Rui paused for a moment as he considered the plausibility of what she was asking of him. Frankly, he didn't mind trading with the Pluralist Faction and the ——o-o- Cell if that was what they wanted in return for selling him information on the location of other Divine Mothers.
However, a part of him didn't trust the Pluralist Faction. If they were willing to betray their own civilization and sell out their own people to outsiders, then he found it difficult to trust them at all. It was possible that she would feed him information that would lead to a trap where he would get ganged up on by multiple Divine Mothers to eliminate him.
'I'll just have to pray that my prophecy is good enough to avert such an outcome.' Unfortunately, this war was too grave of a threat to human civilization for him to get out of without undertaking some personal risk.
Ultimately, he considered the deal to be worth it. However, the question was whether it was viable.
