Asa glance at Joan who glance back at her. From their glances, there's a little imaginary telepathic conversation Asa made up in her mind.
Joan: What?
Asa: They must have consider you out of the list since the start.
Asa isn't sure why, maybe because she was disappointed someone as attractive as Joan have an awful personality with seemingly zero compassion at all, which made her wanted to get mad at him all of the time.
Asa grab Dunn's wrist and bring him back to her side, whispering a small thank you to him for standing up for her before.
"As you guys venture into the woods, us along with the white pillar have always noticed something happening inside Antara." Joseph said, "To be exact, at my hometown, the east region."
Asa know that East Region is one of the region that is standing on their own well even after disasters of The Crystal Doom.
The region is filled with lots of businessman. The east region people is known for being smart, strategic and good at cooking.
Asa wondered what kind of problem could happened on them.
"But I do not want you to go soft on them. Do what you need to do. Do not go soft just because they are the people from my hometown." Joseph explained again before sighing, "Have you guys ever heard CSA?"
Joan, being the most informative person as he is the leader of White Pillar, nodded, "Crys Sympathizers Organization." he said, "They are small in group. They create an organization because they do not have the heart to kill their loved ones that turned into Crys. They have a believe that they can turn their loved ones back into a normal person."
"As expected from the White Pillar Leader." Joseph praises him. "The CSA indeed are small in group because even when they have tons of member, one by one the member will be killed by the Crys that they keep in their Crys Cage."
Although the word cage is a bit rough, Asa understand what he meant.
Joseph continued, "We actually don't have many idea of how their organization work as the spy we sent there have to work in a very secretive move, they couldn't get back to us very often. We need you to come into their organization as a short term spy. Find out if they have a connection in the increases rate of Crys quantity and strength. Finish the mission well based on your own problem solving. If you think its better to kill the CSA off then do it, if you can stop them without blood bath then it would be much better. This is why we need someone with compassion to lead this mission, that way they won't solve every problem with a killing spree."
Indeed, Asa thought, imagine if it was Joan who have to lead this mission. Wouldn't he finish it in three days just by killing everyone off?
"Wouldn't the CSA recognize Asa? She's quite known for being a black pillar." Dunn asked.
Joseph nodded, "Of course they will know Asa. They are not stupid."
Dunn looks offended by the answer and wanted to take a step ahead in anger but Asa's hands quickly block him.
"Do you want to kill her?" Dunn barked angrily, still.
Joseph throw them a small smile, "Calm down. You seem to care so much about your leader."
Dunn did not answer that and just stares at Joseph without blinking, rage and thirst of clarity is clear in his eyes.
"Asa is a new addition in our pillar, you too. Joan has always been a mysterious one. Asa can pretend that she is a traitor of the main pillars." Joseph explained, "And she have a perfect backstory too."
Asa this time stares at Joseph suspiciously too, "What backstory?"
Joseph stares back at Asa with a small smile, it looks as if he was mocking her, raging an anger inside of her but she swallowed it down.
"Don't you want to find your little baby brother?" Joseph said lightly, "You can use that story in order to get their sympathy. Say that your brother has turned into a Crys and is lost, you want to find him and yo-"
Joseph words get stopped in the middle of its track as a tip of a long sword is pointing at his neck.
Everyone in the room grow eerily silent. Terror is evident in every pair of eyes.
Some wondering what the hell is Asa doing, some wondering what the hell is Joseph doing.
Joan, suddenly remembering his role as a White Pillar, quickly take a bayonet he rarely use and use it to push Asa's sword.
Seeing that, Dunn's anger flared up and the boy jumped from his standing place to flare up his bayonet towards Joan's.
Joan is basically not very good at using bayonet as his daily weapon is a knuckle brass. He get pushed off a few steps from the force Dunn use.
Asa was ready to flung her sword once again before Madelyn jumps and stands in between her way and Joseph.
"Move." Asa said, coldly.
Madelyn is scared but she knows that it will be a huge problem if Asa do what she wanted to do. And who will be disadvantaged if anything every happens?
Joseph have a very good standing in the government, not much can danger him. While Asa? She will be the one suffering.
"Big sister, calm down. Lets hear him out first, yeah?" Madelyn pledged.
On the corner of the room, Joan and Dunn is already fighting using their bayonet.
Actually, rather than fighting its actually just Dunn attacking and Joan blocking all of his move.
Seeing the situation has gotten a bit out of control, and seeing his sister is also involved in it, Theodore sighed as he took three light bayonet from his storage and flung it all at the same time skillfully.
The bayonet hits all of the bayonets and sword in the room right on target, making all of it flung out of the hand of its wielder in a tick of the moment.
"Silence." Theodore said in absolute command.
Everyone, out of respect, stay silence although their eyes are still clouded with anger towards one another.
"You," Asa said before walking back to her standing position from before the fight starts, "Do not ever use my brother for your cheap plan ever again."