Early in the morning, Annan was woken up by a noise.

The deputy warden appeared outside the dungeon and informed Annan that he was ready to go to the courtroom.

"Are those councillors all old men?" Kadalina vented her frustration at being woken up, "Only an old man would have nothing to do at such an early age. ”

Annan sat up from his bed, sleepy-eyed into the "lavatory" to wash, and released the cleaning technique of the mage's robe to clean the dust and stains from his body.

The deputy warden and the guards left, leaving only the chief guard outside the dungeon.

Annan, who regained consciousness, asked him, "Do I have to pay attention to anything in a moment??" ”

"Don't worry, the city lord's preparations are foolproof, you will be able to go out soon."

Sounds like something is going to happen in the courtroom......

"I always want to know which MPs are on our side."

Annan needs to discern between well-intentioned questions and false traps.

The Captain of the Guard thought for a moment: "Councilor Hammer and Councilor Arbad and Councilman Lechter are on our side, Councilor Newman and Councilmember Brand may be unfavorable to you, and the other Councillors are neutral." ”

"You have to be cold and fierce." The ogre suddenly proposed.

"Why?" Annan asked back.

"Those human nobles will do everything they can to rip a piece of flesh off you, but as long as you are fiercer than them, they will shrink their heads like quails."

"Seconded." Kadalina was succinct and to the point.

The captain of the guard urged, "Are you ready?" We're leaving. ”

"Okay."

Remembering these councillors, Annan passed through the cell door opened by the chief of the guard, and stood outside the dungeon and turned to look at the crowd.

Steelein lay indifferently in his wet haystack, the orcs and ogres looked at him in two shadows, and Black Tierrez was torn over and over again - because he didn't have to buy food thousands of times more expensive, and because he was no longer entitled to tangle.

Annan said to the ogre: "I will find a way to get you out of trouble when I go out." ”

As for Kadalina, she wanted to go out even more easily than Annan.

Black Tierez, who didn't care about changing his face anymore, threw himself in front of the locked cell door at this time, and hurriedly pleaded: "Your Excellency Annan, for the sake of 2,700 gold coins, please take me out as well......"

"Is it only 2700 gold coins......"

The gold coins, which were about to exceed the ten years of tax revenue in Pinglin Town, did not satisfy Annan.

Black Tierrez hurriedly changed his words and said: "If you can let me out, it's 4,000 gold coins to ......"

"That's still it, 1300 gold coins is not worth the favor I owe."

"Nope! No...... It's 4000 gold coins, I was wrong. Black Tierrez sneered: "5,000 gold coins is right, and there's more!" My estate has a lot of beautiful slaves that have not yet been sold, you can choose from whatever you want......"

"Well, I can take you out of the dungeon."

Annan asked the captain of the guard to wait for a while, and said to the ogre, "Ogre, please prepare a pen and paper for our Mr. Black Tierrez." ”

Black Tierez hesitated, and asked cautiously, "Mr. King of the North, should we wait until we get out before ......?"

"Then I'll write 3,200 gold coins."

"No, no, no...... 5000 gold. ”

Black Tierez hurriedly wrote the IOU, printed it with a potent handprint, and asked the ogre to take it with a painful face.

"On the bright side, you only need the money of a few roast chickens to get out of trouble." Steelin sprinkled a pinch of salt on the wound.

Annan got the IOU and walked out with the captain of the guard in a much happier mood.

This trip to the dungeon is obviously not entirely bad......

Whoa-whoa-whoa

In the dark hallway ahead, several guards escorted a criminal, and the sound of clash with chains came from far and near.

Annan glanced at it out of curiosity, and provoked the prisoner's fierce curse: "What the are you looking at? ”

"You're okay too."

Annan greeted with a smile, which stunned the unkempt female prisoner, who stopped and stared at Annan in a daze, and was pushed by the guards and disappeared into the depths of the dungeon with the sound of chains.

"King of the North......"

The captain of the guard handed Annan a gray cloth.

Annan walked up the ladder and stepped onto the steps.

……

The circular courtroom sprinkled with the morning light was solemn and solemn.

As the silhouette covered in gray cloth walked into the courtroom, the whispering courtroom returned to silence.

Annan removed the gray cloth, the slightly harsh sunlight made his eyes narrow slightly, and then he straightened his waist.

At this moment, all the members of the courtroom that clearly surrounded the prisoner's bench were taller than Annan at the bottom. But Annan seemed to be looking down at them, and the parliamentarians with their heads bowed needed to look up at the figure.

Annan quietly looked around at the parliamentarians above, feeling some appreciation, some hostility.

The trial begins.

Annan followed the instructions of the captain of the guard, lowered his eyes and remained silent. Listen quietly as they lay out evidence of their identities.

First, for example, the magic image, where the scavenger appears to testify that Levi is a corrupter.

Then the young man who was next to the mayor during the banquet in Hirabayashi said that Levi was not like this, and that the people of Olmedo had brought fire ravens that only the Reeves family could drive.

Next, they brought ogres and orcs. The councillors were in an uproar and covered their noses and frowned, even though they couldn't smell their stench from a distance.

And they were forced to bathe twice a day by Kadalina.

No accident, the ogre and the orcs pointed at the deputy warden, saying that he asked them to falsely accuse Annan, and the deputy warden sat down on the ground in fright—

"An ogre and an orc can also be a witness?" A thin-cheeked councillor sneered, "And we all know that the king of the north has a unique love for aliens, which stems from his warlock bloodline. Perhaps, this ogre and orc has become the king of the north. ”

Annan looked at the thin parliamentarian and was no longer silent: "What's your name?" ”

"It's not about the trial."

"But it's off when I go out."

The councillor kept his mouth shut.

Olmedo, who was in the auditorium, smiled.

Ogres, orcs, and vice-wardens were taken out of the courtroom, and they didn't give up bringing Black Tierrez. Not knowing what he was promised, Black Tierrez said: Ogre and orcs were bought by Annan, and once plotted to pretend to be the king of the north-

"Mr. Presiding Judge."

Annan took out the note with Black Tierez's handprint, "This is Black Tierez's IOU." I think he's deliberately framing his refusal to repay his debts. ”

"You legislators may not know that Black Tierez was taken into a dungeon for transporting gold mines without permission......"

The remarks made the lawmakers frown.

Alchemy must be in the hands of the king and the gods, is the consensus of all nobles and cultists. Black Tiérrez's actions are naturally on their opposite side.

The desperate Black Titierrez had his testimony dismissed.

Finally, Olmedo took the witness stand to close the trial:

"A gang of nezumi lure us into framing the King of the North, just as they did when they attacked the convoy."

The presiding judge, who has always listened, announced the outcome of the trial at this moment:

"The available evidence is not sufficient to support that His Excellency Annan Reeves is not the King of the North, nor is it sufficient to conclude that the King of the North committed crimes in Breeze. So—"

"Annan Reeves, not guilty."

(End of chapter)