"Is that really what you decided?"
Contrary to the other students who would leave Fen alone after the lessons, the same couldn't be said about Cleo. Sticking right to his side ever since the entirety of her class moved to their other daily tasks, she was so clingy that even Nadia threw her a few as surprised as curious glances.
"Yeah. Investing in the existing elites would not only be extremely costly but it would also openly upset the balance of forces within the city. And I don't want to appear as a potential threat to the public eye just yet."
As the two of them walked through the main trading street of the city, Fen surprisingly couldn't care less about being careful with his words. The chances that anyone in this bustling crowd would ever bother to listen to what he said were just too abysmally small to take it into account as a serious possibility.
