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"Understood," Signora said with a nod, as her proposal was rejected.

In truth, she was actually relieved.

Even now, she felt uncomfortable using her authority. She would, in fact, like it if she never used her Authority ever again. That said, considering their scope of activity, she could not deny the usefulness of her Authority.

"The fact that they have instructions to not listen to what these shadows said is curious, yes," Signora said, before elaborating, "As I understand it, a Kingdom is an area where a Ruler's Authority is exerted, correct? Our target's wish was 'the Freedom to do as I like', as I mentioned earlier, an absolute freedom in the sense that the 'freedom to do as I like' is only possible if you suppress other people's freedom to protest. As Authority seems to be the means granted by the Black Crown app to fulfil the wish...I would assume that our target's authority is something that would help him 'ensure his will'. Thus, the fact that these shadows' are seemingly outside of his control to the point he had to tell his men not to listen to the shadows meant that these shadows must have some way to nullify or at least mitigate the Authority of this Kingdom's Ruler."

Signora then replayed the previous battle in her mind, where her teammates had used their Authority. And that authority was certainly effective. She could only imagine how much more effective the Authority of the Kingdom's Ruler would be, considering they were in his territory.

"It would probably be wise for us to seek out these shadows in the off chance that they have methods to counter the Ruler's Authority. Also, by the fact that they apparently kept saying to 'give back the station', then they also have cause to depose the Ruler, no? All of the Metaverse seems to work on Jungian Archetypes, so I'm not sure how viable an alliance with a shadow would be, considering they are the 'side rejected and repressed by a person's ego' according to Jungian theory. But that might merit consideration. Though I suppose technically 'someone's repressed side' can be positive or negative."