In the tunnels beneath the base, Justice Light dismisses Sneaky Tyler C and the other sluggalos from trap-building duty, urging them to join the surface battle before Operation Ruin begins. Justice keeps Sick-Ass Worgo behind, activates hidden defenses, and reveals that Justice knows Worgo is actually a changeling spy working for Juice Box.

The impostor, named Jessica, communicates with Juice Box and partially adopts Juice Box’s human face to relay the conversation. Justice explains that Justice detected the substitution through implants and long-practiced paranoia, and Justice asks Juice Box to call off a digger threatening the tunnel system. Juice Box agrees to listen, and Justice promises not to expose the changelings if they hear Justice out.

Justice recounts the guilt that shaped Justice: as a crawler, Justice once killed a trap-store NPC in anger, depriving other crawlers of supplies and causing deaths. Later, after becoming indentured, Justice and a crocodilian named Dante were assigned as castle guards and ordered to kill innocent ice elf servants. Dante refused twice and was erased by the AI; Justice refused once, lost a wing, then obeyed out of fear. Justice frames Dante’s death as proof that there is no true point of no return.

Justice uses this confession to argue that Juice Box and Team Retribution should trust Justice’s commitment. Justice deduces that the changelings have infiltrated every faction base and that their real goal is not merely helping Carl but touching as many gods as possible, likely to add divine forms to their shapeshifting library. Juice Box does not fully deny it and admits that during the recent god chaos one changeling touched Bast but died, while another who touched a deity is now wrong; three others touched the ogre basilica guards.

Justice then offers Juice Box a bargain: Justice can show the changelings how to touch a god without dying, and in return Team Retribution must honor its alliances, stop sabotaging, and help Operation Ruin succeed. When Juice Box says Operation Ruin should end the immediate war before more gods matter, Justice reveals that Justice is thinking beyond the faction war. Justice begins explaining the true trap designed after Carl discovered the Gate of the Feral Gods, and the digger withdraws, signaling Juice Box’s interest.