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THERE WAS SILENCE IN the room. Shock obviously present within the high-tensioned air. The proclamation you had just made was startling to the five people within the room.
They were expecting you to be kidding, since you usually don't just offer people to join your ring. In your ring, there are strict rules that are present.
In order to join, you must be over the age of 20. Anywhere below that is considered underaged and unmoral. You also must be recruited by a high ranked member, and or the ring leader themself.
The mere thought that you, Rebel, leader of KYŌRYOKUNA, to be offering jobs to the five of them. To you, you saw yourself as weak for needing help.
Younger you would have been persistent into doing it yourself. You don't know why it was different now. Maybe the level of maturity was different.
Whatever, you would've died anyway if you tried to do it yourself.
"Is this a trap or something?" Momo asked, her arms were now folded against her chest, an eyebrow raised at your form.
"You're usually not one to let five random people into your ring without trust." Miwa stated, her hands in her lap as she fiddled with her fingertips.
You looked at the two of them, an eyebrow raised. You huffed out a breath. "The Zen'in clan is after me, Maki and Megumi." You stated rather nonchalant. Silence filled the air at your words, shock embracing the air around you.
You felt Maki still from beside you, her wide golden orbs staring at the side of your face. Maki's body was stiff, but her fingers still tapped at her knee.
Everyone's eyes widened, your friends were shocked that you spilled "classified information" such as that to five people you shouldn't even trust. The information wasn't necessarily "classified". People still knew of the clan coming after you, but that was mostly the more known people in the trade.
Nobara placed her tablet away from her body, putting it at her side. She got up from the wall, frustration written on her face.
"Rebel! That's classified information!" Nobara yelled, obviously peeved by you naïvety. You understood why, not proclaiming any argument to that statement and refusing to look at your orange-haired friend.
"Yes, I know. But, these five deserve to know, correct? Plus, they said it was okay to." You shrugged. Nobara went to object, but she found you were right.
Satoru had specifically told you to get Mai and her group on your side, hoping that "power in numbers" was actually true.
Nobara sat straight back up and wiped the frustrated look from off her face, but she was clearly disappointed at your abruptness to unleashing the fact. Mai and Maki made swift eye contact, a scowl present on Mai's face.
