Chapter 69 – While You’re Gone (12)
“That, what nonsense…”
Lord Amur knelt down. It would be nonsense. It would make no sense, it would be unfair and frustrating. I don’t know why I have to go through such an unreasonable thing. I asked again after seeing that the Amur lord had lost his energy.
“How can you say nonsense?”
“There is no evidence… How do you persecute people so much for something without evidence?
“Lord! It’s so scary…”
When the Amur lord tried to argue again, Aira shed tears and hugged me again. The knights’ faces crumpled and the attendants began whispering to each other. At this point, the lord of Amur would have realized. He knew that he had thrust his head into the tiger’s mouth alone. Robin said.
“Just tell me, lord. I’ll prepare the corporal punishment right away.”
“This can’t be! You can’t persecute people without proof! I swear I didn’t! Priest Lucius! How precious that woman was, please let her judge her right!”
Lord Amur got even more angry at Robin’s words and went in after arguing. If you come out like this, you don’t have to drag on this problem for long. I said while stroking Aira’s hair.
“Already you have betrayed me and tried to deceive me. Do I have reason to believe your oath? Robin. Lock this cruel lord in the dungeon at once. I will speak to you again tomorrow. Punishment is then. Let’s discuss.”
“It can’t be like this! It can’t be like this! Let it go! Let it go, you bastards!”
I had no intention of taking him to court over this issue. If I drag something without evidence to trial, I will be at a disadvantage. Anyway, the trial must be held by the lord, and by the time the agent of the Amur Territory knew what was happening in our territory, it would have been after the situation had already ended.
After the Amur lord was taken to the dungeon, I had the coachman waiting outside fetch me. The coachman, who had been waiting for his master, was dragged in front of me without knowing why. He looked startled when the guards suddenly grabbed him and brought him back.
“What is it? What is this? Why am I being taken?”
“The lord of Amur was engaged in fornication in my mansion and he was arrested. It’s unfortunate.”
“What… The lord is not the kind of person to do that!”
The coachman was loyal to the Amur lord. He looked straight into my face and nailed it again saying that the lord was not that kind of person.
“There must be some misunderstanding.
“That sounds like, the victim of the assault is at fault.”
“Yes?”
“Older nobles used to say that. It was a mistake. It was a misunderstanding. It was just a slight touch. Yes, there must have been a misunderstanding. But, if the other person felt shame, it’s definitely indecent. Do you understand ?”
You may misunderstand, but I have never personally touched the attendants. It was because he had to stop doing such things in order to maintain the image of Lucius as the priest.
“What… No, I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.”
“Keep them in the next room.”
I put the coachman in the next room and let the soldiers watch. The soldiers started teasing the coachman as soon as I moved a little further.
“Your lord is really mean. He said he touched the woman he cares about.”
“If you try to touch the lord’s wife this time, you might really die.”
I came up to my room Eve was stretching. Every once in a while I would visit her room and see her stretching, like a random event. I said.
“Eve. I caught the Amur lord in the dungeon.”
“Lord of Amur? That bastard?”
“Uh.”
“Can I go down now?”
“But if I kill you this time, it’ll get really complicated, so don’t kill me? No, don’t even hit me. No. Just go down with me. If you think I’m going to kill you , just throw it away. If you touch it, it’ll be annoying.”
“Groom. Don’t you believe me?”
I couldn’t believe it. In the last trial, there was a small share of Eve. If Eve hadn’t put a knife in that Rubicon son’s belly and just punched him, he wouldn’t have gone this far. I looked at Eve in silence with those feelings. Eve said, slightly avoiding my gaze.
“No, well. Okay. Let’s go together. Let’s go together.”
That’s how Eve and I found the dungeon. The Amur lord was already in despair. Eve looked at the Amur lord and said with a slight frown on her face.
“Is this the bastard?”
“Hey…”
The Amur lord seemed to recognize Eve. If he was interested in current affairs, he would have seen the serial killer, rapist, and mermaid’s wanted badge in Esta City at least once, so it was a natural story. As soon as he saw Eve, he was terrified. The lord shouted.
“What are you doing! What are you going to do with me!”
I had no intention of doing anything to lord Amur right now. Had she been a woman she would have been fucked, but this asshole was just a man with a rat beard. However, Eve clearly wanted to talk to the lord of Amur.
“Hey, fuck. You know me.”
“Hee, hee hee…”
Eve is the bitch who stabbed the stomach of the son of the Archduke Rubicon just for insulting him. She said It was enough to know how scared the Amur lord was now, just by looking at his current expression her. He trembled and pressed himself against the farthest wall beyond the bars.
“S-Stop it! You’ve done this to me and I think I’ll be safe! I’m a lord! A legitimate lord! Treating me like this has never happened in any history book…”
“What did you do? Fuck you. What did you do? What did I do to you? You trashed the soldiers I sent.”
“Hi profit! Now, wrong! Sorry!”
Yeongju fell down again and began to pray. It was better to kneel than to die. I asked.
“Lord of Amur. Are you reflecting?”
“Yes! I’m reflecting!”
“Then are you prepared to be punished?”
“Muh, what punishment are you talking about!”
“Anyone who commits indecent acts will be sentenced to up to 60 days of forced labor. It’s a story in the Territory Law. I don’t intend to make things happen between the territories, so let’s make an agreement with this.”
“That, that’s not okay!”
“Why not?”
“If I leave the territory for 60 days… The restoration project going on in the territory… Will stop. Please have pity on the people of my territory…”
“You keep holding the people of the territory hostage without thinking about reflecting.”
“Hey, taking the local people hostage… Unreasonable… “
“Isn’t that what you think? No matter what sins you commit, from the point of view of a religious person, you shouldn’t let the people of the Amur Territory die, so Priest Peta Lucius will forgive you. You came to apologize with such complacent thoughts in mind, right?”
“No! Definitely not!”
“Then why did you publicly apologize in front of my mansion without any warning before I put any conditions on it? If I don’t accept your apology there or put a condition on it, what am I?”
“That…”
Lord Amur began to roll his eyes. There is no politician in the world who acts for no reason. I told Eve
“I can’t do it, Eve. I’ll just kill you brutally. Your territories will take care of themselves with your wife acting as their substitute. You know we have plenty of justifications to kill you, right?”
Anyway, the Amur Territory could never defeat us in the Territory Battle. If you twist, you have to fight and win. In the trial, they had already won on the condition of ‘not interfering in the conflict with the Amur Territory’, so they could not even put a trial on this case.
Because the Amur lord knew this fact, my threat seemed more direct. Still, he seemed to think that the priest would not kill the lord openly, but that was a very wrong prejudice.
Besides, the wife of the lord of Amur didn’t seem to be very good at domestic affairs. If she was good at domestic affairs in her yard her, where her aide her was also searched, she would not be so anxious about the lord of Amur. In the first place, there were not many noble wives who were good at domestic affairs.
“Oh, no! Please save me! Lord! Lord!”
That’s it. When I was mentally concentrated like this right now, I had to set a condition. I said while catching Eve who was really trying to open the iron window and kill the lord of Amur.
“Then shall we do this? If you agree to a few conditions, I’ll just let this go.”
“Hey, do you mean a little condition?”
Lord Amur’s eyes looked desperate. Eve gave me a slightly dissatisfied expression as she grabbed me by the waist.
***
So again, the Amur lord was able to be released again in two hours after being imprisoned in the dungeon. In the meantime, the coachman, who had been worried about the lord, was a little drawn. The coachman wept as soon as he saw the lord of Amur.
“Lord! What is this?”
“That is…”
“Be modest. Then coachman. You’ll have to be a witness as we sign the treaty.”
I didn’t want to see the annoying new wave drama. I wanted to close this case as quickly as possible.
“I didn’t bring my seal, but…”
“It doesn’t matter, as it will be hampered by blood.”
I took out the paper I had written in advance. He brought a thick box from the next room. The Amur lord read the contract and looked at me again before asking.
“Is this really the end?”
– 1. Amur territory does not send a letter requesting support to Peta territory.
1-1. Within the limits of the donations of the Archangel Church, the Peta Territory can help the Amur Territory.
– 2. According to the above conditions, Priest Peta Lucius does not ask for compensation for the murder of Rubicon Condrix from the Amur Lord and the Amur Territory.
“This is the end.”
Anyway, the Amur Territory is fucking poor right now, so even if I told them to give me the compensation money, I only got scolded and got nothing. It’s enough to just sign a treat.
Just sign this and I’ll send it to you. Otherwise, I will kill you. It was a simple alternative. The terms of the contract were fucking simple and easy, and in a way, it was a good contract for the Amur Territory. Because there was only one line written saying not to send relief letters.
Rather, it was a treaty in which I gained nothing by killing the Amur lord.
“How does that… Hinder…”
“I’ll take a picture with this.”
I took out my holy sword from the box. The bright blue day was shining eerily. The Daecheonsingyo notary public had been summoned in advance, and the notary public of the lord was that coachman. The lord knew the identity of the sword and shrank his body. I cut my hand lightly with a knife and bleed.
“Yes. Lord Amur. It is that sword. It is the sword that won the ‘fight’ against the Archduke Rubicon.”
And I put the knife in front of the lord’s finger his. The lord himself scratched his finger with a knife and stained it with blood. How many minutes are left I opened the status window of Lord Amur.
* 51 minutes left until death in a fair game.
For reference, it takes 30 minutes for the poison to activate. There were individual differences in how to search after the poison was activated. I kicked the Amur lord out of my mansion as quickly as possible.
What are you going to do now? Wait for the answer to come.
