"I once made your captain furious. She must hate me and wouldn't want to say a word to me. What good does it do you to treat me like an enemy?
"But Gehrman is different. He's confident this rescue will succeed, and he should be able to bring the Iceberg Admiral back. Then won't Edwina start to like him?
"Think about it. At the crucial moment, every sailor on her ship failed her, and an outsider had to save her. An outsider who's handsome, decisive, coldly attractive, and as powerful as a Pirate Admiral. Wouldn't she..."
Anderson's words held a devilish allure. Danitz, Blue, Yodsen, and the others first bristled and wanted to deny it. Then their expressions stiffened, and at last they looked thoughtfully toward the closed door of the captain's cabin.
I was gone for ten minutes, and he's already trying to drive a wedge between the Golden Dream and Klein. Could this have something to do with the Hunter Pathway's Sequence 6 Conspirer? Angel took a deep breath and stepped forward. Her boots thudded against the wooden floor, drawing everyone's attention.
"But I heard you and Edwina were classmates for years. You even sat at the same desk. That's the age when girls dream most of a beautiful romance... And plenty of women have a particular weakness for 'bad boys'..."
Angel didn't know whether Anderson had ever sat beside Edwina in class, but that didn't stop her from embellishing the story with her Instigation ability. In a few sentences, she drew the sailors' attention to herself.
Now it was Instigator against Conspirer!
"And Danitz, you only notified Gehrman, didn't you? Yet Anderson insisted on coming along. Was it out of friendship for an old classmate, or does he have some secret motive? He's directed your suspicion toward