Chapter 70 – While You’re Gone (13)

All people are bound to die. Die anywhere, somehow It was common for office workers who had no doubt that they would go to work tomorrow morning to collapse and die from chronic illness. An old man who said he was fine after a car accident would die a few days later after getting sick. As such, death is unpredictable.

So it was not so unnatural that the Amur lord died when he left our mansion and arrived at his own. A few days later, when I heard the sad news that the lord of Amur had died in a carriage, I shook my head as if it was a pity.

“For some reason, since I came to our mansion, my face has been in a bad mood…”

Eve sneered at those words. Sieri was the only one in this mansion who sincerely mourned the death of Lord Amur. But what can I do? It’s just a very natural thing for people to die.

However, the wife of the lord of Amur seemed to have a different idea. The fact that she stopped by my mansion before the death of Lord Amur, and the fact that the Archduke Rubicon, with whom I had dueled, had died, made Madame Amour suspect that I had been playing some trick.

What kind of trick he was talking about was an attitude that openly suspected poisoning. The circumstantial evidence was flawless as far as I could see. The lord who died after stopping by the mansion. The Archduke of Rubicon who died after dueling with me. I had enough grounds to doubt since the two people I was involved with both died after suffering from misery.

But as perfect as the circumstantial evidence was, the lack of direct evidence was very important. There couldn’t be any evidence. No poison was detected in either the body of Archduke Rubicon or the body of Lord Amur. All causes of death were high fever of unknown cause. It didn’t have any side effects on the body, just died from a high fever.

The wife of the lord of Amur requested a trial for the poisoning of the lord and the death of the Archduke Rubicon. It was that she had to re-examine the truth of the case. She was claiming that it must have been poisonous. Archduke Rubicon died after a duel with me, and Lord Amur died after taking a sword.

When it is proven that Archduke Rubicon died of poison, the trial goes back to square one.

I gladly submitted my sword as evidence. The poison of my holy sword is colorless and odorless and cannot be activated unless I say ‘match’. There was no poison.

The second trial that happened like that. The lord’s wife, covering her face with her handkerchief, was pleading that the wicked chief priest had killed her husband her. She said.

“The chief priest is a very cruel man! How can you torment us to this extent? Why did you take my husband? Why did you kill Archduke Rubicon so brutally?”

Despite her appeal, the presiding judge showed a tepid response. Once a lord-level person initiates a trial, the trial must be held. I questioned.

“Do you have any proof?”

Then Mrs. Amour could not answer, and she cried again and pointed at me to vent her exasperation.

“How…How could you say that…! Heh heh…Heh heh…Priest! If you have a conscience, confess! Please…Please please…Heh heh…Heh” …!”

“Tears are not evidence. Since you made me a judge, I believe there will be evidence.”

I was able to come out confidently. Because there was no evidence. No one has ever seen me poison a knife. No poison came out of the knife. There is only circumstantial evidence. If I had poisoned Mrs. Amur in the same way, Lord Amur would not have put me on trial. Because there is no evidence

But now, it was not the brainy lord of Amur who was in the courtroom, but the brainless Mrs. Amur. She held the trial emotionally, and the price was acquittal.

“Mrs. Amour. It is a great insult to me that I used poison in a duel. You seem not familiar with the title of High Priestess, so I will not discuss the matter separately.”

And I said Mrs. Amour seemed outraged by every word I said. Lord Amur went to Peta Manor alone and returned as her corpse. The situation is certain. I said.

“As a witness, I would like you to call the coachman who served the Amur lord at the time.”

The coachman jumped out as if he had been waiting. The coachman had taken this witness stand once to testify at the start of the trial. I asked the coachman.

“Coachman. When I brought Lord Amur out of the dungeon, did he have any wounds?”

“None.”

“Then have you ever heard of me beating or torturing Lord Amur?”

“That… I don’t know.”

Suddenly Mrs. Amour spurned her seat and stood up, she cried.

“You’re not a priest who can use heals! If you inject poison and heal wounds…”

“If you’re going to poison yourself, you can either poison it or inject it. Mrs. Amur, I have the power to immobilize the Amur lord. Do you think I’ll hurt the Amur lord if I can’t poison him If you were going to kill me anyway, why would you inject poison, heal the wound, and send it back upstairs to poison it?”

“It must have been to make a treaty! To make a treaty and kill!”

“If that’s the case, just beat him to death. Does the Amur territory have the strength to protest just because I beat the lord of Amur to death? Is there any reason why I shouldn’t beat him to death?”

“That…”

To put it mildly, it was to protect my reputation as the Southern Priest. In the first place, according to the treaty, there was no gain from killing the lord. Because no one thinks I’m going to get emotional revenge. I asked the lord’s wife again.

“And if I had injected something suspicious, wouldn’t the Amur lord have said a word to the coachman? Coachman. Did you hear that from the Amur lord?”

“…I didn’t hear it.”

Couldn’t have heard Lord Amur himself wouldn’t have known that he had been poisoned. He probably thought it was just too much work that made him break out in a cold sweat. I suffered so much that at some point I fell behind. The coachman checked inside the carriage several times, but he said he thought he had fallen asleep exhausted from mental exhaustion.

The lord’s wife was biting her nails. The judge also looked embarrassed, but there was no evidence. Said the lord’s wife.

“Sword! Poison must have been applied to the sword!”

“Coachman. When I hit the jijang, did only the Amur lord do the jijang with blood?”

“No. The priest also took a hit with blood.”

“Who knows if the priest cured me!”

“But there was no poison detected in the sword. Do you want to claim that I used an extremely poison that could not be detected by examination, who suffered it, and which left no traces on the body?”

“That…”

The lord’s wife was speechless again. It was bullshit to claim that I used such poison. There was no probability. The probability that I will kill the Amur lord through all the hardships. I asked again.

“Then, how about thinking about it this way? I hate to tarnish the honor of the deceased Archduchess of Rubicon, but my sword is not the only one that has touched Lord Amur and the Archduke of Rubicon.

“Ah!”

The judge exclaimed. But then, his face turned earthy and he shook his head. The lord’s wife shook her head. On the day of the duel. Archduke Rubicon’s sword shattered, sending fragments flying in all directions. And it was Lord Amur and Grand Duke Rubicon who were hit the most by the fragments.

“The Archduke Rubicon, who was beaten with the most shrapnel and was mentally weak in old age, died shortly after.”

“Oh no…”

“And within a few days, the Lord of Amur, who was hit with the most shrapnel after the Grand Duke of Rubicon, died with the same symptoms as the Grand Duke of Rubicon. Could it be a coincidence?”

Interestingly, a lot of people got hit by shrapnel, but most of them only got stuck in one or two places. However, Lord Amur, who was nearby, was hit with shrapnel all over the body, and Archduke Rubicon was hit with shrapnel focused on his face.

“Ji, are you saying that Archduke Rubicon poisoned your sword?”

The judge asked in a trembling voice. He was the Grand Duke of Rubicon, who was famous for his upright, upright, and generous character. But if I could be suspicious of the circumstances alone, I could have suspected the Archduke Rubicon as well.

“If that’s the case. I can’t believe that Prince Rubicon poisoned his sword to defeat me. But those who watched the duel will know. I never stabbed Prince Rubicon. My sword was like that in the first place. I’ve never has been touched by Archduke Rubicon.”

Scratching the back of Archduke Rubicon’s hand was something he had done unnoticed. At the time, no one was able to confirm it in detail at the scene where the debris was messed up. According to the records of the official duel trial, Archduke Rubicon was wounded by his own sword and finally subdued with his fists.

“But isn’t the period too different?”

Archduke Rubicon died shortly after the duel. But if the Amur lord said that he was poisoned during the duel, he would have died at least two or three days later.

“It’s possible because the lord of Amur is younger. Dokdo has individual differences, and didn’t he continue to recuperate? Rather, it could be that Archduke Rubycon’s fatal wounds wore off too quickly.”

In fact, in this worldview, there were poisons that had medicinal effects every day or two. Things developed for assassination. In the game, it appears in the attempted assassination quest, and is known to be a very dangerous poison. The judge wrapped his head and shook his head. It must be hard to accept reality.

I said.

“Your Judge. Is it a coincidence that the Duke of Rubicon and the lord of Amur died of the same symptoms? By any chance, among the opponents of the Duke of Rubicon’s last duel, were there no more people who suffered and died?”

“…Yes.”

There can be no He was a human who fought a lot of duels, but it was obvious that there would be two or three more. There were quite a few guys who lost in duels and fell behind with iron poison or Hwabyung. Even if you tried to examine the sword of the Archduke Rubicon, it had already been destroyed and it had long since melted.

“Respected Judge. I don’t want to damage the reputation of the Archduke Rubicon, but if you doubt it, if you suspect that this duel was poisoned, it would be reasonable to point the arrow at the Archduke Rubicon.”

Surprisingly, it was highly probable that Archduke Rubicon had poisoned his sword. They wanted to kill me, they brought weapons into the courtroom from the start, they proposed a duel trial first, and the two people who received the most shrapnel had the same symptoms.

Rather, there was no possibility that I would poison myself. I was the winner of the duel at the time. If it was poisonous, it would have been enough to just kill the Archduke Rubicon. The Archangelists do not say anything about the winner of a duel killing the loser.

In order to establish that I poisoned myself, I did not kill him in a duel where there was no risk even if I killed him, and after 30 minutes I had Archduke Rubicon poisoned, and then the Amur lord did not bother to make a treaty that did not benefit me very much, and then I did the same poison. Had to be poisoned using The former and the latter. Without either one, there could be no suspicion that I had poisoned myself.

So it makes no sense. Because there was no benefit to be gained by doing so. However, the benefits of the Archduke Rubicon were very clear. Reputation for killing the party of warriors who defeated the demon king. And a grudge not to kill gracefully.

And two people who happened to be wounded by the weapon of Archduke Rubicon.

Death without a logical basis complicates a person’s head. And, people tend to lean their opinions with the highest possibility.

The judges and those present at the trial seemed to feel the same way. Along with the sound of their gulping, I heard the tiniest crackling sound. Damn A crack in the honor of the Grand Duke of the Rubicon.

So I was acquitted. As a result, I was not reprimanded by the Archangel Church for killing the Amur lord.

Trial is always a fair law. Fortunately, the suspicion that the Archduke Rubicon had been poisoned seemed to have stopped with suspicion and rumors.

Even the Archduke of Rubicon will be relieved in heaven that he is not framed. Somehow it seemed that the stars were twinkling.