The matter being taken up by the certification agency signaled that the situation had escalated quite a bit.
"Well, well, with the official agency backing us up, a commoner and a newly established professional at rock bottom are going to face a tough time now."
"Yeah, I've always hated this old scoundrel – a piece of shit." This was a neighbor of the old man, who found living beside this man nauseating.
"Even though this old scoundrel is in the wrong, isn't it a bit wrong for his daughter to attack him?" A young man suggested.
A middle-aged man next to him said dismissively, "You're too young to understand the situation. Those two aren't attacking him; in fact, they're protecting him."
"Protecting him, what does that mean?" The young man didn't understand, but those around him had already figured it out.