Amber Sword

Chapter 1201: Chapter 303: Whirlpool VII_3

After quite a while, he finally came to his senses. He turned back, staring coldly at Jill and Boo: "Look at the trouble you two have caused, you’ve murdered a foreign Princess on Erune soil. Do you realize the gravity of your crime, you could even spark a war—"

"I must arrest and extradite you; only then can the impending fury of the neighboring country be pacified..." Brand strived to make his tone as cold and official as possible, though his heart felt unbearably heavy, almost suffocating.

Jill and Boo, who were being stared at coldly by Brand, turned pale with fright, though they didn’t quite understand what this young noble meant, it sounded terrifying enough with all the talk of war and calming anger. The two little fellows couldn’t help but tremble with fear.

Especially with Frey standing beside them, dressed in the Erune Army uniform, it made the threat seem all the more convincing. Although Frey wore the Imperial Guard’s uniform, the two Big Elves couldn’t discern any difference between the Forbidden Army and the port authority soldiers.

In their eyes, Brand was like a terrifying wrathful god ready to bring them to justice.

Frey, of course, knew that Magdal couldn’t possibly have been killed by these two little ones, but their presence here might mean they know something. She knew Brand was cunningly trying to extract information from them. Although she felt a bit sorry seeing Jill and Boo trembling like leaves, but recalling the tragic death of Princess Magdalene hardened her heart.

Boo and Jill were too scared to speak until Brand added: "Of course, these punitive measures also include the confiscation of all your assets—including those buried in the forest outside the city."

"No, how do you know!" Jill was dumbfounded, every time the port’s Grand Court confiscated their loot, only a small part was actually seized, because the Big Elves had a habit of burying their treasure. Their kind would usually choose an unknown, fixed location for each clan to bury treasures, known only to the Big Elf themselves which places held which ’clan’s’ wealth.

But Brand was an exception.

"No no, I mean, this isn’t our concern, you can’t do this..." Jill and Boo panicked immediately; if they were stunned before, now they were truly restless.

Especially with their assets in jeopardy.

"Not your concern?" Brand raised his voice, coldly asking: "Then what are you doing here? Don’t tell me you were here to steal?"

"No, we were just here to steal something." Boo confessed his crime outright, causing Jill to urgently want to close his mouth.

"Good." Brand said coldly: "According to Ambeser’s law, stealing also results in a forfeiture of half your assets and a year in jail. You do understand that, don’t you?"

"Oh no..." Boo immediately regretted it, even though it’s not a complete forfeiture, but half is enough to hurt. Especially since this time it’s ’truly’ half of all their assets.

"But there is still a chance to redeem yourselves." Brand changed his tone, "You are now involved in a murder case, if you provide useful clues, I might consider mitigating your sentencing."

When Brand said this, he looked every bit the Grand Judge, but the two Big Elves didn’t think about what legal procedures it took to become a Grand Judge, or if this trial of their theft was legitimate. To them, a noble surely had the authority to shout and kill.

The two nodded eagerly.

"Good, tell me how you discovered her?" Brand asked.

"Her? No no, sir, we just found a bag; we didn’t know that this... this Princess was inside." Jill hurriedly replied.

"A bag?"

"Yes," Jill quickly confessed everything they had seen, fearing that any inconsistency might anger this ’Lord Judge’ into changing his initial intent. As was evident, if he could reduce their sentencing, surely he could also increase it, right?