"Owned… by the government?"
Perhaps even more so than the thundering blasts echoing from the Golden Tree, Remy's ears were filled with Rhys's words echoing through his mind over and over again. He didn't really think much of it at the first second, but as more breaths escaped his lips, the heavier they got as he realized what that meant.
"But…" Remy squinted his eyes as he very slowly took a step back while staring at Rukawa, "...Nihon had already publicly stated that they were absolutely not involved in this. That the thing with the nymph and Orpheus were completely done by a private sector."
"We're not involved in this," Rukawa sighed and quickly shook his head, "Whoever your source is, they're wrong. And why are you even opening this up now, Mr. Wilder?"