Chapter 150 - The Saint
There’s one thing that all poor people have in common, no matter the world or the point in time. And it is the suffering of injustices in the hands of the powerful.
Even in medieval times, when the control of the church was at its peak in Europe, there were constantly rebellions and uprisings.
The absence of those in this world was something that struck me as odd the moment I started studying history in the Academy.
It isn’t like injustices stopped happening, or the powerful were good, wise, and lenient. No, there was an artificial reason for that weird compliance.
And now that that artifice ceased, we moved in to seize the opportunity.
There was already talk and some idealization of my mother because of her actions as an adventurer and her fiery personality. She always sided with the common people when there were conflicts, and the fact that she was a princess added to the mystique.
When the Duke’s trial took place, everything that the Church said about her only made her look more relatable, more worthy, for the common people.
Duke Addlington was one of the most hated nobles of this country, and he was notorious for his cruelty against commoners in his domain.
So, when word came out that princess Lillian, that princess, had been living as his slave for ten years, the common folk looked at her and thought, ’one of us.’
The trial put her directly against the person who was seen as the very incarnation of the oppression by the commoners. And the Church sided with him fully and very audibly.