Did Dogtown lack a legal advisor?
Of course it did.
At present, there were very few people in Dogtown whose advice Carl could consult.
Aside from the KK Squad, most others only provided Carl with services related to their own specialties.
For example, Mingzhi, who came from counterintelligence, excelled at intelligence gathering and counterespionage, and had once been a spy herself; and Gago, who specialized in finance.
If loyalty and personal ties were given more leeway, there was also Slider, who handled netrunning matters, and Hanz, who could assist with mercenary work and special affairs.
But even counting all of them, there was not a single professional legal expert among them.
Or rather, Hanz could do it, but Carl's relationship with him was limited to cooperation and familiarity. He had never truly regarded the Pacifica fixer as one of his own. As for everyone else—
Dogtown had always been a lawless place. If Hansen had legal experts under him, Dogtown's taxes would not have been so chaotic that they could be changed at any time. Even the employment contracts signed by the Barghests had been established through Hansen's personal authority and strength.
The legal force of those contracts was practically equivalent to the strength of Hansen's faction. If asked to make laws, they might genuinely say something like the Animals Gang: the strong make the laws.
Xizi and the other former Pheasant Faction members had been selected as defense and combat forces, an elite unit chosen by Hanako and Saburo to oppose Yorinobu.
Law had been utterly useless in the clash between the two sides. There had only been a fight to the death. In such an environment, legal professionals naturally had no place to contribute—in fact, neither camp had employed any legal professionals throughout the entire conflict.
Even if