I Am The Swarm

Certain promises he had made back then were merely expedient moves to secure votes. After all, the Riken were not an autocratic species. His authority as President wasn’t as substantial as one might imagine. Passing proposals that were contentious was far from simple.

Take, for example, the Trinbrian District. This area was the most chaotic region on the entire Riken planet. Though it spanned only 300 square miles, it was teeming with violent elements.

Gangs, drug dealers, mercenaries, and other dark professions thrived here. Petty thieves were practically upstanding citizens by comparison. The owner of a corner store might very well be a retired gangster kingpin. Ordinary people had no way of surviving in this place.

In his bid to defeat his competitor, he had recklessly promised certain conditions to the Trinbrian people. For instance, he had vowed to push for drug legalization reforms, reduce criminal penalties, and exempt low-value robberies from being considered crimes once he became President.

This not only secured him votes from the Trinbrian District but also garnered support from professionals in related fields, enabling him to ascend to his current position.

Now, despite his desire to fulfill those promises, the proposals, no matter how he dressed them up, were too blatant for the average Riken citizen to overlook.

If he were to insist on pushing these agendas through, whether they succeeded or not was uncertain, but in four years, his role in the election would likely be that of a mere spectator.

A single-term President would surely become a laughingstock in Riken history, and that was not a legacy he wanted.

However, the Trinbrian people were no pushovers. They weren’t ordinary civilians but the kind who slept with a loaded gun under their pillow. Breaking promises to such individuals was no small matter. He had delayed for six years and had received countless death threats from unidentified sources.