He turned his gaze back to Pavellia, his expression hardening into something professional yet equally ruthless.
"So, don't worry about his 'opinion.' His opinion is a variable that has just been neutralized."
"We are moving forward with the implementation of the correction."
"He's just the fucking obstacle we're moving out of the way so the real work can begin."
"I'll tell him tomorrow," Rex corrected. "You're the most competent administrative asset in this kingdom."
"And I mean that not as a compliment, but as a structural assessment."
Pavellia was quiet for a moment. The kind of quiet that came from someone who had received something they had wanted without having known they were waiting for it.
"The review scope," she said. "Full infrastructure or tiered?"
"Full," Rex said. "Starting from the monitoring network and working outward."
"That's a six-week process at minimum," she said. "Four if I pull the right people from the gacha specialist pool."
