Chapter 17 Chapter Seventeen

You must well remember the Baron's conversation with Olvanik, and Baron Rudolf left before blowing up the castle.But by the time the explosion actually occurred, the Baron could not have had time to escape.Baron Rudolf de Golz was distraught, in a coma, and he didn't know what he was doing. He triggered an explosive device and became the first victim?After Rozko shattered the box he carried with a single shot, he yelled inscrutable crazy words, and he was determined to be buried in the ruins of the old castle at that time. Regardless, thankfully the detectives were awakened by Rodzko's gunfire, which was still some distance away from the castle when the explosion shook the mountains.Several passers-by down the mountain were also almost injured by the rubble rolling down the mountain.It was only Rodzko and the ranger in the corner, and it was a miracle they weren't crushed by the rain of stones.

After the explosion, the city wall collapsed and the trench was half filled.Rodzko, the ranger, and the police passed the walls and entered the fort with little difficulty. Fifty paces from the city wall, a corpse lay lying among the broken bricks and tiles at the base of the tower. That was Rudolf DeGolz.Several local elderly people, including the village head of Kerz, recognized him at a glance. Rozko and Nick Deckard just want to find the young earl.Since Franz did not attend the meeting as promised, he must not have escaped from the castle. Rodzko could not count on the survival of the owner, who was not killed in the explosion.He howled.Nick Decker didn't know how to comfort him.

After half an hour of searching, they finally found the count on the second floor of the tower, where he fell under the buttresses of the wall, which saved him from being crushed to a pulp. "Master...poor master..." "Monsieur..." They stooped and cried, and they thought Franz was dead, but he was just unconscious. Franz opened his eyes, his eyes wandered, as if he didn't know Rodzko, and couldn't understand what he was saying. Nick Deck picked up the young earl and talked to him, but he didn't answer. From time to time he only spat out the last lines of the song that Lastila had sung:

Innamorata... Voglio morire... Franz Dederek was mad.