The white-haired geezer was livid. "If they weren't paid off, that could only mean they're all dead. Aren't they supposed to be elite assassins? And with ninjas working with them, they have a clear advantage—how could they have been stopped?!"

"Well…"

While the trio with him were sweating bullets, the blonde man braced himself and said, "Sir, we don't have the details, so it's all just speculation, but there may be someone who is incredibly strong in Tanya's entourage… or the Mitsui family might have noticed something and doubled her protection. Either way, our people have all gone MIA, and we can only make guesses about what happened."

The white-haired geezer bellowed, "I don't want to guess what happened! All I know is that Tanya Sweet must die! The idiots who took interest in her influence and went on to recruit her just had to tell her and show her so many of our dirty secrets just to make her feel like she belonged!

"Well, the senator we were all counting on lost, and we know