Chapter 56 Trial Result
"Speak for me? You knew they were going to assassinate Barrett, but you gave this mission to me." Arthur gradually calmed down.
After some analysis, I realized that this was all a conspiracy.
Upon hearing this, all the reporters looked at Zhan Guo.
"General, please tell me, is what he said true?"
"You must answer this person's question."
Seeing a group of reporters making a scene without knowing the occasion, the judge banged the gavel in his hand again.
"Silence! Anyone who dares to disturb the order of the court will be convicted!"
After these words were spoken, all the civilians and reporters present on the Judicial Island stopped asking questions without permission.
"Arthur." Zhan Guo suddenly responded: "The most important purpose of this mission is just to hone you. I don't know anything else."
"Bullshit!" Arthur struggled and cursed at him.
Zhan Guo, including the navy behind him, were all eclipsed.
"Arthur, there is only one way left for you. If you accept it, I will defend your crime to the judge and the government." Zhan Guo said to Arthur below again.
In the court hall, when Zhan Guo was speaking, the judge would hardly interrupt him.
Everyone listened quietly to the conversation between the two.
"Do you think I would kill civilians?" Arthur's expression suddenly became firm. He calmed down and asked Zhan Guo, "You trampled my kindness on the ground, defiled it, and stomped on it. Do you think you're okay with it?"
From Zhan Guo's cold tone, Arthur learned that this was a conspiracy.
In response to Arthur's words, Sengoku recalled the first report that Dragon presented.
There is no doubt that he would not attack civilians, let alone commit the crime of genocide.
The reason for doing all this is that Sengoku wanted to find a way to keep Arthur completely in the navy.
Completely eradicate the idea of him resigning from the Navy.
If such a rare genius leaves the navy in this day and age, it would be better to get rid of him.
"Answer the general, you damn kid." Another guard standing next to Arthur suddenly imitated his accomplice and hit Arthur's head with the butt of his gun.
Bang, the butt of the gun went down, and Arthur stared at him fiercely.
An invisible aura suddenly poured out from his determined and calm eyes, creating a gust of wind in the court hall.
The majestic aura seemed to be suddenly controlled and poured into the guard's body in an instant.
"Ah..." The guard foamed at the mouth, lost consciousness, and fell in front of the pillar where Arthur was with his eyes rolled back.
"What's going on! Hey!"
Seeing this scene, everyone in the court hall retreated in horror, not knowing what was happening.
Arthur, who was tied to a pillar, had no expression on his face.
There was only layers of anger building up in his heart, anger at this conspiracy.
I just wanted to resign, but was rejected and then framed. Who could tolerate this?
When Sengoku, who was in the audience, saw this scene, he was shocked, and the navy behind him also understood what had happened to the guard.
"general…"
"If we can't keep this guy... we must kill him..."
They looked shocked and whispered to Zhan Guo.
The guard was quickly carried away by the medical staff who arrived, and the judge began to speak:
"Arthur, you colluded with Barrett to launch a massacre against Jarzburg, committing a heinous crime against humanity. Do you admit your guilt?"
Arthur looked at the judge with disdain and said, "I recognize your grandmother's legs!"
"Refusing to admit your mistakes and insulting the judge is an aggravated crime." The judge pronounced the verdict immediately without any panic.
In his opinion, Arthur was just a fish waiting to be slaughtered, and his every word and action represented the sacredness to punish and judge him.
However, the judge glanced at Zhan Guo, and then asked Arthur: "However, Admiral Zhan Guo, in consideration of your contribution and performance in the short time since you joined the navy,
"I have decided to reduce all your crimes, on the condition that you must serve the navy for the rest of your life and make up for the crime you committed this time in the name of justice."
"Ridiculous..." Arthur couldn't help but curse inwardly after hearing these words. It was too absurd.
The judge banged the hammer in his hand, feeling that Arthur's attitude had made him lose all his dignity as a judge, and shouted:
"Please answer, yes or no!"
Arthur began to analyze it. This was undoubtedly a fatal question.
If you are willing, your freedom will be bound by the navy for your entire life, although you can escape when your strength reaches a certain level in the future...
But if he stays in the navy for a moment, his personality and body and mind will become extremely disgusting.
If you refuse, it will be nothing more than announcing the death sentence...
Such a question made Arthur laugh, and his laughter was so loud that it spread throughout the court and reached everyone's ears.
He looked at Zhan Guo and suddenly smiled: "It's you, isn't it? You want to use this method to make me feel that it was you who saved me from the conspiracy and make me grateful and work for the navy until death?"
"It's like if you broke my leg and gave me a crutch, you think you're doing this for my own good?"
Zhan Guo's expression remained calm, but he was actually experiencing an unprecedented shock in his heart.
He didn't understand how Arthur knew that, and every word he said was consistent with the fact that he was the one who had plotted to harm him.
Now... he is trying to use a trick to keep him in the navy.
In order to prevent the navy from losing such a fighting force, Zhan Guo continued: "Arthur, as long as you agree, I promise that in the future..."
"I... refuse..." Arthur lowered his head, the anger in his heart had reached a critical point.
After being rejected, Sengoku felt sorry for Arthur's answer and sighed deeply: "That's really... a pity, Arthur."
The judge banged the gavel and announced the verdict: "Result of the trial: Lieutenant Commander Arthur of the Navy Headquarters colluded with foreign parties to kill government agents and 800 soldiers. In the name of An Nu, he is sentenced to death and will be taken to the heavy central execution platform of Judicial Island for public execution!"
After hearing the verdict, Arthur lowered his head, closed his eyes, and said to himself, "Excuse me, the Celestial Dragons massacre a non-member country every three years around the world. How do you sentence yourselves?"
The crowd was shocked. Upon hearing this, even Zhan Guo suddenly stood up from the spectator's seat, with fear in his eyes, and ordered the soldiers to block the door of the court hall.
"The Celestial Dragons are oppressing civilians all over the world. What crime have you convicted them of?"
"Why are there no trials for the Celestial Dragons here? Huh? Why are the people brought here considered doomed by the outside world before the trial even begins?"
"I've been out at sea for a few months, and I've seen such ugly human nature..." Arthur's voice got louder and louder, and he became more and more excited. "I really don't know why I joined this heinous and disgusting organization."
"This organization that commits crimes against humanity every day around the world..."
When the reporters heard these words from Arthur, those reporters who were already familiar with the character and style of the Celestial Dragons began to ask questions to the judge and Admiral Sengoku.
The endless questions, doubts and speculations in my heart are all eager to be revealed at this moment.
Sengoku asked a child who he rescued from an abandoned garbage station in the New World to use the power of the fruit on Arthur.
The ability of the Silence Fruit was activated, and Arthur wanted to struggle free and continue speaking, but he found that no matter what he said, no sound came from him.
His voice seemed to be blocked out.
"These words are just something he made up before he died. Don't believe them...!" The officer behind Zhan Guo rushed to Arthur and covered his mouth.
He was then escorted to the central square of the town of Judicial Island to be executed.
