Chapter 291: Confessions (1)
The entire Imperial Capital was in shock.
Bourgeois patriarch Bartolomeo has been assassinated, and Cardinal Humbert of Quovadis, a pious man, has gone missing.
The culprit was blamed on the Night Hound.
Night Hound broke into a dinner party where Bartolomeo and the students of the academy were gathered, targeted Saint Dolores among the students, and staged a cowardly hostage situation, during which Bartolomeo made a heroic sacrifice to save them all.
A holy, heroic death indeed.
Unfortunately, most of the survivors who were saved by Bartolomeo's sacrifice said they had no memory of it.
A student named Piggy claimed to have fallen asleep and didn't see anything at all, while a student named Sinclair, who was present at the scene, suffered from aphasia and short-term memory loss due to an overdose of sleeping pills, a blow to the head, and psychological shock.
Finally, St. Dolores, who had been taken hostage herself, stated that she did not see anything because she had an eye patch over her eyes.
The incident was put to rest when the acting patriarch of the Bourgeois Family, Demian J Bourgeois, issued an official statement stating that the situation would be resolved as quickly as possible and that the chaos would soon subside as there was a successor in place for the patriarchal position.
...But.
Even if there is a big incident in the whole country, it is human and small citizens who feel that the small things in front of them are more important.