Chapter 60: A Puppet's Story (3)

The judge's name was Brazer, a young Arcanist.

He had a handsome appearance, just like Major, but he was for more poisonous and vicious at heart.

Rogers's and the prison guards' deaths alerted him that these murders might have been related to Miss Donna, so I basically ran right into a trap.

I was captured yet again.

Luckily, I was not seen as an individual acting on it's own. They thought I was just a murder weapon being wielded by someone else.

Unfortunately, they were able to find Gold through me.

I watched as they took Gold away and tormented him.

That was when I knew that I had harmed yet another master of mine.

A master who had treated me well died yet again because of my actions. I tried to tell them that I had acted on my own, not under the control of any master, but they didn't listen to me at all.

It wasn't until much later that I realized that this wasn't just because they didn't believe that a puppet could act without instructions. Rather, they would never try a puppet in court as a murderer.

Puppets were puppets. They needed to be controlled by someone!

Even if that wasn't actually the case.

In their eyes, I was merely a weap...