Chapter 355: Press Conference
On the evening of the same day Russell and Vergil met with Lucas —which also happened to be the evening of the same day Lucas returned to Baylands City— a press conference was held at the Mertens family’s Dawn-Spring Arrow Company headquarters. In the Central Prefecture district, only regional headquarters could be opened by companies, but an exception was made for the top families. This was why the Dawn-Spring Arrow Company’s corporate headquarters was here.
The Dawn-Spring Arrow Company, or DSAC for short, was the Mertens family’s holding company that controlled all their other industries. The Mertens family mainly dealt in the buying and selling of desolate beasts and their parts, as well as the food industry. They also had a pioneer squad and a freelancer organisation under them. All these companies were managed and controlled by the Dawn-Spring Arrow company.
And today, that very company was going to be making an announcement.
The press conference has actually been scheduled the previous day and it was rumoured to be carried out by the current head of the family, Russell Mertens. Apart from that, the DSAC public relations head stated that there would be a major announcement taking place during the press conference.
The combination of that news alongside the possibility that Russell would be attending, made many journalists and media houses pumped for the press conference.
This was because just the previous day —the same day the announcement was held— the Cabinet had ended their meeting but didn’t reach a conclusion on the city lord topic. What’s more, none of the representatives of the top powers made any comment on the matter to the public. Attempts to even reach out to family heads for an interview by the various news networks all failed. Furthermore, most of them seemed to have gone into hiding and couldn’t be spotted in the open as easily as before.
However, Russell acted contrary to others and scheduled this press conference just a day before the second Cabinet meeting. Whether it was the timing or his presence in the meeting, it made the journalists and reporters hungry for answers.
"Good day, everyone." The head of public affairs and relations for the Dawn-Spring Arrow Company greeted the group of reporters in front.
"As mentioned yesterday, today’s event is a press conference to discuss the future of the Dawn-Spring Arrow Company for the final quarter of the year, while addressing certain topics related to the company."
The executive went on to talk a bit about the Dawn-Spring Arrow Company —it’s history and performance so far. Even though most of the reporters already knew about its history, they didn’t interrupt. This was because, they held a large degree of respect to the Mertens family.