Chapter 186: Trial (2) (Teaser)
“Quite the act you put on. The outcome wasn’t bad at all.”
The trial was momentarily in a lull.
The emperor had summoned Karyl to the main palace. Once they were alone, he unbuttoned his uniform roughly, as though it was suffocating him, and sat down on his throne.
“With the Teleportation Magic Circle, it will only take half a day for the Green Knights to reach Piasta. In the meantime, the vassals of both sides will be racking their brains.”
Titan Shutean sipped on his sweet tea as if he were discussing someone else’s affairs.
“Can’t even drink water comfortably anymore. Isn’t that right?”
The emperor looked at Karyl with a self-deprecating smile.
“Nobles don’t drink water anyway, do they? They think only commoners drink tasteless water,” Karyl responded calmly, causing the emperor to click his tongue and chuckle.
“That’s not entirely true. I do drink water. As you’ve said, nobles try to distinguish themselves from commoners in pointless ways…”
“Are you saying you don’t care about such things?” Karyl asked curiously.
“There are countless poisonous herbs out there. My father, the former emperor, also died from poison in his tea.”
“So you prefer water to tea?”
“Maybe, maybe not.”
Karyl chuckled bitterly at the emperor’s ambiguous answer.
Like father, like son. Since the father didn’t drink tea, they poisoned the water instead.
“I have a question for you.”
The emperor had summoned Karyl because he wanted to ask something that had been on his mind during the trial.
By principle, Karyl should have been held in solitary confinement...
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