65 – First Test – 3
“Stop giving up, aren’t you almost out of mana?”
“Shut up. You don’t think you can last this long?”
“A person whose strength is not perfect is full of bravado.”
Veronica Bloodia. The queen of vampires and the strongest demon who has been given the position of commander of the corps of massacre in the demonic country.
Veronica is strong. Considering that she hasn’t lost a single battle since the founding of the Calypse Kingdom, she should be able to infer how strong she is.
However, Veronica, who was confined within the framework of the race of ‘fiends’, could not gain an advantage against demons, especially against demonic aristocrats with titles.
Devils are beings called one of the three strongest races along with dragons and angels. It was not a level that a mere vampire could deal with.
“Still, I was surprised. To be able to endure this far with only the power of a ‘vampire’… But isn’t that the limit now? The shield will soon disappear.”
“…Still…Can you last longer?…Your eyes look like knotholes.”
“Kheuheu… I don’t hate your confidence.”
Aloken taunted Veronica by knocking on the pitch-black protective shield made in the form of protecting Gaon who had fallen on the floor.
“Even [Patience], Which creates an invincible shield, is useless when mana drops to 0. I think you have about 1/5 of it left, but I’ll wait patiently.”
“Haa… I guess you haven’t figured out the situation yet. You don’t know what will happen if this man passes the test?”
“You’re talking nonsense. How can a mere human become king? Something that even the Duke of Bloodia couldn’t do.”
“Your complacency will bring great harm.”
“I’m not complacent. I’m just worried. Aren’t you the one who faced the king’s tragedy right in front of you?”
“…Shut that mouth…!”
Veronica was verbally swearing, but in reality, her remaining mana was about 1/6. If she maintains her shield for another 10 minutes or so, her mana will drop to 0 and her shield will automatically disappear.
Unfortunately, however, now Veronica is waiting for Gaon to quickly pass the test, and there is nothing she can do but protect him.
***
“Umm…What…”
“Your Majesty, are you awake?”
“…Isaac…?”
My head hurts. I don’t understand the situation.
Why am I lying in bed right now…?
“Are you worried about anything? You don’t look good.”
“…No. My bed must have been a little wild.”
“Yes..? But isn’t His Majesty able to control sleep as well..?”
“…Ah…Isn’t it..?”
Coming to think of it, the fact that I couldn’t sleep was a nonsense story to me. I didn’t have to sleep, and if I did go to bed, I could control myself to dream whatever I wanted.
I didn’t look good because the dragonfly was so ferocious? This means ‘a passing hellhound eats grass.’ It was class bullsh*t.
“How many hours have I been asleep?”
“…Four hours are coming.”
“Ah…That’s right. I set it to 4 hours…”
Why am I suddenly doing this?
I must have set the sleep time myself before going to sleep, but forgetting it… It wasn’t like me.
“I’m sorry. I seem to have been distracted for a while.”
“No. Rather, it was nice to see His Majesty’s humanity, so don’t worry too much.”
“Human mummy…That’s the first word I’ve heard in my life.”
Since I’ve lived so long, it’s been a long time since I’ve dried up my emotions. To me like that, human beauty…Isn’t that a really fun thing to say?
“…So, Isaac, what’s your schedule for today?”
“Your Majesty’s schedule is limited to office work today.”
“Hmm…That’s boring. It would be nice if something interesting happened…”
“You repeat that word every day, Your Majesty.”
“hehehe…”
Sitting in my office chair and watching hundreds of years of work, every day was boring.
Think about it. No matter how much I don’t sleep, there’s no problem, but I spend 20 hours out of 24 hours a day working.
People say that the average working day of ordinary people is less than 12 hours. Why am I doing this? Even a king Was king, in fact, a shortened term for a slave?
“…Come to think of it, there is one thing that might interest your Majesty.”
“…What would I be interested in? What is it?”
“It may be written down in the paperwork to be dealt with today, but to explain it directly… It seems that there was a criminal case between the nobles last night. “
“It’s a crime case between nobles… It’s a very unusual case.”
Crime cases between commoners happen very frequently, but crime cases between nobles are so few that they have not happened in recent decades.
This is because, unlike commoners, who only punished individuals when they committed a crime, nobles had a unique system in which the entire family was punished when a crime occurred.
“But what kind of problem is it that it is difficult to deal with by law?”
“I heard that the Young lady of a male writer poisoned her pregnant mother.”
“..Then shouldn’t it be punished according to the law? Murdering parents should be punished with a heavy sentence?”
If you murder your parents who gave birth to you, the minimum is life imprisonment, and if the case is more brutal than you think, the death penalty.
It must be one of the first things taught in a judge training institution…
“That’s…A bit of a problem.”
“The problem…? What is it?”
“There was no problem with the mother who took the poison. She said the poison itself was minimally toxic, so it was of no use to an adult woman.”
“…?”
I was given poison, but the poison was weak, so there was no problem at all?
Hmm, this is obviously very vague.
It is true that they were poisoned, but in reality, there was no problem at all… Normally, in this case, whether the party was intentional or negligent would be an important issue in the trial.
“But one big incident happens here.”
“Incident?”
“Yes….. Actually, the mother was pregnant with her child, and she took the poison, so she didn’t have any problems herself, but she said the fetus died in her belly.”
“…Huh…”
Ambiguous.
It’s really f*cking ambiguous.
In this case, whether it was intentional or negligent was not the important issue. Even if it was intentional anyway, there can be no big punishment.
The important thing is the death of the fetus.
In the past, a related bill was made, but the problem is…
“…You must have said that the baron’s daughter poisoned her mother, right?”
“Yes.”
“Haa…”
In fact, from the time the bill was first drafted, it was the law on fetuses that I had been thinking a lot about.
Is the fetus really human? Or is he just a bunch of cells?
I have been discussing this with Solomon for a long time, but I haven’t come up with a definitive answer.
It seemed that women who were pregnant with children they didn’t want to be recognized as human beings were burdened too much, and there would be too many cases of abortion to not recognize the fetus as a human being.
“…Fetuses are recognized as special property…This bill seems to have hampered the trial.”
“That’s right.”
When I enacted the law, I included a unique system, and that was the special property system.
Special property is a term that refers to living property excluding general currency or goods, and usually treats pets or fetuses as special property.
Then, why are these separately classified as special properties? It can be understood by looking at the provisions of this law.
“In the case of special property, the owner cannot refuse to own it, and if he refuses, he will be punished with a severe punishment.”
In other words, according to the provisions of this law, the owner could not arbitrarily abandon or abort a pet or fetus.
Of course, abortion was partially made possible because there was a separate provision, ‘However, if a special property poses a threat to the owner’s safety or is acquired unwillingly, refusal is possible.’
Then, the problem here is how to punish the baron’s daughter for killing the fetus in her mother’s womb?
“…I see… That was punishable under the law…”
There were only three major bills to be considered in this case.
1. The fetus is recognized as special property.
2. In the case of special property, the owner cannot refuse to own it, and if he refuses, he will be punished with a severe penalty.
3. Disposal of property between family members is not punishable by law.
“…This is painful.”
“I agree.”
By law, a fetus is property.
And family relationships are not punished even if they dispose of their property at will.
In other words, even if the baron’s daughter aborts a fetus that is her mother’s property, she is not punished. Abortion is punishable only when the ‘owner’ refuses to own it.
“I’m going crazy… I can’t believe he killed his own brother… I should have made it right when I first enacted the law…”
“You don’t have to blame yourself too much. All laws have holes and problems. Rather, when I think of the problem only this time after there were no problems for hundreds of years, I can only admire His Majesty’s extraordinary brain. It just comes out.”
“Don’t stand out too much. It’s true that there was a problem with the law, so it’s not something that deserves criticism.”
Now let’s think about it.
How can I deal with this case?
…..
Damn it, no matter how much I think about it, I can’t see any chance to punish the baron’s daughter.
“…In this case, we’ll have no choice but to let it go. Instead, we’ll call in Solomon and Justitia to make some changes to the law.”
“That’s a great idea.”
Even if the bill is newly enacted, the new law does not apply to previous cases. Therefore, it was virtually impossible to punish the baron’s daughter.
Thanks to that, however, I got an opportunity to make the law more systematic.
“Then Isaac, would you like to call for Solomon and Justitia?”
“I will serve your order, Your Majesty.”