My Contract Husband is Going Crazy Because of My Iron Wall - Chapter 49.1
Chapter 49.1
“What is that?”
Instead of explaining to the Emperor, I first took out the contents of a regular-sized paper envelope and handed it to him.
“This is an urgent imperial decree containing your order to lift the northern barrier.”
Then, I quickly took out a copy from the thick envelope and handed it to the audience. The Emperor, whose face had turned pale, belatedly told his knights to stop me, but some of the audience had already seen the document.
“Take it away! Take it away quickly!”
Both those who saw the document and those who didn’t look at the Emperor with disapproval.
It seemed that everyone knew that his struggling figure, trying not to be seen by others, was the perfect proof that the document had not been tampered with.
“Your Majesty, please calm down.”
Empress Roxanne stopped the Emperor with a bewildered face. Only then did the Emperor calm down and lower his voice.
“This… this is a fabrication. I never wrote such an imperial decree.”
“It’s clearly Your Majesty’s handwriting.”
“Is there any proof that it’s my handwriting?”
“Haven’t you seen the back page yet?”
Saying so, I approached him with an idol-like smile and handed him the document in front of him to the back page. There were many love letters that the Emperor had sent me before I married Reinhardt.
“On the last page, there is an analysis by a handwriting expert that the writing in the imperial decree and the love letters match.”
“Nonsense! You must have bribed him! Don’t frame me, Irovel!”
The Emperor was trembling.
After the incident where he was pelted with rotten eggs by the imperial citizens, he was very afraid of being disliked by them.
Even today, he had set up a glass wall in front of the audience, thick enough to make even a knight cringe because he was afraid of being pelted with eggs. Even though no one could harm him because of the wall, he was constantly looking around the audience and trembling with fear.
And I was going to use that psychology.
“Framing? You wrote the imperial decree yourself to lift the northern barrier, didn’t you? Whether the imperial citizens are sacrificed to the Tartars or not.”
“I’m not crazy, and there’s no way I would give an order to harm my people!”
“Only Your Majesty would think so. Considering Your Majesty’s usual conduct, wouldn’t it be natural for you to give such an order?”
“Your Majesty, I think it’s better to end the trial here.”
Roxanne stopped the Emperor, looking at me with bewildered eyes. However, the Emperor, who was already very excited, seemed not to hear Roxanne’s words anymore.
“What’s wrong with my conduct? How much I care for and love my people!”
“Although it’s not related to the subject of the trial, may I present evidence to refute that statement? The recording of Your Majesty telling me that you can have affairs with twenty-two people and break up other people’s families, but I can’t…”
“No, no! Don’t talk about things that are off-topic!”
“Oh, I can’t! Then, I won’t present it as evidence.”
When I said that with a refreshingly bright smile, the Emperor glared at me with a flushed face.
‘Are you mad? Do you want to kill me? But you can’t kill me because you’re attracted to my face, can you?’
“Irovel Erestein, I revoke your right to speak in this trial!”
Since he couldn’t do anything to me, he was trying to prevent me from speaking at all. I couldn’t help it. In the imperial trial, the Emperor and Empress’s orders were absolute, so I had no choice but to follow them.
Well, I knew that would happen, so I prepared another way, so it didn’t matter.
“Then, I will continue the trial. Without the lawyer’s statement, the defendants will answer directly. John Eclipse, you lifted the northern barrier. Do you admit to this fact?”
“Yes, I do. But…”
“Answer only the facts I ask! Reinhardt Erestein, do you admit that you delegated the authority to manage the northern barrier to Commander John Eclipse?”
“Yes.”
Reinhardt answered, looking down at the Emperor with a noble air.
He was already a tall man, and since he was standing on a high platform, he looked like he was towering over everyone in this place. It wasn’t just me who felt this way. The Emperor made a face as if he was displeased and needlessly picked a fight with Reinhardt.
“Don’t you dare look down on the Emperor!”
“If you don’t like being looked down on, may I step down?”
“Where do you think you’re going, you criminal?! Just don’t look at me!”
“Well, I will.”
Reinhardt curtly replied and turned his gaze away from the Emperor, but… why did it have to be me?
“Don’t even look at the lawyer!”
“Can’t I even look at my wife?”
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