alliance,"

"Anyways, one of the main reasons why I became the Mayor of the capital of the Dragon Beast Republic is because I am one of the loyal men of the current President of the nation, who was the previous vice-president when World President Nicholas was still president,"

"In other words, me and World President Nicholas are part of two different rival political parties,"

"Although World President Nicholas is now akin to the king of Earth, he actually barely has any support from the giants of the Four Beasts Alliance, and the nation that supports him the lowest is actually the Dragon Beast Republic, which is the nation that he was born from. His major supporters mainly come from the two churches,"

"If he wants to retain his position as the World President in the coming years, he has to start amassing supporters from the Dragon Beast Republic first before trying to earn supporters from the Four Beasts Alliance. Unfortunately, because the people of this nation believe in the current President more, it would be very difficult for him to achieve that, and so he has to resort to some schemes and underhanded tactics, which would definitely include assassinating the supporters of the current President of the Dragon Beast Republic,"

"And I believe that I am one of the unlucky people on page number one of his lists of targets,"

So, a conflict of interest and power struggle…

"I don't know a lot about the politics of the Dragon Beast Republic," That's right! He actually doesn't know much about it even back then, "— nor your enemies and the people you offended. But hearing your reason, I guess the most suspicious individual could only be World President Nicholas himself,"

"Knowing about that, I wonder how you plan on dealing with this problem?" After all, this was World President Nicholas they are talking about. If one has any sort of problem that involves him, they might as well just forget about it since it's next to impossible to try and make him pay. In the first place, how on Earth are you even planning to fight against the king of the world?!

That question actually serves two purposes for Kayn. One, he wants to know what Mayor Sebastian plans on doing next. In that way, he can decide whether it's worth it to consider the latter as one of his potential allies or not. And second, he wants to have some references for his next course of action.

The truth is, his plan for the future to deal against the 'Tower' is to actually just watch and adapt. Needless to say, he is more than aware that it is not a good plan for the long run. However, he also can't rashly make a decision, especially since this is still the third day after he was reincarnated. If he immediately sprung into action without carefully considering the possible consequences of his moves like what those popular novels that he had previously read about do, then there's a huge chance that he would just become a magnet that attracts all bad things to him.

Although that doesn't seem all that bad anyhow, as only by taking on more risks that one could receive the most benefit and profit. But since his enemy could practically kill him at any given time that he wants the moment he is classified as suspicious enough, totally unlike the others, then he has to effectively choose which risk is worth the time and effort for him to take on.

Since there's no way for him to change the fact of the 'Tower' realizing that he has reincarnated back to the past later on, so he might as well make the best out of it before that happens.

The question is how?

That's why he asked Mayor Sebastian how he plans to deal with World President Nicholas.

"What we have now is nothing more than just an assumption. So, I plan to investigate the relationship between the assassin and World President Nicholas first,"

"And if there's any?"

"Then I'll report this matter to the President of the Dragon Beast Republic and ask him whether I should continue pursuing this matter or just leave it alone for some time,"

"That's it?" Kayn felt disappointed.

"Why do I feel like you have something against World President Nicholas?"

"It's not that I have a problem with the guy. It's just that, are you seriously going to just drop this matter if the President of the Dragon Beast Republic would tell you to do so?"

"Of course, I won't!"

"Thought so," If that was really the case, then he'd feel pity for Selina and her mother for having such a useless man as their father and husband. Imagine, his wife was killed and his daughter nearly died if it wasn't for Leah arriving to stop the assassin from searching the mansion any further, and yet, in the end, he actually would not make the person who did that pay just because someone told him to drop it.

Forget about the fact that he is trying to manipulate Mayor Sebastian into becoming suspicious of World President Nicholas since, by the time he discovers the relationship between the assassin and the latter, it would entirely be up to him whether he would pursue the matter or not. If he believes himself to be a responsible father and husband, then he'd immediately choose to make World President Nicholas pay, but if he would take the second choice, which is to consider the best interest of the party that he belongs, then it seems like he expected a lot from Mayor Sebastian.