Marco felt Mishu was asking a stupid question. Hadn't he watched Marco blow Dragon's head off?
Maybe he hadn't seen it. Or maybe he was just confirming that Marco had killed Dragon.
After all, from Marco's perspective, Mishu was speaking through a blade clenched between his teeth. His words came out muffled, so leaving out a few was understandable.
Mishu's heart lurched at Marco's answer. Marco killed Dragon? Damn!
I get it!
Mishu finally understood why Musa had told them Marco was the mastermind and Instructor Dragon was merely a bystander.
Now it seemed Instructor Dragon really had been used. His thinking had been misguided, and the true rebels had made him a pawn and pushed him to the front.
Mishu remembered how Instructor Dragon had said he'd let himself be captured on purpose and warned them not to force his hand.
At the time, Mishu hadn't understood. He'd even mocked him. Now he did. It also explained why Instructor Dragon hadn't killed him after defeating him! Thinking back, Dragon had never killed anyone with his own hands. He'd used some bizarre ability to make those who attacked him kill one another.
Even Gus had died in an explosion, as Mishu had confirmed by examining his body. Instructor Dragon hadn't carried any weapons, and nothing was missing from the Military Supply Depot. Clearly, Dragon hadn't done it.
He couldn't bring himself to kill his former teammates? There was something he still held on to!
He's nothing like Marco, who killed one of his own without a second thought!
Instructor Dragon really had been forced into the rebellion! With the base in chaos and Musa dead, he'd outlived his usefulness. Marco, one of the three true masterminds, had personally silenced him.
And that was how Marco had gotten Mishu's necklace.
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