After the group gathered, Ariadne sent out small spiders to restore the lost hive mind connection.
If the hive mind could pass through the formation, she would not have needed to do this.
With the connection back, she would be able to quickly tell who was a traitor, if there were any.
She did not need to wait long.
More than a dozen of her members tried to escape.
With a single motion, she cut off all their heads.
Blood splashed, and the bodies fell in place.
Everyone who saw it froze in shock, then dropped to their knees and begged for forgiveness.
They knew it was not entirely their fault, but they had allowed this situation to continue for a long time, so they were implicated.
Ariadne watched them and thought.
'Does Yubina have a hand in this?
But if that is true, why would she make a deal with me?'
She could not understand it.
She suspected Yubina the most, but she could not rule out the possibility that another emperor was involved.
