Chapter 678: Mizunashi Rena's New Job (Part 2)
"Saving lives?"
"Yes, saving lives."
"Irish, stop joking around."
"I'm not joking."
"Are you sure?"
"I'm sure."
Hondou Hidemi: "..."
Seeing the serious expressions on Irish and Curacao's faces, her heart sank.
This is bad.
They weren't joking.
They truly embraced some lofty mission and were willingly working themselves to the bone for the Noah Organization.
And based on the experience Miss Hondou had accumulated over years of studying and working for the CIA—
Criminal groups that constantly flaunted positive slogans and shared a unified "lofty ideal" were far more difficult to deal with than ordinary criminal organizations.
After all, ordinary criminal organizations, like the Distillery she had once worked for, maintained their members' loyalty through profit and fear.
The result was that their members were generally disloyal, with undercover agents everywhere.
But criminal organizations with "lofty ideals" were different.
They had their own "ideological doctrines," even entire belief systems that could justify themselves. Their internal cohesion was extremely strong, and their members' loyalty was exceptionally high.
Take Aum Shinrikyo, which had only collapsed a couple of years ago.
Or those folk religious groups in the neighboring peninsula country.
Right, just look at Irish and Curacao—
To brainwash their members into losing all sense of right and wrong, black and white, making them genuinely believe that their crimes were "saving lives"—
Those were usually cults!
"Noah, Noah..."
"No wonder they picked a name with such heavy religious connotations."
The more Hondou Hidemi thought about it, the graver her expression became.
It was as though some shocking special meaning truly lay hidden behind the codename "Noah."
And Irish and Curacao were fanatics who had been brainwashed by that evil organization and recruited as its core members.
Fanatics like that were all lunatics. There