Chapter 468: The Remaining Truth (Ⅲ)

"Yes, Martin is right, Mr. Vida, only you at Leiden Academy can understand his difficulties."

Fitzgerald looked up at the gloomy sky.

"It's getting late and the weather is terrible, it looks like it could rain any minute, so let's make a long story short."

Joan nodded in agreement.

"Mr. Vader, there are no outsiders here. I can tell you frankly that the death of Walter Lee has nothing to do with the murder of Master Rawls. The man who killed him was Martin Smith."

Joan actually had a premonition, but hearing Fitzgerald reveal the truth of the murder face to face, he still couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

"Why did Martin kill his mentor? I don't need to say that you know the reason. In fact, he wanted to do it a long time ago. It's just that he is cowardly and timid by nature. He didn't dare to resist after suffering so much. Bear with it, Walter Lee will eventually soften his heart and let him live."

"Martin is still too naive. In the past three years, his expectations have repeatedly failed, but he still does not give up. After the start of school this year, he once again asked Walter Lee for graduation, but what he got was still prevarication and perfunctory, just like the past three years."

"Senior Martin couldn't take it anymore, and finally decided to kill?" Joan asked.

Fitzgerald shook his head and smiled wryly.

"No, this weak man succumbed again. This is the saddest thing. The 'Old Owl' oppressed him unscrupulously just because he saw through his cowardice."

"But in the end, Senior Martin..." Joan hesitated to speak.

"It was an accident, Mr. Vader, not premeditated." Fitzgerald lowered his voice, "It happened on the night of the second day of school, Martin was busy in Li's laboratory as usual, and suddenly heard a tragic sound coming from outside the window. Out of curiosity, he walked to the window and looked out, and vaguely saw a figure shaking from the opposite Rawls laboratory window, as if he was fighting fiercely."

"Martin was disturbed by what he saw, and hurried to Walter Lee to explain the situation. Walter Lee was also curious about the abnormal movement in the Rawls Laboratory, so he followed Martin to the window and peeked across."

"At this moment, the window of Rawls's laboratory suddenly exploded, and three black figures jumped out one after another. They disappeared in a blink of an eye. Through the broken window, Master Rawls could be faintly seen lying in a pool of blood."

"Martin was stunned by what he saw. When he came back to his senses, he planned to call the police, but was stopped by Walter Lee, who also said that it would not be too late to call the police after he figured out the situation."

"Next, Walter Lee cast spells, blessed himself and Martin successively with 'invisibility' and 'flying', pushed open the window of the laboratory and flew out quietly, and entered the room through the hole in the window of Rawls Laboratory, It is confirmed that Master Rawls was indeed assassinated, fell in a pool of blood, and seemed to have stopped breathing."

"At that time, Martin's mind was full of calling the police, but Walter Lee seemed very excited, and fiercely prevented him from calling the police. He also used the 'Mage Hand' to search the body of Master Rawls, took the soul-binding bottle from the corpse's arms, and immediately Activate this mysterious magic tool, suck the soul of Master Rawls into the bottle and seal it!"

"In this way, even if a high-level priest is invited to perform the resurrection magic, Master Rawls, whose soul has lost his freedom, cannot be brought back to life. Walter Lee will have one less competitor in the academy."

"After all this was done, Walter Lee took Martin back to his laboratory without anyone noticing."

"Martin is deeply shocked and horrified by this series of despicable actions of Walter Lee. At a loss what to do, Walter Lee asked him to swear to keep the night a secret."

"Martin had to be sworn to secrecy, but Walter Lee was still worried about him. He went back to his room and planned to mix a glass of poisoned wine and kill Martin to silence him—maybe it was just a trivial matter to him, and no one cared about Martin anyway. The life and death of this trash."

"Martin heard the sound of beakers colliding, saw through the crack of the door that Walter Lee was fiddling with wine bottles and poisons, and immediately realized his dangerous situation. Behind Walter Lee, who was poisoned and drunk, he stabbed him in the heart with the dagger he carried with him, and finally killed the devil who had tortured him for eight years."

"In this way, a short moment of fear and impulse prompted Martin to do the thing that he didn't want to do all the time for three years but didn't dare to do it—killed his mentor Walter Lee with his own hands."

Fitzgerald turned to look at Joan, with an extremely complicated expression on his face.

"Mr. Vader, I don't know what you think, when I heard Martin say this himself, I couldn't believe it at all!"

"I don't doubt that Martin will kill with a knife on impulse, but Walter Lee is a level 9 mage after all, and his strength is much stronger than Martin's. How could he be so easily stabbed to death by Martin in the back?"

"However, thinking about it again, Walter Lee never expected that Martin, a useless student who had been tortured by him for eight years and had never made even the slightest resistance, would actually kill him this time."

"Indeed, as you said, Mr. Fitzgerald, Walter Lee underestimated senior Martin too much. His long-term arrogance made him believe that Martin did not dare to resist, and he had no sense of guarding against the other party. I am afraid that at the moment of death I can't believe that Martin really killed him." Joan said with emotion.

"In any case, Walter Lee is dead, and Martin must calm down and face the reality." Mr. Fitzgerald sighed, "At first he wanted to surrender himself, but he was unwilling to end his life in such a miserable way. Under the gallows, he finally decided to try to cover up his crimes and escape the punishment of the law."

"So he carefully camouflaged the scene of Walter Lee's death, and painted the sign of the Sons of Liberty on the wall, so that the scene looked very similar to the murder scene of Rawls' mentor, trying to induce the police to The association of serial murders?" Joan asked Fitzgerald coldly.

He sympathizes with and understands Martin's motive for murdering Walter Lee, but he does not agree with his act of falsifying the scene of the crime. This behavior not only deceived the police, but also caused serious misleading to the subsequent investigations by him, Xiao Miao and others.

"As you guessed, Mr. Vader, Martin himself confessed to me the crimes he committed, including the murder of Walter Lee and the falsification of the scene. For him, this is a last resort."

"Then what about the soul-binding bottle?" Fitzgerald tried to excuse Martin, but Joan interrupted and asked him coldly: "Mr. Fitzgerald, can you tell me why senior Martin Take that thing that doesn't belong to him?"