That day, all but one of the attackers had managed to escape. The only man who got caught was immediately brought to the prisonhouse to be questioned.
Who was the intended target? Who had ordered the attack? And since they had failed, did the man know if his masters were going to try again?
At first, the prisoner professed that he didn’t know anything. He was just following instructions.
So what were his instructions?
The man said that he didn’t know the answer to that either.
As this prisoner had made it patently clear that he wouldn’t give up any information easily, the Emperor’s men had no choice but to turn up the heat on him.
With the inclusion of pain, the man became a little more forthcoming.
He said that he was a part of a gang—just an ordinary underling—and so he really di
