Court of Law and The Devastating Defeat My Opposers Received.

The judge comes in and took the judge's bench.

"All Rise! The 43rd high court is now in session. Honorable Judge Edma Del Scuito is presiding." The bailiff says.

Everybody stands up and the room becomes silent. The judge then sits down in her bench, "Thank you. You may all be seated. Court is now in session. We call The Bolivia family, The Iscariot family, The Belfort family, The Christo family, The Costee family, versus The Northanrey Household is now in session. Is the appellant ready?"

She asks, however, none answers.

"I repeat, is the appellant ready?" The judge says. The audience chatted left and right confused.

The judge banged her gavel.

*knock knock knock*

"Orders in the court, please." The bailiff rechecked the list of invitations and runs towards the judge. They whispered with each other.

"I see.. It seems that no lawyer is hired for the defendant's side, therefore we rely on condition 9th which says, "If there are no lawyers hired, the defendant shall present for themselves, anything for the court to remain at will."

Then, Is the plaintiff ready?" The judge asks once more.

"Yes, Your honor." My family's lawyer says.

"We will now hear opening statements from the defendant." The judge say. The head of The Iscariot family stands up in his prison outfit.

"Ah- umm.. F- first of all good morning, Your honor, Ladies and gentlemen. First of all, we- um, the defendant is presumed innocent until proven gui- guilty. Yesterday, ourselves have been falsely accused by none other than The Frailed Knight, umm.. we speculate that there's a misunderstanding between our party with The Northanrey. I- I call that the evidence is too small to umm prove our recidivism." He says.

"Thank you, defendant, we may now hear the opening statements from the plaintiff to defers the appe- I'm sorry, I repeat. To defers the defendant to rest their case." Judge says.

"Good morning, Your honor, Ladies and gentlemen. I am Camille Vasquez, would be here as the lawyer for the plaintiff. I am here today to represent Madame Malenia Northanrey and her son Killigan Northanrey..." and blah blah blah.. No once cares about opening statements.

My current location is in front of the audience, at the plaintiff's table. I sit adjacently to mom and besides mom there is our family or in other words The Six of Spade's trusted lawyer, Camille Vasquez. Corry said she was intelligent and my mom elaborated said statement by showing me her decorated background.

She graduated from Harvard School of Law with master's degree when she was only 22 years old. She was recruited by the court of law by the current judge presiding this case. The prideful Caz himself says that she has "an abnormal amount of talent.". Many lawyers, nobles, politician calls her,

"God's Attorney."

To call such decorated lawyer into this.. circus. Wow. My mom really does want us to have a guaranteed win.

I do not have my sword with me nor my mom, however my aether energy has been refilled overnight. If there's some sort of an ambush, I will be ready. Conversely and fortunately, Dylan is with us today. He is guarding the front door of the court room by himself. The rest of the knights trust him and gave him their post.

The rest of the case went on spectacularly, the judge is leaning on my family's side.. Obviously.

The jury was smiling and giggling through the guilty noble's horribly executed statements to prove against.

It seems that we can easily win this case. It almost took no effort, but to fight against those filths, I guess giving no effort is still a compliment to them..

After 20 minutes, I observe everyone's behavior yet nobody is suspicious. No one frowned, they smile and laugh at whatever the shit my opposers try to convince. I look at our room, there's nothing that suggests an irregularity .

Dylan hasn't moved from his position, judging that there's no stepping sounds coming from the door.

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About half an hour later,

The court has become a circus, everyone laughing left and right, the judge trying to remain the order in the court. The 5 guilty nobles are shaking in embarrassment. I guess humiliation is also a part of the punishment.

The jury has come to a conclusion. We all know what's it going to be so there's no nervousness visible on me.

"And now the juries will present their verdict." The judge says.

"I, Axel Vasrim, has come to the conclusion that the head of The Bolivia family, Iscariot family, Belfort family, Christo family, Costee family are guilty for their actions."

"I, William Jefferson, has come to the conclusion that the head of The Bolivia family, Iscariot family, Belfort family, Christo family, Costee family are guilty for their actions."

"I, Gordon Delta, has come to the conclusion that the head of The Bolivia family, Iscariot family, Belfort family, Christo family, Costee family are guilty for their actions."

"I, Gocun Garvin, has come to the conclusion that the head of The Bolivia family, Iscariot family, Belfort family, Christo family, Costee family are guilty for their actions."

"I, Julian Rendevous, has come to the conclusion that the head of The Bolivia family, Iscariot family, Belfort family, Christo family, Costee family are guilty for their actions."

"That concludes the verdict, the case may now rest." Judge says.

I've read many novels where this scenario goes wrong, but I guess this is reality, not a fiction.

"All RIse! The 43rd high court is now adjourned. Thank you." The bailiff says.

The crowd chatters to one another. The knight then open the door.

"AAAAAAAAA!" A girl screamed and attracts everyone's attention.

Everyone looked outside the door and see Dylan covered in blood while holding his bloodied, giant saber. There are 5 dead bodies scattered around the formerly clean ceramic floor. All of these dead bodies have their face covered while wearing an all-black outfit which are mostly used by assassins.

Emperor Cardan, hearing the scream, quickly ran to the door. Everyone moved away to give him his path. Me and mom soon followed behind.

"What is the situation, Dylan?" The Emperor asks.

"5 grandmaster assassins managed to break through the building's security. I've eliminated them silently, to not interrupt the court session, Emperor.." Dylan says.

"I see.. Are they from the court of shadows?"

"No sir. There is no crest in their body."

"So they do not belong to Acasti Emprire then." Dylan nods "Hmmm... why would foreign grandmaster assassins target us now?" The emperor wonders, I also wonders until I hear something in my mind.

'Do you hear me, my liege. Can you hear me?' What is this?! Am I being mind controlled?

'No, my liege. This is Tessa. I'm using my skill to contact you using our minds.'

Oho? I didn't know you could do that.

'Yes, anyways I think these assassins are sent by York family, my liege.'

York family? Why?

'During the time I retrieve all Northanrey's financial datas, an assassin ambushed me. I killed her, however before that I read her mind. She was sent by the York family.'

How could the York family obtain 5 grandmaster assassins. They're just some family located in the edge of the empire.

'I still haven't figure that out. Should I destroy them, my liege?'

No. Don't. Not yet. Something's weird. Something is definitely off here.

Tessa, I need you to find out what country is near York family. Not a country that is under the Empire's jurisdiction, but a foreign one.

The York family owns a land in the south west edge of Acasti Empire. I suspect treason.

'Umm... let's see.. the map says that The Buranda Kingdom is the closest, however there are still distance from the York family's land.'

Good. I will investigate this further when I get home.

Buranda Kingdom, huh...