The room was filled with coughing sounds then, and as the others tried to calm the Elder, Zein and Bassena looked at each other in palpable confusion.
"Alright, sorry for calling you that," Bassena, as the one who uttered the phrase, raised his palms in apology, although his tone sounded more confused than apologetic.
Zein, who was similarly confused, voiced it out to the middle-aged man. "But then, what are you? All channels of information networks call you a cult."
Before Senan could make a reply, however, a sound of a harsh clicking tongue could be heard from the window. "Tsk!" Zein turned his head and saw the youngest-looking esper standing with a clenched fist. "This is why I said we should do something about it from the start!"
"Arlo, shut up!" another member, female this time, looking not far in age from the young man, slapped the esper's chest with a frown.
