"This certainly isn't a small matter."
Hailan smoothed her hair and spoke slowly to the man across the table. She did her best to maintain a blank, serious expression. "With each passing day, the crystal creeps further into Haidu... If everyone were like your family, ignoring the crystal and shirking their responsibilities, what would become of Haidu? When we, in our supervisory roles, encounter a situation like this, we have no choice but to report it up the chain."
The man opposite her, large and corpulent with a chin that sank into his chest, wiped the oily sweat from his forehead. "It's just a small area where the crystal has grown. We'll just give them a push. There's no need to report it, is there?"
Hailan waved a hand dismissively, as if his words were amusing. "Mr. Ban Jiaming, you've certainly never cleared the contamination yourself, have you?"
Ban Jiaming, Supervisor of the Tower family's Office of Family Affairs, tacitly admitted it with his silence.