The camp out in the wilderness had already been forcefully taken over by Liszt.
At this moment, he was staring at Piero as he interrogated him. "Duke Piero, I think you should give me an explanation. I came at your invitation to preside over the allocation of the Aluminum Dragon, yet I was met with this long-planned assassination. If I hadn't had enough cards up my sleeve, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to leave here alive today."
"Your Majesty, please, you must believe me. The assassination has absolutely nothing to do with me, the Gray Cast Iron Family, or the Gray Iron Grand Duchy. I truly wanted to invite you here to preside over the allocation of the dragonriders... This must have been Pilov colluding with the assassins, it must have been! And the Eagle Royal Family must have been fanning the flames from behind the scenes!"
The more Piero spoke, the more nervous he became. "That must be it. The Eagle Royal Family stands behind Pilov. Everything, including the Aluminum Dragon, is a conspiracy by the Eagle Royal Family. Adonis Moonlight Silver is truly sinister. He took advantage of my desperate wish to restore the Gray Cast Iron Family and lured Your Majesty here!"
Clearly, Piero knew nothing about the Kushan Empire, so he had no idea that the assassins had come from the Kushan Empire—the magus and the assassin could no longer speak, while Pilov and his son were unconscious. No one would tell Piero what the truth was.
Thus, after filling in the gaps with his own imagination, Piero became even more convinced that the Eagle Royal Family was supporting everything from behind the scenes. "Your Majesty, Adonis must have used me. Please believe me—I, Piero, have never once thought of betraying Your Majesty!"
Liszt