At this moment, Louvkat was beginning to feel agitated, a feeling that threatened to ruin his usually well-controlled emotions.
Over the years, he had grown frustrated, holding the position of Chief Administrator for more than a decade without any change. Normally, with his authority over the city's financial affairs and occasional responsibility for personnel allocation, an audience with His Majesty the King should have been a matter of course. But Rostov didn't manage the Imperial Capital conventionally; he always seemed to revel in stirring up what appeared to be utterly chaotic affairs. All these chaotic affairs resulted in one thing—burning through money.
