"The trial is taking place in the afternoon, why are you here so early?" One of the gray-robed guards said kindly to the black-clad guards, "Don't stand at the door of the Red Keep, we still have to bother to keep an eye on you." The sun is so shining, everyone is tired, go to the side to find a place to eat and come again!"

"We're done eating. Nina replied, but reacted quickly, "But Iger is definitely not!" ”

A bunch of people accompanied Egger, who was acquitted, to the nearest restaurant to the Red Fort, ordered a few good dishes, and gave him a "clean wash".

A few people watched, one person ate, and the scene was a little weird. Fortunately, all of them were Eiger's subordinates except for Sir Elisha, so there was nothing polite to be polite. Drinking wine and eating meat, Egger asked casually: "In the two days that I have been away, the industry has been running up and down...... Nothing went wrong. ”

"Your Excellency, you have already greeted me, so the business continues to operate normally, but you have cooperated with Prime Minister Eddard's investigation of Genos Slynt and Tyrion Lannister. Nina sat down at the table and poured him a drink obediently and diligently, admiring and expressing the joy of seeing him again: "Although you have been away for a longer time than we have said, we have finally held back and have not thought of rescuing you. ”

"Well done. "Cleansing the Lannister's Landing of the forces, Eddard's control is almost overwhelming, and trying to get rid of himself in this situation will not only not lead to results, but may also make a mess of things once Ed is disgusted. Egger initially used Nina as a helper and secretary, but as he discovered that the clever girl never messed up anything she commanded, he began to trust her more and more: "Sir Elisha, they are witnesses in court, so what about you? As far as I know, you and Slint are old acquaintances." ”

"It's an old acquaintance, that's why I want to come and see that he is 'against you'...... Down. Alyssa replied angrily, "As a member of the Thorne family, a knight who has been anointed with holy oil, I am qualified to enter the Red Keep to observe this trial, and I do not need your consent. ”

"Yes, yes, I am indeed qualified, but I, the logistics officer, should not meddle with the head of Castle Black. Iger smiled, "But there is one thing I need to correct, Slint is not against me, but against the interests of 'us' - the Night's Watch industry and the Legion. ”

Alyssa snorted and turned her head away, as if disapproving of Egger's wordplay.

If you don't speculate for more than half a sentence, the relationship between the two when they were in Castle Black was not very good, and they will not release their suspicions just because they changed places. So, there was no more communication in the following time, and Egg, who had eaten a few days in prison, did have a little light in his mouth, gobbled up his lunch, sat and rested for a few minutes, and decided not to go home, and with Nina and Geros, he went to see the trial of his own enemy first.

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When returning to the Red Keep after leaving for two hours, the gates finally began to open to those involved in the trial.

As the commander of the former capital garrison, Genos Slint, a man known to most of the inhabitants of King's Landing, is qualified to be tried by the Minister of Justice in the Red Keep. In order to demonstrate the dignity of the law and the impartiality of the trial, it is customary for such judicial activities to allow and even encourage the participation of representatives of civilians with status and status, as well as invited representatives.

Egger was not of noble origin, and was not given any knighthood or invitation from the Minister of Justice, so it was reasonable that he would not be able to participate in the trial...... But in the days he was imprisoned, public opinion in King's Landing had quietly changed: he was still the famous "Alien Slayer", but this nickname had gradually begun to take on a sense of respect from the arrival of ghouls in the city and the spread of rumors that the "Boss of the Night's Watch Industry had brought down the commander of the garrison".

Once, the "Night's Watchman's Fantastic Adventure" made him a famous braggart and big talker in the Seven Kingdoms, and the only real "Great War Stranger" paragraph in the whole story was taken out by countless people as a handle and evidence of false content. But as Eddard Stark summoned the nobles and celebrities in King's Landing to see the ghoul in its true form, the wind changed a hundred and eighty degrees.

A night watchman who crossed the Sunset Sea to Westeros, slain the Wraiths, and was a man of astonishing martial arts and a nimble mind. In the days that Egger was honestly in prison, he became a legend in the eyes of countless King's Landing and the residents of the King's Realm without even knowing it.

With the accumulation of something called "prestige" that is difficult to measure in numbers, he has gone from an ordinary night watchman to an unusual big man in the eyes of ordinary Stark guards and garrison soldiers. When he, dressed in black, entered with several witnesses from the Night's Watch with his head held high through the gates of the Red Keep, the guards who knew him well did not notice anything wrong and let him in without hindrance or inquiry.

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Of course, the Red Fort can enter, and they are not even qualified to approach the Meg Tower of the Fort in the Fort, the place where the king lives and recuperates. Under the supervision of a large number of guards arranged by Ed, the observers and witnesses who entered the Red Keep had no chance to run around, and could only follow a fixed route and were ushered into the throne room, the venue where the trial was held.

Due to the terrain of the high hills of Aegon, the Red Keep is not large, and there is no room for special construction or a site for judicial activities, so the court is usually represented by the throne room, which is why the trial is usually held in the afternoon - in the morning, Ed will use this place to go to court to receive ministers and petitioners on behalf of the king, and at noon, the attendants and subordinates will hurry up to move tables and chairs, plaintiffs, witness seats and other facilities and utensils, and everything will be arranged before the trial can be held.

Walking into the throne room, which had been converted into a makeshift courtroom, Egger's resentment against Ed for nearly a week immediately dissipated - this is the real trial, compared to this, the "trial" in the morning that called himself to the prime minister's office, questioned and released on the spot after a few words, was as gentle as his own human play...... No matter how much Ed puts on a dead face and thinks he is fair and strict, he is a gentle man at heart, and in fact the biggest backer of the Night's Watch, favoring and protecting the interests of the Night's Watch and its industry—nothing has changed before or after this incident.

Soon, Iger realized that he had entered this legendary hall for the first time. Disappointingly, however, he did not see the legendary throne made of dragon flame, and since both the king and the prime minister had decided not to preside over the trial, and the Minister of Justice was not qualified to sit on the Iron Throne, the person who set up the venue covered it with a curtain to avoid visual embarrassment, and instead used a large wooden chair in front of it as the judge's seat.

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There are many people who have offended Genos Slint, but unfortunately there are few big people among them, and there are thousands of civilians who hate him so much that they want to see him lose their heads unfortunately, but unfortunately most of them are not qualified to enter the Red Keep. People from all walks of life stepped into the throne room one after another, but in the end, only a little more than half of the auditorium was filled, which was completely incomparable to the pomp and capacity of the trial of Tyrion in the original plot.

After a while, Arya, who was in the fun, also staggered in through the door, and when she saw Egg, she shook her head angrily and sat far away on the other side of the spectator seat.

"What's wrong with Miss Stark?" Nina witnessed the scene as well, and it was a little strange - with Arya's temperament, she shouldn't have laughed and stuck to it when she saw Egg.

"It's nothing, the little girl is in a mood. Egg told Arya about Arya's desire to sneak out of the Red Keep to continue her swordsmanship lessons, and then remembered that the little she-wolf was actually his only source of information in the Red Keep, and that if the two of them had a stalemate, they would never communicate with each other...... After all, it was himself who suffered: "Nina, you go over there to coax her, remember, there is a chance to help me ask how the king's injuries are, and when the battle will officially start." ”

"Hmm. Nina nodded, stood up and walked over to Arya, quickly sitting down beside the girl, smiling and talking to her.

With the judge of the trial, the Minister of Justice, Ranley Baratheon, appeared in the limelight, and Iger realized that he had sent Nina to investigate Robert's injuries - if the king were to die or die, it would be impossible for Baratheon, who was second in line of succession, to stay in King's Landing in peace, and would definitely return to the stormland to prepare for the throne.

But if Robert is really okay, why should the Lannisters go to war with the Iron Throne?

While thinking about it, Lan Li loudly ordered the prisoner to be brought into the field, and the trial finally began.

......

Genos Slint was led into the throne room by two golden robes.

Compared with the last encounter a week ago, the middle-aged man who was brought into the arena at this moment seemed to be twenty years old. The original sturdy figure had lost a lot of weight, the remaining hair on the top of the head that had been half bald had almost fallen clean, and the remaining rubs had turned gray, and he was depressed, and he was helped to the dock by two soldiers in the midst of the head-to-ear discussions in the spectators, and it seemed that it was very difficult to even stand still.

"Genos Slint, son of the butcher. Lan Li was sitting on the high platform in front of the throne hall and on the large wooden chair in front of the cloth-covered iron throne, and his solemn and luxurious clothes made him look majestic: "You have been charged with murder by hire, abuse of power, embezzlement and bribery, extortion, picking quarrels and provoking trouble, and leaking important military information, do you admit it?"

Slint lay on his stomach in the dock, struggled to straighten up, raised his head, gritted his teeth, and said, "I deny it! It's all the queen and her henchmen...... and the false accusations of some people with ulterior motives!"

The former commander of the garrison denied all the accusations as Igger, but could he, like the chief logistics officer, resist strictness and go home for the New Year?

Lan Li's expression remained unchanged at all, and he looked at the guards on the side: "Summoning the first witness!"

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