Chapter 297 Rights
"I see. You need to know the extent of the power we currently possess, don't you?"
The leader, Zhe Helan, nodded and put on a calm smile again: "I understand. This is a very reasonable request. Then please allow me to introduce to you the current power distribution of the Demonic Affairs Institute."
She stepped forward from the queue, cleared her throat and said:
"Since you have not been in the kingdom in recent years, you may not know the current situation in the academy. Because we are an institution directly under Her Majesty the Queen, we need to contact the Royal Court and even the Rose Palace directly, so the Magic Academy temporarily has two Royal Court nobles serving as vice-presidents. The two vice-presidents do not usually participate in the exercise of power, but if there is anything that requires the Magic Academy to contact the other four academies in public, they will be the spokespersons of the Magic Academy."
"In addition, there are currently five karuta magical girls in the academy, all of whom hold senior positions in the academy - the teaching election officials. The five teaching election officials are the ones who are specifically responsible for executing affairs and exercising power. You can understand that the actual power of the Magic Academy is currently distributed in the hands of the five teaching election officials."
"And unfortunately, although the five of us together can theoretically push the entire Magic Court to make any decision, in reality, the political views of the five of us often do not match."
"It's a bit embarrassing to say, but the high-level magical girls in the country all know that the power of our Magic Institute is divided up by outsiders. Each teaching officer has a relatively fixed business partner. In my case, I am the one who is responsible for connecting with the research institute and helping the institute to obtain corresponding benefits."
Having said this, she paused for a moment and looked at Delphinium, probably wanting to give Delphinium some time to digest the information or ask questions.
Although Kuei-ja also knew a little about the current situation of the Magic Academy, it was the first time she heard such relatively specific information as "there are five people in the Teaching Selection Department". In addition, there was another point that concerned her -
——"Isn't it inappropriate for you to say this in front of the director of the research institute?" She couldn't help but ask.
After all, in her opinion, the other party's words seemed objective and fair, but combined with the previous words of loyalty, they could be interpreted as some meaning of "dissatisfaction with external forces."
"It doesn't matter, sir, because if the chief didn't want us to say this, there wouldn't be this occasion today."
Zhe Helan bowed gracefully to Emerald, and then bowed again to Delphinium: "In fact, what I am saying now is that serving you is my first priority."
"Um...thank you?"
Glancing at Emerald beside her, she found that she really didn't care, so she suppressed her uneasiness and accepted the other party's overtures calmly: "Okay, now I understand a little bit. That is to say, you are the faction that was friendly with the Institute before, and there are no members of the other four factions among the people present, right?"
"Yes, sir." Zhe Helan nodded in agreement.
"Okay... then I guess my question still isn't completely answered."
Having already made the decision to take over this part of power, Cuique tried to behave more appropriately, at least to appear calm enough in front of these "new subordinates": "What I want to know most now is, in the division of affairs of the Magic Affairs Institute, what specific rights do you have to exercise and even formulate?"
"We have the right to connect with the research institute, sir," Zhe Helan replied.
"Is that all?" Delphinium tried to maintain her superficial calm.
“In essence, it is.”
Zhe Helan remained calm: "Because without the institute's advice, or without the institute's statement, we won't actually make any plans, and it will be impossible for us to approve any applications."
"What about nominally?"
Cuiqiao continued to ask: "You have so many departments in the Magic Affairs Institute, there must be some differences in functions. I remember that you have several department heads, right? Is the work done by your departments no different from that of other departments?"
"These are available, sir."
Zhe Helan looked back at her companions, and continued to answer Cuiqiao's questions with a decent smile: "Nominally, we have the right to accept feedback from the outside public, and respond and deal with it; we have the right to organize internal activities, formulate activity rules, and distribute rewards; we have the right to write weekly, monthly, and annual reports on the work of the institute, calibrate the data therein, and report to the vice president and even His Majesty; we have the right to record important work results and contributors' experiences, and commend and publicize these things and people; we have the right to formulate annual certification assessment standards and announce them to the outside world..."
She said a bunch of long and difficult sentences in a row, so much so that even Delphinium, with her concentration and thinking speed as a magical girl, felt a little dizzy. After she finished the list of dishes, she added: "...Of course, the premise of exercising these rights is that other factions have no objection to our decision, or they have not remembered that we can still do this."
"...Is it possible to achieve these prerequisites?" While sorting out the contents of the other party's report in his mind, Cuiqiao frowned and continued to ask.
"Maybe there are, but I haven't seen any in the more than ten years I've been in office."
Zhe Helan smiled brightly: "After all, if the research institute doesn't issue a statement, they will probably have opinions on everything, and it is obviously impossible to make them forget the rights they have no say in."
Now, Delphinium understood everything.
Let’s go back to a previous topic, regarding the work of the Magic Institute, what stereotypes do the magical girls of the country have?
This stereotype is probably - a scoundrel.
Because there are too many factions in the Magic Academy, and each faction has its own interests that it wants to maintain, they will inevitably give more support to "their own people". This makes every employee of the Magic Academy not only have the background of "Magic Academy", but each of them is a double-sided, even triple-sided, or quadruple-sided spy.
There was a good story that was once circulated among many employees of the Magical Affairs Institute. It was about a magical girl who was now in jail for corruption and bribery. She achieved the highest achievement that a Magical Affairs Institute employee could achieve - six-sided spy. While accepting the solicitation of the Royal Court and the other four institutes, she also secretly opened up a channel of interests in the material world, allocating more seeds of heart to some cities through corruption and bribery, so that those cities could have more magical girls.
This magical girl used her extraordinary talent to earn herself resources that ordinary people could not imagine, and she had already raised her strength to the level of a strong flower. She even secretly hooked up with the forces of Claw Mark when the truth was revealed, and prepared to defect in advance. However, there were too many jealous colleagues, and her plan was exposed under the bombardment of multiple anonymous reports. So she was arrested by several inspectors at the same time the day before she defected, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The reason why she was able to do all this was because the power within the Magic Court was often hindered by each other, and most affairs were often not implemented. It was once known as a "power vacuum zone." Even though she was a spy on six sides, no one would find it strange if she did not fulfill the requirements of any party.
After all, the affairs of the Magic Institute often cannot be advanced, and everyone has become accustomed to this.
(End of this chapter)
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