“Maybe. But… no,” he changed his mind after thinking for a second. “I think both you and Lisa could be a lot more aggressive. It kind of worries me that you aren’t.”
Taylor, sure, but Lisa… I guess Lisa could use blackmail to make people willingly submit to her reign?
“Worries you?”
“If you aren’t taking out the other gangs in your territory and turning a profit, why should Coil bother keeping you there?”
Aaand we have a thing for Taylor to worry about in this Arc. It’s kind of close to what I was talking about earlier with Coil’s expenses towards Taylor’s altruism. If Taylor doesn’t figure out a way to turn a profit instead of just blindly spending to help people, she risks Coil going back on things. And isn’t Taylor’s main objective across Arcs currently to prove her worth to Coil, in order to convince him that she’s more useful than Dinah?
Of course Taylor doesn’t want to stop helping people, but Brian has a point.
“First of all, I’m totally prepared to squash any troublemakers the second they make themselves known around here.”
Yeah, I don’t question that part. We’ve seen Taylor do this already.
“Assuming you can find them.”
“I can. Second of all, Coil didn’t say a thing about turning a profit. He has money. Scads.”
Hm, true enough.
“He has his own money. Money that he has to devote time and attention to earning. If your territory never starts earning for him and just becomes some black hole that sucks up tens of thousands of dollars of his money each week, you think he’s going to be okay with that?”
But yeah, this is a valid point.
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