"But I don't think I particularly need you right now. What could you do for me that would outweigh the pleasure of taking your head?"
Lango fit Kallen's "promise" to his Hunger Addiction perfectly. This was a sufficiently powerful soul feast.
Although feeding his Hunger Addiction smacked of aiding the enemy, Kallen still considered it worthwhile if it could buy a temporary period of good behavior. The main problem came first.
"Minister Kallen, what a direct question. I don't know what agreement you reached with Dali Wenluo, but I can do whatever he's doing for you now. If we handle this properly, I could even help you nearly wipe out this Observation Delegation made up of outstanding young people from the various churches!
"From the past reports about you, I could see that you need this, because you have an extremely strong desire to advance within the Order God Church.
"You want to climb through all sorts of means, even at the cost of chasing quick results and ignoring the negative consequences.
"Fortunately, you risked your life going into that underground tunnel, which more or less erased those earlier negative consequences. Now you need these dazzling achievements even more urgently, to give yourself the capital to keep climbing.
"Take the present situation. As the foremost church in the world, the Order God Church has always valued its dignity. This time, its Investigation Delegation was trapped in Maqina. In effect, the desert rebels trampled its reputation into the dirt.
"If, at this moment, you, my Minister Kallen, a member of that Investigation Delegation, could accomplish this feat of turning on your pursuers and killing them, it would not only wash away the slight stain of your escaping alone, but could also be widely publicized within the Order God Church as an