A female player, who previously raised her hand earlier, now raised her hand again.
"Sorry for my impudence, Leader."
"What is wrong?"
"Bagas just came out yesterday, right, but why has his replacement position been decided? What if the other guilds saw him, isn't it like we kicked him out?"
"Hmm…" Evan muttered, then glared at the female player. "What's your name if I may know?"
The female player stood up and said in a respectful tone, "My name is Amanda, and I am a Vice Secretary."
After the woman named Amanda said that, Evan turned to Helena.
"Hey, Helena. Is she your subordinate?"
"Hey, you asked that, Lena!" Kahfi said.
"O-Oh, me? Oh yeah, my nickname is Helena," said Helena before she finally looked at Amanda for a long time. "Yes, she is my pet."
"So here it is, Amanda. Please sit!" Evan sat him down, and Amanda sat down. "It doesn't matter how other people respond to it. You know, the position of vice leader is very important for the guild, if no one is filled it will be dangerous later for the guild. It is the same as a pillar that does not have a solid foundation, the building will be easily destroyed. Likewise, with a guild, each one had a stake at its foundation. So what do you think if there is no pole in the guild? It will be destroyed, right?"
"Yes..."
"And you know who is the pillar? Of course, it is you who are here. You are the guild's pillars and I am the building. If I were without you, I would collapse. Therefore, when one of my pillars breaks, I have to replace it with a new one as soon as possible so that I don't collapse. Would you guys here want to see me collapse from losing a pole?"
Everyone fell silent and stared at each other and Evan continued:
"Surely you don't want to, right? So, Amanda." Evan glared at Amanda.
"Y-Yes?"
"Don't ever talk about that again, huh!"
"I'm sorry, Leader," said Amanda, feeling guilty.
"Listen, all of you!" Evan said, all the players looked at Evan, except the brown-haired male player who was still busy with his chest. "I've been thinking about this since I got the news that my student left this guild, and I've gotten a replacement. I will make… Rizal the next vice leader."
Everyone was shocked, as were Kahfi and Helena, and wondered who Evan was referring to.
"Rizal, please stand up!"
After Evan ordered him, suddenly a male player with brown hair stood up while holding his three chests in his hand.
"Who?"
"Who is he?"
"Wow, Rizal, congrats," said Angga.
"No, wait!" Kahfi suddenly stood up to oppose Evan's decision. "Why is he the chosen one? Why not Tiara? Hey, who is he? I don't know. And again, why can't Tiara be the vice leader?"
Helena also stood up. "Yes, who is he? Why is anyone else here? I-Is that your new pet?"
"Kahfi and Helena, listen!" said Evan. "I know you two are closely related to your friends and they are also my students, and you two are great players. Listen! As a vice leader, he needed a strong player, because it was his main task to keep me from collapsing. Is a Cleric suitable to be a vice leader? Of course not."
"But... Tiara often does her job well, in fact... she even replaced you in your absence," said Kahfi.
"Kahfi, listen! Are people who do not attend the meeting fit to become vice leaders? Of course not. Tiara neglected her duties, even I don't know what she's doing right now. She could have conspired with Bagas to bring me down, and Tiara is currently with him."
"No, Tiara won't do that, she's loyal," said Helena. "Tiara must be sad because her friend left her. After all, this was the first time that Tiara was not present at this meeting. If you brought up the Tiara tightly, then where have you been? Why don't you ever attend the meeting and instead discuss the mistakes that Tiara did for the first time?"
"Helena, listen!" said Evan. "You know that I am the grandson of the owner of this game. That's why I'm busy and never attend meetings, and I often leave you all. But now, I'm not busy anymore and I will always attend meetings like this."
"No, no!" said Helena. "You're not busy or anything. You just… just changed." Helena bowed listlessly and recalled the conflict between Bagas and Evan.
"I changed?" said Evan. "No, I haven't changed at all. You're just exhausted, Helena, so you think of me that way. Anyway-"
BUK! Rizal slapped the table hard to silence the atmosphere and said:
"You two are so loud huh! Never mind, you guys listen to what the leader just says. I am the new Vice Leader. Just accept that…" When Rizal raised his hand, the three dice were seen showing numeric digits. The first dice, showing digit 6; the second dice, showing digit 6; and the third dice, showing digit 1. Rizal looked at the dice and said, "Oh, lucky. So, that means I deserve to be the vice leader, right? Hehehe."
"Kahfi and also Helena, calm down!" said Evan. "I know, you love your friends. But you also have to respect my decision as a leader here, no matter what. We've been together for 10 years, so I know you guys well. You should also know me well, I am a Leader. So, you guys can't go against my decision huh!"
What Evan did was full of drama, he even hid his sly smiley face, and it left Kahfi and Helena speechless. But it wasn't just the two of them who wanted to reject this decision, there were many players here who wanted to reject it too but didn't dare to convey it.
"Why? Why is this?" Kahfi wondered to himself. "It should be… Tiara should be the one who fits that position. Why isn't it Tiara chose?"
"Kahfi and Helena, please sit back down! And, don't you guys bother with this problem, it will interfere with tomorrow's match. You two are my precious stakes, so I beg you to always take care of me!" Evan smiled and made Helena and Kahfi sit down again. "Okay, okay. Rizal, since you are standing, please introduce yourself to them. They are here, I'm sure, no one knows you."
"My name is Rizal, and my class is Assassin, Slayer. My life motto is… kill, kill and kill. Greetings."