Strong enough to make many martial arts experts in the Anti-Foreigner Group willingly accept his guidance.
Besides revealing the organization he belonged to, the fat man also divulged two important pieces of intel.
First: He admitted that the assassination attempt on the Angoulême family was orchestrated by their Anti-Foreigner Group.
Second: He confessed that the organization that viewed Aoto as a national traitor and repeatedly sent people to assassinate Aoto was also their Anti-Foreigner Group.
The fat man explained why they wanted to kill Anthony and Elodie—not for any special reason, just because they wanted to kill foreigners.
Which country this foreigner is from, their identity, age, gender, all are irrelevant.
Anyway, all foreigners who set foot on Japanese soil are to be killed.
The Angoulême family was just purely unlucky—the Anti-Foreigner Group learned via some channels that a vulnerable French merchant family would soon travel from Osaka through Tokaido to Edo.
