Things went just as John had predicted. The Tocco family filed a complaint with the Supreme Court of Constantinople and took direct aim at Tarianos Tadivi.

However, the Toko family's wording in the complaint is quite intriguing. Since no one has found Angelo Alfonso Tocco's body so far, the words used in the description of Angelo are not murdered, but simply missing. But in the eyes of the vast majority of people, the so-called disappearance is merely a change made by the Supreme Court to ensure the rigor of the entire case. Angelo has been killed, and it is an engraved impression in most people's minds.

Of course, only a small percentage of people can understand the hidden message of this complaint. The sword hung not only over the head of Tarianos, but also over the heads of the entire upper echelons.

After Geoffrey's return to Epirus, the Supreme Court returned to the hands of the Empire's former Supreme Minister of Justice, Osipis Agripalos. In the short period of nearly a month since his repudiation by Constantine XI, the aged Oscipis has shown astonishing means to remove the influence of the Council of the Supreme Court. Oscipis was not strictly royalist, and as an old aristocracy, his position was more akin to that of Tocó or Theodoro Agripalos. As a hereditary count of the family, and the only politician currently active in the political arena of the Agrippalos family, Oscipis certainly has his own arrogance.

The common denominator of the traditional aristocracy was the desire to ensure the independence of their families. Even if they were currently loyal to the royal family of Palaio, no one wanted to be loyal in the form of vassals. For example, if they control a county, they will ensure that the administrative power of the entire county is in the hands of their own family.

And as a bureaucrat, the same is true. Oscipis knew quite well what the royal family of Palaiologos needed. Now that the Supreme Court has been reduced to a tool for the royal family to inform the entire empire, it is only natural that Osipis will push the boat along the river in order to gain a chance to survive in the current environment of the Empire's indiscriminate cleansing of the Japanese aristocracy.

After all, Latius, Komnenos, Ducasse-Komnenos and soon Toko. Families who often choose to cooperate with the royal family end up living quite nourishingly.

"Tarianos, the Toco family's accusations should be clear......"

After reading the Toko family's complaint to the attendants, Oscipis turned his gaze to the restrained Tarianos. Of course, there was not enough evidence to convict Tarianos, and with his own aristocratic status, he would not be bound up and imprisoned in the Supreme Court until the Supreme Court reached its final verdict.

"Mr. Osipis, I have stated it more than once. Whether General Angelo is assassinated or not, whether he lives or dies now, has nothing to do with me. ”

"Of course...... Of course...... We don't expect you to be able to tell you what you've done in the Supreme Court. The most important thing now, though, is that no one in the entire empire can have a motive to assassinate Mr. Angelo except you. Mr. Angelo's death, no matter how you interpret it, you are the most direct beneficiary. Osipis said quietly, "Mr. Angelo Alfonso Toco has been recommended by General Publius to become your and your family's rival for the Commander of the Holy See. Previously, it was impossible for the Toko family to be in conflict with other families. ”

"Mr. Osipis, you are the most respected Minister of Law in the entire Empire, would you judge whether a person is guilty or not by this little information? Besides, I am not going to kill my own colleagues just because I am the commander of the Holy See. Tarianos stood in the center of the courtroom, glaring at Oscipis.

In just a sentence or two, Osipis almost said that the people of Tarianos had betrayed their relatives. I am afraid that in the entire court, only Tarianos himself is left who believes in the complete innocence of the Tadivi family.

After he realized that he had been framed, he could hardly think of any countermeasures.

From Angelo's assassination to his house arrest in the Supreme Court, the entire process did not take more than 24 hours. And the spread of the entire public opinion is even faster than everyone imagined.

There is no doubt that in the eyes of Tarianos, there must have been a behind-the-scenes driver behind the whole affair. But if Angelo directed and acted in order to discredit the Tadivi family, it is impossible for the Toco family to have such great energy to make the entire empire and the entire Supreme Court become a gun in his hands.

"Your words are quite beautiful, but at the moment, no one can prove your absolute innocence."

"Mr. Osipis, that night, the night of Mr. Angelo's alleged assassination, I had just come out of the Senate Hall, and it was impossible for me to assassinate Angelo!"

"No, no, no...... No one would think that Tarianos would be stupid enough to do it yourself. The only trace left was the body of Mr. Angelou's squire that had not been disposed of. He was pierced through the back with a bow and arrow. An arrow strikes right in the heart. From what we know in the Holy See, this bow and arrow should not be your forte. Would you choose such a high-risk assassination? ”

"Doesn't that mean that I wasn't directly involved in the whole assassination, at least?"

Oscipis' face was serious, but he was quite satisfied with Tarianos' reaction.

In keeping with the royal speculation, in order to prove his innocence and to avoid being convicted outright, Tarianos would defend every complaint brought by the Supreme Court.

Osipis's goal today is not to expose the crimes of Tarianos to the public, but to completely destroy the image of the Tadives in front of the public and the new aristocracy. In other words, everything Oscipis said now was just speculation, but in order to wipe away the dirty water that had been splashed on his body, Tarianos could only keep arguing, and the more he argued, the more suspicions of his crimes only increased.

It is true that the Supreme Court was not able to produce any evidence to make charges against Tarianos, but Tarianos was likewise unable to prove his innocence.

In the end, whether Tarianos was innocent or not, at the top of the hierarchy, the Tadivi family and some of his supporters were bound to defect from the congregation. This must have served the purpose of the royal family. In the end, the "pitiful" Angelo stood up and nailed the last nail, and he could pronounce the decline of the Tadivi family.