Maybe he was defending Penthesilea, Lisa, and a priest of Ares was trying to kill him.
But in general, you can come up with many versions, because I don't know how the non-player characters are described.
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Cash, well, if I have to choose from this, I might be more inclined to believe Pandora and execute Thorius.
I'll go through the newspapers now and try to come up with my own versions.