CH 139

“Judges are coming in! Everyone, get up from your seats!”

Three people, including a judge and a security guard, were seated side by side on the podium.

For a formal trial between high-ranking aristocrats, there were fewer audiences than expected. This was because both the Duke of Tertius and the Duke of Hamilton wanted the incident to be under wraps.

Only the fact that a trial will be held for the Emperor was briefly reported.

As the first case was reported by Rian, Dana along with Daniel, who would represent her, were sitting in the defendant’s seat, and Rian and the security commander were sitting in the plaintiff’s seat.

Leon sat with his arms folded in the witness’ seat and looked at Rian with terrifying eyes.

The Duke of Hamilton also sent people, but neither the Duke nor Hales were present.

Rian looked at the judge’s door with anxious eyes.

“Then we’ll start the trial.”

“Oh, hold on!”

The presiding judge tried to announce the start, but Rian urgently interrupted him. Seeing him puzzled, Rian said in confusion,

“There’s still someone coming. Hold on, hold on…”

The presiding judge frowned at him for delaying the trial and trying to irritate him.

Then the door opened and someone came in. Rian’s face turned bright.

“Harbert!”

Harbert bowed silently to Rian with an ambiguous expression and greeted Leon and Daniel with a glance.

Behind Harbert was a lawyer hired by Rian himself.

Unless Rian was also a fool, he could have noticed that the atmosphere of the Duke of Hamilton had been unusual.

So he stepped up on his own and called in someone whom he thought was on his side. A lawyer was also appointed for a large amount of money. It was a little challenging to deal with Tertius, but it was not impossible to get a very expensive lawyer.

“Hmm, please take your seat.”

The lawyer sat next to Rian, and Harbert sat in the observer’s seat. He had been called by Rian as a witness.

“I’ll deal with the first case first. First of all, at the Deniz merchants, a report was filed with the police that Count Rian Felice was attacked by a commoner woman.”

The first security officer to deal with the case stated it. Rian looked at him with anxious eyes. From the time he came into the Duke of Hamilton’s house, he knew that the chief of security was not on his side.

After that, he tried a few more times to buy him, but he was reluctant and just escaped.

“That’s why my head was bleeding, and we brought the reported woman to security for now.”

The voice of the chief security officer, who was reading the letters all the time, was mechanical and emotionless. And there was no change in expression on the face of the chief judge.

However, the face of the judge sitting on the right turned red, and he was a judge who faced Dana at the security guard.

As soon as the security chief’s statement was over, the judge immediately spoke in a slightly excited voice.

“But there’s a big error in the statement you made.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Really? What’s that?”

The chief judge, who was expressionless at the words, showed a little interest. He deliberately maintained a poker face, but he was not actually interested in the case he is dealing with now.

The real reason why this trial was held had not even begun yet.

“First of all, the status of the perpetrator is not a commoner. At that point, she was already the Grand Duchess of Tertius.”

“Hmm, I see.”

He wondered what this had to do with the presence or absence of sin, but it was their statuses that had a significant influence on the actual judgment, and that was the definition of this era.

The judge looked at the defendant, frowning at the case, which was even more worthless.

“Defendant, why did you harm Count Felice? Is it because of what harm he had done? Please speak comfortably.”

With a distinctly changed tone, the judge opened his mouth to Dana sitting in the defendant’s seat with full courtesy.

Daniel tried to speak instead, but Dana made eye contact with him, blocking him with her hands.

“Ah.”

And with a light smile, she turned to the judge and spoke calmly,

“I went into my room to pick up something. But suddenly Count Felice came in. He pushed me against the wall and tried to molest me. In the process of resisting like that…”

Dana added a little smoke, blurring the end of her speech and shaking slightly. People’s eyes automatically turned to Rian for the expression on her slender appearance was as if she didn’t even want to think of it.

Of course, this was also a view of criticism arising from the harassment of the “Grand Duchess”.

“Hold on, judge! The Defendant calls it her room. But that’s where Count Rian Felice used to live, and he only touched the trespasser in the process of suppressing the trespasser and never intended to molest her.”

Finally, the effect of Rian’s money appeared. In his own way, Rian’s lawyer listened to the circumstances she had said and defended him. Rian, who was pale, looked brighter, and he raised his head.

“That’s right, it’s a room that I’ve been using as an agent all along since the CEO of the top disappeared. There was a person in the dark, so I thought she was a thief and tried to catch her.”

Dana was momentarily taken aback and her speech was interrupted. Then Daniel calmly intervened.

“Whose it belongs to will be revealed in future trials, so I don’t think it’s something to discuss now, judge.”

“Hmm, I see. Then, it means whether there was any actual harassment. Specifically, what did Count Felice do with the Defendant?”

“So…”

The presiding judge asked as if it was natural, but it was embarrassing for Dana to answer.

tuk, tuk. tuk.

The sound of a shoe nose pounding against the wooden desk echoed through the silent courtroom. Amid quietness, they looked at who it was, Grand Duke Tertius.

It was obviously a rude act, but no one could come forward and warn him. It was because Leon’s expression was brutal as if he would cut the person if they talked to him.