Chapter 242 – Why Are You So Serious?
To be wounded by one’s own weapon has long been regarded as one of the greatest shames.
Until the time of Emperor Seonseondae, knights who committed crimes worthy of the death penalty were beheaded for their own love. The criminals who received the punishment considered that such an execution method was equivalent to being strangled by their own hands and feet, and begged to be killed in a different way.
In the end, as public opinion prevailed that it was an excessively barbaric and dishonorable punishment, no matter how much it was a punishment for criminals, all execution methods in the empire were unified by hanging.
All of the Empire’s judicial system is based on the Codex Justitia, a statute directly conceived and promulgated by the first emperor, so it is considered sacred in itself and given legitimacy.
So, in an environment where there is no choice but to be extremely rigid about the revision or deletion of the bill, what does the fact that the law has been changed according to public opinion mean?
It means that numerous citizens of the empire have consistently raised objections for quite a long time, saying that the bill goes against social norms.
When judged in such a social context.
Just how much shame was Theresia experiencing at this moment?
“…In addition, I committed bribery, blackmail, kidnapping, fabrication of private documents, and 13 misdemeanors for this job…”
—Jurrleuk
A single tear quietly rolled down from the corner of the confession pouring out like a wave.
At first, she was the one who tried to resist even her words with her eyes wide open and her expression screeching, but now she mumbles with her head half lowered, as if her heart itself has been broken.
No one could have predicted that Theresia, the daughter of the golden mirror, would suffer such shame in public. Her notoriety is also notorious, and isn’t she the daughter of a famous duke?
The sight of her trembling on her shoulders with her alluring beauty ruined was a sight that anyone would feel sorry for, regardless of whether or not she was guilty.
The lower aristocrats gathered in this place watched it without breathing properly.
What is being executed at this moment is a kind of mental execution of the guilty.
This is because the enforcer was a descendant of the imperial family, a dignified being above the law, from the moment he was born.
—Ohhh…
Her white skin contrasted with the jet-black dress.
Alicia, who looks like a goddess from the underworld, with flying silver hair that looks like melted moonlight.
A wave of golden mana, symbolizing the royal family, waved calmly behind her as she stood with her arms crossed.
The imperial princess did not answer any question or answer, but she just stared at the criminal in silence.
“In the process of spreading slander against Her Highness, I admit that I abused the paranormal abilities of the mental world, which are subject to special management at the national level…”
Theresia confessed all her sins in a trembling voice before her.
Just like that, when time passed and she had no more words left to confess.
“Sorry… Her Highness the Princess… Please, have mercy…”
Was it because even the final repulsion was broken, or was it because her mind and body were completely exhausted?
Theresia, who let out her last words in her trembling words, put her head down as she knelt down in front of her, Alicia. She bowed openly in front of her in front of a crowd of people.
‘Wow, something terrifying is coming… ‘
Meanwhile, she hides in the shadows and watches the miserable figure.
For some reason, it doesn’t seem like someone else’s business to her, and to the trauma that creeps in.
Hasene shook her shoulders and gulped at her dry saliva.
Didn’t she, too, play the role of her maid and cleaner after she fell into the abyss with her family family while playing tricks on Alicia with her supernatural powers?
However, if you think about it, even then Alicia wasn’t as angry as she is now.
Of course, since it was a case directly related to her own safety and her lover Wolfgang’s safety, she had a strong feeling to handle it as best as possible, but even though she tried to harm herself directly, she risked Hasene’s life. Instead of being deprived of it, she rather made him her closest aide.
Considering that Alicia was a direct descendant of her imperial family, she was more than merciful and overly soft.
Also, she has been watching Alicia closely for months. Hassene came to the realization that Alicia did not really have her own interests and she let herself live, but rather that she really did because of her benevolent disposition.
‘Her Highness the Princess… To be honest, she’s a bit like a hunk.’
Even though she is of the noblest bloodline and doesn’t have to, she organizes charity events around the clock, and she gives grace directly to the less fortunate. Even that was Alicia’s pure hobby, not a calculated act that high-ranking people often do for image management.
An altruistic disposition to the extent that Hassene couldn’t understand it.
Not only that.
Alicia never raised her voice or lowered her words to others.
Basically, she is the kind of person who always smiles and spreads bright energy to others.
She was kind enough to make even Hasene, who is a terrible human hater and an ardent proponent of vocal evil theory, reflect on her convictions, as is the case with people with paranormal ability to read people’s minds.
She said, ‘I thought she was just a talkative person… ‘
However, Hassene came to realize one thing she did today.
That even Alicia had an evil that she should never touch.
—Uuuuu
As her Alicia knelt down and gestured lightly toward her fallen prisoner, her Theresia’s body was dragged helplessly and forced to face her.
“Heh, hehe…!”
Until a little while ago, she was Theresia who tried to escape the situation with a smirk and a lie, but now she can’t even bear to meet Alicia’s eyes properly.
“I can’t stand it. How dare you spread such nonsense.”
As if she was very displeased, Alicia shot at her with a single word.
As it was, she turned her body around to look at the aristocrats who had gathered in her salon.
“…”
Silence as quiet as a dead mouse.
Even though a single person and hundreds of people stand facing each other, hundreds of people are thoroughly overwhelmed by a single person.
In a way, they are the ones who can be seen as the biggest victims of this incident.
I visited the salon to enjoy the rest of the evening and socializing.
Didn’t you accidentally get caught up in a big deal that you didn’t even think of?
No matter how small the nobles were, they would have known as they were nobles.
What kind of ending will the lesser nobles meet after hearing the story they shouldn’t have heard?
Sometimes it is better not to know than to know.
It was rather like a curse to find out a secret that a petty aristocrat couldn’t handle.
However, regardless of their will, they have already seen and heard so many things that they cannot bear just by standing here.
A conflict that exists between the 2nd prince and the 1st princess.
Stupid people who regard the conflict between the two royal families with legitimate succession rights as a mere sibling fight will have to surrender their titles of nobility.
It was something that had to be expanded unconditionally. Perhaps most of the people gathered here are thinking this way in their heads.
It means that what is to come has finally come.
All three brothers who have the right of succession have grown up, but the crown prince has not yet been decided.
So far, there has been no special conflict because the great ordeal of war has brought everyone together, but it would not be strange if a mud fight broke out over the succession to the throne.
Now more than a year has passed since the end of the war.
As the scars from the war were gradually restored and there was time to think about other things, it was not surprising to think that internal conflicts began to arise.
‘Uh… This is a big deal.’
‘Now that it’s like this… ‘
‘It’s impossible to pretend not to know and keep your mouth shut.’
‘Come to think of it, I heard that His Highness, the 1st Prince, also recently gave a speech to a crowd of warriors.’
‘She had never heard of Princess Alicia having such charisma. Was she hiding her powers until now?’
‘This fact to the Lord as soon as possible…’
At this moment, the shrimp’s heads to survive in the gap of the whale fight were rolling busier than ever.
As long as they already know, they will no longer be given the option of pretending not to know.
First of all, the conflict between the second prince and the first princess that took place at the salon this evening.
The so-called ‘Ribera Salon Incident’ should in fact be regarded as Alicia’s victory by decision.
Didn’t he directly trample on Princess Theresia, the second prince’s closest aide, by showing off his overwhelming charisma in front of everyone?
This is an expression of Alicia’s determination not to leave her brother behind the scenes any longer.
In other words, it can be interpreted that the first princess declared a full-scale all-out war against her second prince.
If so, how will the first princess express her will in front of so many people?
Like that, when everyone was silent and waiting for Alicia’s mouth to open.
Alicia cleared her voice and declared with a very serious expression.
“Gentlemen? To be sure, there is nothing wrong between Sir Wolfgang and me. Please do not be fooled by rumors. We really love each other!”
In a way that many would never have predicted.
