In the modern era, especially after the Industrial Revolution, the development model of the rising families led by the Gattuso Family-the later trustee families-had proved better suited to the times. The elders resented it, but they had to admit it.
Thus, every family leader present knew exactly how deeply their family cooperated with the Gattuso Family-politics, economics, technology... and technological cooperation was the deadliest of all.
According to this Pre-Meeting Briefing, not only might the Gattuso Family have provided Herzog with technical support, but they also had numerous other inconceivable research projects that chilled even these elders, who knew all too well the bloodshed of the Secret Party's dark ages.
Research into mechanisms for identifying and selecting embryos with bloodlines bearing S-Rank high-risk Word Spirits...
Experimental design for hybrid cloning based on Word Spirit gene expression analysis...
Advances in the application of gene-editing technology to bloodline advancement in Deadpool-transformed mammals...
Comparative research into the stimulatory efficacy of different serological testing methods on Deadpool-transformed hybrids...
Analysis of differential metabolites in the inhibition of ND-01 Cells proliferation by varying concentrations of mercury...
Everyone was numb by the time they reached the final technology. Now the elders understood why the trustee family heads had looked as though their parents had died.
Yet the declassified details following that final technology still horrified them: ND-01 Cells, presumed to be tissue cells from "Nidhogg the Dragon."
Commonly known as Black King Flesh.
While everyone still considered Nidhogg nothing more than a dark cloud on the distant horizon, the Gattuso Family was already directly studying his tissue cells.
Previously, their impression of the Gattuso Family might have been a group of Sicilians who drank expensive wine, behaved frivolously and ostentatiously, mingled with the powerful, and amassed astonishing wealth.
Now, however, everyone had to ask one question: