He gathered complete information about the three mysterious individuals from the Pastor.
To be safe, Ronald first went to see the Herbalist and the Carpenter.
According to the Pastor, these two individuals had family records of residing in Seraphis for generations and had a clean background, making them suitable to approach first for information.
—And that was indeed the case.
Running around the village, it took less than an hour for Ronald to negotiate separately with the Herbalist and the Carpenter.
At the time of this morning's incident, their whereabouts were corroborated by others, full proof of their absence that alone was enough to clear them of any suspicion.
Then, there was the remaining Blacksmith.
Since he came from another country, he was naturally the most suspicious, but considering the previous investigation by Willard's trio, Ronald didn't take it too seriously.
The main purpose of inquiring about these three mysterious individuals was to gather information.