460 Insane revelations (1/2)

”So are you going to say that you do not bear responsibility for his death?”

Seeing how the princess's lips suddenly curved upwards as if she managed to push me into a corner, I couldn't help but wonder what kind of logical trap did she prepare for me with her question, yet no matter how much I strained my mind, I was unable to come up with an answer.

”His death? It's funny how you are all so sure that he is dead in the first place! That makes me feel like you guys are the ones who killed him!”

Suddenly dropping a bomb like that, the princess most likely hoped to push me to the verge of being surprised, in an attempt to make others see that I wasn't in complete control over the situation. While the attempt was respectable, considering the fact that instead of using my overwhelming strength I was trying to appear as a just person, there was no way that her words could influence my facial muscles.

With the situation she was in, it was obvious that she would try literally anything to save herself from her plight, so I was already mentally prepared for all sorts of tricks… Yet this didn't apply to Helia, her people or literally anyone else!

”How dare you! I will kill you right here and…”

”Helia, stop!”

Just like the princess most likely wanted to make me upset in order to break the just front I was putting up, Helia's actions could bear the same results if I didn't stop her. Even though as soon as my words put an end to her initiative she looked at me like a puppy normally surrounded with love yet suddenly hit for no reason, I had to keep acting like the just jury I was.

After all, if Helia turned out to be the real cause of the problems in this place, no matter how painful it would be for me to punish her, she would suffer the same fate that I already pictured for the princess.

”What do you want to say by that? Is Gabriel alive? If so, where can we find him? And if you know he is dead, how can you prove it wasn't you who killed him, nor did it happen because of your order?”

While I knew that putting the burden of proving one's innocence was against the basic rules of law on earth, with no roman inheritance in this regard, I could still go with it, especially with how all the evidence still pointed at the princess.

”Where he is? I have honestly, no idea!”