With Fleur topping the power hierarchy of the Qing Eliminating Society, the Four Earls and the Three Elders were next to her in strength and authority.
However, it was the Scholars that really gave Charlie the creeps.
Just like the Transition, Scholars were a doctrine that was at once radical and despicable.
With the Transition, the dead soldiers and the armed cavalry guards were separated from their families. Their families would be executed if any of them tried to escape, so it was a threa