129 – Make each other suspicious (4)
Billy Hora Castle throne room.
In the throne room, high-ranking knights and mercenary leaders, including the baron, stood in order of rank, and other knights stood heavily armed around them.
Because it was obviously a situation where a traitor was being interrogated, Hilde felt both fear and injustice.
‘Am I going to die this dishonorably and shamefully?’
Hilde Baumann was tied up with a rope and escorted to Baron Custer.
“Ugh, I feel unfair. “This is Viscount Canossa’s plot!”
Baron Custer snorted at her when he heard those words, and her superior knights surrounding her agreed with her and laughed at her loudly.
“That’s exactly what the traitors said. ‘It’s unfair, this is a conspiracy.'”
“Isn’t even a lowly knight a knight in name and character? “A traitor with no honor.”
“You’re not the one who hit me in the back, you always have a lot of excuses.”
Hilde felt so wronged that her tears came out.
The rest of her face was flushed with resentment and resentment, and the blood vessels in her eyes burst and the whites of her eyes turned red.
“No, I never, never. I have never even once thought of betraying the Baron. I swear to my late father’s honor and family that I, Hilde Bauman, have no intention of repaying Baron Custer for his kindness! “This is a conspiracy, so please clear my false accusation!”
Baron Custer, sitting in a luxurious chair, still snorted even after hearing her scream-like words.
“A low-level knight betrayed me and still speaks loudly. Shut up.”
Hilde froze for a moment at her words.
It was because of the pain that felt like her heart was being squeezed, the injustice that took her breath away, and the despair that felt like cutting her heart with a knife.
However, more harsh words continued to come out of the Baron’s mouth.
“They say children are the mirror of their parents, but the fact that you betrayed me means that your father was either a traitor or a coward in the end. “I don’t know who the father is, but she gave birth to a traitor and left him behind…”
When Hilde heard those words, she couldn’t say anything and just shed tears.
At that time, an official standing next to the Baron spoke cautiously.
“Baron, no matter how serious the sin of a sinner is. She is a lowly knight. “The trial must be carried out in accordance with the law.”
“Well, even if he’s a traitor, he’s still a low-level knight. Since she is a b*tch at the bottom of nobility, she has the right to be tried according to the law. Okay, let’s reveal the details of each crime so that everyone knows what she did wrong. “Recite that b*tch’s sins one by one.”
When the bureaucrat heard those words, he deliberately opened the book in the form of a scroll to make a clicking sound.
“I will read out the crime of junior knight Hilde Baumann.”
Hearing those words, the mercenary captains who had been giggling below closed their mouths and changed their posture to sit properly.
Hilde was bound and gagged as she was dragged away.
“Hilde Bauman had always harbored a very resentful feeling that Baron Custer had kept her as a low-level knight because she was a woman, even though she had reached the level of a beginner Auror expert. .”
Hilde, whose entire body was chained and even gagged, resisted in that state.
“Eup-eup-eup!”
She could only let out moans that could not be heard because of the gag, but just by looking at her moans, her violent movements of resistance, and her tears, it was clear how mortified she was right now.
Hilde never thought that she had reached the level of Beginner Auror Expert and that she was being discriminated against because she was a woman.
She thought that becoming an expert beginner meant she had become an expert beginner, and that she couldn’t become an intermediate knight or anything else until she earned the corresponding merit.
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‘It’s all a conspiracy, but you don’t know that?’
“Although he had never done anything useful for our Baron Custer family, he was holding a grudge against not being promoted to intermediate knight since he had become an expert beginner like other families did, and he was trying hard to hide those feelings. “Isn’t that right?”
After hearing those words, she desperately shook her head.
She had never had such feelings, and she had never even thought about such things.
She had never thought of such a thing herself, so she felt so unfair about this situation that she wondered on what basis she was accusing herself of being a sinner.
“Eup-eup-eup!”
However, in the trial held by Baron Custer, where the principle of her innocence was not applied at all, Hilde was not given the opportunity to speak.
Her official finished an hour-long recitation of a list of motives for her crime, most of which were created by Baron Custer’s delusions: ‘Why did you betray?’
“I think the above reasons were enough motivation for junior knight Hilde Bauman to betray the Baron. However, she is not just a serf, and when judging her knights, there must be evidence. Now let me present the evidence. Sir Luigi Pisani, a junior knight, please come forward.”
Before Luigi came out, one of Baron Custer’s senior knights asked.
“Baron, who is Luigi Pisani that made him a mid-level knight?”
The Baron smiled and said those words.
“He has been providing us with information even before this war broke out. He was a middle-level knight of the Viscount Canossa, and it is said that he betrayed him because he could not overcome the tyranny of the Viscount who treated him coldly. And this time, she is the one who told me about Hilde Bauman’s evil plan.”
After the Baron vouched for his identity, Luigi immediately presented a scroll with the seal of Viscount Canossa.
“Look at this! There is a promise written that if this castle falls, Hilde Bauman will be appointed as a senior knight of the Viscountess family of Canossa and two villages will be granted as fiefdom!”
At those words, everyone around Hilde started whispering.
“Is that really reliable evidence?”
“Minister Moon checked more than 10 times whether the seal was fake or real by comparing it with the letter from Viscount Canossa that he had previously obtained.”
“Oh my God, no matter how lowly a knight he is, how can a knight betray his lord’s grace?”
Of course, the mercenary captains here sighed and muttered quietly when they saw this mess.
“A traitorous b*tch is accusing a female knight of being a traitor just by proposing a document without any evidence of her replying to that document? “These guys are crazy.”
Some people even ground their teeth.
“I can’t believe there is such a trash person. If I meet an enemy later, I will kill that baron even if I don’t capture him alive and get a ransom.”
Baron Custer personally held up the fake investiture proposal prepared by Viscount Canossa and began to read it aloud.
“I, Viscount Canossa, have a very high opinion of Sir Bauman’s performance in the battles so far. However, it breaks my heart to see such a great knight as Sir Baron Custer leaving him to be just a lowly knight. Therefore, I would like to recruit you as a senior knight of the Canossa family. “I will grant you the village of Leuven as territory.”
Hilde, of course, had no memory of ever hearing such a thing, so she shook her head and complained.
“uuu, eup eup!”
Anyway, the Baron continued reading.
“I hope you will do your best for the Viscount Canossa family to treat you properly.”
As soon as he finished reading, he immediately threw the ordination proposal on the ground.
“Have you ever seen such an ungrateful b*tch, or rather a prostitute? “What is the difference between me, a woman who commits adultery even though she has a husband, and you, who plots betrayal even though she has a master?”
After getting so angry, the Baron motioned with his hand to remove the gag.
Hilde, whose gag was removed, shed tears and gritted her teeth.
‘The Baron is a person who makes rational decisions. So, he must be persuaded rationally…’
She was so loyal to her master that even now she did not give up hope and calmly asserted her innocence.
“All of this is Viscount Canossa’s evil plan. I have neither seen nor know of that letter. And if you’re going to charge me with being a traitor, wouldn’t you have to have proof that I responded to that letter?”
Custer walked toward her, gritted her teeth, and punched her hard in the face.
“You damn whore! Isn’t the evidence so clear that you betrayed the Custer family? The letter Luigi brought was a confidential document secretly hidden in the study of Viscount Canossa’s office! “The circumstances are clear, but you still claim innocence!”
Then he continued to hit me, one, two, three, four.
“Such a shameless, arrogant, ungrateful b*tch. They say the world has become better and women can become knights and receive titles if they have the ability. “As expected, you, a low-ranking knight, have extremely humble origins!”
The background to saying this is that Baron Custer was often, or almost always, compared to Baroness Hella from the neighboring fiefdom.
Although the size of her fiefdom was similar, in any field she was one step ahead of her own fiefdom, her Hella Baron felt a great sense of inferiority to her.
But the cause of her problems was not found in her own incompetence and suspicious attitude, and she ignored him, citing no other basis as the only reason she was a woman, and said that she would take revenge someday, and she came to a different world.
“I would like to inflict all kinds of torture and make you beg for death, just like the Inquisitors do, but according to the laws of the Rhine-Palatinate Empire, knights cannot be tortured carelessly. I will not torture you! Instead, when I return victorious from this war, I will cut off your head and restore order to the barony. “Hey, take that whore away!”
Upon hearing those words, Hilde was so overcome by her despair that she no longer had the will to make her own excuses.
She has already branded herself as a traitor to her lord, and he does not listen to my excuses at all.
I am no longer able to dedicate my loyalty to my lord, which was the goal and reason of my life.
‘… I just want to die.’
Hilde, devastated as if her soul had been taken out of her in an instant, was escorted out by two knights.
“Hilde, spread the word that that b*tch betrayed our baron family, and investigate that b*tch as well!”
Everything went as Martin intended.
**
An hour later, the soldiers’ quarters.
Instead of lying down and sleeping, the soldiers gather in groups of twos and threes and talk.
Normally, I was so exhausted that I could easily lean anywhere and fall asleep, but now I was so angry that I couldn’t fall asleep.
“They say that Bauman betrayed Baron Custer… Do you believe that?”
A serf answered those words.
“There’s no way Lord Bauman would have betrayed the Baron, right? What bullsh*t.”
Then the mercenary lying next to him chuckled.
“What are the dogs, the dogs. Think more about it. It’s been over a week since we were surrounded, and if you hadn’t had that year, you don’t know when your last name will fall.”
“So?”
“That’s why he said the same thing and fell asleep because he was freezing. Even when he looked at it, it seemed like there was no answer, so that good-natured female knight also betrayed him. I’m sure all other high-ranking people thought the same in their hearts.”
Other guys also listened to those words, and one guy asked like an idiot.
“Then what should we do?”
The mercenary smiled and answered.
“What the heck, it’s just over. And let’s go to sleep. If we get caught talking about how we’ve become threats, we’ll all get our heads cut off.”