Chapter 106: The Courtroom
Somehow, the moment Mineah rose from her bed that morning, she couldn’t help but feel excited. After all, today was the start of Rosela’s trial, and she just couldn’t wait to see what kind of excuses the woman will somehow come up with before she’d inevitably be compelled to just tell the truth.
"You look excited," Dani chuckled as she and the rest of the Shadow Maidens did their usual morning duties of preparing their liege for the day. "Is it about the trial later?"
"Is it that obvious?" Mineah chuckled back as she allowed them to adjust her dress for the day. She was going to watch the trial with her own eyes, and for the life of her, she wanted to look great the moment Rosela finally met her end.
"Then again, I am finally going to get rid of the one thorn that’s constantly been an annoyance for so long. She even threatened to get rid of me. Well, too bad for her, her wrongdoings finally caught up to her." she added followed by a sigh of relief.
It was karmic retribution, in a sense. For all the things that Rosela had done to better their shared love interests, she did so without so much as a shred of conscience or remorse so long as she got what she wanted. It was no wonder then that the Almighty finally allowed justice to shine a light on Rosela’s crimes.
"But don’t you think she still has a few tricks up her sleeve?" Krisha absently asked. "She might try and wriggle herself out of this."
Zaila hummed in agreement. "Perhaps we should keep our increased vigilance even in the courtroom? For all we know, she might’ve arranged something as an escape attempt."
"Oh, I’m sure she has a plan, but I don’t think she gets to leave unscathed this time," Mineah lightly scoffed. "She has nowhere else to run. The Queen Mother, her strongest ally, is guaranteed to turn on her the moment her crimes are revealed. Also, she will know how Rosela manipulated everything and made it look like her son was the one responsible for Dahlia’s death."
Mineah opened her palm and looked at the relic in her hand and continued, "The dungeon keeping her prisoned has its walls enchanted to the point that not even the strongest vampires could ever escape it, and Nikolai himself. The most powerful vampire in the kingdom will be the one overseeing the trial himself. So no, she won’t live till tomorrow if she ever gets the harshest sentence for her crimes."
It was practically guaranteed that Rosela wouldn’t be walking out of this trial as a free woman, and that was if she could even escape from having a death sentence doled out for what amounted to treason in her use of dark magic to frame her and usurp her as Queen.
There were no other outcomes that would make Rosela come out better than how she went in. She was either going to be imprisoned for the rest of her days, or she’d be dead after being executed for her crimes.
Letting out a small sigh, Mineah gave herself one last lookover before nodding at her current state of dress. It wasn’t as flashy as what she normally wore, but it was appropriate for the event that she was about to witness.