"Don't move! You are under arrest! You have no rights! come with us or die!" shouted a man who looked like the captain.

"Okay!" I said as I put my hands in the air and told Krog to do the same. "But I need a bed for her, she has been injured and could die at any second!" I said pointing at the unconscious Shem, who was by now completely healed by me, and was just lacking blood and energy, both of which can be recovered with sleep.

"Hmm, we'll see about that when we get there. Come with us for now."

"Ok!" said, while telling Krog to pick up Shem, and follow behind. But he stood next to Shem, motionlessly staring at the void behind me. 'Oh yes, of course! I should have known! Since he likes Shem, to the point of beating others to 'human paste' for her, wouldn’t it be very awkward to hold her...'

"Alright, then I'll pick her up" Sarcasm filling my mind as I said those words. Waiting for the correct reaction from Krog, I began to slowly move to pick her up, but Krog stopped me and said with an embarrassed face, "Wait, I'll do it."

Saying that, we began our walk to the city lord's mansion, and when we arrived, Dious was waiting there on a wheelchair, as two healers were using all kinds of level 1 spells to heal him. He sat there, with the arrogant expression plastered on his face, making me want to punch his face in. But I kept those expressions hidden under a smile. Krog was not the same, after I told him what happened as we were coming to the mansion, his anger began increasing, but I was able to convince him to calm down after telling him that I would make Dious pay for what he did. But now, that suppressed anger was about to erupt once more, as took a step forward, but I stopped him and shook my head.

Dious took this opportunity and tried to mock us, "Haha, you should know your place you brat. And you," he continued as he pointed at me, "Don't think you will get away with what you have done."

"Yes, we'll see each other in an hour in the city court!" I said mockingly.

we were shown to our cells in the dungeon. A rather horrible place, even for prisoners. Floor covered in mud, rats and cockroaches swarming the ground and walls, no light, except for the torches, and a tiny window, about 15 by 20 centimetres large.

After an hour, two guards came to take my, another two to take Krog, and one was stationed to take care of Shem. I was a little afraid he was paid by Dious, and so I sent out about 4 drops of my mana, and attached it to his neck, with one focus in mind, to materialised and tighten if he come into contact with the ring. It should be known that this is a personalised sort of alchemy, where the source of power is my own mana, and so it is only temporary. With the 4 drops I supplied, It should last about a day. It should also be known that the rings I gave Krog and Shem cannot be removed by anyone other than themselves, besides chopping their finger off.

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With that, I was assured. But to take extra preclusions, I used the same method on all the guards in the dungeon. After this, my nearly replenished mana had become half of the maximum. Within two minutes of walking, we reached the court, with all the bystanders of the incident, acting as witnesses, and the city lord acting as the judge. We were taken to a seat next to the witnesses, yet lightly separated, since we were the defendants.

"The court will now proceed with the accusers presenting their entire case with all the evidence, after which the defendants will present their case." said an announcer in a formal tone. I could already guess what was to come.

"Ahem," said the tall and skinny man, standing with a sly smile on his face and thin glasses. " My client, Mr. Dious, wants to report the murder of his dear friend Insid, as well as all his 7 guards for no reason by the defendants there."

The city lord was nodding his head, clearly approving this accusation.

"This is our accusation. To support it, I would like to present the heads of those who died at the scene. Although we have recovered 7 heads, one of the guards was brutally crushed by that brute next to the accused." He said as his henchmen presented 7 cloth bags with the heads of the 6 I killed, and Insid. Apparently, Krog had come across an unconscious Insid while running to me, and beheaded him, before continuing his pursuit. He mostly did this from anger of his past lewd actions towards Shem.

"We also have eye witnesses supporting these claims. May I present Mr. Rand" as he said that, a middle-aged man with a bartender's outfit stood up.

"Y- Yes my lord. You s-see, while I was cleaning the bar at the mansion-" "Ahem" interjected the sly lawyer-man. "Ah! I mean the bar in the town, I heard that child over there," as he pointed at one of the witnesses, the lawyer-man intervened once more, "I think you mean the brat over there" he said in a frustrated voice while pointing at me. "Ah yes, the child over there, I heard him threatening Mr. Dious for money in exchange for his friends life. But before Mr. Dious could remove the money, The child killed Insid, as well as all the loyal guards of Mr. Dious for no reason!" He said.

We also have more witnesses...

After 20 minutes of non-sense, unprepared, actors, with no acting skills, or knowledge of the actual incident were presented, the accuser's side quieted down. Dious ended everything with, "I told you I'll make you pay for your insults!" He had hardened his heart to kill Krog and I, and destroy Shem today.

"Now that the accusers have presented their case, the defendants will now be given time to present their defence" stated the announcer

All eyes turned to me and Krog, who was shivering in his place with anger.