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As soon as they left the prince’s chambers, Varos and Serati exchanged a glance and then subtly looked toward Karnak.
“Young master?”
“Didn’t you say you wouldn’t live the way you used to?”
Karnak furrowed his brow, looking genuinely offended.
“I didn’t kill him, all right?”
He really hadn’t laid a hand on Alford.
“What reason would I have to kill the man?”
Varos tilted his head.
“To maintain secrecy?”
“There’s nothing to keep secret! What does he even know about me?”
“…Now that you mention it, nothing,” Varos admitted.
Indeed, Alford had no knowledge of Karnak’s group. He had spent his time locked up in the palace, entirely out of the loop.
“Getting rid of him would’ve only drawn unnecessary suspicion. Especially since I was the last one to see him.”
Alford’s death had occurred three days later, long after others had interrogated him. There was no reason for the blame to fall on Karnak.
Recalling the events in the prison, Serati asked, “Then what exactly did you do to him back then?”
It had been hard to forget the sight of Karnak stabbing a needle of light into Alford’s head, digging through his mind as if it were some dark and sinister experiment.
“That? It was nothing significant,” Karnak replied cas...
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