HPDBC Chapter 41 Complicated
Chapter 41 Complicated
"Slavery?" The Blacksteel lord frowned pressing against his chair firmly.
Murder, and Slavery were both serious crimes in the shelter, the fomer of course was much more serious in the grand scheme of things, but the latter was much more personal to the lord.
This was simply because he himself had a history with being a slave. He had very firm rules against it unlike other shelters. This of course didn't really sit well with a lot of nobles, but he took it very seriously.
"Yes lordship" Guilliman spoke hatred theming in his words. In as much as he put himself in that situation, being under the whim of another man was still something that didn't sit welll with him.
"This is serious, who is the accused?" The Lords face became grim, he looked at guilliman with an unbreaking gaze.
"Artus BlackBerry and the entire Blackberry family as a whole" Guillimans words sounded heavy and it, in fact weighed on the hearts of everyone here.
Higher up in the shelter, Slavery was a thing of the past, there were no such things as a slave thanks to the Blacksteel lord. However, the same couldn't be said for the unregulated slums.
It was too common an occurrence there even.
"I see" the lords grim gaze landed on Vincent, this was starting to make sense now.
"Put forward your case young man, I want to know both sides of the story thank you very much" sneering at Vincent, the Blacksteel lord turned to Guilliman and asked him to speak.
"Yes lord ship...but where do I start?" Guilliman smirked entertaining the idea of leaving the part where his so called 'family' had sold him to the blackberry family under pretenses. However, seeing how the whole family had testified against him, he didn't see the need.
So he narrated how he was put in the hands of the blackberry family by his own parents, how they tricked him and sold him for a few pennies to the ruthless hole that was the meat grinder of the blackberry family.
"What a disgusting bunch"
Three cut off fingers, excuriating
Just like that, the entire case hinged on the words of this slave girl.
Quickly stealing a glance at Guilliman she couldn't help but sigh, if only she was as brave as him. He was probably an extremely strong slayer now to be in such a competition, and where was she? Still a slave with a slaves mentality.
'I came back because I believed death by the hands of creature was worst that slavery, I was wrong. I will never be a slave ever again even if it means I die today'
Turning away, she looked directly at the Blacksteel lord and nodded seriously causing the crowd to gasp. The black berry family was indulging in slavery?!! What gall!!
"Ahhh well that complicates things" the blackberry lord looked over to an old man just beyond his main chair and sneered, this wasn't the first time this had happened to this family.
They were repeateded offenders, he could see why they were slowly losing control of that outpost of theirs,
incompetence!!
"Well, the law is straightforward, a slave is allowed to resist their enslaver, this is not limited to taking their lives. The death of Artus BlackBerry was justified" the Blacksteel lord ruled without bias.
Even though the black berry family was one of his top families, he would not surport them over Justice in this context.
Most especially after hearing that man's voice.
"Lordship there's another matter" Vincent gritted his teeth and spoke, this was extremely shameful, the lord had even threaten to throw his father in Jail like a mere criminal, how would he live this down?
"What do you want now, kid?" The Blacksteel lord seemed tired, he wanted to get back to the competition, this was too much of a distraction.
"A dispute lordship, the blackberry family put in a lot of effort into killing the wind Direwolf, even losing our young master, he just snuck in and took the kill, we want the sacred echo he got from that kill. It is ours by providence"