"General Cross, you came because of Leonard, right?" Ethan said bluntly.
"Yes." General Cross nodded. "I trust your character, Ethan. You wouldn't kill him for no reason. Can you tell us why?"
"It's not that complicated." Ethan waved a hand. "He wanted to turn us into thralls, so I had to kill him."
"Thralls?" General Cross and Colonel Mitchell both stared at him, confused.
"Yeah." Ethan's tone stayed casual, like he was explaining the weather. "A method that forcibly creates living people into thralls that only obey him."
He wasn't planning to hide this from General Cross. If anything, it was perfect—let Clearford City be the one to spread the news that the Hale family had a thrall-creation method.
Even if nobody believed it, it would still make the Hale family choke on it.
He'd killed Leonard. That meant he was going to clash with the Hale family sooner or later. If they were miserable, Ethan was happy.
"Ethan… is what you're saying true?" General Cross's face hardened.
