User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-03-'13 — Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag trailer and screenshots/@comment-5542440-20130405084710/@comment-4829046-20130405155953

Yeah that fact was negated but still, he could have just let the poor guy go, I mean, in the first sequence if you kill the bandit that you let live as a messenger, you get a warning.