This theory stunned everyone. At first, no one believed such a ridiculous guess. Some even mocked it as a case of settling personal grudges under the guise of justice. True enough, Solam was already hated by most people present. No one liked a troublesome bastard with no sense of reverence.
But Solam had only just arrived in Toussaint. Why would he have any reason to kill those people? And in such a brutal manner, at that.
He actually did!
The master of wild speculation immediately rebutted them.
First, Egil and Solam had clashed twice. The second time, Solam had beaten up a group of knights, dueled Lord Ai Newman, the Knight of the Grail, and ultimately suffered a crushing defeat. There was another reason the master of wild speculation had not mentioned: Solam was friends with that adulterous pair, Diana and Philip. Not only that, Diana had even gifted Solam one of her royal villas. Hiring killers to murder people—surely that counted as reasonable suspicion?
As for Mark and Elro, there was even less need to say anything. After all, the conflict that had caused massive casualties had happened less than a few hours ago. Wasn't that reason enough?
Faced with those words, everyone fell silent in shock.
Come to think of it, the theory sounded absurd, but upon closer examination, it actually made a certain amount of sense.
Those who did not hesitate to view Solam with the utmost malice found it more convincing the longer they thought about it. Of course, there was still one loophole: what about the first victim? According to the gathered information, he seemed to have had no connection with Solam at all. In fact, the first time he and Solam had met was after the man's death, when he was already a corpse.