Chapter 688 Fake court (1)
Once General Gardner was taken in, we didn't have any business with the rest of his family.
He was the only one that we were after in the first place, so he would be the only one that we would take in.
Though after what happened next, it would be hard to say that we wouldn't have anything for his family. It was just that we couldn't touch his family or his fortunes until the next part came.
When we came back, we didn't hide ourselves as much as we did when we went to capture General Gardner.
In fact, we even paraded him in front of everyone in the capital as if we were showing off his guilt.
General Gardner had an ugly look when he was being paraded around like this, but he never allowed his spirits to break. He had a fierce and defiant look on his face as he was being marched through the streets.
Even when people pointed at him and whispered, he didn't seem to waver at all.
It was as if there was something that he believed in that would get him out of this situation.
So he remained firm and waited to see what would happen next.
We didn't really care since this was only the first part of our plan.
Even if General Gardner didn't react to this first part of the plan, there was still a second part of the plan that we would be using on him. There was no way that he would be able to ignore the second part of the plan.
General Gardner was led through the streets by us until we arrived at the special prison that was near the castle.
There were two prisons in the capital.
There was one where the normal prisoners went that was located near the slums of the town. That place was where most of the criminals that were caught would be brought, though it was only most because there would be criminals that would receive the death sentence.
This was a fantasy world set in Medieval times, so the death penalty was actually a common thing.
It wasn't strange to see executions being held once in a while.
This was the case even in my town, but that had gone down by quite a bit after Rose took over.
The second prison that was near the castle only had a few prisoners in the first place.
That was because this prison served a very special purpose.
The purpose of this prison was to hold noble prisoners.
These were prisoners who had once been nobles that had committed some kind of offense and had their titles stripped from them. So they were just waiting in that prison to be judged or were serving out their prison sentences.
This prison was to separate the nobles from the commoners since in the first place, the nobles wouldn't survive in the commoner prison.
Nobles attracted quite a bit of hatred from the commoners in the first place, so it would only be a matter of time before they were killed if they were placed in a commoner prison.
At the same time, the nobles were quite soft in the first place, so it wasn't as if they could survive in a commoner prison for long. That place would truly be considered hell for nobles if they were put in that place.
So General Gardner was brought to this prison for nobles.
When he was put into the cell, he looked at me and the fourth prince who had come along and said, "You'll regret this. Do you know who I am?"
The two of us shook our heads with bitter smiles as we looked at him.
It seemed that even with all of this, he still wouldn't learn his lesson.
In that case, there was nothing for us to say here.
It was better to leave him to slowly realize his fate when what came next came for him.
So the two of us just left General Gardner there.
Even when he was alone, General Gardner said, "Just you wait, you'll see who you're messing with. When those people behind me step up, it'll be the two of you who will be begging for mercy."
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It only took a single day for the rumours of General Gardner's crimes of treason to spread.
But it would have been strange if it didn't spread since there had been that large commotion yesterday.
He had been paraded in front of everyone, so it would be strange if they didn't know about what happened to him.
This morning, General Gardner was allowed to leave the prison.
But that wasn't because he had been freed.
Rather, it was because he was being escorted to the court where he would be standing trial for his crime of treason.
This was without a doubt the largest trial that would be held in this kingdom in many years now.
So there were many people that paid attention to this trial when it happened.
There were many people that wanted to ask General Gardner questions, but they were all stopped by the royal guards who came to guard the trial. So even if General Gardner wanted to say a few words to defend himself, he just wasn't given that opportunity.
When he arrived in court, General Gardner didn't show any signs of fear at all.
Rather, he just stood there behind the defendant's podium with a smug look on his face.
It was as if he could already see himself being pardoned of this crime and being allowed to leave.
The way that he looked, it was almost as if he found all of this to be a burden.
There was a reason why he had this look on his face.
It was because he recognized the people that were in the jury.
These were nobles that he was close to, so he was confident that he would be able to get out of this sham trial.
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