On May 3, in the execution ground of the headquarters of the Locke Imperial Guard.

Today, almost everyone in the Imperial Capital, except for the police officers on duty, is gathered here, because, as early as a day ago, they had received a mandatory order from Commissioner Gus El to go to the headquarters execution site to hear the sentence of the former Chief Executive, Bernie.

It was the hot season in the imperial capital in May, it was only nine o'clock in the morning, and the fiery sun was already high, and the scorching sun made all the guards sweat, but they did not dare to move half a step.

His Majesty the Emperor had previously protested against the decision of most of the court's senior judges, and even alarmed the Cabinet to convene a special meeting for the occasion.

But in the end, the place where the verdict was pronounced was here.

Once again, the officials of the empire saw the stubbornness of the current emperor.

This means that Bernie is likely to be executed immediately after being convicted of the crime.

Moreover, there is a high chance that he will be hanged! Because Bernie's crime has changed from embezzlement to the felony of assassinating a high-ranking official of the empire after a group of people secretly plotted it.

Following a high-level meeting of the Security Service on the 27th of last month, Bernie was transferred to the court that evening.

As Bernie's temporary supporters, the court's senior judges wanted to drag the case out for a while until they found reasons and evidence to exonerate him.

However, this action of the judges was immediately held accountable by His Majesty the Emperor and summoned by the Cabinet. Even within the court, there are those who do not want to hear the case as soon as possible.

It was only at this time that the senior judges in the court, who hailed themselves as the elite of the human race, realized what was all going on.

In the end, Bernie's embezzlement case was scheduled to be heard on the morning of the 29th, and on the afternoon of the same day, the cases of Marquis Fett and Marquis Eden, the former supreme commander of the Imperial Military Department, were also tried one after another.

On the morning of the 30th, the evidence and witnesses that continued to appear, and the plot of some people, Bernie's case and the case of the Marquis of Fitt were merged into one case, and the trial was reopened on the afternoon of May 1.

At the final hearing, His Majesty the Emperor sent his chief of guard, Baron Campu, to attend as an envoy.

On the morning of May 1, less than an hour after the trial began, Bernie pleaded in public in court to all the charges found by the Lower Guards, including the charge of participating in the planning of the assassination of Baron Gordon Ayre, in front of evidence and witnesses from all sides.

Also pleading guilty were the Marquis of Fett and the Marquis of Eden, who were tried in the same court.

The trial lasted an entire day, something rarely seen since the establishment of the Imperial Court, the last time it was encountered by the higher-ups of the Legion of Divine Radiance two hundred years ago.

Everything settled on the night of May 1st...

The month-long assassination of the vice-minister of the military department was solved.

As for the loopholes in the case?

No one cares about this at all.

For the imprisonment and trial of Marquis Fett, Marquis Eden and Bernie, the nobles sighed at the same time, but they were more thinking about their own losses after the fall of Marquis Fett's commercial kingdom.

The officials of the military department even secretly rejoiced, because all of a sudden, there were two more seats for the highest commander of the military department, and one was even a member of the cabinet.

As for Bernie, this selfless agent of the Guard, the nobles were even full of joy about his imprisonment, after all, the nobles had more or less violated some of the laws of the Empire, that is, many of them had been punished by Bernie.

On the execution table, Bernie was dressed in prison uniform, his hands and feet were rigidly bound by special leather ropes, and his skin was carved with a circle that suppressed his power, shining pale cyan in the sunlight. Rao was like this, and the heavily armed spear-wielding guards behind him were still staring at him nervously, for fear of some accidents.

At 9:50 a.m., just before Bernie's sentence was to be pronounced, Pedi appeared next to Xingtai in the uniform of a formal security officer, standing quietly in the sun, standing with the ordinary guards.

His presence attracted a lot of attention, because the top of the security service had all kinds of excuses for not coming, except for Gus El's attendance.

Gus El on the high platform asked his new assistant to invite Pedi to come up, but Pedi decisively refused.

In the face of Pedi's refusal, Gusel not only did not get angry, but also nodded and smiled generously at Pedi. Pedi was fed up with Gus El's bureaucracy, but could only respond.

The court sent a young judge who had just joined the company, and all judges of high status avoided the task of sentencing like a plague.

The young judge was visibly nervous, and his voice trembled visibly as he pronounced the verdict.

“...... In accordance with the provisions of the Imperial Constitution and the warrant of His Majesty the Emperor, Bernie was sentenced to be hanged and executed immediately, and his family was exiled to the border. ”

After the young judge had finished reading the sentence tremblingly, he held the verdict and His Majesty's warrant high, motioned for the guards in the execution ground to look at it, and his finger deliberately pointed to the seal of the court and the signature of His Majesty the Emperor, to prove the legitimacy and authority of the verdict.

The guards all watched indifferently, and there was no sound in the open space of hundreds of people except the sound of breathing.

Next, it's time to execute Bernie.

Gus El was going to do it himself, and he stood straight in front of the bound Bernie in the director's uniform, and asked condescendingly, "Any last words?"

Bernie's spirits were sluggish, and his lowered eyelids lifted slightly after hearing Gus El's question, but the harsh light caused him to lower his eyelids again.

Pedi saw Bernie's eyes, which were long gone, and what he saw at the moment was the lonely eyes of an old man in his twilight.

"The Goddess will bless me, and you will fall into Hell. Eventually, Bernie whispered in a near-inaudible voice.

As he spoke, the guard next to him had already wrapped a rope around his neck at Gusel's signal.

Hearing this, Gus El smiled faintly, "I hope your last words will come true." With that, he took a small axe from the guard next to him.

"Click!" the small axe cut at the rope tied to the stake next to it.

"Bang bang!" the wooden stake under Bernie's feet flew out, his body instantly suspended in the air, and when death came, his eyes finally showed a trace of blood again, but this was the body's most instinctive struggle for death to come.

Pedi sighed to himself, he was about to leave, not wanting to look any further.

"Sir Pedy. Gus El's assistant came running to stop him again, "The commissioner would like you to attend the evening celebration." ”

The celebration banquet he said was naturally to celebrate the cracking of the case.

Hearing this, Pei Di glanced at Gus El on the high platform and said lightly: "I will go through the handover procedures this afternoon, and soon, I will no longer be an agent of the security department, so it is your celebration banquet, not mine." ”

He refused very simply.