Year 7445, Month 10, Day 7
It's finally become the day of judgement.
Basutoral and the others anticipated this and started negotiating to stock up on the necessary ingredients for sausages before we entered the dungeon last time. Thanks to that we were all busy yesterday. Basutoral left in the morning alone in order to stock up on the pig's bowels so he wasn't around but we ended up with an amount of meat that we couldn't cover with just one meat mincer. It was close to being convinced with tears but I was essentially threatened by everyone's begging so I ended up having to make another meat mincer while my nose bleeds out again.
When I finally finished making the second meat mincer and went to wipe my bleeding nose while basking in the feelings of satisfaction, I could hear the noises of everyone enjoying themselves from upstairs. Everyone else was having fun making use of the first meat mincer to make minced pork and it seems they're in the process of sausage making. Under Catherine's leading they're trying to fill the casings with minced meat but there's a bit of a trick to it so it seems they weren't able to do it well.
"I'll do it next."
"Let me do it after that."
"Koloil-sama, you put your left hand like this."
"Ah, it tore.."
"It's fine if it's just a bit."
"Isn't it simple!"
"Zenom-san sure is skillful!"
And just like that, I can everyone's voices like they're really having a great time.
Even though were right nearby, there should only be one floor difference, but during that I've been alone staring at a wall with my hands over some ores while clenching my teeth and bleeding from my nose while concentrating so I feel a bit lonely but I guess this much can't be helped. While covered in sweat I brought it up to them and they raised cheers over the meat mincer I just made and as Ralpha plundered it from me, everyone else said I was too dirty from the sweat to be around the food products, so I was chased out. This is hard to accept.
Even then just filling the casings ended up taking them into the night and after that they had to work through the night smoking and boiling them. Catherine, Terry, and John were used to the operation but because of the problem of stamina they ended up going to sleep early in the night and after that everyone ended up working the night with almost no sleep under the instruction of Giberuti.
That labor ended up bearing fruit and in just a single night they made close to 2,000 sausages.
If we end up not being able to sell them tomorrow like this it would be hard to make eye contact. The money doesn't matter at all but all of that trouble being for nothing is mentally painful. Zenom, Giberuti, Zulu, and Angela the pure Orth people said, "It'll absolutely sell. If it doesn't then it's fine if we buy it all with the money we've saved." so since they were willing to say it that far we ended up making them.
We put an application for a stall in the plaza in front of the government office immediately after the notice was placed up and we even purchased a proper table, extra stove, frying pans, and such.
"I remember back to the school festival."
"Ah, that, I was thinking the same thing. It was fun right.."
Toris and Bel were whispering to each other while setting up but it seems they're having fun.
"Are the school festivals for college fun?"
"Since we only know the culture festival of our school after all.."
Ralpha and Gwine were asking Miduchi.
"The scale of them is different after all. They're fun!"
Hearing that Ralpha and Gwine laughed while going to the inn to get the sausages for selling. I stand next to Miduchi and call out to her as well.
"Come to think of it~ self-defense university had a festival in commemoration for the opening of the school, that was pretty fun. Since there were exchange students from the armies of foreign countries as well, everyone would setup imitation shops with the cooking of their home town. I went around eating with my friends until we were about to collapse."
"..If you have friends right..Wouldn't it be fun.."
"Eh?"
"I, only went to the school festival of my university during the first year..Since I didn't have any friends to go around with it was boring..After that every year during the period of the school festival I would play net games and go around killing monsters.."
"I..I see..But, you have them now right? Friends."
"..Yeah. Today, I'm in charge at lunch after all! We're going to sell a lot!"
Isn't good if they can make up for their past?
As long as they make sure to properly not forget about the fact that it's business it's fine for it to be fun. There's nothing bad about that at all.
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I sit down next to Binnodo.Gekudo(Binsu) on one of the seats for witnesses while wearing my high class formal clothes that have no use other these sorts of occasions. I guess Binsu is considerably tense, he's been fidgeting over and over next to me as if he can't calm down.
"Gr..Gr..Greed-kun I'm amazed you can remain that calm.."
Binsu gulped and started talking to me in a small voice.
"..I'm used to it after all.."
Attending a day of judgement like this..how many times has it been again? I appear in it pretty often right. Of course I still think I've properly watched the lashings and hangings from the audience with everyone else while drinking alcohol and eating something more often than like this though.
Since we the {Slaughterers} center around reincarnated people, excluding Zenom and my slaves, the majority of us are still brats and don't really have much interest in the enforcement of punishments so we often come with the feel of viewing sakura trees bloom while drinking and eating. Though things will be busy this time.
"I see..It's my first time and hi..his majesty the King will directly talk to us right? I..I really doubt I can calm down.."
Binsu's knees are still trembling the same as usual.
"Whether or not you'll end up directly having to talk to his majesty, depends on Koritto and the others response..If they deny the charges then you'll be called as witness but if it's a judgement they accept then you won't end up being called. Well I think you'll probably end up being called though. In the first place we've gathered quite a bit of evidence up until yesterday so it's not like there's any problem right?"
Ever since the incident roughly two months ago, the members of the former {Sun.Ray} went around gathering evidence and submitted several pieces of it to the knight group. I had also gained information through Miduchi's connections that the Rindobel couple hadn't done any activity towards collecting the charms in the capital since the start of the year.
Today I heard they've even called the one who commanded and summarized that investigation, Tukerin, a famous healer in the capital. The crimes of the Rindobel couple are of great interest to the town of Baldukk so they're scheduled to take place just before lunch when the most attention is gathered so Tukerin still hasn't arrived here yet.
Just like that, the judgements steadily continue and along with that time continues to pass. The judgements which started at 8 in the morning exceeded tens of cases already and it's reached close to lunch in no time at all. Tukerin had already arrived and was sitting next to me with an uninterested face. After all the dark elf I caught sight of in the capital previously was this old man. Judging from his well ordered features he was probably quite the good looking guy when he was younger.
Finally the Rindobel couple, Harukein.Fumizu(Haruku), and Binsukol.Zemyunel(Bin) were brought out to the court stand like place. The King glanced at the documents for a bit and then flatly declared the charges while asking if they accept their crimes or not. His expression was considerably harsh right from the start. Judging from it, he probably already heard the general outline the other day or this morning.
"..Such charges as these of the crime of fraud, furthermore the same crime of fraud towards a noble, the appropriate punishment for the suspects KroittoRindobel and Meiria.Rindobel who are recognized as the principal offenders, is 26 lashings with a whip, a fine of 125,000,000 Z (125 gold coins), and decapitation along with their heads displayed on the prison gates for one week.
Also, suspects Harukein.Fumizu and Binsukol.Zemyunel are recognized as serious offenders for the same crimes and each should receive punishments of 21 lashings with a whip, a fine of 100,000,000 Z, and death by hanging. Suspects, do you accept the charges and submit to your punishment?"
The Rindobel couple denied their crimes. Haruku silently shook his head up and down to accept it and Bin denied the crimes the same as the couple. Well it's just as expected. The duration of my {Suggestion} spell has long since ended but since he was under the influence of it once, it won't overturn the fact that for the period of time he was under the influence from it he deeply thought about the things he did to himself.
Around now he should be thinking something like, "I want to get revenge on the couple that I dedicated myself to that extent who abandoned me. For that sake it's necessary to reveal all of our crimes. Obviously I won't be able to escape punishment in the process of that either."
Since Haruku obediently accepted his crimes his assets had long since been confiscated and all of it was submitted to the knight group but in the first place it wasn't enough to reach the amount of the fine. Also, since he obediently accepted his crimes he'll most likely just get executed by hanging and most likely go without being lashed with a whip.
In any case, putting aside Haruku since there's still those who haven't accepted their crimes we'll end up being called as witnesses along with the evidence. In terms of order first off the evidence is stated. The knight group of Baldukk reads out the evidence submitted by the members of the former {Sun.Ray}.
Among those was the crimes they committed in the past confessed to by Haruku and the matter of the magician Santosu(the fact that the money he paid wasn't returned) who died in the dungeon in the spring of this year was included as well. Also, the fact that nobles were included(referring to Binsu) as the victims was reported without missing a thing.
The King silently listened to those. And then, it reached the stage of questioning the witnesses. Binsu, me, and Tukerin moved over to the witness seats near where the King was standing on the platform. We all took the same retainer's greeting but since it's a trial we were made to stand up right away.
"Witnesses pledge to the God of Law and Truth that you everything you speak is without falsehood."
The three of us make the pledge one after the other.
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