Chapter 355: Crime and Punishment (2)
Nakajaniye, the Great Judge at the center of the ecliptic.
Standing before the place where the guilty are judged, Night Hound stands still with his characteristic expressionless face.
Despite everyone's worries, Vikir was quite at peace.
'...I've finished my work at the Academy.'
With a lot of things checked off his to-do list, a weight was lifted from his shoulders.
Everything was going the way he expected, and now it was really just a matter of finishing touches.
That's why Vikir feels lighthearted. In fact, he's even looking forward to it a bit.
Meanwhile, there are many eyes on Vikir as he stands there with a nonchalant expression.
First of all, there were the members of the Seven Great Families of the Empire: Baskerville the Iron-Blooded Swordsman, Morg the Mage, Quovadis the Faithful, Bourgeois the Conglomerate, Leviathan the Poisonous Dread, Don Quixote the Spearman, and Usher the Archer Divine Palace.
Representatives of the families were seated separately in the courtroom as jurors, while other family members were seated in the audience.
With the Emperor absent from the trial, the representative of the Imperial Family, dressed in a nun's robe, a distinctive garb often worn by members of the Imperial Family, sits at the bench and conducts the trial in a mechanical, clerical manner.