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"This plan was very successful,"
the middle-aged man in uniform said with an unlit cigarette in his mouth, smiling as he watched the live broadcast on the display screen hanging on the wall of the brightly lit meeting room.
"Although Gelinton's assassination didn't succeed, Emma managed to speak out... and in front of so many people."
Next to him, a blond woman was looking at the screen, her red lips slightly open.
"Did Noel really do those things?"
Her snake-like gaze slowly came into focus through her silver-rimmed glasses, her eyes filled with shock.
"He did. I'm not wronging him," the man said as he fiddled with a lighter before putting it away:
"If Noel hadn't done such a dirty deed, this lie would have been easily refuted. But the thing is... he indeed did it, and that's beyond my control to utilize it."