Chapter 75: The Post-War Trial

"Demacia!"

After seeing the remorse quietly in Ah Jin's eyes at the last moment, Galen gave Ah Jin a gorgeous way to die with a good conscience.

And the degree of evil of Ah Jin has also reached an astonishing 100% in Galen's strong subjective judgment system of good and evil.

After all, in Galen's eyes, Ah Jin is not a loyal warrior, but the number two leader of a large local terrorist organization.

And Akin's death did not arouse anyone's sympathy and regret as Galen thought.

When the sword of justice fell on Ah Jin's head, Galen only saw the joy and pleasure on the faces of countless laborers, and only heard the cheers of the mountains and tsunamis that resounded through the heavens and the earth.

"Galen!"

"Galen!"

The laborers began to spontaneously call out the name, which they had previously felt so unfamiliar.

Wave after wave of sound, and finally converged into a shocking force.

The laborers were courageous, the pirates were terrified, and bystanders like Vivi were moved and excited.

And Galen, the knight of justice, began to sublimate from a name into a vision, a hope, and a symbol.

Galen enjoyed the much-anticipated glory, and aimed his blade at the remaining pirates—

It is said that there are remnants, but in fact, the number of these pirates is still in the thousands.

From the time of the Galendon Island, the pirates lost as many as five or six hundred people.

But only about a hundred of them were killed by Galen, and a large part of them died because of Click's suppression of the riot and accidental injuries caused by poison gas, and the largest number of deaths was-

A stampede during a panicked escape.

When chasing all the way, Galen felt a little sorry when he saw the corpses - these pirates were all killed because they were "frightened" by themselves, and the system didn't even count the heads in his account.

After killing Ah Jin, Galen's experience points were still a small gap from being upgraded to level seven.

So Galen didn't hesitate for long, turned around and raised his sword to charge at the group of pirates who were still outnumbered.

However, before Galen could take two steps out, the pirates in his eyes fell to their knees in unison;

At first, the pirates who were still standing in the front line and facing Galen knelt down and begged for mercy, but then it immediately developed into a kind of collective movement like a human wave, and the pirates' formation was a lot shorter from front to back.

The muffled sound of knees thumping on the ground was continuous, and there was an extraordinary sound of kneeling.

And this large-scale performance full of surrender did work, causing Galen to stop his attack.

Galen doesn't have a crush on these pirates—

The members of the Klick Pirates are voluntary employees, which means that they are aware of Klick's evil and still choose to act for the sake of profit.

But the Klick Pirates were five thousand in size:

Among the 5,000 men, there were those who guarded the warehouse, those who guarded the gates, and those who were in charge of patrolling and garrisoning...

These people may not even have seen blood.

They are all guilty, but they don't necessarily deserve to die.

In frontal combat, as an enemy, Galen could not hesitate to kill these pirate miscellaneous soldiers who were driven by profit to fight for Klick;

But when the other side completely put down resistance and surrendered, Galen could not do it in order to escalate and slaughter the prisoners for no apparent reason.

This is a key measure:

This scale may be inaccurate, but it cannot be without.

Without its restraints, man would become a monster that acts recklessly on its own.

Galen, who suddenly gained great power and became a "human master", has been warning himself in his heart not to be confused by power, and not to regard human life as a reckless harvest of experience points.

Galen didn't want to get a few more bad names like "Akainu II", "Death Knight", and "Thousand Slashes".

Looking at the pirates who were prostrate on the ground, Galen sighed slightly, and finally pressed the sharp tip of the big sword against the ground.

He glanced at the outnumbered pirates, and said aloud:

"Put all your weapons on the ground and gather them, then crouch down with your head in your hands!"

The pirates who were kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and the sheer size of their numbers made the sound of their soft exhalations louder.

The easy slashing of Klick and Akin, coupled with the visual awe-inspiring effects of the lightsaber, and Galen's reputation as a "Knight of Justice" in the newspapers, made Galen's orders seem very useful to those pirate miscellaneous.

The pirates obediently got up, threw their weapons on the ground and obediently returned to their positions, finally changing their positions to the least threatening squatting with their heads in their hands, as Galen had instructed.

Galen turned back to the laborers who had followed:

"Send men to collect weapons and guard the prisoners!"

Although the labor force was a sudden insurgent force, it naturally formed a simple command line-

The hero Galen is seen as the leader of the troops, and Nami, Wallace, and Tex, who sail alongside Galen on the island, are tacitly appointed to the insurrection team.

Some figures who were usually popular and prestigious among the workers also naturally became petty cadres with a certain command power during the riots.

Hearing Galen's order, the old man of Tex, who had been the mayor of the town, reacted immediately.

Without hesitation, he gathered the laborers who followed him, and went to collect the pirates' weapons as Galen had instructed.

And Nami soon entered her new role as the temporary commander of the force.

She volunteered to ask Galen to be the investigator, and took some of the laborers to the island to search for the belongings left behind by the Klick Pirates.

Because of the strong strength and absolute prestige of the leader Galen, this naturally formed rough personnel system shows a high level of efficiency:

Confiscation of weapons, custody of prisoners, seizure of property, search for remnants...

These tedious tasks are carried out in an orderly manner in the hands of a group of newly assembled laborers.

As a leader, Galen was idle, but bored in the square, surrounded by laborers, to watch over the large number of captives.

"I'm still a little bit of experience away from reaching level seven..."

"Why didn't you surrender a little later?"

Galen looked at the group of pirate soldiers who had surrendered in droves, and muttered to himself with some emotion.

Because he did not want to kill a person who committed a crime and did not die, Galen never killed the pirate miscellaneous soldiers who surrendered.

This has led to Galen's embarrassing situation of insufficient experience now.

"Wait..."

Galen pondered for a moment, but suddenly thought of a solution.

He stood in front of a group of pirates, and with the loudest voice, he clearly delivered the voice to the ears of every pirate miscellaneous soldier:

"Those who served as cadres in the Klick Pirates, give me the consciousness to stand up!"

In order to effectively command a large number of troops, the Klick Pirates also set up a large number of squad leader positions under the top two combat detachment captains.

As soon as Galen said this, the pirates suddenly fell silent.

Not a single person came forward.

Galen frowned, and said in a more stern tone:

"Give you three minutes!"

"If you don't want to stand up, the people next to you will help them stand up!"

"Otherwise..."

Galen left a frightening ellipsis in his ultimatum.

After a commotion, it took only a minute for the pirates to throw out dozens of panicked, unlucky ghosts at Galen.

As soon as they stood up, they trembled and knelt before Galen, and begged for mercy intermittently.

"Don't panic..."

Galen quietly lifted the broadsword, and said with a flat expression:

"I'm not the kind of person who kills indiscriminately."

"Calling you pirate cadres out is to give you a fair trial for your crimes."

Hearing the word 'trial', the dozens of pirate cadres all looked at each other and were at a loss.

The pirates didn't know how the knight would judge them, and how they would ensure justice.

Galen casually pulled out a pirate cadre, and then earnestly ordered:

"Stand up for me!"

"Yes, yes!"

The pirate scrambled to his feet, looking nervous as he waited for the judgment Galen had spoken.

After standing for two seconds, the pirate cried out in horror:

"Knight-sama!"

"Didn't you say you were going to judge me? What are you doing with your sword! ”

Galen picked up his broadsword:

"Don't worry, it won't hurt."

"Demacia!"