Zhao Xun glanced at Scarred Man and smiled. "Without me, you wouldn't even have gotten the Decrees this easily. You couldn't have made the Rabbit King write them himself, either. If you'd written them yourself, even getting the format wrong could have caused your mission to fail."
Scarred Man fell silent.
He knew everything Zhao Xun had said was true. He was in the wrong.
"Since I'm handling most of this collaborative mission, it's perfectly reasonable for me to keep the Decrees." With that, Zhao Xun headed for the Study door.
"But I worked hard to gather information about the soldiers, too," Scarred Man said, following Zhao Xun and still trying to argue his case. "I even found out the Rabbit Prince's secret. Not even the Rabbit King knew about it. You couldn't have learned that information even by hypnotizing him."
He had contributed something, at least. All he wanted was his own Decree, and he didn't think that was an unreasonable request.
"Without that information, I'd simply have to spend a little more time killing two thousand rabbits concealing their true allegiance." Zhao Xun stopped and looked at Scarred Man again. "It was precisely because I acknowledged the effort you and Glasses Girl put in that I had the Rabbit King write three Decrees. Otherwise, I could have ignored you both entirely. Asking for more is just being greedy."
To him, dealing with all ten thousand rabbit soldiers was merely a question of whether to charbroil or electrocute them.
This collaborative mission didn't require all players in the same faction to survive. He had no obligation to ensure that Scarred Man and Glasses Girl completed it.
It was only because their attitudes had been decent so far, and no conflict of interest between them had yet been established, that