"Beyond Wanted to Break Free"
Back to the morning of September 14, in the capital of the Kakin Empire.
On the seventh day after Fourth Prince Tserriednich's death, news of his murder was finally made public, immediately sending shock waves through the nation.
The news media erupted, and social networks filled with countless discussions. For the next month or two, the Fourth Prince would be at the center of most people's conversations.
Rumors had been circulating for days, including one that the Fourth Prince had been murdered. But even after it was confirmed, the public was still deeply shocked.
He was a prince, after all... It wasn't as though there had never been an assassination of a royal family member. Similar attacks had happened in the Kakin Empire and in other countries.
Yet the news still stunned people and seized their attention.
The Kakin royal family and the police had done a good job of concealing the details of the case. Netizens still knew nothing about what had happened, let alone the identity of the person who had killed the Fourth Prince.
All they could do was take whatever scraps of information they could find and spin endless theories. Most were absurd, while some were only partly true.
After a flurry of analysis, the vast majority concluded that this tragedy had to be the result of a struggle for power among the princes of the Kakin royal family. Some even confidently named specific princes.
Then their accounts were suspended. Even so, the online frenzy showed no signs of slowing down.
The furor reached its peak when Ninth Prince Halkenburg posted a tribute to the Fourth Prince on Facebook.
Tserriednich and Halkenburg had always enjoyed a good public image. They were regarded as "gentlemen among princes," and the two had also