Shota's Isekai NTR Adventure

Chapter 689 Fake court (2)

After General Gardner was brought in, there were many voices that started talking.

Though the ones that could attend this trial were all those with status, that didn't stop them from gossiping about this.

In the end, humans love gossip like this.

As for what they gossiped about...

"Do you know what this trial is about?"

"I heard that it was on the count of treason, but wasn't General Gardner on the front lines defending our kingdom?"

"Right, I just can't imagine someone like him betraying our kingdom."

They were mostly in support of General Gardner. It seemed like most people here were confused why this trial was even being held.

General Gardner looked even more confident when he heard this.

When even the crowd was with him, he just felt like he couldn't lose.

But there was a part of him that was confused about why this was all happening in the first place.

Logically speaking, even if the fourth prince had acted arbitrarily, it shouldn't have been possible for him to arrest him like this. After all, no matter how one looked at it, General Gardner was a senior official of the kingdom.

The king wouldn't have allowed him to do something like this unless...

Before General Gardner could finish that thought, someone suddenly said, "All rise for his majesty!"

When this was said, everyone turned in the direction the voice came from.

They saw that a door had opened and there was someone majestic who walked in.

When they saw this person walk in, they couldn't help feeling like they should bow to him.

Naturally this person was the king of their kingdom, the one who ruled over them all.

So it wasn't strange that they felt this way.

The king just walked in with an uncaring look on his face as he swept his eyes over the crowd.

When this crowd felt the king's eyes sweep over them, they couldn't help lowering their heads as if they were avoiding his gaze. It was as if there was a part of them that didn't allow them to look back into his eyes.

After casting his gaze across the room, the king went to sit at the high seat at the front of this room.

Since treason was a crime that was as serious as could be, naturally the king would be presiding as the judge.

After the king sat down, he said, "Well, what is the evidence?"

The way that he said this was almost as if he didn't care about what would be presented to him, it was as if he had already come to a conclusion. This came as a surprise for certain people since they didn't expect this to be the case.

But General Gardner still had a confident look on his face when he heard this.

It was almost as if hearing this actually gave him more confidence.

It was as if hearing this meant to him that the king was on his side.

The one representing General Gardner as his defense attorney and support was one of his subordinates who was good at this kind of stuff.

He was the one that started it all by asking, "Your majesty, may we ask what these ludicrous charges even are? We haven't even had the time to hear these before being dragged here by those ruffians."

The king just narrowed his eyes to look at General Gardner and his lawyer before waving his hand at the one who was sitting on the other side.

This person was clearly the prosecutor with the way that they were sitting.

This person brought out some papers and read, "General Gardner is accused of committing treason and bringing hard to our kingdom. That is why we are holding a trial for the general today."

The defense attorney gave a snort as he said, "But we still haven't heard what the charges are."

The prosecutor wasn't in a rush as he casually said, "General Gardner is being accused of hurting the kingdom by executing all of the troops from the Beirut Kingdom army instead of capturing them. He will be punished as per the severity of his war crimes."

"Huh?" General Gardner couldn't help revealing a shocked and confused look when he heard this.

After all, he never would have expected these charges to be placed on him since in the first place, he wasn't even the one that had killed all of those enemies. He had only been the one that took credit for this, he hadn't actually done anything to kill them.

In fact, he wouldn't have even been able to stop the Beirut Kingdom army if it wasn't for Duke Zwein showing up with the wyverns.

In the first place, he might have even been killed by them since he had fallen for the Beirut Kingdom's trap.

But now he was being put on trial for taking this credit…

It didn't really seem worth it.

General Gardner slapped his hand on the table and said, "I'm being punished for doing my job? You're saying that I shouldn't have stopped the enemy and allowed them to invade our kingdom?"

The prosecutor didn't argue this and just said, "Instead of capturing the enemies like he should have, he executed all of the prisoners of war that he captured, which further damaged our relationship with the Beirut Kingdom. As such, it will create a lasting scar between our two kingdoms. If this isn't considered treason, then what is?"

The defense attorney was stunned when he heard this before slapping his hand on the table and saying, "So you're saying that we should have captured and fed all of those enemies that tried to invade our kingdom? Do you know how much of a burden this would have been on our kingdom?"

"When we can capture, we should capture." The prosecutor said in a calm voice.

The defense attorney narrowed his eyes to look at the prosecutor before turning to the king to say, "Your majesty, please don't be fooled by the words of others. This is clearly slander against the general!"