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Noah did not know whether Lakyus had noticed the question in his heart, but she spoke in a fluent, steady voice.
"Although Eight Fingers is publicly known as a single organization, as everyone knows, it is actually made up of eight divisions. Rather than one organization, it would be more accurate to call it eight organizations. They merely cooperate with one another, bound together entirely by profit."
Lakyus pointed to the village on the map where drugs were cultivated.
"If we destroy one division's stronghold—in other words, the drug trade division's drug-producing base—we should be able to find information on the other seven divisions."
Lakyus's words left everyone else thoroughly confused.
Why was Lakyus so certain that the village contained information about Eight Fingers' other seven divisions?
Logically speaking, as partners within the same organization, such important information that could expose their companions should not be so easily found, right?
Only Noah, recalling how Lakyus had deliberately emphasized that Eight Fingers was merely a cooperative organization, felt something click in his mind.
"You mean the drug division cultivating drugs in this village deliberately leaves information about the other seven divisions there for enemies to find?"
"That's right." Lakyus let out a cold laugh.
"If an enemy is capable of destroying a stronghold, then that enemy is undoubtedly difficult for a single division to deal with. Knowing that, when one division falls into trouble, every division in an organization bound only by profit will surely be thinking about how to keep itself out of it."
"And to stop the other divisions from staying out of it, while also diverting a powerful enemy's attention toward them, every division