"Of course not," Rita said slowly. "The issues Dr. Tesla mentioned are all historical problems left over from Schicksal. They will not happen with us."
"Whether they will or not cannot be decided by just your word. Do everything you say count? I don't believe it," Tesla said bluntly.
"This..." Amber wanted to say something, but Durandal raised a hand and cut her off.
"If you want Kiana Kaslana's biological data, we can provide it. But how can you guarantee that Anti-Entropy will not pull anything behind our backs?"
Tesla replied as if it were only natural, "Because we haven't done it before, and we won't do it in the future!"
"Fine. Return all the information about Kiana to Anti-Entropy."
"Captain?" Rita was startled. How could they hand over Kiana's information so easily? What if Bishop Otto returned...
"It's fine. Apart from things I will find a way to handle, Schicksal is not an organization that only knows how to play dirty tricks."
"It is indeed somewhat unreasonable for us to keep Kiana's biological data."
Amber and Rita both understood the reasoning, but handing it over so easily was clearly inappropriate.
"Good. Then it is time to proceed to the next stage of negotiations."
"Hrimheim Laboratory. Super Anti-Honkai Serum."
The discussion moved on to the next matter, and it was basically Tesla and Theresa doing the talking.
Rita and Amber raised some questions as well, and they also sought certain things from Anti-Entropy.
This cooperation was an exchange of interests between both sides. It was not a matter of one side helping the other, so everything had to be exchanged at equal value.
Equal exchange was already the greatest goodwill they could offer before the Herrscher of the End arrived. As long as they could build mutual trust, they could