If it was literally anyone other than Malik sitting across from him, Togusa would be trying to find a bright side. But that glare, the way Malik is going back to carefully crafting his words, Togusa knows he has crept up on a nerve. And so any assurances that Togusa can't back up right now are going to only make him angry.

"So far I've been coming at this assuming that there is some truth to it. That the Retrospec leadership knows some truth that we can't see yet, and that their hiding away would seem justified if we could find that truth."

"If it's just a lie, just a ploy to keep control of the people they have? Then what do we do? Take them out, either way, I've never wavered on that idea. They need to be stopped. But does it change our focus if it turns out they're lying to their own people?"