Chapter 58 Punishment

It took a few hours for everyone in the city to calm down, and the news about Emily attacking Nikol spread throughout the city in a flash causing many girls to protest against the Kano tribe.

Nikol interfered and stop them from fighting with each other but all the progress they had until now in their relationship went back to zero.

Eva went back with a disappointed face and she never came back to see the status of the city but Lydia helped Nikol to control all the fights in the city with the help of Alva.

"Tsk~ because of that fool everything went back to zero," Alva didn't have any filter as she openly scolded Emily in front of Lydia.

Even Lydia understood that Emily shouldn't have done that but still she wanted to hear her reason for doing this,

"Lydia, why do you think she did a such thing to me? I didn't even talk with her that much, why did she want to kill me?" Nikol was confused by everything that happened.

First, he felt a little sting on his neck while walking and then suddenly he lost consciousness. When he gained his vision back, he was choking Emily to death.

"Emily is a really stubborn girl, I'm pretty sure she wasn't going to kill you but she might have tried to play with us by kidnapping you," Lydia had no idea what happened but she didn't want Nikol to misunderstand her niece.

Nikol was worried about this whole situation as it might cause more panic, he didn't want everything they build up until now to fall off because of something like this.

"Let's see, even though I don't want to think that she's a bad girl, I don't know whether I can believe her words now," Hearing his words, Lydia couldn't help but be sad.

"You don't have to, that bitch will get punishment for what she did," Alva was still angry with her. She wanted to kill her on the spot but, if she did that it would be the root cause of the permanent conflict between the two tribes.

Leaving the supervision of town to Alva and her fellow guards, Nikol went back to see his two guard girls who went to get treatment for their injuries and to meet Usha and Eva to discuss future plans.

On his way to the mansion, he was specially protected by Lydia even though he didn't want any security to protect himself since nobody even approached him after that incident.

Entering the big mansion, he knocked on the office door of Usha to see what was going to happen to Emily.

"Enter!" They heard a beautiful voice from inside the room, Nikol entered the room opening the door slowly to see Usha surrounded by many girls.

He wondered what was happening seeing all of them, everyone frowned seeing Lydia but she just ignored them,

"Nikol, why are you here? You should go and rest," Seeing him she quickly stood up, Usha was worried about him more than anything but she had her chief duties to fulfil when an incident like this occur.

"I'm fine, but what are you guys discussing, I heard something about punishment," He didn't want Usha to make some rash decision and break up this whole alliance.

Usha looked at Lydia for a moment but she ignored her presence and started to discuss about Emily's punishment,

"We were talking about today's incident, we cannot treat it as something normal and let it go, some people might find it displeasing but we want her to be punished for what she did," Her words were directed at Lydia who was listening to everything without interrupting them.

"I-i," She didn't know how to answer her as it wasn't something she could decide all alone.

"Lydia, where's Eva? I want to talk with her," Since there was no development in this case Nikol decided to talk with both chiefs and decided their future steps.

"She must be in the building we renovated recently, sister is highly disappointed in Emily, I don't know what she will do,"

"Let's go and meet her, and chief I think conducting a fair judgment is required in front of both tribes so, I think we should do that, I won't force you but think about it," Leaving those words with Usha, Nikol went to meet Eva.

After that incident, she locked herself inside the room without letting anyone enter her room. Nikol managed to convince both parties to conduct a judgment in front of the chiefs of both tribes so they used a big hall for it since all the important members of both tribes participated in it.

Eva and Usha were sitting side by side looking at Emily and Nikol who were the subjects of this meeting.

This whole thing was proposed by Nikol in front of the elders of both tribes showing the fairness of carrying it like this since the two tribes are now joined with each other.

Elders were not foolish enough to be stubborn and refuse something advantageous to prevent further conflict and since the victim of this case himself proposed this, they didn't mind going along with it.

"We commence the judgment of Emily the daughter of chief Eva Kano for trying to kill Nikol," Alva announced looking at the crowd.

First, she explained what happened today for those who didn't have knowledge about this incident and how Nikol responded to it,

"So, our tribe wants Emily to be punished for trying to murder the most important person in our tribe right now," She finished her speech stating their decision for Emily.

"It's false, I didn't try to kill him, I just wanted to kidnap him, Ugh~," Nikol thought she would try to refuse these complaints about her but, she went and accepted them with her own mouth causing both tribes to talk among themselves.

"Silent!" Usha didn't want anyone to disturb this important meeting.

"I would like to hear about this from Eva, I expect her to be fair in this and disregard the fact that she's judging her own daughter," Usha wasn't trying to take revenge or anything, she just wanted Emily to be punished for what she did.

Eva looked conflicted with a frustrated look on her face, never in her life, she would have expected that she would have to judge her own daughter like this.

"We-we accept the proposal of Ron tribe, Emily should be punished for what she did," She blurted her last words with a difficult look on her face.

"Mother!" Emily was on the verge of crying looking at everyone going against her including her own clan.

Nikol felt sad seeing strong and beautiful Eva looking all gloomy like this,

"Since both tribes accepted her guilty, we will give her the punishment that should be given to a criminal,"

Everyone knew what her punishment will be except Nikol since he had no prior experience dealing with criminals,

"Emily will be exiled from the city for attempting to murder an important figure in the city, she will be not accepted as a Kano tribe member from here onward," Alva announced looking at Emily who was crying.

Eva was on the verge of crying looking at her, Nikol didn't really care about Emily since he saw her as a stubborn brat but, he felt his heart tightening looking at Eva and Lydia. He didn't want them to be affected by this whole ordeal.

"Wait!" Hearing Nikol's voice, everyone looked at him with a confused look including Emily.

"She indeed attacked me but in return, I also choked her neck for self-protection, since nobody was injured by this I think the punishment should be somewhat reduced," Usha and Eva both knew what he was trying to do, Alva didn't want him to stand out for her but still she didn't want her former best friend to be monster food. She just wanted to kill Emily by herself.

"Then what do you suggest us to do? Let her go without any punishment," Elders started to question him.

"No! But I think losing an asset like her over a small dispute like this is a big loss, we have a common enemy to fight and we shouldn't abandon anyone in these hard times," Hearing his words, everyone went silent.

"But, she should be punished, we can't let her go like that," Usha was the one to raise her voice this time.

"Of course, so I suggest her status in this city be reduced to that of a slave and she will serve both tribes without any payment," Nikol didn't really care about Emily but if she were to be exiled, he was pretty sure that Eva wouldn't be her normal self anymore.

"Slave?" Hearing his words, everyone opened their mouth in surprise.

"It's true, but she will die if she had to serve whole two tribes at the same time, so I suggest she become Nikol's exclusive slave, she won't be able to go against his words and I think it will be a good punishment," Eva supported his words without showing her happiness.

"I don't have a problem with that, but she won't be able to be the next chief and she won't go against Nikol's orders, if that happens she will be exiled from this city," Concluding the meeting, Usha gave a speech while looking at everyone with an intimidating gaze.

Elders were hesitant to accept it but they had no choice but to abide by their rules.

Lydia and Eva both sighed feeling relaxed, Alva was dissatisfied with the result but she didn't want to make things worse for everyone,

"From today onward Emily from the Kano tribe will be just Emily and, she will become the property of Nikol," Alva announced concluding the judgment of Emily.

Emily felt relaxed hearing she won't be exiled but, she didn't know at that time her future won't be a pretty one with Nikol being her master.