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Side Story – The Family Increases #5

People’s ridicule did not last long.

They began to pay attention to the fact that I, a mere wooden monk, came forward and defended Asha.

“Let’s hear what they’re talking about.”

“I hope it’s at least fun that it’s come to this.”

Each person holding a stone tried to observe the situation with the feeling that they could throw stones at the people standing on the podium at any time.

At this moment, I got to speak and it was a great opportunity for me.

“I am against Asha’s death penalty.”

There were a lot of bad guys in the world.

Villains who wouldn’t feel relieved even if you hit them with rocks.

However, it was not right to really hit them to death with rocks.

“First of all, I don’t think Asha’s sins are deep enough to warrant hanging or death.”

Sze-.

Someone stood up.

He was a man with a chevron mustache and a member of the jury who wore a white wig.

“Do you know how many people died in the war started by Asha? Our kingdom is already beyond recovery! If we don’t punish such people, what kind of criminal can we punish in the world?”

“Excuse me, who are you?”

Who are you?

He was the first man I saw.

Soon the man was stroking his buck-shaped beard and boasting.

“I am the Marquis Ember of the Valpoti family. No matter how ignorant the monk was, wasn’t it right that he should at least know the faces of the jurors?”

Marquis Ember.

It was an unfamiliar name.

Of course, since I was a brilliant and brilliant genius, I remembered that Lucina Psyche and Milione’s name had been mentioned in the old books they had been looking through all day.

“You are the Marquis of Ember, who was captured and executed while trying to invade Barakhan with a vengeance for being left out of the postwar trade.”

“What? What did you say? What did I do?”

“No, it’s not that important. Marquis Ember said exactly what I wanted to say. We must not punish anyone.”

Gugit-.

Most of the jurors, including Marquis Ember, frowned.

Some people sighed or shook their heads saying, “It’s not worth listening to.”, but it seems they couldn’t understand my strong and bold meaning.

I decided to explain kindly for the old people.

“They said Asha started the war, but she just got married and had babies. Aren’t you the ones who raised troops and invaded the capital to capture Asha?”

If you think about it, it was Gregory and the priests led by him who started the war.

It’s just that they didn’t become war criminals because they won.

Soon, a man in a dark blue cloak wearing a wide-brimmed hat became angry.

“Ignorant sound! Asha and Pendragon got married in a marriage they were never allowed to get married to! The cult was just trying to stop it! How can hating injustice be a sin?”

“Why is it a marriage that is not permitted for a virgin and a bachelor to marry each other and have children? Shouldn’t we rather encourage, praise, and support? Rather, who are you?”

“I am the Scout Baron!”

Baron Scout.

I knew this person’s name.

He was a messenger who wrote subjugation Lust manifestos and various church letters.

It was my first time seeing this person’s face because he said something had caused him to stop going out of the house.

“Scouter Baron. Your hat is navy blue. If I raise my fist and hit you because I don’t like that hat, would you be able to say that I am at fault here?”

“What?”

“You provoked me and I hit you, so it would be your fault. Your argument is no different from this now.”

“This is nonsense. It’s confusing the point and throwing the whole topic of what we’re trying to talk about into chaos. Hey there, the monk of the wooden board. Does this place look that easy?”

Gooo-.

I felt people’s hostility towards me.

Asha trembled when she saw that.

“Priest Hyde. That’s enough. If you stop, you tried hard enough.”

Asha seemed to have given up.

Because everyone wants her dead.

But to crush the words of one genius just because 99 idiots wanted it to be, was absolutely foolish.

I’ll show you.

“Then let’s get the death penalty. Because she has sinned, let us hang her on a tree and stone her to death. And who should I kill next?”

I pointed at Marquis Ember.

And said:

“Marquis Ember. I know that you poisoned the eldest son of Count Bardos and stole his inheritance. If you were guilty of poisoning your cousin, wouldn’t stoning be enough?”

“Yes, yes, you guy! What are you trying to say all of a sudden?”

“Marquis Ember, what do you mean you killed Bardos? When I, Laurier, went to the funeral, didn’t you defend yourself and say you had nothing to do with Bardos’ death?

“Baron Laurier. You have no right to say such things. Didn’t you invade the Apophis family’s library during the war, burn their books, and kidnap their eldest daughter?

“What? Laurier! What do you mean! My daughter didn’t say that Marquis Sandros, a member of the royal family, sent troops to kidnap her and kill her! What did you do to my daughter?”

“Count Apophis, what was your relationship with Mother Superior Maria? They say she gave birth to a daughter whose father she did not know, and that her name was Galatea. Now I see that his face resembles yours.”

“Well, I had nothing to do with her suicide! Don’t believe anything Mary tells you! She must have gone crazy and talked nonsense!”

The hall suddenly became filled with confusion.

It was natural.

I had read all the records of the trials that took place at that time and had them in my head.

I knew better than anyone else that more than half of the people here would be purged and disappear.

Soon people started shouting and I spoke to them.

“Start stoning each other to death now! If you have committed a sin, don’t you deserve to be punished? But, you’d better not do that.”

The reason why people should not judge others was simple.

Because we are all the same sinners.

Who on earth calls themselves judges and judges?

Of course, there was only one person who deserved it.

It’s me!

Hyde was a priest who was better and better than anyone else!

“ character. From now on, I will call the names of everyone present here, accuse them of their sins, and hand down a sentence appropriate to their sins. First of all, from the jury─.”

Sze-.

Marquis Ember stood up.

He “urgent business came up. My dead wife suddenly came back to life and is trying to give birth to a daughter!

Viscount Bardos followed him, and Count Apophis also followed.

“I have to go too.”

“Keuhum, people judge people, throw stones at them, and send them to death. That shouldn’t happen. We must forgive each other’s sins. Then I’ll stop-.”

“I’m also busy with work… .”

The entire jury was out.

The only one left was a young nobleman, Baron Scout.

“… The accusations of that wooden monk were all true! Are these idiots really qualified to call themselves Knights of the Temple? It’s a shame. It’s a shame!”

The commotion in the square, which had been noisy for a while, became increasingly frequent.

This was because the number of people seated decreased.

The young priest Gregory was watching this scene closely and then sighed.

“I have never heard of or seen a trial like this where all the jurors were absent. So what should we do? Hyde, a great lawyer. Do you maintain Asha’s innocence?”

“No. She is guilty. Because, you are guilty in that you gave birth to children and abandoned them without being able to take responsibility for them. She did not play her role as a mother properly.”

What sentence is appropriate for a mother who did not take care of her child?

I thought deeply.

Being separated from your children.

That alone would already be a big punishment.

# # #

In the end, there was no trial.

All of the judges left in a hurry and in the end, no record of all of this was left.

It has become a blank past that no one wants to remember.

“I… What happens to me now?”

Asha was very surprised.

The fact that he survived the trial seemed incredible, as if he had just kicked the coffin out of the grave.

But well, I actually thought it wasn’t that surprising.

There were countless ways to overturn the trial other than today’s method.

For example, there was a ‘ying-ying tactic’, but it was so terrible and inhumane that it was not used.

This is truly fortunate.

Sze-.

Soon, knights wearing silver armor and red cross coats approached us.

They said to Asha:

“Asha. I banish you from Barakhan. From now on, you will go to a distant land and spend your days unable to meet anyone. And, please give me the children.”

Mite-.

The babies were delivered from Asha’s hands to the nuns’ hands.

Ginebeet started crying and the wonderful, wonderful baby named Hyde was still looking around without crying.

“Aaaah! Boy, he squeezed my breasts!”

“What are you talking about? What’s wrong with the baby?”

That’s great.

anyway.

In the end, Asha survived but was separated from her babies.

At that time, Asha urgently took something out of her arms.

It was a cross made of silver and gold.

“Ginebit will grow up like a princess, but we don’t know what will happen to Hyde. Hyde, there is nothing I can do for you, but-. please… .”

Asha, who had placed a cross in the baby’s swaddle, was led somewhere by the knights’ hands and disappeared.

Gregory, who was watching the scene from a distance, approached us.

Then he looked at the little baby and said.

“The great lawyer Hyde. What would you do with this baby? You can’t kill them, but if you keep them alive, the sacrifices you’ve made so far will be meaningless.”

“Wouldn’t you already know how to do it without even asking me? Gregory, you will fail no matter what you do. Because I deviated from the right path.”

“Is it a failure? okay. I may have already failed from the moment my child was born. Life is just pain. Everything would have been better if I had never been born.”

Gregory ultimately fails to kill the baby.

Because he was a mediocre person.

Sze-.

Gregory, who had received the baby from the nuns’ hands, now gave it to me.

“Hyde. I did some research on you. But there were no records or even any traces. Is it a ghost? You must have come from a place like that.”

“Roughly similar.”

You have a good eye.

There is a reason why Gregory became Pope.

Whatever it is, it’s better than the idiots from the jury earlier.

“Can you take this child to a place where no one can find him and where he can never return? So that I can hide it from everyone. So much so that even I can’t find myself. Hide it thoroughly.”

I felt like my head was opened in many ways.

Because I knew a good place to hide.

Soon Gregory asked me.

“So, what is this child’s name?”

“Hyde.”

“Yes. It’s a name that suits you well. There are too many names in the world that need to be erased. you. Hyde. I have a feeling I will meet you again. At that time, I wouldn’t remember the name Hyde.”

With those words, Gregory turned his back.

Ugh-.

The halo shining behind his head was very dazzling.

I also turned my back and walked.

Toward the hallway where everyone disappeared.

There was an entrance door at the end of the hallway, and when I opened the door, the view of the building blown by the cold winter wind immediately enveloped me.

Dang, dang-.

It was a city full of bells announcing Christmas.

“Outside them─in the middle of the night─.”

“Shepherds sleeping among the sheep─. Delivered by angels─.”

Should I say that the sight of Christmas hymns being sung here and there, perhaps from a nearby church, is very familiar.

I don’t do things like that much these days.

It would have been different 20 years ago.

I slowly walked down a familiar street.

And then, it stopped in front of a building.

“The director will take good care of you here. All children will be like brothers and sisters. Even if you lack this or that, it will be enough for you. I know it well.”

Sze-.

I safely dropped the baby off in front of the building.

“Goodbye.”

Then, the baby, who had been looking at the world calmly until now, seemed to frown and finally burst into tears.

What does this mean?

I knew this meaning well.

“You must feel like you are truly alone in the world. It will be like that for the rest of my life. You will meet a lot of terrible people, and there will be many times when you want to cry. Your future life will be nothing but pain.”

“━──.”

The baby continued to cry.

On this day, I shed all the tears of my life, to the point where I will never cry again.

I took out a piece of paper from my pocket and wrote down a magical spell.

“Hyde. It’s your name. You will become a better, better, stronger, and more wonderful person than anyone else, and you will meet such people. So don’t forget. Who you are.”

I looked at the cross on his swaddle.

I took it and instead handed him the wooden cross I had been wearing around my neck, wrapped in swaddling clothes.

“You will have a family too.”

Then, surprisingly, the baby stopped crying.

He must have realized that it belonged to his family.

Because this kid is smarter than anyone else.

“Khaha… !”

The baby laughed.

It was a very hearty laugh.

When I grow up, I will become a great person.

Just like me!

“You will do well.”

I walked without looking back anymore.

Then it started snowing heavily on my head.

so-.

What should I do now?

Sze-.

I looked at the cross in my hand.

I knew where I had to go.

When I opened the nearby door, an old, old cabin appeared before my eyes.

Surrounding it was a forest so deep and rough that it was hard to tell where in the world it was, but there were traces of someone growing a vegetable garden and several small graves.

widely-!

I heard something in the backyard.

It sounded like an ax hitting firewood.

As I headed there, I saw a woman with half-gray black hair working hard with an axe.

He was wearing old, shabby clothes and had wrinkles on his face.

She must have spotted me, her eyes shining as if she was about to swing an ax at any moment.

“What a bandit!”

“Asha.”

“That voice… .”

That’s when I called her.

She seemed very surprised and the hand holding the ax trembled.

“Priest… . you are… . I remember it like it was just yesterday. It hasn’t aged at all. You haven’t aged at all. Unbelievable. You really haven’t aged at all.”

“Asha. Your sentence for your sins is now over. Now you can return to your family.”

Sze-.

I showed her a cross made of silver and gold.

“That cross… !?”

The woman was very surprised and ended up shedding tears.

“Ah-. I see It was something like that… ! I see… !”