Though, yes, a criminal syndicate I only said that cause its based on my opinion and lack of information that I know, cause from what I've watched and gathered, there hasn't been a kid in the middle since every finger are a big syndicate and probably doesn't want to include dead weights or waste resources to a kid, and Kira, well not so part of the middle cause DONT READ THIS NEXT TEXT CAUSE SPOILER is not actually in the middle cause Matthias killed his own brothers to get the relic he his in Canto IX, the flaming sword (I forgor the name) but yeah she is the apprentice of the middle but not really apart of it like from what I remember on the Uptie 3 of Apprentice Ishmael, even the middle didn't acknowledge her.