Chapter 30 – Judgment
“The trial will begin. Everyone please be seated.”
I heard the sound of a chair being pulled, and then it became quiet.
“From now on, we will judge the accused Heina Thorlern for her criminal activities. Prosecutors, let’s begin.”
A man stood up on one side of the space and he soon started talking.
“Defendant Heina Torlern lured Edward Weiss, whom she had a relationship with, into her home, drugged her drink, and then murdered her.
She moved him to a place only she knew. After that, there were traces of rape and confinement for a week.
Later, when an acquaintance of his visited the place, she stabbed him with a knife.
In response, the Imperial Prosecutor’s Office will seek a total of five years in prison for her.”
“Do you have any evidence of the charges the prosecution is claiming?”
“Yes. First, there were knives, ropes, and drug canisters left at the place where the crime occurred.
I will submit them as evidence.”
“All right.”
The judge finished his speech and turned his head the other way.
“Defendant, Heyna Torlern, does he admit to the charges against you?”
She was speechless
What were you thinking?
She was still silent as if she couldn’t hear anything.
“Defendant?”
The judge watched her for a few more moments, and then she tried to have her trial resumed.
A door opened from the back, and a woman who appeared to be a clerk hurried in, and she handed the judge a piece of paper wrapped in her envelope.
‘Something.’
‘I heard that it was a petition written by a victim, but I don’t know the details.’
Feeling that she needed to read, the judge decided to pause the trial.
“I’ll take a break for 20 minutes.”
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The judge, who was walking to a room where she could rest with her colleagues or her successors, stopped for a moment because there was someone looking for her.
“Go first.”
The one who sent them off first and greeted him was an employee of the administrative office.
“What’s going on?”
The employee took out an envelope from inside without saying anything.
“What is this?”
“I don’t know. I was just told to tell the judge.”
The staff greeted him and went back to his place.
I wondered who the hell was contacting me like this, so I looked around and opened the envelope.
‘Don’t forget your faith.’
Goosebumps rose from the back of his neck.
I didn’t know that the case that I thought would end in a simple affair was also connected to a place so high.
It was a warning.
It was such a warning that he would reveal his shameful parts if it was not a judgment that he could understand.
It would have been better if he had told me the scope in advance, but he was the only one who would be in trouble if he said this without saying anything.
He seems to be holding the hilt, but it was the other person holding the hilt.
However, an excessive judgment here will surely raise suspicion.
If you buy doubt, an investigation will come in, and when an investigation comes in, your shame will be revealed.
The judge felt a knife pointed at him from behind.
Time passed just like that.
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“We will resume the trial.”
The atmosphere was the same as before, but the judge’s heart was not.
If she makes a mistake, the prosecutor who is interrogating that woman in front of him
Tomorrow may be investigating yourself.
Without listening to them, he proceeded with the trial mechanically.
The time to make a choice was approaching.
Suddenly, he recalled the first piece of paper he had received.
When I opened the envelope, it was a petition. Written by the victim.
His head was spinning
Then I came to one conclusion.
If they want the results they want, they will tell them to do it themselves.
Why did they make such ambiguous expressions?
Perhaps they were unable to press directly.
It seemed to be looking at the victim’s eyes.
I don’t know what a great person this victim is that he cares so much.
He decided to gamble.
If you die this way and that way, shouldn’t you play at your own plate for the last time?
He used the petition as an excuse.
All puzzles fit.
“The prosecutor’s side.”
“Yes. The Imperial Prosecutor’s Office charged the accused, Heina Thorlern, with drugs, rape, confinement, and attempted murder.
She will sentence her to eight years in prison.”
“Defendant.”
Heyna was still speechless.
Have you given up on everything? Or maybe she was thinking of something.
She looked like a dead person.
“I know it’s not there.”
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Some time passed, and the time for the final judgment came.
“I will pass judgment.”
Silence hung over the left.
“The defendant, Heyna Thor Lern, lured her principal lover, Edward Weiss, into her home, drugged her, confined her, and committed rape.”
“Several charges have been filed, so I will go one by one.”
“The victim was drugged unconscious and imprisoned at the scene of the crime. This was an important factor in the execution of the crime.
However, the drug was a simple sleeping pill system. And considering the fact that there are no side effects of the victim’s body by the drug
I will give you a suspended sentence.”
“Both the accused and the investigators admitted in common that the verbal fight escalated and they brought a weapon and tried to stab an acquaintance of the victim.
However, the fact that it was the victim who was actually injured by the weapon, but in the end, it does not change the fact that it was stab wound. Therefore, this court
Judging by the injury, the charge of attempted murder is not guilty.”
“I am guilty of confinement because the evidence remains.”
“The last issue is rape, but since we couldn’t actually confirm it, we couldn’t find objective evidence.
I will give you a reprieve.”
If that’s the case, I’ll understand.
He decided to end the trial.
“Therefore, I sentence you. Considering the confinement through drugs, I can’t say I’m not guilty, but I can’t confirm that it was actually rape.
Given that there is no evidence of injury and not attempted murder, the court sentences you to two years in prison and five years probation.
In addition, taking into account that both the victim and the accused reside in the system, we will order the defendant to be removed from the system.”
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He was still in hospital.
The nurse constantly came to see my condition at regular intervals.
The doctor also came to see me once a day.
He had never been treated like this in his life, so he was amazed
My heart is heavy at the thought that it is not free.
A nurse came in, handed me a piece of paper, and left.
A seal commonly used in public institutions.
It must have been from the tribunal.
2 years imprisonment, 5 years probation, plus an expulsion order.
The moment it is executed, there will probably be no chance to meet forever.
It was cramped.
It was such a frustrating feeling that I couldn’t explain.
What made us like this?
I have seen it for 10 years and thought I would see it for another 10 years.
However, that hope was paradoxically shattered by mutual feelings.
I lost everything and gained emptiness.
What she did to me couldn’t even be called right in empty words
I felt complicated emotions when I stood in the position of the person concerned.
I can’t say everything about her is okay, but I can’t deny all of my memories with her.
The love they had for each other left only scars on each other.
There was no particular reason for writing the petition.
It just seemed like it had to be.
No paper will be able to explain why.
We are no longer lovers, but it was the last gift we could give as lovers.
Yes, it would be appropriate to call it a parting gift.
I was in tears.
Love for the first time
Feeling for the first time
The first farewell to let go.
Wouldn’t this have happened if someone had told me in advance?
No, even if I told you, I wouldn’t have known.
Wouldn’t have believed
The feeling of love is very strange.
Can be innumerable
Can be endlessly dark
It could be brighter than anything in the world.
I just wanted to cry.
That day I had to let go of the feeling of love.
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Somewhere in the system.
There were people who received the same results but showed completely different reactions.
Not to mention that I know the outcome I can’t get except for Edward Weiss.
That reaction was a reaction that could not come out unless the person with the grudge was guilty.
‘It’s unfortunate. It would have been better if I had been completely cut off from society.’
She was the one who thought something would happen someday
She was the one who didn’t expect it to happen so quickly.
Still, she was in a good mood anyway, because there was no one who could now stand in the way between her and him.
The creature whose strongest enemy had disappeared was now preparing to unleash its full potential.
What about new competitors?
Competitors would not accept it in the first place.
It was to be removed and started before it was put on the board.
That was the mercy she could offer them.
Because there should have been only two people on that stage.
Imagining the near future, she fell asleep happily.
