Chapter 716 – #96. Jinhaesol (20)
“What is the reason for blaming the prince for nothing?”
The alchemist shuddered, unable to raise his head, at the King’s wrath pouring heavily like a mountain.
Shaaaaa
Of course, the day when the king makes friends with himself.
Rain poured down like a hole in the sky.
The day was cold, and the alchemist shivered as he was distracted by the pouring rain.
The investigation will be formal, and it is an alchemist who received a huge amount of research funds in exchange for a short hard time.
She gnashed her teeth as she trembled.
He remembered what his seniors had said in the past that dealings with nobles should be done carefully and prudently, and that it was better not to do so if possible.
‘Bastards…!!’
Even if you don’t keep your promise, aren’t you not keeping it too badly?
Little trouble?
How could being directly interrogated by the king be a moment of suffering?
What’s upsetting is that there’s nothing she can say to the King because she’s already made a deal.
‘If I speak, my head will explode and I will die.’
She should have known since she gave away a lot of money.
She has been caught in a terrible trap since she came looking for herself with her eyes reversed to obtain research funds.
For several years, she should have known it was no easy feat in that she didn’t have to worry about running out of money.
The cost of greed is too high.
‘I just wanted to get research funds…!’
The prince has no regrets.
However, the immediate profit was attractive enough to play a part in framing the prince who had no regrets.
“If you can’t answer, does that mean you won’t admit your guilt?”
“Oh, no.”
“If so, why don’t you answer! Criminals, hurry up and answer. Why did you put such a false name on the prince!”
“No, it’s a false name. There’s no such thing.”
“The prince was accused of taking the alchemist’s medicine. And four years were named as the alchemist who made the medicine.”
“It’s unfortunate, Your Highness! I’m a good alchemist. An alchemist who works hard for the kingdom!”
In fact, she has never made an alchemist’s potion.
A gift to the prince?
That, too, was a gift unrelated to the alchemist’s medicine.
“It’s unfair to say you did something you didn’t do.”
“If so, how will you explain the alchemist medicine you gave to the prince?”
“Alchemist’s potion is neither made nor given!”
“Then why do you think the aristocrats accused you of being a criminal and arrested you?”
“I, I would have met the prince just to earn research funds. After his support, I thought I would be able to have a more smooth research environment, Joe.”
“You visited the palace because you wanted to receive sponsorship?”
“Yes!!”
“That’s very strange.”
“Yes? This is… Strange?”
A thunderous roar fell upon the king.
“This guy is lying to the end!!”
“Uhhhhh!!!”
“Do you think there are only one or two people like you!!! Do you think Jim made it possible for anyone to meet the prince!!”
An incompetent alchemist who cannot earn research funds.
Because he had no connections, he couldn’t earn research funds, and he wouldn’t be a nobleman because he didn’t have skills.
A guy like that made an appointment at the prince’s palace and had a meeting?
The alchemist was not even qualified to meet the prince in the first place.
Still, meeting the prince means that there was someone’s intervention in the meeting between the two.
“Who was the one who told you to go to the palace?”
Even when the king shouted, it seemed like thunder struck, but when he asked a question in a low voice, he gave me fear.
“Huh… Black…”
The alchemist started to cry, but the king didn’t blink an eye.
“Torture him until he tells the truth!”
“Yes! Your Highness.”
“Aaaaah!!
What the hell was the spirit of signing such a contract!
In fact, the reason why things happened like this was because the alchemist ignored the prince who was born as a worm.
A prince opposed by nobles.
An elderly and sick king who seemed to die at any moment.
And the aristocrats who spread their tax in a fair way.
Which of the three would you choose?
Aren’t you stupid not knowing?
At least from the Alchemist’s point of view, it was the natural and right choice.
‘If you speak, your head will explode, and if you don’t, the king will tear you to death.’
With both choices left only to die, the alchemist was unable to make a quick decision.
If I had to choose between the worst and the lesser evil, I would choose the lesser evil. Aren’t both choices the worst?
There was no hole to live in.
Out of resentment, the alchemist turned his head to find the aristocrat who had made him this way.
Shaaaaa
It was the same for the nobles who were facing the pouring rain.
The king did not say that he would interrogate on a bad day.
There were reasons for everything.
The alchemist was being interrogated by the king as the representative, but in fact, the other nobles standing in the rain were also being interrogated by the king.
They didn’t look good because they knew that, and no one moved easily under the rain.
There were no nobles who used tricks to avoid the rain.
Aaaaah!!!!! Aaaaah!!!!!
A scream came from the mouth of the alchemist who had begun to be tortured in earnest.
The king calmly looked at the alchemist’s distorted face and moved his gaze to confirm the nobles.
‘Your face is thick. Even if you act like you’re not, you can’t avoid Jim’s eyes.’
Among the nobles, the king looked at the group with particularly bad expressions.
In fact, the king was already aware that the alchemist was unable to speak out about the culprit due to certain restrictions.
‘There’s no way.’
I knew it right away because it was the way nobles usually traded when they were playing tricks.
Nevertheless, the king pretended not to know.
This interrogation was not to find out who was really behind the alchemist.
Even nobles don’t know that.
‘Since he is the prince chosen by the king, how dare the nobles go out without knowing the subject?’
Take advantage of the inclement rain now.
It is punishing the nobles.
It contained anger at the nobles who dared to frame the prince and the nobles who had yet to swear allegiance to the prince.
The prince sat quietly beside him, watching the tortured alchemist.
“Prince.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
“Isn’t it hard to see?”
There was no one whose character was so broken that it was enjoyable to watch the torture.
In particular, the prince was unfamiliar with such a sight, so the king could not help but worry.
“I’m watching with a learning attitude.”
Haha! That’s right. The king’s seat is not just a sweet place. When you have to be punished, you have to be punished harshly to form a good habit.”
It is important to reveal the crime, but it is more important to decide how to punish, the king taught the prince in a friendly voice.
Aren’t they nobles who were already weak and were treated with dignity?
Punishment in the pouring rain would be quite a shocking punishment for nobles who had never done anything harsh.
It was an indirect experience of what happens when you disobey the king.
This was how the king treated the nobility he showed to his prince.
♧ ♧ ♧
The time for the king to interrogate the culprit continued even after the rain stopped.
It was hard just to sit still, but the nobles had to stand in the cold wind even after they stopped being caught in the pouring rain and that was not enough.
Some of them collapsed on the spot, but had to stand up again after being treated by the priest who appeared as if they had been waiting for them.
From a certain point on, the king didn’t even give the sinner time to confess his crime.
When the alchemist passed out while being tortured, the king calmly said that he would wait until he woke up, and even showed his leisure to have a meal or chat with me.
Time passed quickly, the sun had set and it was night.
Most of the aristocrats were shedding tears with their souls completely drained.
‘If you see that he hasn’t said who is behind it even after doing this, isn’t it the real culprit?’
I didn’t know that I couldn’t talk about the criminal because the criminal couldn’t avoid it, so I couldn’t help but doubt that he wasn’t the real criminal.
But did the king think it was certain that the alchemist was the culprit, or did he think it didn’t matter because he could make the nobles suffer even if he wasn’t guilty?
Hurry up and tell the exhausted alchemist the same thing over and over again.
“Majesty.”
I couldn’t see it and called the king.
There seemed to be no one to stop the king but me.
“Hmm? Why is that, Prince?”
Knock-
“I’m worried that you seem to be overdoing it. You’ve already been in the cold wind for several hours.”
The king is a sick body who does not know when he will die.
No matter how much there is a stove by his side, his body wrapped in various furs, and even if the courtiers stand holding windshields to block the blowing wind,
It was too much to be outside for a long time with an old and sick body.
“It’s been a while since the rain stopped. I’m afraid the cold energy will burrow into your body.”
“Huh…It’s because the prince is so filial.”
The King chuckled, as if he was pleased with my concern.
“I really can’t help it.”
As if I couldn’t help it, the king finally stopped the torture and ordered the prisoner to be taken back to prison.
‘At las!’
Unsurprisingly, unspoken joy erupted among the nobles.
From their point of view, they were feeling pain similar to that of a sinner just standing there.
Didn’t the king show a terrible attitude of not allowing the nobility to step down even if he fell down?
“The next visit will take a day off and reopen the next day. I believe that all the nobles present today will attend again without exception.”
The expression of the nobles quickly turned pale at the king’s sad warning that if they did not attend due to illness on the pretext of today’s work, they would not watch it.
It seems that for the time being, priests will have to be busy visiting the houses of nobles.
“Let’s go. You worked hard today.”
As the king was about to get up, he hurried over to the side and helped him.
No matter how hard the courtiers tried to keep their bodies from getting cold, it seems that they couldn’t completely block the cold wind coming in.
The weight of the king who relied on me was light.
