Chapter 1955

There was still a week left before the finals of the Martial Tournament, which would be held in Morhen. Naturally, Frank was not nervous at all and even fell back to his old return of punctual training and rest. He had also won public favor among Riverton martial artists after proposing that they be afforded one qualification berth. His old friends Robert Quill and Gerald Simmons, who were the Riverton commissioner and the Riverton mayor respectively, even paid him a personal visit. They were both righteously indignant that the Riverton Martial Alliance branch manager had been caught cheating but also grateful that Frank afforded their representatives some dignity. Still, neither of them were aware of a dispute when he tried to ask them indirectly about the Zamri mayor and the Zamri commissioner—it was the first they had heard of it. After seeing his guests off, Frank did not even have time to gather his thoughts when he got a call from Helen Lane. "Frank… Hurry! I-I got into an