[Later, after Miguel and the rest got back inside]
"You may have heard me say this so many times now, but I'm going to repeat it. . . You never REALLY fail to impress me. . . But for some reason, you also didn't fail to disappoint me tonight." Ion's eyes darted over Kitty and Benji as if talking to them and saying, ‘Now, are you regretting your previous choices? I told you that they could not be trusted!’ But then, that thought quickly evaporated when he hears the pastor's following words.
"Mister Ion Chen? I'm sorry, but tonight, you've failed to dig your grave the way I wanted it to be. . . What are you going to bury in that grave, three chickens?"
He felt embarrassed. He felt humiliated. He felt angry just by watching pastor Roman and his allies laugh at him. But then, that shared
