Chapter 62 – While You’re Gone (5)

It was a very complicated case. It was complicated and it was fucked up.

It was also a trial that would not have been established in the first place if either of the other party and I had a little bad luck. If Eve had killed Young Ji-min for insulting him, no one would have had a problem with it. Because I’m afraid of my family who’s left behind, so I can’t even put a trial on them. However, it was the son of the Grand Duke of the North who died.

If I had been a simple peasant lord rather than a southern priest, I would have jumped out immediately when I heard that Eve had killed the son of the Archduke. Since I became the chief priest and the party of the warriors who defeated the demon king, they are at least judging the dog-fucked topic of whether or not a mermaid is human.

I’d rather end it with the Amur Territory and the Territory War, but the problem was too complicated to do that.

First of all, it was a problem that the Amur Territory held a trial with the Grand Duke of Rubicon. The trial was a conflict resolution tool that could be resolved very peacefully before a war when conflicts occurred between territories. It was usually used as a safety device when the issue was not a big deal, when the damage to each other was too great in case of war, or when anyone tried to attack the opponent’s territory by catching a dog’s fault.

Once a trial is held between the territories, the judge of the palace immediately descends, and the dispute between the two territories is suspended for the duration of the trial. And when the trial result of the dispute comes out, the two territories have to concede to this result neatly.

For example, let’s say I raised an army to invade the Amur territory because the weather was too hot. Then the Amur Territory can put a trial on this matter. When the trial begins, I cannot attack the Amur territory during that time, and the judge draws a conclusion by gathering testimonies to see if the reason why I attacked the Amur territory is justified.

If the verdict is justified here, I can charge into the Amur territory and smash it. However, if the judgment comes out that the case is unfair, I will have to compensate for the damage caused to the Amur territory and take over the military service. Disputes with the Amur territories are also prohibited until other legitimate reasons are found.

To put it simply, it meant that these lowly bastards of the Amur Territory knew that if I attacked them with weapons, they would all die, so instead of going to war, I decided to put a trial on them.

Of course, the problem didn’t end there. If simply holding a trial was the problem, it was enough to wait until the trial was over. However, the issue was the aristocrat holding the trial and the subject of the trial.

The nobles on trial were the Grand Dukes of Rubicon along with the Amur lands. Archduke Rubicon was a noble who ruled the region near the Northern Dragon Mountains even in the game setting. He was a warrior with great skills and power, such as subjugating the demi-humans living in the mountains, pioneering mines, and temporarily entering as a colleague during the quest of the original game.

It was rumored that about half of the northern mines were within his territory his, and that his soldiers his, who had been trained by driving out the demi-humans, equaled the capital’s royal guards. In addition to that, he was also the 1st water owner of Daecheon Shinkyo, making the largest contribution to Daecheon Shinkyo.

In simple terms, it meant a nobleman who ruled over the entire north. Eve just stabbed this bastard’s son for insulting him.

The subject of the trial was also very disturbing. ‘Since Eve is not human, the remark made by Rubicon Condrix is ​​not an insult. Therefore, Eve’s killing of Rubicon Condrix was not justified, but an accidental and gruesome murder.’

Since I was married to myself, I naturally assumed that Eve was human. As proof, he thought that he could submit documents approved by Daecheonsingyo and the royal palace. However, when I looked through the documents, it was not. In the document of the Daecheonsin Church that acknowledged the marriage between me and Eve, it was written as follows.

– The Southern Priest’s decision is a beautiful decision that inherits the motto of Daecheonsingyo. We acknowledge that love has no borders or races, and we respect your choice. However, it is regrettable that it did not consider the social repercussions or controversy that would arise from this decision.

‘I admit that there are no borders or races in love.’ So, it was a statement that I would respect even if I married a non-human monster bastard, not a document saying that Eve would be treated as a human.

If this was presented as evidence, it was clear that the Archduke Rubicon would dance shoulder to shoulder with excitement at the thought of frying Eve to death. Moreover, I begged for it, and the Archangel Church took my side and said that Eve was human. It was because it was a very difficult trial to take anyone’s side.

One was the southern priest who defeated the demon king but was a mermaid, and the other was the northern grand duke who made the largest contribution to Daecheonsingyo and lost his son to the mermaid. It was a really ambiguous balance to take either side.

So, I completely abandoned the expectation that Daecheonsingyo would intervene in this trial. Religion does not intervene. From their point of view, it was clear that they were praying that neither I nor the Grand Duke of the North would drag them in.

The palace documents also did not prove that Eve was human.

-The palace accepts Peta Lucius’s request and pardons the murderer Eve and her mother her, the mermaid, from their sins. However, if Eve divorces Peta Lucius or commits an act equivalent to the previous crime, this pardon is revoked and the sinner Eve and her mother her mermaid are sentenced to death.

Since the word ‘sin’ is used here, treating Eve as a human being is nonsense. It was a world where even mermaids are ‘in’ people, but they don’t treat them as human beings, and Ain people don’t treat them as people even though they are ‘in’ people.

This document was merely proof that Eve would transform into a mermaid Tempura if I lost the trial.

In the first place, pardoning a mermaid who became notorious throughout the city by committing serial murder and serial rape in dozens of units and marrying the lord was an extremely unconventional treatment that was only possible because I defeated the demon king. If people did that, it would be difficult to get a pardon unless they saved the country.

To summarize the story so far:

The Amur Territory and the Grand Duke of the North put on trial for Eve stabbing the son of the Grand Duke of the North to death. If Eve is proven to be non-human here, Eve will be fried as it is, and if Eve is proven to be human, I can go to the Amur estate and break the lord’s head.

If it is proven that Eve is not human, Eve’s act of killing the son of the Rubicon archduke and aide in the Amur territory itself is wrong, so I have to vomit the reward, and the beating of the soldiers of our territory is also a reasonable act of retaliation. So I can’t complain about it.

Of course, I didn’t mean to give Eve away by saying, “Please fry it crispy.” As soon as I lost, I was thinking of throwing a tantrum in the courtroom and taking the kids out.

However, the Grand Duke of Rubicon was a person who had a lot of influence on both the royal palace and the Archangel Church, and I had nothing to prove that Eve was a person. In simple terms, it meant an unfavorable trial based on the premise that it would already stand out.

Thinking this far, I lowered my head and let out a sigh. I came back after clearing the dungeon in a good mood, but there was a tough job to handle. When I sighed, Eve, who was kneeling next to me, shrugged.

“Are you sorry?”

“No, so… Yes.”

Eve tried to make an excuse, but she lowered her head. I looked at Eve and spoke again.

“Next time, if there is such a person, beat him up and put him in jail. If I kill him, there will be no problem.”

“Groom. What should we do now? Aren’t we screwed up?”

Eve casually attached the groom and asked me. Seeing him down on his knees and looking rejected, I definitely felt desperate and nervous. I was amazed to see Eve so depressed. I got up and hugged her tightly.

“It’s okay. Everything will be fine.”

“Really? Right?”

Eve was making an expression as if she was going to die because she was sorry. It’s a new feeling, but I was a bit curious that he had feelings of guilt.

“I’ll leave. And you don’t have to kneel anymore.”

“Okay…”

Eve watched me leave, trailing her tongue her. Her mind her was too complicated. I tousled my hair and came down to the first floor. Through the window on the first floor, I could see Selu swimming leisurely. Come to think of it, if Eve died, Sellu would die too.

I came out into the yard and talked to Sellu.

“Sellu.”

“What’s going on? Do you want to do it outdoors?”

Sellu asked me playfully sticking out her tongue. I shook her head because I wasn’t in the mood to fuck right now.

“They both look like fried fish right now, can you say that?”

Seeing Sellu’s expression her looking so relaxed, I was a little annoyed. I can’t see anything that can overturn the trial, but the risk of losing it was fucking great. Sellu laughed at my annoyance.

“Hehe. You look in a bad mood today.”

“It’s not good. You said, Selou. Eve has to live among people. But the result is this. She says that Eve is not a person, so she must die. She is on trial.”

“If we win, is Eve a human?”

Sellu asked. I nodded her head. Selou said as she narrowed her eyes at those words.

“It’s fun.”

“That’s why it’s going to be harder to win. It’s ridiculous that a mermaid is judged to be a human being. Besides, the opponent is the Grand Duke of the North. That man is alive with both eyes open…”

Wait a minute. Suddenly, a good idea came to my mind. I thought I could win the trial if I did this well. Trials sometimes set different judgment methods according to the agreement of the judge or the parties to the trial.

For example, if the two could not agree no matter what they did, they interceded to see the result of a horse race or a duel.

I stopped talking with Sellu and went back to the mansion. And I started to pack the things I needed to win the trial.

Archduke Rubicon is a more hot-tempered person than you might think. In addition, at the time of the Dragon Mountain quest in the game, the level was about 20. Even if I say that I have become stronger now because I have continued to subdue the demi-humans, it was not to the point that I could not win.

There is no fear in the story that a human commanding the battlefield in the north defeated the demon king. This trial. I could have won just by dragging him into a duel. It was a fight to prove whether or not he was human anyway. In a fight like this, the good talker wins.

If I somehow managed to hold my tongue, change the topic of conversation, and continue to provoke Archduke Rubicon with absurd sophistry, there was a high possibility that Archduke Rubicon would draw his sword first and ask me to fight. Then I will proudly draw out the Holy Sword and shout for a fair match.

Just say it, you fuckers.