Chapter 242: The Tin Knight and The Strange Resort (1)
“Mages and citizens of the Magic State.
“I am Teur Rognir, newly appointed as the head of the Tower of Control.
“I cannot hide my truly regretful and guilty feelings for having to convey this content to you first thing upon my ascension to this honorable position, but concealing this matter would bring about even greater shame and sin, so I wish to confess a few facts.
“The claim we made in the past that ‘the Tower of Protection betrayed Great Teacher Orin and tried to steal and use her will’ is not true.
“It was Lotbart Rognir, the previous head of the Tower of Control, who betrayed her and inflicted a fatal wound, and the Great Teacher who denounced the Tower of Protection along with us was not herself, but an impostor impersonating her.
“Moreover, the thief incident that can be said to be the starting point of this affair was an event fabricated jointly by our Tower of Control and the Lennart Ducal family of the Empire, and the Friedel domain forces sacrificed in the incident were innocent victims caught up in the plot.
“It is very difficult to completely settle past sins, but not even attempting to repay those sins is an even greater evil.
“I express my deep apologies to the Tower of Protection, the Friedel domain, and all the citizens who have been harmed by this incident, and I swear in the name of Teur Rognir that I will certainly carry out appropriate compensation. Also, to those of you in other towers who have been indirectly affected—“
“He’s really begging for his life.”
From the mouth of Frandol Herteite, head of the Tower of Annihilation, who was listening to the sound with her heel hooked on the table, came a remark that was either admiration or sarcasm.
As she lightly flicked her finger, the phonograph-like magic tool that had been reproducing Teur Rognir’s voice stopped functioning and fell silent.
“Even a withering flower has its own lingering impression. Selling out his own father, throwing his honor to the ground, and rolling in the mud like that, even that small lingering impression will disappear. Was he always a man with so little pride?”