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"Futile?" Vincent didn't expect that word to come out of Secretary Maria's mouth. She usually devised the most ingenious idea that helped him in dire times. So when Maria said that word, Vincent felt a sense of hopelessness for the first time in his life, and he didn't like it.
"Is that all you can say? It's futile? FUTILE?!" he yelled.
Secretary Maria sighed, "Pardon me, Sir. This issue is too big for us to cover, I recommend you to just ignore it, and tell the PR team to stop taking down the video, because it will only rouse even more suspicion on the internet."
"You're telling me to ignore it? Don't you see how many people are making fun of me?!" Vincent remembered some of those comments that hurt his pride. He was so used to people praising him daily that he simply couldn't ignore those comments from faceless people on the internet.
