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Heinrich’s End (1)

Prinz and Juno frowned as they looked at Heinrich kneeling in front of them.

“Why are you looking at me like that? What did I do wrong? ok? To be honest, what do you think would have been different if your brother had sat on the throne?”

Heinrich, who had continued to behave in an indecent manner even here, only silenced himself when the surrounding soldiers thrust spear blades at his neck.

Prinz ordered the soldiers to drag Heinrich away, and Heinrich tried to resist by shaking his body this way and that, but had to be dragged away by the soldiers’ strong hands.

“I want to kill that guy right now… but anyway, since he once sat in the throne of a monarch, the punishment will be decided according to the trial”

In most cases, it was Balkan who recommended suicide to enemy monarchs when executing monarchs, but Prinz had no intention of recommending suicide to Henry, and the same was true for Juno.

‘It would be best to give up the idea of being executed quietly, Heinrich…’

Even as he was being dragged away by the soldiers, Heinrich maintained a shameless and proud attitude, so Juno gritted his teeth.

A short time later, a public trial began to judge the crimes of the captured Heinrich and Dietrich.

It was decided that the former Minister of Justice, Count Redburg, would act as the judge in the trial, and Juno and Eliza would be in charge of proving the agreement as prosecutors.

And other royal family members, including Prinz, Yunas, and Yuria, were watching the trial from the front, looking forward to Yuno and Eliza’s performance.

“We will now begin a summary public trial to punish the crimes of former Balkan Emperor Henry II and former Chancellor Philip von Dietrich”

As the trial of Heinrich and Dietrich began with the words of the Count of Redburg, nobles and numerous citizens who had been hiding in the mansion to avoid Heinrich’s evil spirit rushed to watch.

Prinz and Juno created a summary court in front of the fountain in the middle of the square in front of the imperial palace so that the citizens could better see the trial, and made it possible for the citizens watching to participate in the trial.

“Defendants Heinrich and Dietrich have ruled the Balkan Empire for the past year and led the empire to catastrophe. From now on, let’s count their sins!”

Yuno swallowed his saliva once and recited his sins one by one.

“First. The crime of assassinating the previous emperor and his own father, Karl III! At Dietrich’s estate, they assassinated the monarch using parasites that were not found in toxicology tests! This is testified by former secretary Garcia, who was instigated by Heinrich and Dietrich!”

Marquis García agreed to testify on the condition that his family members would not be implicated and only he would be beheaded, and he was quietly dragged out to testify.

“Second. The crime of conspiring with an enemy country while holding the position of emperor and prime minister of the empire! The Zenon Plain was completely dedicated to them on the condition that the Empire’s archenemy, the Master of Tesseito, be employed as a mercenary! This is testified by Fiona Sinclair de Leonhart, the first princess of the Kingdom of Leon and military leader!”

Princess Fiona testified to what Henry and Dietrich presented to her country, as agreed with Eliza.

“This alone is enough to warrant the death penalty, but the defendant’s crime is not the end!! third. The crime of conspiring with Dietrich, who was the Minister of Finance at the time, to embezzle the empire’s budget over 10 years ago! This is proven by the budget execution plan and secret ledger discovered in the secret room of the second villa, and it is proven to be identical to the handwriting written on the defendant’s personal letter!!”

“Wait a minute, that’s fabricated evidence!! I have never stolen money from the budget!!”

Dietrich protested, saying it was unfair, but the attitude of the judge, the Count of Redburg, and the citizens watching the trial were cold.

“Dismissed!”

Juno continued to recite Heinrich and Dietrich’s sins, and the expressions on the faces of the citizens listening became increasingly distorted.

Meanwhile, Yunas, who was looking at it, asked her husband, Prinz, as if she was curious about something.

“I’m going to execute him anyway, so why not just punish Heinrich? Public opinion is probably going to want him executed anyway, so is there any reason to go to trial like this?”

“Huhuhu Yunas. I want to elevate Yuno and Eliza even more through this trial. The citizens of Adria will naturally respect Juno, who saved their children, as emperor, and the eastern region will also support Juno, who led the war to victory, but what about the western and southern regions? There may be a little bit of opposing public opinion, right?”

“Aha~ So… you really entrusted the role of prosecutor to Master Yuno?”

“That’s right. So I planned this. Juno, the righteous third prince, who exposed the sins of the vicious and corrupt Emperor Heinrich in detail! What if you create and promote an image like this? Public opinion in support of Yuno will surge in the West and South”

“In that case, it won’t matter if the third prince, Master Yuno, ascends to the throne! Even if Eliza, the princess of Leon, becomes empress, not much will be said!! Oh my~ Why did such a smart person hide his wife and put her through so much trouble~?”

“Ugh… image making was important to me too… so let’s just move on”

While the Prinz couple was talking, Juno was telling Heinrich’s final sin.

“Lastly, I will talk about the decisive sin! Not only did he kidnap the children of conscripted militiamen and take them hostage, but he also tortured and killed some of them for his own pleasure!! This will be proven by the siblings Sentris and Centoria who survived there!!”

As soon as Yuno finished speaking, Sentress, shedding tears in her eyes, and Sentoria, who had an eye patch on her eye, entered and sat down in the witness stand.

“Guys. It may be difficult, but can you explain what happened in the imperial palace?”

Sentress spoke first at Eliza’s words.

“Mom and Dad were conscripted into the citizen army, and we stayed at home as Mom and Dad told us to do, but the soldiers came in, tied our arms and legs, and took us away on a cart. There were a lot of other kids there besides me, and I was taken to the basement with the other kids. And that guy over there said my little sister had a pretty face and took her to another place”

“I see. Then Centuria? If it’s okay, can you tell me too?”

Sentoria’s body trembled and screamed at Eliza’s words, and when Sentress sitting next to her hugged her tightly, she finally calmed down and opened her mouth.

“Woah, I was scared… I was so scared… A blonde-haired man wearing a crown came and stabbed me with a knife, saying my stomach was cute and desirable… It was so painful that I screamed, so he said it was noisy and stabbed my stomach. I stabbed it one more time… It hurt so bad and I was scared, but I held back because I was afraid that if I screamed, they would stab me again. So this time, with other friends… Ugh~ I’m scared… I’m so scared that I can’t see anything. Aaaa~”

Sentoria’s testimony shocked not only the citizens who were listening, but also Yuno and Eliza.

“Oh, you can’t see anything? Seo, really?”

When Eliza asked in confusion, Sentress answered for her.

“Yuno-hyung over there saved me and my younger brother, but my younger brother’s eye was damaged because the bleeding was so severe that the blood stopped flowing to his eye. The Empress over there treated me, and I’m wearing an eyepatch just in case… but my eyesight probably won’t come back… And they say my parents tried not to fight, but those bad guys’ soldiers stabbed them to death”

The citizens became angry and cursed at Heinrich every time Sentress spoke one by one.

“So, Yuno-hyung, please make sure I can get revenge on those bad guys!! I really want to take revenge with my own hands on those people who made my parents die, blinded my younger brother, and broke my heart!!”

As Sentress finished her testimony clearly with eyes full of anger, Yuno once again showed Sentress’s testimony and Jennifer’s saved image save magic into the sky, proving Heinrich and Dietrich’s guilt.

“It’s false!! It’s all fabricated lies!! And you said it was fun when I stabbed you!! You said you had fun too!!”

As Heinrich struggled and screamed, Centuria once again screamed in fear, and the citizens, who became even more angry at the sight, shouted in unison for execution.

First, to protect Centuria, Yuno ordered the soldiers standing next to Heinrich to gag him.

“With this, all the crimes committed by defendants Heinrich and Dietrich have been proven”

After Juno proved both of their sins, the Count of Redburg looked seriously worried and asked Juno.

“Then, what kind of sentence will His Highness the Third Prince seek for the criminal? Even as someone who has studied the law for a long time, I have no idea what kind of sentence should be imposed for this enormous crime…”

Looking at the troubled Count of Redburgh, Juno opened his mouth with a cold face.

“The criminal Heinrich is sentenced to death as a human pig, and Dietrich is sentenced to death by execution”

*Illustration of Centoria testifying in court (the dark background represents Centoria’s field of vision)