Blind Confrontation

Despite the bulletproof weave of the trousers he wore preventing a penetrating wound, and the light armor that both filled out Arsenio Leblanc's frame to further differentiate the identity from Mattheus and kept him from having broken bones or deep tissue bruising, the twenty-year-old had difficulty putting weight on the leg that had been shot at.

It must have hit the nerves as it was all Mattheus could do to stand up, actually having to use the cane for a moment as intended.

He couldn't run healing magic through his leg either, thanks to the tell-tale shimmer of healing.

Likewise, he could have easily ended this by summoning Brunilda to his side but he didn't.

Jonathan Verne.

A middle-aged man on the rotund side.

Sure, he was personally experiencing that the former professor was quicker on his feet than his girth would suggest, but could the man have acted alone the entire time for the Blind Tarot murders?