Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 216

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 216

145. The Trial (2)

Naturally, the families or representatives of the parties involved could not interfere in the trial.

This was different from the previous Academy trials, which were rarely held and mostly informal procedures.

The Grand Temple and Central Church had dispatched a bishop-level priest, so everything proceeded under strict procedures.

Therefore, even in this unfavorably developing situation, the families’ ‘active’ support could not be expected.

Instead, a joint representative attended to defend these five, but…

“Representative, are you now trying to minimize the defendants’ actions? From planned assault to simple assault?”

“N-no, it was just a fight between friends, wasn’t it?”

“But the fact remains that they planned the assault and it continued for about 2 hours.”

“Y-yes…”

Pitifully, even when it was his turn to speak, he seemed overwhelmed by the authority of the Imperial Church and couldn’t make proper rebuttals.

Of course, even if the Imperial Church hadn’t dispatched a bishop, the result would have been the same.

Everything was clear, and above all, the impact of victim Ernest’s testimony was too great.

‘H-how did this happen…’

‘P-please. Father. Save me!’

Bron’s gang cried out inwardly, but there seemed to be no one left to help them here.

How did this happen?

When they briefly met with their family members, they were only told not to worry.

But once they entered the courtroom, there were countless people, and an Imperial Church bishop-level priest had come to strictly conduct all procedures, and the intensity of interrogation was tremendous.

If one were tortured with words, it would probably feel like this.

“I ask the defendants again. Do you admit to the fact that you planned to take victim Ernest Dylan to a secluded place, assaulted him multiple times, gave him potions to heal his wounds, then woke him up and repeated the assault?”

Gradually trembling hands.

Cold sweat flowing.

This was no joke.

So suddenly, one of the gang members pointed his finger at Bron.

“W-we just did what we were told! This bastard Bron made us do it all! He said Ernest seemed to be getting cocky hanging around with Dane Sogress, and we needed to teach him a lesson!”

Then, like fire spreading across dry fields, the other three gang members also shouted in unison.

“Bron told us to prepare the potions too! He said we needed to crush him properly so he’d never dare to talk back or act up again!”

“Hey, you say something too! You made us do it all! When did we ever want to listen to you? You said if we didn’t obey, your father would destroy our families with his power!”

“That’s right! We’ve been bullied by this guy since we were little!”

It was internal strife.

The kind of internal strife commonly seen among children, dragging out others’ faults to hide their own mistakes.

Bron’s face turned bright red.

“Y-you bastards…!”

Archbishop Akad did not restrain the gang at this moment.

Perhaps that’s why.

“When did I ever do that!”

“You made us do it all! You bastard Bron! Always threatening us!”

“Ernest would have been friends with us if it weren’t for you!”

“Stop talking shit! Who bullied him together! You, Elrad! You treated Ernest like a slave!”

Amid the chaos of various revelations creating a farce, an unexpected statement burst out.

“Archbishop! This bastard Bron said he’d kill Dane Sogress someday too!”

A bomb had exploded.

“…!”

“Good heavens…”

“What is this…”

An irreversible bomb.

It became so quiet that even the speaker, Elrad, gasped and shut his mouth, but it couldn’t be taken back.

Words that drove the final nail into their already unfavorable situation.

Of course, this had nothing to do with this trial.

However, the problem was that his statement about killing Dane Sogress was exposed in a public place with countless people listening.

“Y-you crazy bastard…”

Finally, Bron jumped up to attack, and the Academy guards quickly subdued him.

“Separate the defendants.”

The guards separated the gang members and placed them apart in case of any incidents, and people clicked their tongues at this farce.

“It’s over, it’s finished.”

“Will they be expelled for this?”

“Oh my, what a waste… Count Sauer and Count Deringer are still influential families in the Western Region.”

“Those gang members are going to bring shame to five families.”

The Academy is located in the Capital.

And rumors in the Capital spread quickly.

Moreover, with so many people watching like this, this incident would soon become widely known.

Of course, they didn’t know yet.

What was happening in the five families right now. That the situation was so urgent that they couldn’t afford to care about this ‘mere’ trial.

“Before rendering judgment, I will ask student Ernest Dylan.”

In this situation, Archbishop Akad waited for the commotion to die down before asking.

“Do you forgive them, Ernest Dylan?”

Ernest was timid.

No, he had been timid.

Perhaps the old Ernest would have broken into cold sweat and trembled just from making eye contact with Bron in this situation.

But now it was different.

“I do not forgive them.”

Ernest spoke clearly without hesitation.

“Even if they offer any kind of apology?”

“I will not accept apologies. There were already many opportunities to apologize.”

At Ernest’s firm resolve, Bron’s gang’s faces turned pale.

“Ernest! I, I was wrong!”

“I’ll do whatever you say! I’m sorry! Please, please!”

Belated apologies burst forth.

The gang knew it too.

In this atmosphere, they would not only be expelled but also face severe punishment and disgrace from their families when they returned.

Their families would also be disgraced because of them.

Such disgrace was fatal in noble society.

But Ernest looked at Bron’s gang with a firm expression, said nothing, and stepped down from the platform.

“I ask.”

Finally, Archbishop Akad opened his mouth.

“Bron Sauer and 4 others. Five days ago, do you admit to the fact that you planned to lure your classmate Ernest Dylan, assaulted him for about 2 hours, and when he fainted during the assault, you gave him potions to heal him, woke him up, and repeated the assault?”

“W-we admit it! So please show mercy!”

“Please show mercy!”

Archbishop Akad continued speaking without being swayed by their wailing.

“Since the defendants have admitted, I will render judgment.”

The courtroom fell completely silent.

“Bron Sauer and 4 others had grown up together with victim Ernest Dylan since childhood. However, judging from testimony, their relationship was closer to a hierarchical one rather than friendship, and there appears to have been continuous violence since childhood. Therefore, this assault incident also appears to be one-sided and planned assault rather than a quarrel between friends, and Ernest Dylan’s use of archery in defense can be seen as justified self-defense.”

Archbishop Akad spoke without pause.

“Furthermore, it was planned, cruel, and involved relentlessly assaulting the victim for about 2 hours, with the victim fainting and nearly dying several times, and it was revealed that giving potions was not for complete recovery but merely ‘to assault the victim more,’ so severe punishment seems warranted.”

Gulp.

Dry saliva going down.

Soon-

“Bron Sauer and four others, I order the expulsion of the five defendants.”

“…!”

“N-no!”

Since it was the result everyone had expected, they nodded their heads, and only the Bron gang was denying reality.

But that wasn’t the end of it.

“Furthermore, the ringleaders Bron Sauer and Elrad Deringer are permanently banned from re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy. Additionally, they are prohibited from employment at any educational institution within the Empire.”

A shocking verdict was added to this.

No re-enrollment possible.

In this noble society, not graduating from the Imperial Academy meant….

It meant being unable to join mainstream society for life.

With this, everything was over.

“If you have objections to the verdict, please make a formal request. That is all.”

But even if they made a formal request, a new trial would never be held.

Such a request itself would be tantamount to rebelling against the authority of the Empire’s Central Church.

The ringleader Bron Sauer and Elrad Deringer were completely out of their minds.

Like people whose souls had left their bodies.

“It’s over, tsk tsk.”

“If you can’t graduate from the Academy, you can’t inherit either.”

“Well, unless you’re from the Imperial Palace, Duke Termion House, or Count Sogress House.”

Voices clicking their tongues in pity.

However, not a single person truly sympathized with them.

And at the very back of the courtroom.

One person mixed among the crowd, watching this trial.

‘The trial is over.’

Dane turned around after seeing the verdict he had been waiting for.

But this wasn’t the end.

‘Now it’s just the beginning.’

The five families that must be in chaos by now.

When that Bron gang gets expelled and returns to their families, they’ll see.

What consequences their mistakes brought to their families.

The power of families counted among the Empire’s finest is amazing even to me.

The expulsion process proceeded in an instant, and two days after the trial, the Bron gang was kicked out of the Academy along with their belongings from the dormitory.

Though they were picked up by carriages that seemed to be sent by their families, despite boarding elegant carriages, they looked quite lonely and shabby.

“The Swordsmanship Department… won’t be able to touch you anymore from now on. Right?”

At Leila’s words, who belonged to the Swordsmanship Department, I shook my head indifferently.

“I don’t know. Who knows what other guys might appear.”

That’s why I made sure this time.

By borrowing the family’s name.

Actually, my family members only agreed to what I said.

I did everything else.

Directly, that is.

However, the reputation of our Count Sogress House that my family built up and accumulated until now made all of this possible.

“The power of a family… it’s amazing.”

“These are things we’ve been using knowingly or unknowingly. Things we’ve been enjoying too.”

Yes, it’s amazing.

Making a formal trial happen for the first time in 10 years, going through swift expulsion procedures-

A bishop-level priest was dispatched from the Empire’s Central Church to prevent the Bron gang’s families from interfering in the middle.

“That’s why you have to use it carefully. Since you’re doing something in the family’s name.”

“…I didn’t know you would handle it like this, Dane, but now I somewhat understand what your feelings must have been.”

I nodded at those words.

Like before, I could have resolved it on my own without involving the family.

Tying up the five guys and beating them up nicely, or tormenting them with magic, or making them obey my words.

But I didn’t feel the need to do that.

The crimes those bastards committed were too great for that.

“Actually, I thought you were scary, Dane.”

“Did you?”

“Yeah. But thinking about it now, I think it’s understandable. Ernest must have… had an incredibly hard time all this while.”

By the way, Ernest recovered well.

He became healthy again, and from yesterday, he even started training in Bonia Forest as if nothing had happened.

He had become stronger.

And he made a resolution.

Someday, if he meets Bron again, he’ll fight him fairly in a duel and win.

“Oh right, those five families… it seems like chaos broke out? Father told me.”

“They probably won’t be completely ruined.”

They won’t be ruined.

Actually, for a family to be completely ruined over their children’s affairs, they’d have to commit something like insulting the Imperial Palace or serial murder.

However, they’ll definitely suffer quite a big blow.

The Imperial Palace, having caught their weakness, will properly grab and shake them so they can’t even make a peep.

I reported corruption related to profitable businesses from all five families.

“…How do you even come up with such ideas? At most, I would have just sent a letter to my family….”

Well, that’s because what I saw and heard in my previous life were such things.

There were quite a few nobles who came to the battlefield in exile.

Should I say they were people who committed crimes during wartime and were forcibly dragged there to have their crimes forgiven?

“Well, the Swordsmanship Department is finished now. Are you okay?”

“Me? What’s there for me to be okay or not okay about? Of course it was my friend’s matter.”

The Swordsmanship Department.

Following Conrad, now even the Bron gang.

They probably won’t be able to say they’re the Academy’s most prestigious department anywhere for a while.

“I don’t care. What’s there for me to be depressed about just because the Swordsmanship Department’s honor falls a bit? I just need to practice my swordsmanship diligently.”

I chuckled.

She used to be full of pride in the Swordsmanship Department, but apparently not anymore.

“And the Danter Cup is coming up soon. Everyone will be busy worrying about that anyway, so they’ll quickly forget about Conrad, Bron, and these incidents, right?”

“Danter Cup? Ah.”

The Danter Cup.

A kind of tournament where boys and girls under 15 from the Empire gather to determine the winner.

I recalled that Leila had won the Danter Cup the previous year.

“Dane, you’re definitely going to participate too, right?”

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