Hello Six of Crows fans, in case you were having a bad day today, this is your reminder that to almost everyone in the Church of Barter in Crooked Kingdom, it seemed like an esteemed, wealthy, adult businessman and politician just completely lost his mind at some random high-school age delinquent from the slums and blamed a massive scandal on him. Really just zoom out for a second here. To us as readers, Kaz is, well, Kaz, but to everyone in that story without the context of who he is, he is essentially a random kid with a cane and a questionable haircut. Van Eck in that scene is accusing him of everything from conning him to disguising his son as someone else. This would be like Elon Musk getting on national television after a massive tech disaster and blaming the entire thing on a fairly average high schooler with a light criminal record. It's just so absurdly funny to me, I will never get over it.