Chapter 34: The General’s Final Stand
The general was summoned to the board of trustees to explain the 'security breach,' but he didn't go alone. He brought the girl with him, a symbol of everything they had failed to bury. The confrontation was short and brutal. He laid the file of her father’s mission on the table, along with the damning proof of the board’s long-standing corruption. He didn't need to shout; the truth was the loudest weapon in the room. The trustees, once powerful, untouchable figures, were reduced to panicked, sweating bureaucrats, their influence vaporizing as the evidence surfaced.
The girl saw her father’s name cleared—not just in the official ledger, but in the eyes of everyone who had been forced to look at the reality of his life. The board members were stripped of their titles, their legacies incinerated by their own greed. She realized that power was only as strong as the shadows that protected it, and once those shadows were destroyed, the power had nowhere to hide.
