I’ll Be the Heroine’s Competent Divorce Partner - Chapter 99

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Chapter 99

David blinked his eyes rapidly as he looked around at the jury members, then showed a sharp smile across his face.

“Jury members, I trust you wouldn’t believe such nonsense.”

David simply shrugged his shoulders.

“Lady Scofield had a one-sided crush on me first, he said. She even fell into delusions and tried to frame me. In such a situation, what could I possibly do?”

His expression looked so wronged.

It was to the extent that David truly seemed like the victim.

“If you’re men, you’d all understand this difficulty. I mean, I couldn’t tell her not to like me, could I? Instead of a woman showing understanding…!”

“……”

Isabel was simply at a loss for words.

Marisa had directly set Catherine up with David, and David was even directly supporting Catherine’s living expenses.

Yet he had no hesitation in playing dumb.

‘How can he be so shameless.’

She didn’t want to even exchange words with David anymore.

The time she had lived as the wife of such a man was simply disgusting.

“This is still the plaintiff’s testimony time! The defendant should speak after obtaining the right to speak!”

The judge, unable to watch any longer, snapped sharply.

David let out a scoffing laugh and plopped down heavily in his seat.

At his brazen behavior, Isabel couldn’t contain her anger and clenched her molars tightly.

‘I mustn’t waver.’

She didn’t know what reason David had for holding his head up so high.

But for now, she had to focus on the trial.

Isabel opened her mouth calmly again.

“Your Honor, I request a witness.”

“Permission granted to bring in the witness.”

The courtroom door opened.

And the person entering from beyond was……

“Isn’t that Princess Laventess?!”

“My goodness, why is the Princess here!”

Elodie von Laventess.

She was the one and only legitimate daughter of the Laventess Ducal House.

Even David, who had been maintaining an attitude of righteousness throughout, was shocked this time and opened his eyes wide.

“E, Elodie?!”

Why on earth was that girl here?

He thought she was quietly holed up in the townhouse!

But Elodie didn’t even glance at David.

Instead, her blue gaze was fixed solely on Isabel.

She nodded slightly.

‘Stay strong.’

As if saying that.

Isabel, who had been pretending to be calm but was inwardly tense, felt her heart ease a little.

‘Yes, it’s okay.’

She seemed to feel a subtle warmth from the clothes she was wearing.

The clothes that Elodie and the people from the dress shop had thoughtfully made just for Isabel.

Also, clothes that fully revealed Isabel’s will to become independent.

Because those people’s warm hearts emanated from the clothes.

‘I’m not afraid.’

Isabel steeled her resolve once again.

Elodie, standing at the witness stand, took the witness oath in a calm voice.

“I, Elodie von Laventess, swear to give only truthful testimony without falsehood according to my conscience.”

Elodie, that girl is really…!

David glared at his younger sister with bulging eyes.

“I wish to testify about two points of contention. First is the daily humiliation and degradation inflicted upon the Duchess at the Laventess Ducal House.”

……Was she really going to side with Isabel?

Abandoning me, her one and only elder brother?

David felt dizzy with rising anger.

“During her stay at the Laventess Ducal House, the Duchess suffered extreme mental anguish. Most of it was due to unfair treatment from family members.”

But regardless of whether David’s face turned red and blue, Elodie’s words continued clearly.

“The current Dowager Duchess, who is privately my stepmother, has subjected the Duchess to all kinds of humiliation since the marriage. In the process, the Duchess became isolated.”

Elodie lifted her head slightly.

Her voice gained strength.

“But the biggest problem was that the Dowager Duchess didn’t entrust the family’s internal affairs to the Duchess at all. Instead, she directly controlled the family’s household herself.”

“That’s……”

“How could that be.”

At the same time, faint sighs flowed from the gallery.

Although it was true that the Dowager Duchess should be respected as the family elder.

The family’s internal affairs were strictly the Duchess’s domain.

Not entrusting internal affairs to the lady of the house was itself a kind of overreach.

“Furthermore, my elder brother, instead of looking after his wife’s difficulties, allowed the Dowager Duchess to treat and despise the Duchess. He also joined with the Dowager Duchess to directly insult the Duchess.”

Pausing briefly at that point, Elodie glanced at David.

Then she concluded with a clear voice.

“I think you can easily guess my elder brother’s inappropriate attitude just by seeing how he continues to interrupt the Duchess’s testimony.”

……What?!

David’s face turned bright red at being hit right on target.

But Elodie’s testimony continued.

“Second is the inappropriate relationship with Lady Scofield. My elder brother claimed that Lady Scofield had a one-sided crush on him, but this is completely different from the facts.”

Was the story of Duke Laventess’s great affair finally coming out?

Curiosity gleamed in the spectators’ eyes.

“My elder brother and the Lady did have an inappropriate relationship. It was a fact known secretly within the Laventess Ducal House.”

“What…!”

David’s eyes blazed as he tried to jump up from his seat once again.

However, he barely calmed down only because the lawyer next to him desperately stopped him.

“As evidence, there are advertisements that were published in the daily newspaper. They called each other C and D and confessed their passionate feelings for each other. Embarrassingly, I was the one who suggested that advertisement.”

“You suggested it, Princess? Why?”

The judge asked Elodie with a puzzled expression.

Elodie put on a guilt-ridden expression and drooped her eyelashes.

“Until then, I didn’t know my elder brother was having an inappropriate relationship with Lady Scofield. I thought he was trying to give the Duchess a surprise event, but I was shocked when different initials appeared.”

It was truly a clever way of speaking.

Moreover, a beauty’s dejected face had a truly amazing effect.

“My goodness…!”

“Could that be true?”

The spectators buzzed like a swarm of bees.

David, his nerves on edge, roughly scolded his younger sister.

“Elodie, what are you doing right now! How dare you spout such ridiculous nonsense in front of me?!”

Meanwhile, Elodie responded to that fierce threat in a most despicable way.

Pretending to be terrified, she opened her eyes wide like a startled rabbit.

“I-I’m scared……”

She trembled with a thin voice and turned her gaze away.

David was truly going insane.

“Get down from there right now?! Your Honor, this is perjury! She’s conspiring with Isabel to give false testimony!”

But the judge did not move according to David’s wishes.

Rather, he glared at David who was furious to the top of his head.

“Duke Laventess!”

At that stern call, David flinched and stiffened his shoulders.

“If you interrupt one more time, know that you will be punished for contempt of court!!”

Damn it, shit!

David ground his teeth furiously.

But a thread of reason whispered that he must not provoke the judge’s temper any further.

“All of this content is the truth without a single lie, and I believe the evidence submitted in advance will also support my testimony.”

Having driven the nail in like that, Elodie politely bowed to the judge and stepped back.

“Thank you.”

“I have heard your statement well, Princess Laventess.”

The judge nodded and turned his gaze to David.

“From now on, I will hear the defendant’s statement.”

David sprang to his feet as if he had been waiting for this moment.

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