[Barok's hand moves over his brother's badge as Kazuma recounts those events, the sting of the truth still relatively fresh. He takes a steadying breath that doesn't quite stop a light mist from emerging at his feet.]

A shame which I will carry until my last breath. [He straightens up.] That evidence—your father's ring—was provided to me by the man who was originally assigned to the case: Mael Stronghart.

Like you, I entreated him for the chance to prosecute, to avenge my brother. But until mere days ago, I'd had no idea that the evidence was falsified... nor that the trial's outcome had already been fixed through a clandestine agreement. By Stronghart's orders, Genshin was never hanged.