Shota's Isekai NTR Adventure

Chapter 690 Fake court (3)

The king had been sitting there silently the entire time, as if he wasn't bothered by anything that they were saying.

But now that the defense attorney had directly appealed to the king, it wasn't as if he could remain silent anymore.

The king looked at the defense attorney and said, "Then can you prove that what he did was not treason and was actually for the good of our kingdom?"

The defense attorney was taken aback when he heard this since he clearly didn't expect this. After all, no matter how one looked at it, General Gardner was just protecting their kingdom by killing the enemies.

This was not any form of treason at all.

So why was the king saying such words?

The defense attorney only remained stunned for a second before saying, "Your majesty, the general was only thinking about our kingdom when he did this. The kingdom did not have the manpower or the resources to hold these prisoners of war, so the general had no choice but to execute the prisoners out of consideration for the kingdom. He didn't want to put a burden on the kingdom by forcing this decision on your majesty, so he took matters into his own hands. This just goes to show how much the general cares about our kingdom."

The way that he said this, it really made one feel as if General Gardner was a hero of the kingdom who was doing all he could for the benefit of the kingdom.

If one didn't know better, they would have been fooled by this defense attorney.

But to those that knew the full story, they weren't fooled at all. Rather, they even found the defense attorney's words laughable.

The king was one of those people.

The king narrowed his eyes to look at General Gardner before saying, "Is that so? Was this really out of consideration to the kingdom?"

General Gardner was surprised to hear the king ask him this all of a sudden, but he received a nudge from the defense attorney beside him that pulled him back to his senses.

With a serious look on his face, General Gardner gave a nod and said, "Of course, your majesty. This servant is a loyal servant of the kingdom and all that he does is for the benefit of the kingdom. This servant has no intention of rebelling against the kingdom."

At this, the jury finally spoke up.

This was a jury that was made up of nobles that were close to General Gardner, so of course they would speak up for him now.

"Your majesty, I trust that General Gardner would never have any intentions of betraying our kingdom by doing all of this."

"That's right, the general is clearly a shining example of what all generals should be like. Instead of accusing him like this, we should be awarding the general a medal for all that he has done."

"This must be some kind of plot against the general. I'm sure that the general hasn't done anything that would harm the kingdom."

The king didn't respond right away as he narrowed his eyes to look at the nobles on the jury.

They were surprised to see the king looking at them like this, but they didn't have anything to fear since they didn't think that they had done anything wrong. In fact, they were even proud of themselves since they had been invited as part of the jury for this trial.

That just went to show that the king trusted their judgement since he would allow them to be part of the jury for this important trial.

After a moment of silence, the king asked, "Is this really what all of you think?"

The nobles couldn't help feeling a bit confused as to why the king would ask them this, but they nodded in agreement in the end.

The king didn't bother looking at them anymore and turned back to General Gardner to ask, "General, is there anything that you've hidden. Is there anything that you haven't told us?"

General Gardner couldn't help feeling very strange and confused when he heard this.

The way that the king asked this made it seem like he knew something that General Gardner didn't know about.

After a moment of hesitation, General Gardner said, "No, your majesty. I have been completely honest this entire time."

The king gave a sigh before shaking his head as if he was disappointed.

Everyone who was in the court was confused when they saw this since they had no idea what was happening.

The king raised his hand and pointed at the jury who became even more confused when they saw this gesture. But the king didn't care at all about what they felt as he said to the guards, "Take them away and lock them up for their trials."

The jury members were shocked when they heard this.

There was one that tried to run away, but he found that the guards had already surrounded them.

The guards had moved so efficiently that they hadn't been able to react at all.

It was as if the guards had already been waiting there to capture them all along.

It was as if they had fallen in a trap that the king had set for them.

Since they couldn't break free of the guards, the only thing that they could do was complain about the way that they were treated.

"Your majesty, what is this?"

"Your majesty, we were called here to be a part of the jury for the trial, why are we being surrounded like this?"

"Your majesty, please give us justice!"

The king just ignored all of this as the guards suddenly used force to bring the jury along.

As they did, the nobles of the jury kept complaining about how they were being treated to the deaf ears of the king.

Once they were gone, the king said, "Let the real jury come in."

At this, there was a group of people that suddenly came in through a side door as if they had been waiting the entire time.