Mestor's cold calculus: a conflict between maintaining operational secrecy and achieving objectives regardless of human cost, driving Edgeworth and others toward monstrous compliance

Edgeworth materializes aboard the freighter alongside the Sylvest twins, dictating their immediate confinement in a bunker. Under tight security from Noma and Drak, Remus and Romulus are stripped of clarity …

Mestor publicly reinforces his absolute control over Edgeworth in the throne room, reducing him to a mere instrument of his will. The alien entity strips Edgeworth’s feigned bargaining power away …