Chapter 56
After entering the little Emperor’s office, Michelle bowed her head a bit and the young prisoner behind her knelt down in surprise, not expecting Michelle to really bring him to the Emperor, and right away at that. "Hello, Your Majesty!" she smiled. "Can I have a daring request?"
David Elether wasn’t with the little Emperor at the moment, but that was not too unexpected, because he couldn’t be there all the time as he had other things to take care of. "Go ahead, teacher. What do you need?" the little Emperor asked, his gaze falling on the kneeling young man. He could guess that she wanted to speak about the young man.
Michelle smiled a bit and gestured to the young man before speaking: "Your Majesty, I’d like you to allow me to take this man out of the prison. He’s officially a death-row prisoner, but for over three years, his case wasn’t even brought up in court to decide when he will be executed. As Your Majesty knows, that only happens when someone is thrown into jail after being framed and the real perpetrator doesn’t dare bring up the execution in the court as it could reveal the truth while going over the case."
The little Emperor observed the young man for a short while as he listened to Michelle. As a nine-year-old, he was already used to much longer speeches than what Michelle said, as he always had to listen to the officials prattling on at the meetings, so he had no trouble understanding Michelle. And what she said was the truth. Prisoners who were thrown into the death-row prison, but were left there for an extended period, were mostly thrown there after taking blame for something or after being framed because of a grudge with someone more powerful than them.
"What did he do?" the little Emperor asked after a while of silence.
Michelle glanced at the young man, signaling for him to speak up. "Your Majesty, this servant was imprisoned for raping his master’s wife and for killing his master’s son."
Hearing that, Michelle sneered. She liked the young man more and more. He would make a good friend for her with how he was, as he was similar to Ivona. And Michelle liked people like that. He was smart and partly alibistic. He neither said that he committed a crime, nor did he say that he was framed. He just said that he was imprisoned for the crime, so no one could use his words against him.
The little Emperor looked at the young man and nodded a bit. "And who’s your master?" he asked.
"Viscount Garric Sloan..." the young man answered.