Dr. Maxi stood on the aircraft carrier too, watching Huang Ji translate beside Carmen.
The sight left him with a tangle of emotions and a loss he couldn't put into words.
He had spent years at Dis's side, waiting on him hand and foot and doing everything he could to please him. Only then had he learned a little everyday speech.
For years, he had been indispensable whenever the Illuminati received Dis or any other alien.
Dr. Maxi understood Dis. He always knew how to go along with what Dis wanted and make small requests when he was in a good mood.
Maxi had been the one to notice Dis's love of fighting and arrange toys for his amusement. Those yearly events had won the Illuminati plenty of benefits.
He wasn't an exceptional researcher, but his smattering of an alien language and his understanding of Dis's temperament alone had given him extraordinary standing in the organization.
Now a Nature Disruptor had appeared out of nowhere and made a lowly Level 9 investigator fluent in the language. Maxi's half-baked skills had become almost useless.
I studied this language day and night, but one chance encounter gave him more than I ever learned. I worked myself to the bone to please Dis and barely picked up a few scraps. He had never even met the Disruptor, yet the knowledge was handed to him just like that...
The unfairness gnawed at Dr. Maxi. He could also see that Carmen wanted to establish a connection with the Disruptor.
That was unmistakably a betrayal of their master. If Dis found out, the Illuminati would face a bloody purge.
And Carmen dares to do it... No, Feis does. He's dragging the whole organization into the Abyss, Dr. Maxi thought.
He had understood the Disruptor's words too: