The audience becomes noisy with the name Hugo Coppelius.
"Even Hugo Coppelius!?
"You mean the bloody stripper (leather mask)!?
"What the hell is wrong with that death row inmate!?
It was two years ago that the Hugo incident took place. It's not strange years when it's weathered so much, but due to the sheer hunchiness of the case, many remember.
"Two years ago now, there was a case of a certain millionaire's family being tragically murdered. And it was Hugo Coppelius, a rare puppet writer, who was caught as the culprit. Not only did Hugo massacre the family, but he peeled it and strained it on the doll. As if to make stripping. Therefore, you will remember that you were given the alias the bloody stripper (leather mask)."
Once again, the audience remembering the content of the incident frowns at its misery.
"It's an extremely brutal and malicious incident. Some of the families killed were still young children. I'm heartbroken too when I think of their carelessness. I cannot forgive those who have gone off the path of men. You should always be sentenced to extreme punishment."
I put my hand on my chest and close my eyes to withstand the pain. When I felt anger and sadness propagate to the audience, I opened my eyes and raised my voice.
"That is why I hereby declare: Hugo Coppelius is guilty of a crime! And whoever really deserves to be tried is still in the wild!
To the words, the audience is stunned and stunned. After the tranquillity that struck the water, it instantly became a fuss.
"Said it was a wrongful crime!? What do you mean!?
"You mean there was an error in the investigation!?
"This is an insult to the Justice Department!?
"But if it's true, it's important!
The audience panicked and panicked no longer.
It moves so far because I'm criticizing the Ministry of Justice for errors in its verdict in public. That is, in extension, you will be criticizing the country. So we are afraid that we will be tired and more wolfish than we need to be.
"Ladies and gentlemen, be quiet!!!
Speech Skills: Mental Solution (Peer Support).
The audience gradually regains calm when they activate and scream their skills to stabilize the spirit of the subject. It's a handy skill for me. Versatile and useful outside the battlefield.
"I can't help but be surprised at you all. But I'm not trying to say cod out and confuse you all. I can assure you that Hugo is unquestionably guilty."
To the grown up audience, I keep my chest up and gorgeous.
"In the first place, Hugo was caught as the killer because he was the only survivor on the scene of the incident. Given the circumstances, he's indeed the man closest to the killer. But when Hugo was caught, he was unconscious. I mean, someone was sleeping with me."
According to the investigation, Hugo visited the millionaire's house in order to deliver the doll he had ordered. But as soon as I was invited inside the mansion and stepped foot in, I lost consciousness of it.
And when he woke up, the millionaires had already become corpses, and the gendarmerie regiment that had been called in whilst he was stunned appeared, and Hugo was arrested.
"Judicial records indicate that Hugo was confirmed as the killer because there was no evidence at the scene of the incident to indicate the killer other than Hugo. I mean, even though Hugo was also put to sleep by someone, he was made a killer by circumstantial evidence alone. This is crazy, isn't it?
As I leaned my neck, one of the audience shouted in a harsh voice.
"Hugo was mentally ill! It must be a lie to be put to sleep!
The man I pointed out was a fake customer (Sakura) I planted.
The aim is to prevent the atmosphere in the field from falling out of my intended stream by allowing me to raise objections before the rest of the audience. In fact, the rest of the audience just nodded at the false customer (Sakura) allegations, and no one appeared to make extra remarks and disrupt the place.
"Hugo is not mentally ill or anything. The results of the psychiatric appraisal were normal itself. Yet they decided he was insane, and all complaints were dismissed."
"Then you lied with clear intentions!
"It's possible, indeed. But even with that in mind, we should have considered the possibility of other killers to conduct an investigation. Yet it is obvious from the trial transcript of the time that the prosecutor decided from the outset that Hugo was the killer and failed to investigate"
In this country, the Ministry of Justice manages judges and prosecutors. In other words, the fairness of the trial is easily lost depending on the thoughts of the Ministry of Justice because those who judge and those who rebel against the crime belong to the same organization. In that case, the defendant just has to obey the verdict.
"Actually, besides Hugo, there were other people who thought it was the killer. It's nothing else, it's a whistleblower."
To that fact, the audience opens their eyes. This information was not included in the trial record. It was only kept in the investigation records at the time. It was Loki, the informer, of course, who got it.
"Because the whistleblower heard a scream from inside the mansion and called the gendarmerie, but on the day of the incident, all the mansion doors and windows were closed. The mansion is newly constructed and has state-of-the-art soundproofing, and a large garden separates the mansion from the public roads. No matter how much screaming you scream from inside, that voice can't leak outside. How did the whistleblower get to know what was going on in the mansion?
To my inquiry, the audience becomes the face they perceive.
"Ladies and gentlemen, you see. Yes, the answer is one. Because the informant is the real killer, or a part of it. The prosecutor seems to have noticed later, too, but he didn't know where the informant was already. Normally, you should devote yourself to that search. Yet the Justice Department, which sought to resolve the case early, decided Hugo was the culprit and immediately closed the investigation."
It is the role of the gendarmerie to search for suspects, but it is the role of the prosecutor to direct this. In other words, the Ministry of Justice has been entrusted with the extraction of investigations.
"The Justice Department's determination that Hugo was the culprit was aimed at an early resolution of the case. So why did the Justice Department want to close the case immediately until it shut down the investigation into the real killer and the person? The reason for this lies in the domestic situation at the time."
I smile at the beheaded audience.
"Increasing unemployment, tax hikes, rising prices, the economy is now upward, but we were in the middle of a recession at the time. Inevitably, public dissatisfaction turns to the administration. In that context, it was likely that the Ministry of Justice would have stood on the arrow of criticism if it had found out that it had missed the most important reference person in an extremely hounding case, which has received public attention. No, it was definitely bashing."
Once subject to censure in public opinion, it is thoroughly slapped until the public's interest shifts elsewhere. Worst of all, it was caused by the Ministry of Justice and could even develop into a massive demonstration. To avoid that, it is not hard to imagine that the Ministry of Justice has taken a leap forward.
"But if we were able to settle the case early, not only can we preserve the prestige of the Justice Department, but we can also be a one-jump justice hero. That's why the Justice Department decided to give up searching for the most important reference person they missed and tailor Hugo to the killer. - This is the truth about that case."
The audience begins to bother. All the same, he looked at me as if he'd heard something he shouldn't have heard. But I'm in control of the flow.
"It's all speculation! You have proof!?
It was a fake customer (Sakura) screaming. I laughed and nodded.
"Of course it is. I don't want to distract a famous detective and announce my reasoning. The only thing I want you to know in this room is certain facts."
And he reached for the entrance to the venue.
"Now let me introduce you to the person who proves Hugo's wrongdoing. - I'm Count Lester Graham, former and Undersecretary of Justice!
The door opened and Alma showed up to him, an old man in a legal suit.
"Sir Lester!?
"It's real! 'Cause I've seen you before, for sure!
"What does Sir Lester mean by a witness!?
I can't help but be surprised at the audience. What I invited was a man who was number two in the Justice Department, not a nobleman in one place. The face is widely known in the social world, and most of this occasion will be acquainted.
"Sir Lester, please, on the stage."
"Oh, oh..."
When I urged, Lester rose to the stage frightened. I'm not hectic enough. So I whisper in that ear.
"If you don't want me to get ripped off about that, I'll ask you to do it right, okay?
Lester swallowed his saliva in a cold sweat and nodded small.
It wasn't until about six months ago that this man was the Undersecretary of Justice at the Justice Department. The reason for his dismissal is the dissonance of his current/her relationship with the Attorney General. Since then, he has been dragging to the territory and spending days cursing the Attorney General who drove himself away.
Typical trinket. It is a man who is not enough to take. But that's why it's great to use. And this man had a secret that no one wanted to be torn apart.
It's severe boy love. If it becomes public, it could result in the loss of all authority and honor and the confiscation of territory. So you just had to follow me to keep a secret.
"Come on, what this boy is saying... it's all true"
Lester told him to squeeze it out.
"The Justice Department decided to make Hugo Coppelius the culprit in order to protect the face of the organization... It is all a sin of the Ministry of Justice…"
"So His Majesty the Emperor knows nothing?
"Of course! His Majesty knows nothing. It's the result of the Justice Department's arbitrary rampage!
"I see. Sir Lester, what do you think we should do?
"... should reveal the truth. And we have to immediately open up the unjustly captured youth and find the real culprit who is letting them go wild. That is also my duty as Under-Secretary of State for Justice, but also for failing to stop the rampage of justice"
I couldn't stop the rampage, he says, but I know this man isn't guilty. No, in the first place, I wouldn't have been willing to stop you from the edge. How dare you, it's something you can swing as if you didn't mean it.
But it's very convenient for me.
Lester didn't just follow me because he's afraid of getting ripped off boy love. Underlying this is the ugly vengeance on the present and the Attorney General.
It is clear that we are willing to use this matter to drag down the present Attorney General and return to the Justice Department. If that purpose could be fulfilled, it would be to become a coward's trinket, desperate to work.
He's a great man to use as a flag to retract Hugo's verdict. You can also fabricate that the reason you were dismissed is because you disagreed with one person about Hugo.
That way, greater and greater righteousness leans this way. In fact, I knew that the audience's hearts were already starting to shake, as I took them.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the truth has been revealed here. The Ministry of Justice, while a subordinate of His Majesty the Emperor, made justice contemptible for private gain and brought great deception to this imperial capital. This is nothing more than an act of disloyalty that can never be forgiven."
I put out the emperor's name on top of each other in order to make it clear that the opponent to be disputed is only the Ministry of Justice and does not intend to turn his teeth to the state itself. There is also an intention to make it clear in the first place that it is the Ministry of Justice that is against the trust of the emperor's - and not the state's - extension and to make him realize that it is an evil that should not be missed.
That logic binds the audience to their decisions.
"Hugo Coppelius was born as the third son of a poor shoe shop. A life of unknowable tomorrow in a harsh environment. But luckily, I was blessed with my talent as a puppet master, and I got a chance to crawl out of it."
In Hugo's past, where I speak, the audience listens.
"After growing up as an Explorer (Explorer), he chose to become a puppet writer, using the funds he'd saved up to then. Heart-friendly, because he wanted to pull himself out of every dispute and make people smile with the dolls he made. You all know that reputation."
Hugo's dolls were loved by many, both domestically and internationally. There must be a lot of people in the audience here who were fans.
"Such a wonderful man was imprisoned for his innocence and deprived of two years of the moon! It's too sad and painful to think about that heart! My chest is going to rip! If it's gonna happen, I want to help you out right away! No, we have to help!
The audience nods quietly. Some of them had tears in their eyes.
"To do so, I would love to help you! First, ask for the death penalty to be withdrawn and make a plea! For this empire, we do justice together!
When I finished, a round of applause happened.
At first, it was a fake customer (Sakura). But it soon spreads to the others, and with its harmonious pressures everyone becomes an endorser. Now all over the venue, the applause and cheer of 10,000 lightning was boiling.
If we let this momentum remain and write our names in the pleadings, we will not be able to translate anymore. Through the newspaper company Thomas works for, Modern Opinion, what happened today spreads throughout the capital. Those here alone, if they have their names, the Ministry of Justice has no choice but to withdraw the death penalty. There, Hugo's release will be assured if further endorsers are gathered from all over the Empire.
And it will increase my visibility and help me gain more patrons. When it comes to building a airship, you should be able to raise it in an instant.
"Noel."
When I was laughing in my heart, Alma told me a story.
"I found it. Definitely. As Noel said, the mastermind of the case was in this'
'Right. Well done.'
The killer who fell into Hugo didn't even know using Loki. Anyway, it was two years ago. All the evidence has been lost. However, as a result of a patient investigation, he was able to narrow down the number of persons he believed to be masterminds. Those people are attending this party as invitees.
You must have been surprised when I started suing Hugo for his wrongdoing. Exactly, it should have been water in my sleeping ear. My heart must have almost stopped.
That's why different reactions appear from the others.
Alma was instructed in advance to sense the reaction. From a large crowd, it is difficult to sense only the reactions of certain people, even scouts and bowmen with good sensing abilities. But Alma did a great job accomplishing it.
How the mastermind of the case is going to work is already predicted. All I have to do is use that strategy the other way around.
When he felt his gaze and looked back, Zeke had a satisfying grin. Neighbor Johan seems to have finally realized the truth, with a hostile rounded face.
The other Seekers have assumed that I am the true proponent of this party. Some look intrigued, while others raise their guard.
I bowed to them, pulling one leg and putting my hand on my chest, as the stage actor would. Endeavour, so that you can accept it as disrespectful.
"Thank you, seniors, for watching"
Seven stars (Legalia), noble, emperor, but the nation itself, it doesn't matter who the other person is. Use everything and swallow everything.
This is how I fought my... Speaker.