"I lead the remaining men to join KK?"
Gagozab could hardly believe his ears.
Was that something Bennett could say?
Gago had expected Bennett to disagree. After all, everyone knew of his loyalty to Hansen. Gago had even prepared to persuade him—or, if persuasion failed, to fight on the spot and use Bennett's life as his token of allegiance.
Yet after Bennett shouted something that sounded furious and ready to risk his life, he turned around and, without waiting for Gago to speak, told Gago to join KK?
Those were supposed to be my lines!
Was that something Bennett could say?
Gago could scarcely believe it.
He knew Bennett. The man was not quite the purely berserk idiot he appeared to be, but he was definitely not this clever either.
Even something Gago himself needed to weigh carefully—how could Bennett have figured it out first and said it aloud? This was completely outside the script Gago had envisioned.
How had Bennett become smarter the moment Hansen died?
While Gago stood there in stunned disbelief, Bennett continued, "I don't plan to join KK, but if we don't join KK now, we have no way to survive. Neither New America nor Dogtown in the future will let us go. We have nowhere left to belong."
As he spoke, his gaze passed over Gago and turned toward distant Dogtown. "I'm not good to my men, and I'm not truly, wholeheartedly loyal to the colonel. But there are some things I still have to do."
Bennett was not a fool. He had already figured out the path ahead of him.
Even if he went back and joined KK, at most he could only be an ordinary soldier in the future, or perhaps a guard at the gates. He could never return to what he