...Dear Administrator, I have mediated the events currently unfolding here as you instructed. The Legion commander agreed to distinguish between innocents and rioters and to conduct public trials... I know this is not a good idea, but hand on my heart, did I have a better one? Forgive my limited abilities; this is the absolute limit of what I could accomplish with words alone.
As for the matter of the "arsonists" you asked me to investigate, unfortunately, I have yet to find any leads. I investigated the warehouses and interviewed nearby residents. Some claimed they saw followers of the Silver Moon Cult near the edge of the warehouse district, while others said they saw someone sneaking over the walls... Their testimonies contradicted one another, and they were unwilling to say much about that day. As for the Velanders, they found hundreds of "arsonists," but I felt that every last one of them had been wrongfully accused.
I did find the guy who fired the first shot and killed the guard captain. Or, more accurately, someone else turned him in. No matter how I looked at him, that young ratfolk man was just an ordinary person. He did not seem to have been acting under orders. I even found myself wondering whether the shot he fired had really hit anyone. Though I wanted to question him further, the Velanders no longer seemed to care who had fired the shot. After the evening bells rang, he was pushed onto the execution ground along with the others.
My feelings were incredibly complicated. Some of my companions sympathized with the Velanders, while others sympathized with the dead laborers. They had argued about it more than once. Mr. Arman's plight certainly stirred my sympathy, but I could not help wondering whether the slaveowners had simply