Chapter 247: In conclusion, don’t do crime, folks!
"Aahh....that was entertaining," I stretched out my arms once the trial was over.
Truly, it made me miss my popcorn. But I already asked Mara to have it ready after we came back from the courthouse, so it might be fun to have a court review with the snack on the side—you know, like a movie circle or something.
"Which part of it is entertaining?" Izzi grumbled behind me.
"Everything?" I shrugged. "It’s a nice ending, right?"
"Relatively speaking," Lesta commented. "I know His Lordship wishes for a harsher punishment."
Harsher...how harshly do they want to do it?
Initially, before Natha raised the last charge, the High Council’s members would only give the three Elders life imprisonment—which could still be lessened through ’good behavior’—and a certain amount of fine to be paid to me and the government—you know, as a compensation for emotional damage or something.
But after the new charge, aside from the life imprisonment, the clans where they belonged also had to pay the predicted economic loss from the termination of diplomatic relationship with the realm of nature.
And let me tell you; the amount of trade between two nations was not something one or two or three families wanted to shoulder.
In conclusion, those three families had to cough up every coin from their coffers, and if it still wasn’t enough, the Lord had the right to confiscate their properties. And if it was still wasn’t enough? They had to work their ass off and paid the debt, however long it took, for however many generations.
And from what Lesta told me, one clan really had to do that, as with the other two, unless they could find someone willing to lend them the money, they had to let go of their estate.