Funina sat on pins and needles.

She sat on the high platform as usual, looking out boredly at the performance at the opera house, and waiting for it to be over—as had been the case for many years, when the Velette pronounced the final verdict of the cardinal, and the people cheered for the wise Supreme Inquisitor, the god was a mascot sitting on the stage, looking eternally dazed, as if not paying attention to the outcome of the verdict before him.

But something has changed.

No one had said anything, but the atmosphere of the entire Opéra d'Opéra had changed.

"What happened?"

After a while, she asked timidly.

She looked at Navillette first, but the ancient dragon king only looked down at Marcelle without saying a word, and did not mean to explain.

So Funnina turned to look at Rama.

"Something happened that was long overdue." Rama's smile was not bad, it could even be called gentle, "Something that mortals should know." ”

"What did you do?" Funnina asked subconsciously.

"Why does it have to be me? You think it's a bad thing, but the first thing you say is to ask me what I did? Rama raised an eyebrow and said, "Lady Funina, your prejudice against me is too deep and heavy. ”

Funina pursed her lips and plucked up her courage, "I don't think so, before you, everything was normal in Fontaine. ”

Refuting Rama is something that doesn't require much courage.

Funina knew who was standing behind her, and she knew that Rama was actually good at profit, and she wouldn't be angry at all because of someone's question or two. Including the fact that he deliberately forced some Fontaines to choose to oppose the gods, also to achieve his own goals, and not really wanted to tell the Fontaines that he was their father.

He is not such a boring God.

But before denying Rama's claims, Funinga was ready to take courage.

"That's the problem, noble lady." Rama quipped, "You take things that are precious as commonplace, and now I'm reminding them how expensive they really are." ”

"When they don't know anything, they have nothing to fear."

"But once they know the value of the treasure in their hands, they will be afraid and cautious, fearing that they will accidentally break such a treasure."

"Such a thing, we can simply call it, awe."

Funina looked at Navillette, the old dragon's face was not sad or happy, his eyes were fixed on Marcelle, but his mind was already lost.

"By awe, do you mean that mortals do not mean that Villette?" Funina shook her head, "That's not right, aren't they in awe of that Villette enough?" ”

Tree monument erection? Word of mouth?

This is not surprising in Fontaine, where people have shown their respect for Naviette in many ways.

"No, no, no, you're mistaken." Rama whispered, "It's just respect, it's just the respect that people should have for a good person who has been working for a long time, who has done a good job, and who has brought many kinds of help and shelter to the people." ”

"He has done so much to a country and its people, and it is only natural that people respect Him."

"But it's not awe, Lady Funina."

How can this be considered awe? They were not afraid of Navillette's wrath, there were still people who dared to do something that displeased Navelette, whose power was never revealed, and the victims preferred to compromise with the criminals rather than trust the Inquisition······ Such things have existed before, and will not be cut off in the future. He said with interest, "Tell me, how can this be considered reverence?" ”

"Do you mean that no one in Fontaine dares to break the law that Villette represents, so that it can be considered awe?" Funina's first reaction was, of course, incredulous, "How could you say such nonsense!" ”

Navillette represents the law of Fontaine, and the Inquisition has not been able to stop working so far, which is not a special situation, after all, the Seven Kingdoms have never heard of that country that can be completely peaceful enough to be free of the constraints of the law, and the people will automatically live according to the standards set by the law.

Without an armed guard behind them, who cares about the law?

But Rama said that as long as Fontaine was not clear enough for the people to take the initiative to obey the law, they would not be in awe of Navillette.

Isn't this just nonsense? His head is out of order! He actually expects that human beings will be completely infallible, that they don't want to be infallible.

Rama didn't answer, but looked at Navillette, who was standing on the other side of Funina.

"As we all know, people usually choose to break the law in two situations." Rama whispered, "The first is that the solution given by the law is no longer enough to quench the resentment or anger in the hearts of the people involved, and they are determined to comfort their hearts by some more direct and efficient means. ”

"As law enforcers, we still have to stop such people, and claim that such people are actually doing wrong, but we can't really feel that the other party is hopelessly bad, because the law sometimes gives solutions out of responsibility to the majority, and cannot open exceptions for the few, they do have reasons to use their own methods to get back the justice they want, and we stop because this is the rule we need to defend, and we need to let the rule protect more people."

"But the second situation is that you already know what you will be guilty of doing and what the price you will have to pay, but after thinking about it, you still feel that these costs are not to be feared, or you don't think you will be so unlucky, so you still choose to do it."

Rama paused for a moment and asked, "So, Lady Funingna, which kind of criminals do you think the Inquisition is dealing with?" ”

"The latter, of course." Funina barely hesitated.

Between having to sin and actively choosing to break the law, of course, the latter is more.

It is difficult for ordinary people to be forced to the point of having to commit a crime, and even if they really come to the step of "having to", they will still hesitate and hesitate, rather than really simply choosing to be a bad person.

"So, the luck mentality and the other kind of people who feel that the benefits outweigh the punishment and can do it, their behavior is essentially because the cost is not enough." Rama said.

Funinga pursed her lips, unable to refuse Rama's words.

There's always a reason for behavior, even if it's just a reason why I like it.

"Well, now that we've found the answer that the law is always broken, and knowing the answer, we can start thinking about solving it." Rama smiled and said, "What do you think is going to do to solve this problem?" ”

It's certainly not an increase in penalties.

Marcelle himself did the work of killing his head, but he could still get away with it, if it wasn't for the fact that he chose Carres's daughter like a psychopath, and was caught by Carres and worked hard, he wouldn't have come to this point now.

In the end, the people of Carres could only leave some specious evidence, and it was impossible for ordinary people to leave any evidence leading to Marcell.

There is no better way to do a murder like this than to expect Marcelle to show himself.

Because Marcell had proved the incompetence of the Inquisition in such situations, he could go unpunished with any kind.

Obviously, the core of violating the law is to catch the criminal rather than how to punish the crime, and the worst thing is death, and Fontaine's law does not simply send the nine or even ten tribes to heaven because of a person's crime.

If the punishment is limited to the individual, death can only be said to be nothing more.

The key is to catch or even stop the offender in advance, rather than discussing whether to give him a super-double punishment based on his crime after catching him.

Rama knew, but the hints he gave were all about increasing the punishment, but he wouldn't say it directly.

The words are not spoken directly, but are settled according to the other party's brain supplement.

Since it's the other party's brain, the other party will naturally bear the responsibility if something goes wrong, so you can't really take what you think as reality because of the speculation in your head, right?

This is also a thing that does not make sense.

Of course, Funinga is not stupid, she quickly realized that there was something wrong with the hint in Rama's words, she wanted to grab the other party's pigtails, but after a little review, she suddenly found that this dog thief did not say bluntly You start killing people at all, and the more people who killed, the rest of the people are naturally afraid and dare not make mistakes······ He really didn't say that, even if it was implied in his words.

Navillette also understood Rama's hint of ulterior motives.

They don't change their original intentions because of Rama's words, they have their own complete logical chain, and they usually only do things according to their own logic.

But He listened.

It was hard not to listen.

Navillette did not deny the error of the Inquisition, which was indeed ordered by his own hands, and that Carres did die in the end.

Death is the end of all stories, which means that the mistakes have been cast into iron, and there is no possibility of repentance.

A mistake is a mistake, and Villette doesn't care about his face in this regard, and is willing to take responsibility for his mistakes and pay the price······ Although he did not understand Kares's concerns, Rama was the only one that Rama had said.

From the evidence gathered later, it is clear that Carres and Marcelle have reached a tacit agreement that he will bear all the charges and Marcelle will give up his actions against Navia.

Of course, this tacit understanding is based on mutual deterrence on both sides.

At that time, Carres already knew that his opponent was the real murderer of the serial disappearance of the young girl who had repeatedly escaped the pursuit of the court, and he knew and understood that Marcelle had the ability to kill people like this and clean up his tail.

At that time, Marcelle was also deterred by the key evidence claimed by Carres, and when Cares admitted and did not produce any key evidence, he chose to remain silent rather than directly to avoid triggering the backhand left by Carres, which led to the death of everyone.

They deterred each other and eventually reached an alternative settlement.

That's the only thing that Villette didn't want to understand.

He even knew why Carres had chosen to compromise - the Inquisition had missed many times, it wasn't the first time Marcelle had committed a crime, and the reputation of the serial disappearance of the girl was already resounding, but the Inquisition really didn't have any evidence.

Judging by the results, a father is not willing to believe that such a court is justified.

He had to think first of all about his daughter, and it was clear that a father would have a hard time believing a law enforcement agency that had failed many times before.

There was nothing Villette could do about it.

Not only the ordinary people of the Inquisition Court were tracking, but he himself was secretly following the investigation of the case, and personally went to some scenes to investigate, but in the end no key evidence was found.

The case did not progress until many years later, and it had nothing to do with the Trial Chamber, and it was purely a group of "enthusiastic people" who obtained the key evidence and submitted it to the Trial Chamber.

But these enthusiastic people essentially got the evidence left by Carres back then.

Even as a party, Carres can give more direct and efficient evidence to help the trial court solve the case faster.

He didn't do that, and he chose to be silent at the critical moment.

These two people, one of the victims who voluntarily confessed to the crime, finally left evidence to help solve the murderer, and the other murderer tolerated it at the time but said that he would directly mobilize the security organs to forcibly kill.

You're always going to do it, so why don't you just get it done back then?

Carres said a few words, and Velette promised that he would go to Baisong Town in person at that time, and would never let any accidents happen.

Marcelle has done both, and now there is really no solution to this headless mystery.

Now Navillette had to pay the price for the choices of the two wizards at the time, after all, he had made a wrong judgment and made a good man - although he was unwilling to confess anything and even took the blame on his own initiative - a victim, so he was willing to admit his mistake.

But now the people don't want to let Him be wrong.

They expressed their opinion on the whole thing in a simple manner, it was Carres who was wrong, he was unwilling to trust the court, he was unwilling to trust the law enforcement officers, and even deliberately interfered with the investigation of the law enforcement officers - he was not a criminal but voluntarily confessed to the crime, which made the whole case lose the possibility of continuing the investigation.

In this sense, instead of being an innocent victim, Carres is a criminal under the law, and he directly leads to the escape of a real criminal from the law, and indirectly leads to the emergence of an innocent victim who later acts again in Marcelle's action, which he could have exposed, but he chose to "shield the other party".

He's another criminal.

(End of chapter)