The man nicknamed "Sea Serpent" was called Weave. Since his parents had died early, he had joined Bayam's gangs as a child, doing all sorts of theft, fraud, and swindling...
However, he was smooth in his dealings. Whether stealing or cheating, he always left some room and never pushed things too far, which was why he had earned the nickname "Sea Serpent."
It was also for this reason that Abner had not killed him outright. After all, judging by Sea Serpent's past deeds, even by modern criminal law, his crimes did not warrant death.
Of course, Abner had another consideration for sparing him and bringing him home.
At that moment, he did not ask how Helene had "entertained" Weave earlier. Instead, he sat directly on the sofa at the head of the living room, handed a local Bayam newspaper to the still-dejected young man opposite him, and said calmly, "Take a look at this."
He had taken the newspaper from the butler before going upstairs.
Sea Serpent Weave had received some education before his parents died, so he could read. After glancing through it, he raised his head in shock and looked at Abner in disbelief. "Mr. Ozil is dead?!"
As for the newspaper's claim that sudden thunderstorm weather had caused lightning to strike the villa, starting a fire and resulting in tragedy, he did not believe a single word of it!
How could there be such a coincidence? Mr. Ozil had just exposed his ambitions for the manor in front of Detective Braine, and then he died... No matter how he thought about it, it had to have been man-made!
And Detective Braine before him was the prime suspect...
Wait, would figuring this out get me silenced?
At that thought, Sea Serpent Weave became frightened. But he had experienced