35 Chapter 35: Usurp (1/2)
*knock
*knock*
In the middle of the night, Caesar was abruptly woken up from the door knocking, Sebastian's worried voice soon sounded out from behind the door.
”Young master, officials are here to take you to the king for interrogation”
Caesar got out of bed slowly and put on a suit, he smiled widely as if he knew this would happen and walked out of the door.
Sebastian bowed respectively and lead Caesar towards the main hall, inside the hall were three or so well dressed ministers and 5 armored knights holding handcuffs.
Caesar wasn't surprised and walked towards them, right as the ministers caught sight of Caesar they yelled loudly ”the king has decreed to detain Mephesto Pheles on acts of treason and must be brought to the palace for further questioning”
Crowley looked at the ministers and wasn't surprised, he looked at Caesar and said towards him ”you better have something good planned my son, I didn't say anything earlier because we were around the little girls”
Caesar nodded his head and willingly put his hands in the handcuffs. The knights looked awkward and apologetic as they escorted Caesar to the already prepared carriage.
Caesar stepped in the carriage with a calm look, the knights entered in afterward. The carriage traveled in complete silence, the Knights looked as though they wanted to ask Caesar a question but held back.
After about 15 minutes the carriage finally arrived in front of the palace, the beautifully decorated palace entered into Caesar's eyes as he stepped out of the carriage, he was escorted by the Knights up the long stairs and through the huge wooden doors.
*step*
*step*
The footsteps reverberated throughout the palace halls, soon they arrived in front of the throne room. The knights looked at each other with confusion for a second before finally opening the door and walking in with Caesar.
*creak*
Caesar was brought into the throne room by the five knights, ministers and dukes were all over the throne room, they looked at Caesar with anger and fear. The king sitting at the throne looked at Caesar coldly but also confused.
The knights escorted Caesar until he was just a few meters away before finally letting him stand still, they didn't want to force him to kneel.
The king looked at Caesar quizzically before asking in a deep tone ”I know my son was overstepping his bounds but killing him in broad daylight is excessive! Not to mention you invited the elves to our kingdom without even consulting me!?!?”
The king said to Caesar through clenched teeth… Caesar looked up at the king and said: ”If the I let the prince live he would have done it again, do you really think the elves would have taken that with open arms?” Caesar asked the king a question instead of answering
The king sat down at his throne and contemplated…
”Strife would have been created in the kingdom and the humans and elves would have another invisible barrier between each other… Aren't you tired of battle?” Caesar said after pausing a second.
The king on the throne roared back in response ”that doesn't mean you need to take it upon yourself to kill the prince like that, no matter how much of an asshole he was he is still my son!”
”I needed to kill the prince like that, not because I wanted to but to let the elves know that I would protect them” Caesar snapped back swiftly at the king.
”Grr”
The sound of the king gnashing his teeth could be heard throughout the entire hall, before he looked down at Caesar coldly ”that is still treason, even though you are the marshall of our kingdom and given us so many merits I need to give the lesson to the people that no one is above the law”
Caesar looked up at the king with a smile ”the 5000 elves would not take kindly to the person that saved one of their woman's dignity and the person that they pledged loyalty too. To be punished”
”WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE MEPHESTO?” The king roared and stood up from his throne.
Caesar looked up at the king calmly ”your majesty, your son was a necessary sacrifice. If he had not been your son I would have killed him sooner”
The king sat back down on his throne while the dukes and ministers in the throne room started jeering at Caesar.
”What insolence before the king!”
”How dare he kill royalty, I say we execute him”
”Hmph, just a dukes son acts so arrogantly in front of the king”
Many different types of voices echoed throughout the halls, the king soon waved his hand to silence all of the dukes and ministers.
He looked at Caesar one more time and asked in a majestic voice ”Mephesto, do you regret killing my son? He was just a boy, he could have been trained, he could have changed” he said in a sorrowful voice.
”Your majesty, with all, do respect I don't think he would have ever changed, and no, I do not regret killing the prince”
The king sat down on the throne and was silent for a few seconds before finally standing up and declaring.
”I DECLARE MEPHESTO PHELES IS UNDER ARREST FOR TREASON, HE WILL BE EXECUTED IN 1 WEEK”