Corgi died at Tatum's hands, along with more than a dozen of Corgi's lackeys. Once certain things began, they could not be stopped. When Tatum killed Corgi, Corgi's men rushed forward to seize Tatum—yes, seize him. They had not intended to kill Tatum.
Unfortunately, once blood was spilled, the people's fury was completely ignited. Corgi and his lackeys had done plenty of harm to the people here, and now that someone had taken the lead, the crowd naturally followed. Thus, more than a dozen lackeys died.
By the time the killings were over, the guard arrived. Seeing that people had died, the guard had no choice but to prepare to take away Tatum, who had led the killings. There had originally been nothing wrong with that. In fact, the guard had even shown some leniency toward the locals, since they too had taken part in the killing. But the guard did not want to make the matter bigger than it already was, so they planned to arrest Tatum and make him take the blame.
Unfortunately, the thoroughly inflamed crowd did not trust the guard at all. They believed the guards were accomplices too and refused to let them take Tatum away. Tatum himself was unwilling to be taken away as well. He did not believe that he or anyone else had done anything wrong. What Corgi and his accomplices had done was enough to earn them death a hundred times over. Was he wrong for killing them?
As the saying went, those with martial strength defied the law. Once people possessed force, they became hard to control. Thus, under Tatum's leadership, the crowd began violently resisting the law. Conflict with the guard soon followed. Then, in the chaos, before anyone noticed, one civilian blocking the guards clutched his stomach, collapsed