“Everything… I only did as I was told by that man! I just did what he told me to! Kihee! Kihehehe!” Maverick’s frightened appearance disappeared, and he started screaming and laughing in a strange manner. He broke free from Partec and Breen, who had been holding him in place, then started talking like a madman.

“T-to think that I tried to kill that man! Yes… Because of the request I received from Bertel Tywin, I tried to… Hiek! What did I even try to do?! Uhu, uhuhuhu!” After confessing his sins, Maverick suddenly began to cry with his hands wrapped around his head. 

Camara and the mercenaries were stunned. It was then…

“Kihehehe! S-someone like me needs to die. Yes. People like me don’t deserve to live! We don’t!” Maverick suddenly shouted, then jerked around.

“Grab him!” Camara shouted.

Partec flung himself towards Maverick, but it was already too late.

“Ehehehehehe…!” Maverick rushed towards and threw himself out the window. No one had expected such a dramatic turn of events.

Thud!

“What the…”

Partec and Breen stuck their heads out the window, then stiffened at the sight. After falling down, Maverick had been pierced by a sharp wooden picket installed inside the moat. An unpleasant silence descended after the sudden, vain death of Maverick.

Eugene’s voice broke the silence. “His testimony was unmistakable, and we have many witnesses. Lord Tywin, what will you do?”

Camara flinched and turned around. The face of Bertel, his younger brother, was crumpled into a hideous expression.

“B-brother....