“…what do you mean? Princess?”
“You don’t seem to have heard me.”
A few days after the day the Nongong Haengchang was opened.
“It’s just because it’s so ridiculous.”
The chief judge in charge of Frey’s upcoming trial was staring blankly at the distinguished guest sitting in front of him.
“To reduce the sentence on Frey as much as possible. That’s impossible.”
Clana, who has risen to the pinnacle of imperial power in an instant due to an incident that occurred a few days ago.
Now, even the emperor could not take care of her, but the chief judge could not spare her words.
“Nothing is impossible in the world.”
“Princess, it can’t be done.”
I would not have known if the incident had not spread widely, but now, not only everyone who participated in the paddy field, but also ordinary citizens knew about Frey’s work.
“The Empire Daily publishes a daily bulletin, and everything from a five-year-old child to an old man with a bent back is cursing Frey.”
“……..”
“But if I were to punish Frey in a blunt way… what do you think I’d be like?”
Having said that, the judge got up from his seat, wiping the cold sweat running down his forehead.
“…Okay. What I heard here today, I’ll pretend I didn’t hear it.”
Then, he bowed politely and greeted him.
“Well then, bye…”
“Sit down.”
However, when Clana’s cold voice resounds in the room, he hesitates and slowly sits down, looking at the princess.
“Sir, I think you’re misunderstanding something.”
“yes?”
“This is not a request or request.”
Suddenly, a firm voice came out of Clana’s mouth.
“…are you giving me orders now?”
The judge, who understood the nuances of her words, asked in a slightly displeased voice.
“Princess, you don’t know much about this world yet.”
“……..”
“The judgments of our judiciary are protected by ancient magic. Even the supreme emperor’s orders cannot influence it.”
Although timid and timid, the Chief Judge had reigned supreme as the imperial judge for several decades.
“Of course, the emperor can issue special orders, but that’s after the verdict.”
“Ugh.”
“At least no one can stop Frey from being sentenced to ‘extreme punishment’ and deprived of his nobility.”
The princess who didn’t know anything about the world, who trusted only the hero behind and challenged herself, could easily take a picture and press it.
“So, it’s better to just die…”
“Looking at the records of past trials, there were a lot of really interesting things, right?”
“What do you mean?”
“Those who should have been sentenced to severe punishment are released with a light fine, and those who are innocent are convicted…”
The presiding judge, who was about to get up again with that thought in mind, had no choice but to freeze when he saw the documents Clana had taken out of her arms and tossed on the desk.
“The name of the majestic emperor doesn’t seem to be able to beat just a few gold coins.”
“All, how do you…”
“When this ledger is released to the world, what will happen to you will be obvious.”
Clana began to push her, without even having time to think about why the transaction ledger, which should have been in her secret safe, was in the hands of the princess.
“Did you ask if it was an order earlier?”
“………”
“Of course it’s not an order. It’s a threat.”
Her eyes, finding the judge’s terrified look, soon turned cold.
“Choose. Will you keep your convictions and fall horribly, or will you spend your old age comfortably with compensation that doesn’t matter even if you retire right away.”
“eww…”
“Well, I don’t know if it’s worth protecting the beliefs that were shaken by a few gold coins.”
As she finished speaking, silence began to flow through the room.
“…and what verdict should I give him?”
The judge, who was panting with his head bowed, closes his eyes tightly and breaks the silence.
“Hmm.”
At that moment, the corners of Clana’s lips with a smile on their lips were trembling lightly.
.
a few days after that.
“…all things considered, Frey’s guilt, though hefty.”
The judge, who was sweating in front of Clana, sighed deeply and began to read the verdict.
“I think there is room for consideration in the fact that the crime has ceased to be an attempt, that he is sincerely reflecting, and that external pressure, rather than his will, applied to a great extent.”
Reporters crossed their arms or crossed their chins to write down those words, but at the end of the last part, they raised their heads as they felt something unusual.
“Therefore, this court dismisses the accused from all his duties and imposes a sentence of indefinite home confinement.”
The judge quietly avoided their gaze, picked up the hammer and added more.
“…In addition, since there is no need to retrieve it, the identity of the accused should be maintained as it is.”
At the time when everyone looked ridiculous at that ridiculously devious verdict.
“dog sound!!!”
Serena, who screamed in rage, got up from her seat, breathing life into her body.
“How the hell can a judgment like that come out…!”
– Dang Dang Dang…!!!
The sentencing of the verdict was already over.
“…this is another scoop.”
“Who moved? The Emperor?”
“No, the Emperor probably can’t afford to pay attention to Frey right now…”
For the next few months, the verdict, which is likely to become the center of controversy, is noisy everywhere, and the judge who made the verdict quickly leaves his seat with his head bowed.
– Tub, Tub…
When the angry spectators showed signs of rioting, the guards rushed out, and a smile of delight appeared on the faces of the reporters who saw it.
“…don’t think this is all over.”
Serena approached Frey, who was standing in the defendant’s seat with a confused expression.
“Did you think it was safe to stay locked up in a mansion, coward?”
“……..”
“I’m sorry, but there are many ways to drive you to hell.”
Serena whispered so, and extended her finger to press down on the blood under Frey’s heart.
“…Is it big?”
Frey staggered as he vomited dark red blood.
“Because I’ve already touched you.”
“Ugh…”
“There is no rest for you now. Now that the puncture has been lifted, every moment you take in your breath is a pain worse than death.”
Serena, who pulled Frey, who was struggling to breathe with her eyes out of focus, whether that was true, whispered in a cold voice.
“I’ll dry you as painfully as possible and kill you.”
“……..”
“Well then, have a nice vacation.”
Leaving those words behind, Serena leaves the courtroom without even a single glance.
“Cool, cool…”
Suddenly, in the empty courtroom, only the sound of Frey’s cracking cough as he leaned against the seat in front of him and shook his head could be heard.
“…cool.”
Even the sound of coughing that had continued like that was getting smaller and smaller, and as Frey’s eyes began to close, which had been released.
“ha.”
A sigh was heard from somewhere, and someone started to stick to Frey’s side and support him.
“drip.”
“……..”
.
“…ah.”
Frey woke up a few hours later.
“……!?!?”
As soon as he opened his eyes, he jumped up and immediately looked around with a confused expression on his face.
“Did Kania help you? But why are you here…”
When he realized that his body was lying on a familiar bed, a vague question appeared on his face.
“…if she had helped, I wouldn’t have brought her into my room.”
“……!”
A trembling voice echoed right next to Frey.
“You know the first time in my life I did something bad because of you, you know?”
Clana, who sat on the bed, was gently stroking him, like Frey who watched him sleep every night in the chair next to his bed.
“…it wasn’t as bad as I thought. Rather, I could understand why you’re doing something bad.”
When Frey looked at her with a puzzled expression, she added words with a smile on her lips.
“There are also goals that cannot be achieved only by being good, but that can only be achieved by doing bad things.”
“……..”
“Isn’t that right? Frey?”
Recognizing the meaning of her words, Frey hurriedly stretched out her hand with a bewildered expression on her face.
– Shaa…
Before long, Frey’s hand started to glow as it touched her forehead.
“…to no avail.”
However, Clana, who grabbed his arm, slowly removed her hand and whispered.
“No spell, no curse, can now invade me.”
“…maybe, have you awakened?”
“Awakening? What is it?”
“Since when…”
Clana looked at Frey’s bewildered face and then lowered her posture with a burst of laughter.
“…I do not know?”
“Wow, Princess.”
“Since you gave me warm food, clothes, and a bed?”
Her delicate body gently overlaps with Frey.
“At a wedding that almost took your life, since you stole me?”
“Don’t do this.”
“Since you put me in a cage, petted, and raised me?”
“…yes?”
That’s when Frey, who was trying to pull herself out with a troubled expression on her face, asked Clana with an expression that she didn’t even think about it.
– Hey.
Clana sticks her tongue into Frey’s mouth.
“…puha.”
After a while, Clana slurps each other’s bodily fluids long, and when she turns her head, whispers as she sits gently on Frey’s stomach.
“Maybe from the moment I fell in love with you.”
“…you better stop now.”
But even then, when Frey shakes her head, Clana frowns and asks a question.
“Why?”
“Princess.”
Looking at Clana like that, Frey shakes her body again and starts coughing.
“…rather than someone who will soon disappear from the world, you should meet someone who can be with the princess in the future.”
Then he quietly covered his mouth and muttered something like that.
“It was, it is.”
Clana, who unconsciously bit her lip, spoke in a trembling voice.
“Since it’s a life you’ve already thrown away, did you try to disappear with it all?”
“……..”
“I’m sorry, but I can’t leave it like that.”
Then, Clana grabs Frey’s arms and pushes him onto the bed.
“You are my servant, so give me permission to die.”
“Princess, this is a problem that can be solved by being foolish…”
“hurry.”
Frey, who was trying to hide the blood around her mouth that was revealed thanks to that, smiled bitterly at the pressure on her arm and nodded her head.
“…Okay, will you let me go?”
“I don’t like it.”
However, Clana is still holding Frey’s arms.
“I, Princess.”
Then, as she stares into Frey’s eyes, he swallows dry saliva and finally avoids his gaze and whispers.
“Hey, this blasphemous thing… I can’t stand it.”
“……..”
“Me, dating between a man and a woman should not be done so impulsively and emotionally. First of all, it is important to check each other’s feelings and have enough time…”
Clana, who was silently listening to the bewildered voice, as if a timid older sister was beating a small child in the neighborhood, looked down at Frey and whispered.
“…the command.”
Then, Frey’s ring began to glow quietly.
“This is… treason…”
“Disobedience to orders is also treason, Frey.”
“……..”
“…
The moon that appeared in the night sky was quietly glimmering in the hands that were shaking as they held each other.