Yeah... we can puzzle over "what if's" forever, but...

[ in the end, there's no telling how things will go.

He squints out at the other elevators again, frowning. ]

... This is difficult. Raising one of the lower but not lowest teams is probably the safest... but if everyone thinks that way, then... their position is even more dangerous. Besides which, that's Sphinx, Kraken, Unicorn and Yatagarasu.

[ three teams they didn't want to target, and the team they already did target once. ]