[Maybe. Jusis is certainly holding out hope for that being the case. He doesn't want to fight Velvet at all if he can help it.

Fuck, this is a mess, though.]

Okay. If Lapis had been ordered to kill him, then someone had to have given those orders to her for the hit. I can't guarantee that my contact can deliver on that kind of information, though, especially if it's from on high.

[He's not surprised that Arthur has been killed. He's suspected The Order for stringing her along all these years since she mentioned it. The fact that it's Lapis, though... that's absolutely thrown him. That's probably why she called him in the first place.

Jusis is still hoping that Eizen gets here soon to deescalate this further. Velvet's probably a wrong word away from snapping again.]