The family they suspected might have a lot of power in City Wei, but they held some degree of respect for the Cretan family, so it was impossible for them to kill Charles Cretan so publicly.
Meanwhile, the true culprit, the Zi family, ended up avoiding suspicion altogether.
They proceeded to investigate the people Charles Cretan had a conflict with recently.
Charles Cretan had conflicts with three groups of people in the past month and one of them seemed a likely suspect.
They were not locals. Instead, they were tourists from Country M. They got into a fight with Charles Cretan and were highly skilled fighters, but they lost since they were outnumbered.
Based on their investigations, these tourists from Country M seemed somewhat mysterious. They were unable to come up with more information about them, so the Cretan family suspected they were behind Charles Cretan's death.
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