>>5342095“Bro, you forgot how the cult works? She could’ve taken over. Why bring the organization down?” Borja fails to see the logic.
“Maybe she didn’t like it?” Wauro shrugs.
“Be serious.” The bartender girl rolls her eyes. Wauro stares back as he meant it all the way.
“She looked pretty devoted when she was chasing our skin at the stadium.” Borja remembers another awful day in the Flame War: The Stadium Meeting. “I still owe one to that Kaz guy.”
“The ol’ jolly times when we worked together to escape from ‘em after those fuckers turned our lil’ friendly get-together into a recruitment meeting. Who in their right mind would join a cult?” Bonet grabs her pendant shaped like a sword, thinking about that stressful moment. “I shouldn’t be blamin’ them for tryin’, we have to be pretty fucked in the head to have these magical pets with us.”
“After that, the cult had the largest number of flame users, and now they’re all gone. It’s all so hard to process…” Borja cannot fathom it.
“Let’s go back a bit, who did it and how, Ms. White Tigress?” Wauro crosses his arms.
“<span class="mu-s">K’s boys</span>, gentlemen.” Bonet puts out her cigarette.
The Bartender explains how Ka-Shing’s group was focused on taking the Cult of Chernobog out ever since they learned they were going to be targeted on Judgment Day. They purposely destroyed their own base to kill most of their flame users, and now they finished the job.
“…Guess who survived the tower collapsing? This Vivienne girl.” Bonet slams the counter. “She wasn’t the brain of operations; she was poached for a better cause. My sources saw Flame Users causing mayhem outside the Dark Church too. It was all K.”
“I wasn’t far off. Ammirati put a target on his back for revenge.” Wauro puts both hands on the back of his head.
“Still, she’s just a pawn.” Bonet stresses out.
“This makes K the big dog in the yard, doesn’t it?” Borja makes an observation.
“Attaboy, you got that right.” The White Tigress drips with sarcasm once again. “K stands for <span class="mu-s">King</span> now: Welcome to a new plutocracy.”