“W-what?”
“How can I make such an elaborate move?
I don’t have any skills...”
I quickly pulled my hand back, and continued to speak with my shoulders hanging helplessly as usual.
If I couldn't do it, I couldn't do it, so I wanted to at least bring it up.
“There is no way I could do something like this, I was almost subjected to disciplinary punishment for my last move...”
“Namiya, that, that!”
“All of this is taught by you, Team Leader...”
“Hey, it's really you!”
Osun, his anger reaching the tip of his head, raised his hand to hit me on the cheek.
Honestly, it was okay for me to get hit once.
I was often beaten by the Baron and his wife.
'This is cheap.'
Compared to my happiness, the slap was really not a big deal.
But suddenly someone came running like lightning and broke Osun's arm.
“Aaaaa!”
Osun jumped up and shouted.
At the same time, the guards came rushing in from afar.
“Your Majesty!”
“Your Majesty the Empress!
You shouldn’t run like that!”
Surprisingly, the person who broke Osun's arm was the Empress.
The Empress smiled triumphantly and shouted.
“Let's go!
It's time to start the trial!”
“Your Majesty!
No, if you suddenly ran away like this...”
“I'm afraid this bastard is going to run away!
Why do you leave this suspicious man wandering around alone?”
Then one of the guards sighed and said:
“The only person in this trial who is not allowed to wander alone is Your Majesty the Empress...
This person is a witness and an accused...
Please don’t forget...”
“Oh, that's right.
Right.
I forgot.”
The Empress blinked and spoke as if she was sorry.
But she did not let go of Osun's arm, which she was holding tightly.
“Well, anyway, let's go.
It's true that we have to go there, right?”
The Empress winked at me with a laugh.
She even whispered a little: “Give me the hand signal!”
Thus, Osun was surrounded by guards and dragged along with the Empress.
His back looked like that of a cow being dragged into a slaughterhouse.
As I looked at this figure, I thought coldly.
“This guy…there’s really something.” He asked for the motion to be passed, so even if he became a wanted criminal, he was planning to escape.
Now that it came to this, I was going to keep going until the end.
Well, it wasn't because I almost got hit.
It was just an added bonus.
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After the break, the trial began again.
The Empress's complexion was as good as ever.
In contrast, Osun's face had become more and more pale since the Empress had shouted: “This man is suspicious.”
“Let's resume the trial.”
announced the already exhausted Minister of Justice.
The Empress smiled and looked at me.
She looked like she was eagerly anticipating what she was going to do.
Now there was no longer any need to keep the law, and all that remained was for us to exchange manual signals that had been previously agreed upon.
[Give me the hand signal!]
Just as it was said before.
It's time for me to smile and make the hand signal.
'Hmm?'
Unexpectedly, I made eye contact with someone else.
What?
Could it be me?
I think you're looking at me?
It was Kiaros, who was sitting in the front.
He was definitely looking at me with eyes burning like the sun.
‘D-Have I been arrested?
Have I been arrested?
Well, what and how much do you know?'
Why else would he pick me out of all those people and look directly at me, especially when I was right at the back.
I blinked for a moment, and Kiaros' lips slowly parted.
-Do your best.
The words those lips spoke were short, so I could tell just by looking at the shape of his mouth.
-Perfectly.
A mysterious smile strangely mixed with the ruler's bossy expression.
Just seeing him made my heart drop.
'I-I'm scared!'
Although the Empress was an empress, she was not a descendant of a dragon, so she felt like she was dealing with an ordinary person.
As expected, just making eye contact with the dragon would make the body tense.
'What should I do...'
Ordinary humans were instinctively intimidated by dragons.
Furthermore, the Crown Prince was the highest-ranking official in the civil service.
The answer I can give was predetermined.
-Yes.
I froze, and responded by moving my lips as well.
-I will do what I can.
In the midst of this, the trial resumed in earnest.
كان أوسون يصرخ في المقام الأول حول براءته، مدعيًا أن ذلك كان سخيفًا، في حين أصرت الإمبراطورة على أنه كان مشبوهًا.
…Anyone can see that the defendant and plaintiff have changed.
I made a small heart sign with my fingers towards the Empress.
This meant “just insist on it first.” The Empress shouted excitedly.
"I saw this man in the palace!
My intuition that I honed on the battlefield screamed at me!
This bastard is extremely suspicious!"
“Your Majesty, you should start defending yourself...”
The Minister of Justice appeared embarrassed.
It was then.
'Hmm?'
While the Empress and the Minister of Justice were arguing.
Kiaros looked at me with a confused expression.
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[I'm not in a position to say that…]
Earlier, Namiya seemed a little bitter when she said that.
Kiaros suddenly remembered the disturbance Osun had caused.
Namiya saved the Crown Prince with the scrolls she made, but was told by her superiors that she was "going too far."
‘Indeed, with this level of ability, the president should follow Namiye…’
He remembered how helpless she looked with her head down when Osun scolded her.
So Chiaros looked at her on impulse and opened his lips.
-Do what you can, to the fullest.
It had been good up to that point.
But Namiya noticed this and answered.
But…
'Hmm?'
In fact, Kiaros couldn't read the shape of Namiah's lips.
Namiya's mouth was small and the distance between her and it was very far.
How on earth did Fron read that?
‘…Is there a scroll that improves eyesight?’
Only then did he realize the identity of the paper crammed in Fron's pocket.
But apart from that, he didn't have the scroll.
He thought he knew what "yes" amounted to.
But the next words didn't make any sense.
‘What?’
At that time, like a flash of lightning, the words she said earlier came to my mind.
[You just have to follow what I tell you to do.]
Kiaros frowned and thought.
'Copy what you're doing?' Is this what you mean?'
‘How dare she now look at the Crown Prince and ask him to imitate her?’
'I've been merciful to her, but this is too bold….'
Kiaros, who was thinking instinctively, was stunned.
Osun probably thought the same thing.
The president ignored the words of those below him.
'I've given her some kind of permission to proceed with this trial as she pleases...
Am I applying a double standard to myself?'
That's when Chiaros was doing some puzzling self-reflection.
suddenly.
She made a heart with her fingers.
'...Hmm?'
Kiaros blinked and hesitated for a moment, skeptical.
'Is there any reason for her to do this?
Is there a hidden meaning?
'I don't know what that means, but should I copy it?'
I asked her to do it perfectly.
'Well, it doesn't seem particularly difficult…'
Frowning, Kiaros raised his hand to make a small heart with his fingers.
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'W-What is this?'
Kiaros was strange!
With the most serious expression in the world, he sat there seriously and made a heart with his fingers.
His excessively solemn face made the scene shockingly comical.
'What, did I misunderstand something?'
But the situation did not allow for the misunderstanding to be cleared up.
Fortunately, almost everyone was looking at the Empress and the Minister of Justice.
They were causing chaos, with Osun twitching in the middle.
“This man should be killed immediately!
How dare he deceive the imperial family, I will tear him apart and scatter his pieces in all directions!!”
“Strictly speaking, the person suspected of deceiving the imperial family is Her Majesty...”
And at that moment she looked at the Empress.
No matter what Kiaros did, I couldn't stop here.
No one would be watching me, the one sitting in the back, but there would be people watching Kiaros…
'There is nothing we can do...'
But the embarrassment will be on Kiaros, not me.
As for cleaning up the mess...
As an adult, he should mind his own business.
‘If you gesture with the wrong hand here, even Her Majesty could get confused.’
Osun was an obvious suspect; He even thought about fleeing.
I made a bigger heart with both hands.
It meant: “Keep going, do more.”
Translated: «Яєяє✨»
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