BXBX NOVEL Chapter 119 - Leo’s Secret? Part 2
Chapter 119 Leo\'s secret? part 2
Author: M_W Cancer Grammar Checker: M_W Nomral
Aside from those powerful people, Leo\'s friends were actually also present in this Royal Court.
Madam Silva was currently watching Leo in one of the VIP room in the Royal Court, along with Evangelion, and the 4 girls, specifically Cassandra, Elizabeth, Angel, and Veronica.
Princess Tiana along with Magical Knight Karl was also present, though the two were obviously trying to hide their presence the least bit possible in order to hide from her older brother, Crown Prince Edward.
At the audience side, the entire Savage Foxes faction and the rest of the members of the Mischievous Lion faction were also present, alongside with Butler Xiao, Fatty Ben, General Kevin, and Van, four of the people that made up half of the Heart Noble Household was completely present, representing the Heart city.
Unbeknownst to everybody here, Leo\'s Master was actually also present. She was just sitting inconspicuously in the very corner of the Royal Court, silently watching how her disciple would handle his current predicament. Also to prepare for any possible worst-case scenario. After all, no matter how prepared Leo was, there would always be an unknown variable. And such unknown variables were what she was preparing herself for.
"I heard that Caynis, one of the known Elder of the Black organization, in the confrontation between Sword and Magic, Snow Noble Household, and the Silver city soldiers, had accused you, seemingly sounding really confident and with his own reason in mind, about you being a part of the Smiling Lion organization, a very famous organization that protects the light of the Southern region of the Silver Kingdom through the dark, how would you defend yourself from such accusation?" Crown Prince Edward questioned, while seriously staring at Leo Heart in front of him.
In the middle of the Royal Court, Leo just let out a mischievous smile on his face. The Crown Prince Edward\'s question was the same as what he had expected. In fact, it was almost the same as what Madam Silva had asked him before.
So, he just repeated what he had said to Madam Silva back at Sword and Magic yesterday.
"The Black organization is related to the death of my older brother!" Leo replied, immediately causing a loud commotion inside the Royal Court.
"Reinhart was killed by one of our own?!"
"The report before was clearly from the battlefield, so how did it become related to the Black organization?!"
"What is this! Why did the Silver royal family hide such a huge secret from us!"
Loud voices of doubt, shock, and displeasure to the Silver royal family quickly sounded around the Royal Court soon after Leo said the introduction of his defense.
"Silence!" Crown Prince Edward exclaimed loudly while at the same time releasing a powerful Magic power, immediately causing all the people that attended to behave themselves.
"Do you mean that this is related to the case you had secretly submitted to the Silver royal family 8 years ago?" Crown Prince Edward asked as he wanted to clarify something.
"Yes! All the evidence I had gathered throughout these years actually pointed towards..." Leo said as he slowly moved his finger towards Elizabeth, "Her!"
*Bang!
"How dare you accuse my daughter about your brother\'s death! My daughter Elizabeth was even the one that insisted to marry you, so how could she kill your brother, you bastard!" Vincent Snow immediately became enraged as soon as he heard Leo accusing his daughter about such presumptions thing.
"Let me finish, father-in-law..." Leo said as he turned around his head to face Crown Prince Edward, "But, I, fortunately, discovered that 8 years ago, the Snow Noble Household had honored the part of their deal, and I had also found out just around the past week that my fiancée was actually not against our parent\'s pre-arranged marriage!"
"Hmph! Good thing you\'re not such an ungrateful child. Red Heart, your father, indeed has a good child, I\'m so envious of him, huhuhu!" Vincent Snow\'s mood quickly changed as he suddenly started acting a bit childish.
"Am I not a good daughter, father?" Elizabeth quickly rolled her eyes at her father\'s childish act.
"A good daughter should not insist on leaving her father just for another man, huhuhu!" Vincent Snow replied back like a child once again.
"FATHERRR!" Elizabeth quickly exclaimed in annoyance as her face turned burning red.
"May I interrupt the father and daughter\'s lovely conversation, since we are still handling a very important case here..." Crown Prince Edward can\'t help but interrupt.
Vincent Snow and Elizabeth Snow quickly nodded their heads in understanding.
"You may continue!" Crown Prince Edward said as he motioned for Leo to continue with his explanation.
Leo nodded his head as he continued, "After finding about that, my investigation took a huge turn, and that huge turn specifically pointed towards..." He again turned around as he slowly pointed his hand at where Walter Skull was sitting at, "Them!"
Unlike Vincent Snow, Walter Skull just raised one of his eyebrows as he turned serious.
"Not the entire Skull Noble Household though, but only Richton Skull, one of the members of the Black organization!" Leo said, dropping a seemingly huge explosion towards everyone present in the Royal Court once again.
"Do you have any proof?" Walter can\'t help but ask. He wasn\'t mad about Leo\'s accusation. In fact, he was also suspecting the same thing for a very long time now.
"Every member of the Black organization has a token that acts as their proof of identity. With everyone\'s status here, each one of you here should be long aware of that already..." Leo paused as he looked at everyone. He then continued, "Richton Skull has a golden token with the symbol of a black skull which represents the Black organization branch at Crystal Skull city. I saw it with my own eyes and I have people who witnessed it here with me to prove such claim..."
"The entire Mischievous Lion faction, right?" Crown Prince Edward clarified as he read the paper about the report of this case.
"Yes!" Leo answered
"Call them in!" Crown Prince Edward ordered one of the guards of the Royal Court.
Soon after, all the members of the Mischievous Lion faction began walking one by one inside the Royal Court as they provided their own testimony, individually. Each one also complements everything, hence proving Leo\'s claim to be true.
"Any other witnesses that can prove your claim?" Crown Prince Edward suddenly asked. The testimony of the Mischievous Lion faction could only be considered as half of an evidence since they were all a part of Leo\'s faction. Hence, the thought that they might all be planning to set up Richton might come into mind.
Leo nodded his head as he motioned for the other witness to come in court.
If Richton was here, he would have immediately recognized this person as that weak looking young man that had reported to him about Leo finally creating the Mischievous Lion faction from before.
"I\'m, Manny! A member of the Glacier Skull faction... I have indeed seen such token from Richton. He always threw it around every time he was happy or displeased about something..." The weak-looking guy named, Manny said as soon as he sat on the witness chair.
"Okay, you can leave now!" Crown Prince Edward said.
Since this was a Royal Court and with also the presence of Crown Prince Edward, there was no need to question a witness any further. Moreover, Richton was also currently missing, hence this just further confirmed that something was amiss.
There might be some unknown variables. But a lot of people had also claimed that they had seen Richton when the Silver city soldiers began asking about the faces of the two Black organization members that had successfully escaped. So, the witnesses that Leo had provided just further confirmed the information they had already gathered.
"Oh, that bastard had actually really joined the Black organization!" Walter said, obviously really displeased to his 3rd son. He wasn\'t a narrow-minded person, and he was also not a stupid person. He wouldn\'t have become the Patriarch of the Skull Noble Household if he was.
Walter Skull naturally knew just what kind of stupid act his 3rd son had committed. With the current situation of the Humans being in a constant threat of extinction, his son on the other hand had actually joined those cancerous cells of the Human race.
"What\'s the use of power if your whole race is done for?" Vincent can\'t help but said.
"I can only express my deepest apology to you, Viscount Leo..." Walter said as he bowed his head a little to express his apology towards Leo.
"A child\'s mistake doesn\'t literally mean that it was also the father\'s mistake, so no need to do such a thing, Patriarch Walter. Moreover, with your status as a Marquess of the Silver Kingdom, isn\'t what you\'re currently doing a bit of undeserving to someone with a mere Viscount status?" Timothy of the Will Noble Household suddenly butted in.
"Indeed! Someone with such a status like yours it should be the other way around!" Jacob quickly supported his older brother\'s words.
"This is what separates the Marquess from Earl\'s like you!!" Vins Blacksmoke said as he became annoyed with the Will brother\'s unrelated response.
"I totally agree with that! Although I\'m also a mere Earl, low lives like us should just shut up instead of butting into a Marquess personal business! What\'s more, it isn\'t even the least bit related to you, trashes!" Paul quickly added.
"What can we expect from arrogant people?" Arvin said as he shook his head.
"How about all of you guys just shut up for a moment? We are still in the middle of a case here!" Louise Honoris quickly interrupted the argument. Hearing that this case was related to the Black organization who had tried to kill his little sister, Veronica, he immediately dropped all of his ongoing tasks as he rushed in the Royal Court to attend the case. Contrary to his expectations though, he was actually just facing this kind of childish situation.
"Let them, the case is more or less over anyway..." Crown Prince Edward said as he could only shake his head helplessly. Sometimes, he can\'t help but wonder whether these bunch of Heads of the five major Noble Household of the Silver Kingdom were really adults. It seems like they were still like those old times when they were still competing in their respective Mage Academies...
"To finally conclude this case, do you have any other proof that will further clarify your innocence?" Crown Prince Edward asked towards Leo.
"None, your Honor!" Leo said as he bowed his head a bit towards Crown Prince Edward. Under his face, though, was a mischievous smile.
Just like what he had expected, everything just went according to his plan. With the simple reason of the Black organization being related to his older brother\'s death, everything would immediately be cleared.
With the past report of his older brother\'s case, the Crown Prince Edward naturally doesn\'t need any more other evidence to further ask whether it was true or not. After all, he had already submitted all the evidence proving his older brother was killed in the secret case that he had submitted 8 years ago. So, by just reading that past case, everything that he had said would automatically be proven true.
This was his main countermeasure to hide his secret. No matter how worst the situation was, he already had plenty of countermeasures in his arsenal. It wasn\'t because he was smart, but simply because he doesn\'t want to involve himself in a really troublesome thing, hence he always keeps in mind to be careful in everything.
"With this, the case is closed!" Crown Prince Edward said as he hit the hammer of justice on a circle made out of wood.
*Bang!
The sound of the hammer of justice finally marked the end of the case about Caynis accusation to Leo being a member of the Smiling Lion organization.