Reasons

Hanses looked at Kieran and Lawless as a bitter smile formed on his face.

"Remember the man who caught me during my previous escape?" he asked.

"Stagner, the Grand Duke's sword master? The teacher of all three of the Grand Duke's sons? You're saying he is the masked man?"

As Kieran recalled the man Hanses was talking about, he frowned. Hanses had said a lot more than that.

Stagner was the best swordsman in Morko Grand Duchy and the strongest fighter under the Grand Duke's dictatorship.

Hanses nodded, the bitter smile on his face getting even bigger.

"Yeah, I think he is the masked man. The feeling I got when he passed by me… It felt the same as I remembered!"