Reborn: Imperial Officer Promotion Guide

"That's the general content of the conversation. I think you understand it, right?"

Hull crossed his legs, crossed his fingers, and looked up at More Bandes with his chin up.

This actually made More Bandes very confused.

Helheim: What's the difference between this and self-destruction?

If a normal person commits a crime, he will try his best to hide, run as far as he can, and try to avoid being caught.

It's hard to even hide it when you're in a state of fear and guilt.

On the other hand, Hull seemed to be acting in a drama, speaking the predetermined lines, making expressions and movements that he had thought of long ago, and even intending to turn this interrogation of him into his own home court.

"Is this really the content of your conversation? Are you remembering it wrong?"

"Of course I'm not kidding. In fact, I talked about a lot of things with Mr. Badda at the time. These are just the main points of the summary."

"To praise a subordinate whom he just met for the first time and even ask for his stamp of approval... I can assure you that this is absolutely impossible."

More Bandes smiled a winner's smile.

He admitted that Helheim was very special and could remain calm even under interrogation.

This kind of mentality is really terrible.

The biggest problem was that he didn't understand Badda at all.

How could he know how much Badda loved to abuse his power at work.

Badda never approved any policy proposals put forward by his subordinates for free.

Typos, missing words, text size, wording, and fonts... If Badda finds even the smallest flaw outside the content of the document, he will reject it without mercy. If he encounters subordinates who are ignorant and want to try again, he will even spend hours lecturing them.

Until the other person is completely beaten to a pulp and has to give up.

Unless you can cater to Badeda's preferences in private, prepare delicious delicacies for him and serve him well, there will be room for discussion.

Hull tilted his head, feeling a little unbelievable.

"Oh my, that's really strange. I looked at the contents of this meeting record and found that a lot of information was approved at once. Why do you dare to conclude that my policy proposal will not be approved?"

"Haha, the records of approval you saw only recorded the approval. There were no records of the hundreds of rewrites and redos before that."

After hundreds of rejections and rewrites, the document will be reviewed and approved only when it is finally a perfect one.

This is the normal operation of the East Territory. It is normal that Helheim does not know since he has only been in office for one day.

"As a government official, if you only look at a few records like this and don't understand the background of each event, you will of course have such a superficial understanding."

As if in response, More Bandes gave Hull a mocking look.

"...I see. Mr. Chief Secretary Mor Bandes, you don't seem to know what a meeting record is."

"……what are you saying?"

"The so-called meeting record must of course truthfully record everything that happened on that day. Records like yours that are arbitrarily added, deleted, and embellished based on your own subjective ideas are simply garbage."

"Hehe, you're the one who doesn't understand. This is the rule here."

Or in other words, the unspoken rules are to protect interior officials from being held accountable by their superiors for what they do afterwards.

That's what's called insurance.

"I see. I've only been here for two days, so I don't know much about your rules. Since you plan to follow your rules, I'll follow your lead... Just make your own judgment based on your intuition and subjective assumptions."

More Bandes nodded confidently.

In other words, Hull has confessed and admitted that he lied.

It has been confirmed that Badda was abducted by him.

With this conversation record written by him personally, he only needs to take those policy documents without signatures and seals to hand him over to his superiors for punishment.

Now that he was sure of victory, he wanted to hear how this man was going to argue.

No matter what tricks you try, I have the ability to expose them one by one.

"Oh, right..." Hull raised his head as if remembering something: "Come to think of it, I also talked about some other things with Badda at that time."

More Bandes sneered: "You still want to make amends now? Well, tell me what else you talked about at that time."

Hull smiled. "Mr. Badda talked about his way of managing his subordinates. Perhaps he was not confident in himself. He was very worried that his subordinates would betray him, so he secretly used some special methods to manage his subordinates."

"..."

Hull actually guessed it right!

More Bandes had heard Badda say something similar.

Badda suspected that a secretary named Lazar might betray him, so he secretly appointed More Bandes to monitor him.

Ask More Bandes to find the person's weaknesses and secrets, so that he can use them as a handle to threaten the other party when necessary.

"But this will create another problem. If the person who is responsible for monitoring other subordinates betrays, it will become very difficult to deal with. Therefore, Mr. Badda took a more interesting approach - let everyone monitor each other."

"You...what are you talking about?!"

Why is this happening? !

Not even More Bandes himself knew.

"So you didn't know? For example, let A monitor B, and let B monitor C, C monitor D, and D monitor A in turn. This way, a circle of mutual monitoring is formed. In this way, it can be ensured that subordinates will not collude privately, and at the same time, it can be ensured that no one can resist Badda's control."

"..."

In an instant, More Bandes' heart almost jumped out of his throat.

That is to say, while I was monitoring Secretary Lazar, there was another person secretly looking for evidence against me?!

"Mr. Badda regularly receives private information from his subordinates. It's really ironic that as a senior political assistant, Badda spends most of his work time preventing his subordinates from rebelling."

Mor Bandes's breathing became rapid. Why did Helheim know all this? !

Why would Badda reveal such a secret to him? !

Then, the answer came to More Bandes' mind.

"Did you get all this out of torture?" More Bandes asked tremblingly.

People like Badda will not easily reveal secrets to others.

He even hid the secret from his chief personal secretary. If he had not been threatened or tortured, he would never have told such a thing to someone he met for the first time.

But Hull slowly shook his head.

"Didn't I tell you? We talked about it yesterday when we were chatting."

"Stop acting crazy here! There's no way Badda would tell you something like this!"

More Bandes pounded the table.

"Baby talk..." Hull said a completely incoherent word as if nothing had happened.

"……Eh?"

"It's like a baby who wants to drink milk, using an inarticulate tone to act coquettishly to a mature woman. This kind of play is really a bit perverted."

As soon as these words came out, More Bandes felt like his face was about to burst into flames, his back was completely wet with sweat, and he immediately fell into a state of uncertainty.

(Why does he know my quirk!?)

As expected, Badda sent other secretaries to monitor me?!

"I won't comment on other people's special hobbies. In the final analysis, as long as it is within the scope permitted by the Imperial Law, it is a person's freedom to do whatever he wants... Of course, it must be within the scope permitted by the Imperial Law."

Hull deliberately repeated it twice, and each time it hit More Bandes in the face like a whip.

If Helheim knew even such a private matter, then what about other information?

Has he already mastered it?

To put it bluntly, secretaries and other political officials are all Badda's white gloves.

More Bandes also did a lot of dirty work for Badda.

Although his personal hobbies would not violate the imperial laws, if other dirty things he had done were to be uncovered, More Bandes' life would be over.

"No! Listen to me, that was all because of that guy...I was ordered to do that by that guy Badda!"

Mor Bandes subconsciously tried to find an excuse to distance himself from the matter.

He had done countless things that violated the laws of the empire, and his hands were so dirty that they could not be washed clean.

Looking at More Bandes, whose attitude had softened, Hull instead revealed a meaningful smile.

"Do you think he'll come back? Isn't it inappropriate to try to put all the blame on a missing person?"

What this sentence means is that no one is willing to take responsibility for the old debts that have been brought up.

"..."

"I think the possibility of finding Mr. Badda is close to zero. However, I remember that he seemed to have left some evidence, which seemed to be hidden somewhere... Some handwritten letters and documents should be used as evidence."

"...Where is it hidden?" More Bandes stood up unconsciously, his forehead already covered with sweat.

As long as the evidence can be destroyed, everything can be saved!

"How could I possibly know that? However, if we look carefully, we should be able to find it. After Mr. Badda disappears, an official investigation will begin soon. By then, the truth will be revealed. No one can escape the consequences of what happened in the past."

Generally, when murders and kidnappings occur, the information left behind by the victim will be considered important evidence... Some evidence may even be more credible than directly questioning the victim himself.

"So, regarding the conversation I mentioned earlier, and the matter of signatures and seals you mentioned..." Helheim smiled like a devil.

Mor Bandes immediately understood that he was trying to threaten him to give false testimony for him...