Heir to the Kingdom of 1.4 billion people

Chapter 66 Trial
Spark Hall.

Under the crystal dome that reflects countless wars like the sky, the torches on the twelve obsidian prisms are burning brightly, as if they will never go out.

Xia Mingyu came here holding a stack of papers with indictments of the crimes committed by the villains.

Tamerlan was teaching Thirteen to read at the long table. When they saw him coming, they both quickly stood up and saluted.

"Your Highness, I mistakenly thought you wanted to have a good dream tonight, so I overstepped my bounds. Please forgive me."

Tamerlan apologized.

No way. Is such a small thing worth apologizing for?

The corners of Xia Mingyu's mouth twitched. He always felt that after traveling to another world, he had lost the human rights of a normal person and could only be treated with caution as a Godzilla-like existence in his homeland.

"No problem, you two come and help me look at these."

Xia Mingyu sat down in the main seat and scattered the thick stack of indictment papers in his hand on the long table.

Tamerlan picked up a piece of paper casually, and the content on it made him frown immediately.

Moore, the owner of the Golden Jasmine brothel, is known to have killed about 17 people under his orders, forced 31 women into prostitution, and 7 men into prostitution. The coercion he used was extremely cruel, and he is recommended to be executed.

The crime was jointly identified by twenty prostitutes and thirty townspeople of Wolf Fang Town, and they confessed to it after being tortured. The torturer was Danielle Martha.

"Your Highness, what are these..." Tamerlan couldn't help but ask.

"I've recently been living in a territory. At my persuasion, the local lord decided to carry out a justice execution and clear out all the brothels, gangs, hooligans, and so on in the territory."

"These are the indictments of the arrested villains. I need you to help me look at them and decide how to judge their crimes?" Xia Mingyu said calmly.

If he were to judge the case alone, there might be some bias. However, if Tamerlan and Thirteen, two righteous men who share the same will as him, were to join the trial, it should be fair and just.

"God of the Sun and Justice, Your Highness Mingyu, you are the most righteous person I have ever met. I never imagined that a noble person like you, who stands at the top of the world, could be so compassionate to the common people."

Upon hearing this, Tamerlan's blue eyes flashed with reverence, as if Xia Mingyu in front of him was not a living person, but a bright light guiding his path.

hiss!
It was the first time that Xia Mingyu was stared at by a man with such a burning gaze. He turned his head to the other side with a chill.

On the bronze seat to his left, Thirteen was quietly flipping through the indictments. After these days of literacy training, he was already able to understand these common characters.

Although his face was covered with countless scars, Xia Mingyu inexplicably felt a sense of heaviness and depression.

"Your Highness, I am honored to judge these villains with you. I will offer my humble suggestions to the best of my ability. If they conflict with your decision, please disregard my advice and follow your heart."

Tamerlan bowed slightly and said humbly.

"Your Highness, I feel the same way." Thirteen said in a deep voice.

Although he did not think he had the ability to judge the evildoer, since His Highness had spoken, he had to do it.

rustling.

On the long bronze table, the three of them first briefly read through the indictments.

"Your Highness, I believe that the first priority in trying criminals is to determine the standard for the death penalty."

Tamerlan frowned.

The indictment listing the crimes of the criminals, along with the identifications of some of the victims, made his scalp tingle. Rape, amputation of limbs and mailing them to parents, and the sight of human and animal abuse made Tamerlan's hands clench unconsciously, a murderous intent brewing in his azure eyes.

As a paladin, although he had dealt with vicious incidents in the City of Corona during his patrols, it was the holy city of the Church of the Sun after all. Under the glorious light of the Sun God, not many villains dared to commit crimes against the wind.

Therefore, it was also the first time that he came into contact with such a shocking crime with his own hands.

"I agree with you. Tell me what you think are the criteria for the death penalty." Xia Mingyu said lightly.

"When Joshua Clay, the King of the Stars and the first great nation in human history, compiled the oldest legal code, he mentioned 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' as ​​the standard of criminal law."

"I believe that any evildoer with the blood of innocent people on his hands should be sentenced to death," Tamerlan said slowly.

"As for the evildoers who did not cause the death of innocent people, they will be imprisoned for an indefinite period of time depending on the severity of their crimes," he added.

"I think your opinion on the death penalty is very reasonable, but I don't quite agree with it," Xia Mingyu changed the subject.

"If all the evildoers who haven't caused the deaths of innocent people were imprisoned, the daily food consumption would be a considerable amount."

Xia Mingyu's expression turned cold. In this medieval-like world, food has always been in short supply.

Even if he had to feed those villains bran used to feed animals, he would not accept it. At least animals are still useful!
"Why not sell them as slaves and use the money to improve the lives of the victims?" Tamerlan thought for a moment.

This guy, although he is a paladin, is quite ruthless.

Xia Mingyu glanced at the handsome young man in front of him in surprise, then glanced at Thirteen with the corner of his eyes. Seeing that his expression was unchanged, he continued:

"It's a good proposal, but I think slavery itself is a system that will be full of sin as long as it exists. Sooner or later I will eradicate it, so I reject it." Xia Mingyu said calmly.

"Thirteen, what do you think?" Xia Mingyu asked the giant man who remained silent and just focused on the indictment.

"These people are all sinners. I think they can all be killed." After a long silence, the giant said in a deep voice.

During the time the two of them had just been talking, he had already read through all the indictments. Even the criminals with the least serious crimes had committed crimes such as rape or robbery.

Regardless of the reason for committing a crime, no matter how serious the crime is, everyone should be classified as a sinner.

Since he is a sinner, he deserves to be destroyed, including himself.

Xia Mingyu: “.”

Damn, one is radical, the other is extreme, after all this time, am I the dove?

"Okay, I'm going to sentence three-quarters of the villains here to death first, and we'll discuss the rest later. Please help me pick out those with more serious crimes first." Xia Mingyu sighed lightly.

He is a kind man, so he only kills three quarters of them, and lets the remaining quarter slowly starve to death.
"Your Highness, although this brothel thug didn't kill anyone, he raped five prostitutes and one young prostitute. I recommend the death penalty."

"Your Highness, this gang member has forced many townspeople into homelessness and forced them to bear unpayable debts. I recommend the death penalty."

When the prisms of the Spark Hall gradually became transparent and the dreamers were about to wake up at dawn, the three people who had been busy all night finally confirmed the death penalty list.

"Thank you for your help. I will build a guillotine so that all the victims can see with their own eyes the heads of the villains who oppressed them piled up like worthless garbage and then burned completely." Xia Mingyu said calmly.

"My pleasure, Your Highness."

Tamerlan and Thirteen looked at each other and said in unison.

(End of this chapter)