Miss Carol naturally had no idea what Jonas was thinking.
But for the Arbitration Bureau, the current situation was actually good news.
After all, if the Void Realm Church returned to District 25, it could hardly act with the same lawless abandon as before. Once it encroached on the Arbitration Bureau's interests, the bureau would intervene. With the Alt Conglomerate resisting as well, the church's dream of entering District 25 again would be nothing but a fantasy.
Precisely for that reason, Carol did not consider the Void Realm Church's renewed "incursion" a bad thing. It could curb the Alt Conglomerate's development without daring to do anything too extreme, and she was more than happy to see that happen.
The Alt Conglomerate was growing far too quickly, well beyond the Arbitration Bureau's expectations. If the bureau's previous stance had been to support it, then its current stance was undoubtedly to suppress it.
Nobody wanted a repeat of the farce from five years ago. Once the Alt Conglomerate grew powerful, the Arbitration Bureau would be the first to come under threat. Although Jonas appeared to have no ambitions now, who knew whether his attitude would change once he had the power to overturn District 25's established order?
Still, the Arbitration Bureau and the Alt Conglomerate remained partners, at least on the surface. Direct suppression was clearly inadvisable, but setting the conglomerate against other factions was another matter.
As District 25's regulator, the Arbitration Bureau had to keep everything within its control... The Alt Conglomerate's meteoric rise was alarming. Even without the Void Realm Church, Carol would have found a way to provoke conflict between it and other factions.
She also had some connection to the Void Realm Church affair, so there was a degree of self-interest involved. Warning him had been something