"Don't go!" 0

The first person to try and stop Adam was his electoral advisor, Toshiyuki Matsumara.0

"You've finally made it to a position where you're all but assured to win the election, intentionally putting yourself in harm's way at a time like this will be an extremely irresponsible gesture to all of your supporters and staff! Most importantly, you still haven't fulfilled your promises to your financial backers!0

He was trying to speak in as tactful a tone as possible, but the underlying threat in his words was very apparent.0

Toshiyuki Matsumara was a representative of the northern congress, and Adam also had other backers who had invested enormous amounts of resources into him, and those investments couldn't be allowed to fall through.0

He was trying to stop Adam instead of allowing him to take risks as he had done in the past...0