Chapter 54: The Last Suffering
"I'm guilty. Bobilis' voice pierced through space, and even the most marginal civilians heard his confession.
"I am Bobilis Lot, and I accept the verdict of the Imperial Congress's trial of me. ”
"I broke the oath I once made. ”
"I have violated the Pope and the King whom I once swore allegiance. ”
"I violated my chivalry, my chivalrous will. ”
"I plead guilty. ”
Bobilis slowly confessed, and his hoarse voice echoed throughout the trial room.
His misty eyes cleared little by little, and his confused gaze became resolute little by little.
The last voice "I confess." After that, the huge controversy in the entire trial hall reached its highest point in an instant, and more and more civilians who did not know the inside story stood up and cursed Bobilis, and even cursed the Rhodes family. Inside the courtroom, the voices grew louder and louder.
Bobilis knelt quietly on the stone platform, listening to the countless denunciations, invectives, doubts and spurnings coming from his ears. The mood was constantly low and painful, but it quickly became firm, and many people and many voices came to his mind.
Grandfather Dracula said to him: "Do not forget your knightly will." ”
Councilor Quinn said to him: "You are the next person who is about to be reborn, and the future of Junn, the future of the House of Lot, will open a new chapter from the moment you transform." ”
And when his father finally held him, he said to him: "Drink slowly, my child, you will always be the firstborn of the House of Lot." ”
Bobilis' eyes slowly moistened, tears crowded into his sockets, his vision became blurred, and for the first time he said to himself in his heart: "Bobilis, you are the eldest son of the House of Lot, and you will surely shoulder the glory of the House of Lot, and before that, you must pay for the stupidity you have committed, this is the last time you have violated your chivalry, the last time!"
Bobilis kept saying to himself over and over again in his heart, and the tears in his eyes finally couldn't help but slide down.
Princess Maria, who was in the first row of the judgment room, covered her mouth in disbelief the moment she saw Bobilis look up, her beautiful eyes suddenly turned red, and two crystal tears dripped from her eyelashes to the gap between her cheeks and fingers, and slowly flowed down the gap to the back of her white hand.
Maria's heart shook and she couldn't believe what she was seeing. But at this moment, she suddenly understood that the person she saw in the bazaar was Bobilis Lot, the knight who rescued the beaten boy and paid 11 gold coins to take the boy in.
Maria understood that she was not mistaken, he was indeed a knight, but she didn't expect that he would be the knight Bobilis who was to be judged, this answer was too difficult for her to accept, she didn't know what crime Bobilis had committed, he had to suffer so much, and he was deprived of his knightly name.
Maria recalls the "anecdote" that the maid Lucia told her yesterday in order to amuse her - that Bobilis, the knight of House Lot, was to be put on trial, and had been locked to the judgment stone for three days, and only his father, Congressman Wilder, had brought him water once. When he heard Lucia say at that time, he also said, "Then he must have committed an unpardonable sin to be like this." ”
Maria felt that she had never been so sad, after all, what unforgivable sin had been committed by the Knight of Bobilis, and that she had to suffer like this.
Maria couldn't believe it, she didn't want to believe it, she only believed the kind and benevolent knight Bobilis she saw. She had in her mind the trial of Ausvid Councillor Bobilis, "against the spirit of chivalry, against the will of knights, against selfishness, arrogance and hypocrisy, refusal to obey, falsification of the war situation, framing of comrades-in-arms, deceiving the Pope, deceiving the king!"
Tears grew more and more, drip by drop from her long eyelashes, and Maria's grief didn't know who to turn to.
Sitting not far from Maria, England looked at the grief-stricken Maria in the royal area, his heart ached, but he had no regrets about what he had done, as long as Maria could see it, she would throw away the gold coin and stop paying attention to anything about Bobilis.
England was well aware that Bobilis was one of the new generation of successors raised by the Rhodes family, and the most outstanding of them, and this was a very, very good opportunity to strike at the Rhodes family, and he would not allow himself to let it go. For this reason, his sister Maria, who is likely to have just given birth to the sprouts of love, can only be strangled by herself.
Thinking of this, England stopped looking at Maria, and slowly looked away, landing on the crowd of the Rhodes family on the other side of the courtroom.
The Lot family was present today, and the most important of them was Bobbilis's father, Wilder.
At this time, Wilder's heart was not as calm as he imagined, and the trial made Wilder's heart beat violently for a while, and finally when Bobilis confessed, Wilder even closed his eyes and didn't dare to look at Bobilis anymore, he was afraid that his emotions would get out of control.
After taking a few deep breaths, Wilder calmed down, slowly opened his eyes, and looked at Bobilis again.
After confirming Bobilis' confession, Osvid looked slowly at the Pope, who nodded slowly to him. Osvid nodded in return, and turned in the direction of the king and queen, and the king nodded slowly to him, and Osvid nodded in return. Finally, he looked at Bobilis and cleared his throat.
Osvid spoke slowly, "Bobilis Lot, who has accepted the judgment of the Empire, and immediately goes to the court of the Church to repent of his sins until the Pope and the King forgive him for his sins. ”
After Osvid's words, four heavily armed crusaders and two lightly armed swordsmen on the side of the judgment arena walked towards the judgment stone platform, while a carriage slowly retreated to the north-facing position of the infield of the judgment arena, and behind the carriage was a huge cross with many leather straps on the cross.
The two swordsmen stepped onto the stone platform, took out the key to the shackles from their waists, and removed the shackles from Bobilis, carefully holding Bobilis from falling as they unloaded. Soon the two of them removed all the shackles from Bobilis' body, set up Bobilis, one left and one right, slowly retreated from the judgment stone, and slowly came to the cross behind the carriage, and the two slowly placed him on the cross, and tied Bobilis with the leather strap on it.
After confirming that the tie was made, the cross was slowly erected little by little. Finally, the carriage drove away slowly.
Quinn, who was in the front row of the courtroom, watched quietly as Bobilis was crossed and the carriage slowly left. There is still a long way to go from the judgment to the court of the church, and on this road is the final ordeal of Bobilis.
Little by little, Quinn's gaze became feverish.