domer - I see two possibilities:
1 - Manti was a dupe at the beginning but saw a way to leverage the death of this girl to his advantage and took it. Lies begat other lies and he was never man enough to accept the consequences of those lies, so we end up here.
2 - Manti was complicit in the entire thing, from the beginning.
#1 makes him an idiot, then a liar and a coward. With #2, forget the idiot part - he becomes something much worse than an idiot and/or a coward. I very much hope it is #1.
1 - Manti was a dupe at the beginning but saw a way to leverage the death of this girl to his advantage and took it. Lies begat other lies and he was never man enough to accept the consequences of those lies, so we end up here.
2 - Manti was complicit in the entire thing, from the beginning.
#1 makes him an idiot, then a liar and a coward. With #2, forget the idiot part - he becomes something much worse than an idiot and/or a coward. I very much hope it is #1.