Episode 83
Episode 35. Trial (2)
It was a flow that no one expected in the central hall of the Hwangseong. Who knew that the first princess, not the second princess, would protect Yuma?
Zishka scanned the entire central hall with a satisfied face. Except for Duran and Hela, none of the nobles could even make eye contact with Zishka.
The first princess with a monstrous personality who doesn’t know where she will end up.
However, she was clearly the first-ranked heir to the imperial throne. I didn’t know what kind of anger I would get if I went against her.
“Jacca Dean, a criminal, is sentenced to 20 years in a dungeon. The trial ends with this! The imperial army immediately arrests the criminal and executes the sentence.”
Although it was the opinion of the first princess, the judgment was handed down by the empress herself.
It meant that no one could ever appeal or protest.
Duran and Hella had to accept the verdict.
He could have mentioned the blue dragon Chrysa Ainu, but doing so would only endanger the market.
Zecca made a devastated face, but soon closed her eyes as if accepting it. The imperial army, holding a magic rope, started approaching Zecca.
clap clap clap.
The royal army’s roaring footsteps echoed in the central hall. In the meantime, Yuma whispered to Zecca.
‘I’ll take it out right away, Jeka.’
Jeka smiled lightly and nodded. The imperial army violently captured and dragged Zecca away.
The public trial thus ended. Yuma returned all three seals bestowed by the Empress on the spot.
While returning to Zach Gar, Yuma suppressed his confused mind and stared out the window.
Duran also had a lot of thoughts, so he didn’t say anything. I had no idea that the trial would go on like this.
“Master. It seems that the first princess was involved in Joheim’s affairs.”
“I know because I saw it. What is this…
Duran shook his head with a rare expression of frustration, thinking of the imprisoned Zecca.
Although Yuma had few precious friends, to Duran, Zecca was just a close friend of his. If Yuma had been sentenced to dungeon, he would have made a fuss on the spot, but he had no intention of doing so even to Zecca.
Rather, Duran judged that it was fortunate in some way that the verdict ended with Jeka being imprisoned in an underground prison. This is because there is no room for the gossips to come out.
The Empress also knew of the existence of Kriesha Ainu, so she wouldn’t kill Jekka recklessly.
Duran knew the empress’ personality better than anyone else. I was convinced that he would probably fill up only 5 years out of 20 and release him.
“Jekah will be released in about five years.”
Duran said in a calm voice. I felt that I was suppressing the emotions that were fluctuating in my words.
“I plan to get it out much sooner than that. I can’t let it go like that. Zecca only has the sin of following me.”
“How?”
“We have to make a mark and ask His Majesty.”
Yuma glared at the imperial castle, which was moving farther away, with murderous eyes.
“Do you intend to go to war with me? It is impossible to take out a prisoner from the dungeon with a decent amount of balls.”
The imperial castle dungeon was a place where only treason or heinous criminals equivalent to it were imprisoned.
Most of the cases where the death penalty was not put to death were for political reasons.
Commoners were not even imprisoned in dungeons. Primarily, children of noble families or royalty from other countries were imprisoned. They were a kind of prisoners used as bargaining cards.
“I intend to ask Your Majesty for taking care of Yoheim’s affairs and punishing those involved. You can’t put it in a dungeon for half a year.”
“I didn’t know that the first princess would be involved. Heyze must have seduced you.”
“Perhaps the reason why the first princess kept Zecca alive was to use her as a prisoner to negotiate with me. The other day, when I visited Sir Varys’ mansion, he asked me to be his person.”
“What the hell are they thinking?”
Duran said without hiding his irritation. To the extent that he referred to the princess as ‘it’.
It was worth it.
Duran was the commander-in-chief of the Kyle Empire.
The position of Commander-in-Chief meant that he was at the pinnacle of national defense and had a sense of responsibility.
Moreover, Duran loved the Empire.
So, no matter how economically or militarily, Yoheim is a land that has no great value, it is a target to be protected by Duran.
Such Yoheim was not an enemy country, but was destroyed by the princess of her own country.
It wouldn’t have been cool to cut Zishka’s neck right on the spot.
But he couldn’t have done such a thing without justification or evidence.
“The moment Yoheim’s affair is confirmed as fact and publicized, the empire will be overturned. I don’t want to kill Your Majesty’s daughter with my own hands.”
Even the princess could not survive if she participated in the act of attracting the demons for any reason. That in itself is an act of treason.
“It is still too early to judge.
I will make contact with the lower princess.”
Visiting first in negotiations could be interpreted as a sense of urgency. It would have been nice to have Zishka come first, but I couldn’t afford that right now.
Yuma felt it. The timing was also right now.
That the rebellion of the first princess would soon begin.
‘Before the return, it was an unprepared treason to the point of being ridiculous. But even then it was strange. No matter how capricious and eccentric Zishka is, he is not that stupid. There’s no way he risked his life in a hopeless fight.’
It seemed that the outline of the incident could not be grasped.
Before the return, Baris became the leader of the Imperial Guard Knights for killing the traitor Jishka, and only some small and medium-sized nobles helped Jishka’s rebellion.
They were all annihilated. A considerable number of small and medium-sized nobles gathered, but rebellion without the help of the three families was more reckless than hitting a rock with an egg.
Even before the return, the family of Wolf Asher of Joachim did not take part in the rebellion.
I’ve never heard of being corrupted by demons like now.
‘Relationship with Varys… It was Hayes Rollmandy who strongly recommended him as the head of the Knights of the Imperial Guard. After the death of the first princess, the second princess naturally ascended the throne. And Grand Duke Winslet Ting didn’t even attend.’
It seemed like there was something he didn’t know.
It wasn’t like Heize was trying to use Zecca’s rampage of magic, and he couldn’t rely only on his memories before returning.
Seeing Varys and Zishka together on the hill behind the imperial castle made me feel like there were many things I didn’t know about while living as a eunuch.
“For now, cool your head. Your friend should have regained consciousness by now. When are you planning to meet the princess?”
“Pharaoh is a crowd. I plan to visit Sir Barris’ mansion in about two days.”
“i get it. First of all, I will do my best so that Jeka will not be treated unfairly in the dungeon.”
“Please make it feel like a luxury inn rather than a prison.”
“I know the madman. I’ll try to get rid of the gate soldiers first.”
“Master, how did you think of that? In Master Ni’s head, he cut off the soldiers at the gate…
“Catherine ordered it.”
Upon arriving at the Zach family, Yuma found Natalie’s hospital room.
“Natalie.”
“Yuma…
Natalie barely regained consciousness thanks to feeding her a pill made from dragon’s blood.
The wound was healing rapidly.
“What happened?”
Yuma explained everything from Natalie’s unconscious until now.
Natalie couldn’t hide her distraught face at the part where Amanzo entered Evan and the part where Zecca was just imprisoned in the dungeon.
“…It’s a nuisance, really.”
Yuma had nothing else to say. From Natalie and Zecca’s point of view, they came to this point after following Yuma.
“Why did you omit the part that caused the uproar to save me? It was quite a touching story from the maids.”
It seemed that the young maids of the Zach family were making noise cleaning Natalie’s hospital room.
In the eyes of the maids, Yuma was a pure romantic who risked his life to save a woman, so it was only natural for her to tell the main character in front of her a wonderful story.
“Because it is natural. I will save Jecca this time.”
“I guess so. If you have a conscience, you should. But don’t you think it’s strange?
Why is there no punishment for me?”
It was Yuma and Zeka who terrorized the gateway, but it was all for Natalie’s sake, so it was hard to see them as innocent. At least he had to be summoned and interrogated.
“Because the first princess would be curious about your true identity. You need to find out who the person I saved even while committing the gateway terrorism is. They are trying to bring me into their person.”
Yuma also expected that Zishka would use even Natalie as a bargaining chip, just like Jeka.
Perhaps during the negotiations, if Yuma was uncooperative, he would insist on disposing of Natalie to the empress.
“She’s the princess of the empire…. The water she plays with is different. To the royal family in the Jacques family. After following the trip once, the existence of the Rose Society was endangered. I am originally a person of the veil.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll make sure that doesn’t happen.”
“Hong made this look… Oh, Jade!”
After talking a lot, pain came up in the affected part. Natalie held back the pain for a moment before continuing.
“Oh, it hurts so much. Evan, Amando, I will accompany me when I meet Yuma Hwang. ”
“Why are you First of all, the body…
“You have to be able to believe in yourself, and there are parts that you don’t understand.”
“Is this the part you don’t understand?”
“I need to rest for a while. Tell the servants to bring me some belongings. It’s not my people, so it’s embarrassing to do it. Get me some paper and a pen too. Because I have to write a letter to the rose society.”
Yuma relayed Natalie’s words to the servants and left the hospital room.
I wanted to talk more, but Natalie wasn’t feeling well. He had just received miraculous treatment and had just regained consciousness, so he needed rest.
“Yuma-sama.”
A servant ran to Yuma.
“What is going on?”
“A guest has arrived. This is Puang and Cindy from the Puang Merchant.”
“Please take me to my room, not the drawing room.”
If he used the drawing room of someone else’s house for no reason, he could again engage in a useless battle with the nobles of the Jacques family.
“Oh, Yuma-sama!”
Pouang screamed in excitement as soon as he saw Dou Yuma, who had forgotten that this was Kyle’s nobleman’s residence.
The first week without Yuma, I finally felt like I was a real gangster again.
However, when there was no news for a month, he started to worry more and more, and while the work of the upper house was out of hand, a terrorist attack occurred at the gateway.
Pouang never imagined that Yuma would do such a thing.
Even when he heard the news of the gateway terrorism, he only thought, ‘What kind of crazy guy is that me in the middle of the capital?’
But that madman was Yuma.
“Oh, what is this!
Yuma-sama, why did you do that! Aren’t there many things to do together yet? If you commit treason, even Yuma-sama will not be able to survive!”
“Uh… I don’t get the death penalty, Mr. Yo Puang. don’t go to jail I have more to do than that.”
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