Chapter 157

Countess Nerus exclaimed as she looked at me fearlessly.

For the first time, I remembered that the movement scrolls were dropped from dungeons.

In the worst cases, the location of the drop was random.

It’s not the game system that lets you out of the battle, and it’s ridiculous that it’s an item, and the odds of even getting it are horrendous.

The players vented their exasperation, stating that they could feel the production team’s earnest desire to somehow increase the difficulty of the game.

So much so that I could not easily imagine a movement scroll, since I had no intention of getting it in the first place. It was an item that I had never seen before even pulling out my nose in the first and second rounds…

I sighed and clicked my tongue.

‘After all, he is the protagonist. He’s lucky, too. He just happened to get it…’

Anyway, Countess Nerus’ answered my question, so my business was done. I took a step back and nodded.

The witness had come forward, and Countess Nerus had also made an appearance of acknowledgment, so what more could be asked?

Soon Countess Nerus was sentenced.

The scheduled death penalty.

However, I was able to prevent the destruction of the Nerus family except those involved in this case, because I defended that it was a great loss ahead of the battle of the Demon King if all of them were named in that way.

“You pity them!”

Countess Nerus shouted angrily, but I ignored her gasps without hearing her.

Countess Nerus went wild. But it was useless. She was held by my guards and forced to be taken to prison.

On the way to be dragged out of the court, her eyes met those of Tragula, who had come to stand trial.

Countess Nerus’ lips twisted. As if she had given up everything, she burst into laughter and cried out to Tragula.

“Are you feeling better, Tragula? It must be cool! The miserable downfall of the person who was holding your leash!”

The presiding judge became quiet as if she had poured cold water. Only then did those who remembered that Tragula was Countess Nerus’ adopted son began to murmur.

“I thought Countess Nerus had adopted Tragula only to support the possible expeditionary members… From what Countess Nerus is saying, it seems that there is a deep connection between them.”

“No matter how much the relationship was broken, Countess Nerus rebelled against the Black Knights… Will the Black Knight forgive Tragula?”

Tragula listened calmly to her abusive language and speculation of the people around her, staring at Countess Nerus in silence.

In the noisy situation of the presiding judge, the guards rushed to cover her mouth.

But Tragula held up a hand to restrain them. Countess Nerus could have exposed his shameful part, but he did not seem to care at all.

Countess Nerus snickered and accused Tragula of such a thing.

“You sold your pride for your family’s long-cherished desire! 100 years! For the long-cherished desire of 100 years!”

Then she immediately bent at the waist and started laughing. Unable to see her, the Kingsguard dragged her out of the courthouse.

“We are a thousand years. A thousand years!”

Countess Nerus laughed like a madman and walked away.

The unidentified persistent malice swirled alone for a long time, then disappeared faintly without swallowing anything.

***

Countess Nerus was taken away, and now it was Pedica’s turn. The emperor looked at Pedica in the witness box and said,

“Now I will proceed with the trial of the mental wizard.”

“I would like to make one more request to the Emperor.”

I had already made a request once in connection with the life of Countess Nerus. When I stepped forward again, a look of wonder came over the emperor’s face.

“What is it? Tell me, Vice Commander Jun Karentia.”

The emperor tried to accommodate me only because I was the victim in this matter. There must be a sense of Meyer, who is sitting in the corner of the presiding judge.

He was reluctant to mention my title, but he had no choice but to refer to me as Vice Commander Jun Karentia.

It was an awkwardly distancing designation, considering that others often refer to me by titles at times, but I am one hundred percent sympathetic to the sentiment of not wanting to call me a tyrant.

Perhaps he must have felt some inner relief at the fact that he did not have to have my title conferring ceremony.

I passed on the dilemma of the emperor’s title, pretending to be unaware of it.

“I have put a leash on Pedica, I beg your pardon for his judgment.”

“Leash?”

“He, too, was a victim of brainwashing magic, driven by the adulterous intentions of Countess Nerus. However, I put a prohibition on him just because the possibility of disrupting society with mental-based magic makes people uneasy.”

“What kind of prohibition is it?”

“Now he can’t use mental magic unless it’s my command.”

As soon as I dropped my words, the presiding judge once again made a fuss.

Several nobles whispered in secret, then one rose to his feet and stood up.

It was Marquis Conditio, who had once been brainwashed by Countess Nerus.

“That means that Vice Commander Jun Karentia may use mental magic to brainwash others! It’s dangerous!”

“Why would I?”

I asked back in wonder.

I asked too calmly, and Marquis Conditio was at a loss for words.

I personally counted the possibilities one by one.

“The Black Knights don’t work with brainwashing. Therefore, it is not possible to use the mental wizard for political purposes within the Black Knights. Only expedition members and non-expedition members, who are at the most at a very low level, can be brainwashed. What am I going to do by brainwashing them?”

“That’s…”

When asked so openly, Marquis Conditio murmured his words.

The battle of the Demon King is right under our noses and the addition of power will now be on the move.

Once the Demon King battle is over, Meyer will be Emperor and I will be Grand Duke.

My office and power alone should solve most of the problems, so is there anything to gain by thinking carefully about low-level people or non-expedition members?

I asked jokingly.

“Are you afraid I’ll brainwash all the handsome men of the Empire and get them to listen to me?”

“That’s ridiculous!”

Meyer, who had been fulfilling his duty only by attending, cried hastily with a white face. Even if he was in a hurry, he would have been less urgent and desperate than that.

Meyer’s loud cry caused everyone in the courtroom to stare at him in dismay. The Emperor was so startled that he slipped on the throne for a moment.

Oh, really. Don’t make it obvious like this…

I tried to suppress my desire to cover my face with my palm in misery. In any case, I had to deal with this situation.

“…Well, I can’t do what I want to do because His Excellency says it’s ridiculous. If you have any other concerns, please let me know.”

“…”

I looked around. They were speechless by Meyer’s spirit, and they said nothing.

It’s an opportunity. I looked back at the emperor and urged him.

“I understand that there is no particular matter. Your Majesty, then please.”

“…do as you wish.”

The emperor nodded vaguely.

The same was true of the pardoned Pedica, who was distracted.

He had a foolish look on his face, and it was Meyer who had a more foolish look on his face.

Meyer frowned and showed his displeasure regardless of the atmosphere around him.

There was no way that the emperor near Meyer could not feel the strange atmosphere.

The emperor, under silent pressure, cried hastily.

“This is the end of this trial!”

Bang, bang, bang. The trial was closed with the sound of the judge’s clear gavel.

In any case, the purpose was achieved by pardoning Pedica in a slippery way like jumping through a hole in a wall. I smiled with satisfaction.

***

“Wait, Jun!”

When the court was declared closed, I tried to disappear among the people leaving the courthouse as if on the ebb tide, but Meyer, who had approached me at some point, held me back.

“Let’s talk a little.”

Even among the bottleneck phenomena that pinched in, there was no miracle of Moses behind the path that Meyer took. I sighed low as I wondered how he had caught up.

If I caught up with him again like this…

I could feel the glancing gazes around me. It could not be an illusion that the stagnation of the fluid population around me was intentional.

I couldn’t stay here like this forever and refuse Meyer’s proposal, so I nodded.

“Hm… Alright.”

It was obvious what we were going to talk about anyway.

However, even after he took me to his drawing-room, he hesitated for a while and his mouth trembled.

I felt frustrated by his reluctance to speak, and, unable to resist, I said one word to him.

“Don’t write a novel in your head, just say it. I won’t be offended.”

“… You didn’t really save that mental wizard for that purpose, did you?”

I knew this would happen.

I opened up about Meyer’s specific intentions that he tried not to say.

“What purpose? Gathering handsome guys and making them listen to me?”

It was just a joke, but Meyer’s face turned red.

He looked as if he would faint if I were with another man in the future.

I added with a smirk.

“Then I wouldn’t have to keep the mental wizard alive. If I come out after defeating the Demon King, they will stand before me without having to brainwash them.”

“…”

Meyer’s face suddenly became serious.