Chapter 150 – Heinrich’s End (1)
Heinrich’s End (1)
Prinz and Juno frowned as they looked at Heinrich kneeling in front of them.
“Why are you looking at me like that? What did I do wrong? Huh? To be honest, what do you think would have been different if you had sat on the throne?”
Heinrich, who had continued to behave in an indecent manner even here, only closed his mouth when the soldiers surrounding him thrust spear blades at his neck.
Prinz ordered the soldiers to drag Heinrich away, and although Heinrich tried to resist by shaking his body this way, he had to be dragged away by the soldiers’ strong hands.
“I want to kill that guy right now… But anyway, since he has once sat in the throne of a monarch, the punishment will be decided according to the trial.”
In most cases, it was Balkan who recommended suicide to enemy monarchs when executing monarchs, but Prinz had no intention of recommending suicide to Henry, and the same was true for Juno.
‘It would be better to give up the idea of being executed quietly, Heinrich…’
Even as he was being dragged away by the soldiers, Heinrich maintained a shameless and proud attitude, so Juno gritted his teeth.
A short time later, a public trial began to judge the crimes of the captured Heinrich and Dietrich.
It was decided that the former Minister of Justice, Count Redburg, would act as the judge in the trial, and Juno and Eliza would be in charge of proving their agreement as prosecutors.
And other royal family members, including Prinz, Yunas, and Yuria, were watching the trial from the front, looking forward to Yuno and Eliza’s performance.
“We will now begin a summary public trial to punish the former Balkan Emperor Henry II and former Chancellor Philip von Dietrich for their crimes.”
When the trial of Heinrich and Dietrich began with the words of the Count of Redburg, nobles and numerous citizens who had been hiding in the mansion to avoid Heinrich’s evil spirit rushed to watch.
Prinz and Juno created a summary court in front of the fountain in the middle of the square in front of the imperial palace so that the citizens could better see the trial, and made it possible for the citizens watching to participate in the trial as well.
“Defendants Heinrich and Dietrich have ruled the Balkan Empire for the past year and led this empire to catastrophe. From now on, we will count their sins!”
Yuno swallowed once and recited his sins one by one.
“First. The crime of assassinating Karl III, the previous emperor and his own father! He assassinated the monarch at Dietrich’s estate using parasites that were not found in toxicology tests! This was testified by Heinrich and Garcia, a former secretary who was instigated by Dietrich. That’s what I do!”
Marquis García agreed to testify on the condition that his family members would not be implicated and that only he would be beheaded, and he was quietly brought out to testify.
“Second. The crime of conniving with an enemy nation while in the position of emperor and prime minister of the empire! The Plain of Zenon was completely dedicated to them on the condition that the master of Tesseito, the empire’s archenemy, be used as a mercenary! This is the first princess of the Kingdom of Leon and military leader. This is what Fiona Sinclair de Leonhart testifies!”
Princess Fiona testified to what Henry and Dietrich presented to her country, as agreed with Eliza.
“This alone is enough to warrant the death penalty, but the defendant’s crime is not the end! Third. The crime of conspiring with Dietrich, who was the Minister of Finance at the time, to embezzle the empire’s budget from about 10 years ago! This is the budget execution plan discovered in the secret room of the second villa. I will prove this with a secret ledger, and I certify that the handwriting is identical to the handwriting written on the defendant’s personal letter!!”
“Wait a minute, that’s fabricated evidence!! I’ve never stolen the budget!!”
Dietrich protested, saying it was unfair, but the attitude of the judge, the Count of Redburg, and the citizens watching the trial were cold.
“Dismissed!”
Juno continued to recite Heinrich and Dietrich’s sins, and the expressions on the faces of the citizens listening became increasingly distorted.
Meanwhile, Yunas, who was looking at it, asked her husband, Prinz, as if he was curious about something.
“We’re going to execute him anyway, so why not just punish Heinrich? Public opinion is probably going to want him executed anyway, so is there any reason to go to trial like this?”
“Hehe, Yunas. I want to make Juno and Eliza more famous through this trial. The citizens of Adria will naturally respect Juno, who saved their children, as emperor, and the eastern region will also support Juno, who led the war to victory. What about the West and the South? There may be some opposition?”
“Aha~ So… You really entrusted the role of prosecutor to Master Yuno?”
“That’s right. That’s why we planned this. Juno, the righteous third prince who exposed the sins of the vicious and corrupt Emperor Henry in detail! If we create and promote an image like this? Public opinion in support of Juno will surge even in the West and South.”
“Then it wouldn’t matter at all if the third prince, Master Yuno, ascended to the throne! Even if Eliza, the princess of Leon, ascended to the empress, no big deal would come out!! Oh, my~ Why did such a smart person hide his wife and put her through so much trouble? Me~?”
“Hmm… Image making was important to me too… So let’s just move on.”
While the Prinz couple was talking, Juno was talking about Heinrich’s final sin.
“Lastly, I will tell you about the decisive crime! Not only did I kidnap the children of conscripted citizen soldiers and take them as hostages, but I also tortured and killed some of them for my own pleasure!! This is the crime of Sentris and Centuria, who survived there. The siblings will prove it!!”
As soon as Yuno finished speaking, Sentress, shedding tears, and Centuria, who had an eye patch on her eyes, came in and sat down.
“Guys. It may be difficult, but can you explain what happened in the imperial palace?”
Sentress opened her mouth first at Eliza’s words.
“Mom and Dad were conscripted into the citizen army, and we stayed at home doing what Mom and Dad told us to do, but then the soldiers came in, tied our arms and legs, put us on a cart and took us away. There were a lot of kids there besides me, and I was the other kids. I was taken to the basement together, and that guy over there said that my sister had a pretty face and took her to another place.”
“I see. Then Centuria? If it’s okay, can you talk about it too?”
At Eliza’s words, Centoria’s body trembled, and she screamed, and when her Sentress sitting next to her hugged her tightly, she finally calmed down and opened her mouth. Br〉
“W-I was scared… I was so scared… A blonde-haired man wearing a crown came and stabbed my stomach with a knife, saying it was cute and desirable… It hurt so much that I screamed, so he said it was noisy and stabbed my stomach again. I stabbed it… It hurt so much, and I was scared, but I held back because I was afraid that if I screamed, it would stab me again. 〉
Centuria’s testimony shocked not only the citizens who heard her, but also Yuno and Eliza.
“Oh, you can’t see anything? Seriously?”
When Eliza asked in confusion, Sentress answered for her.
“Yuno-hyung over there saved me and my younger brother, but my younger brother’s bleeding was so severe that blood stopped flowing to his eyes and his eyes were damaged. Empress Mama over there treated me, and I’m wearing an eyepatch just in case. … It’s probably hard for your eyesight to come back… And my parents didn’t want to fight, so those bad guys stabbed them to death.”
The citizens exploded with anger and swore at Heinrich every time Sentress spoke one by one.
“So Yuno-hyung, please let me get revenge on those bad guys!! I really want to get revenge with my own hands on those guys who killed my parents, blinded my younger brother, and broke my heart!!”
As Sentress finished her testimony clearly with eyes full of anger, Juno once again showed Sentress’s testimony and Jennifer’s saved image save magic into the sky, proving Heinrich and Dietrich’s guilt.
“It’s a lie!! It’s all a fabricated lie!! And you said it was fun when I stabbed you!! You said it was fun too!!”
As Heinrich struggled and screamed at her, Centuria once again screamed in fear, and the citizens, who became even more angry, cried out in unison for her execution.
First, to protect Centuria, Juno ordered the soldiers standing next to Heinrich to be gagged.
“This proves all the crimes committed by defendants Heinrich and Dietrich.”
When Juno proved both of their crimes, the Count of Redburg looked serious and pondered before asking Juno.
“Then, what kind of sentence will His Highness the Third Prince seek for the criminal? Even as someone who has studied the law for a long time, I have no idea what kind of sentence should be imposed for this enormous crime…”
Looking at the troubled Count of Redburgh, Juno opened his mouth with a cold face.
“I request that the criminal Heinrich be sentenced to death as a human pig, and Dietrich be sentenced to death by execution.”
*Illustration of Centoria testifying in court (the dark background represents Centoria’s field of vision)
