Forced Marriage: Thirteenth Wife
Trial Done

The Main Leader smiled faintly at his seat. "Roxanne, Sanya, up the stands and Arkas, down to the bottom."

It hinted that the content of the trial was completely changed. This is no longer about Roxanne's fate but about the three people who are debating Roxanne's fate.

As long as the chin is propped up, see this development happen. And Askala thought that this would be Elios' victory with Sanya coming.

"Arkas, as the first child, say something first" the Leader ordered.

Arkas looked at Roxanne who was looking at him without hesitation and suddenly smiled. It seemed that now he was no longer the Puppet Who was being played by someone.

"I admit it's true" Arkas said. "I, deep in my heart, love my brothers and sisters including Elios' wife. But I also treat them like animals instead of humans. I admit the lack of my wisdom."

Then Arkas turned to Eris who seemed to be shaken by the change of situation.

"And I admit that Eris did something wrong."

Arkas always held him. Because he knew that Eris wanted to keep their faith as Narendra. If admitting that Eris's actions were wrong, then it was like admitting that Arkas should have died, Eris should have taken the lead.

"I'm against Nernia's death, Father."

"Arc." Eris tries to stop him, but Arkas refuses.

"I approve of Nernia's death if she has done so. If he sticks his sword at me, then I admit that he deserves to die as a traitor. But in reality Nernia died because Eris was too adamant. And I refused both of his eyes blind because of me. He's too stubborn."

"Then you want what?" reply Eris growled. "Then you thought Nernia was a joke? You think the threat of rebellion is just a joke? What's driving your brain crazy now?"

"Isn't it Roxanne?" timpal Elios's. "Sister, didn't you enter with your pale face into this place because since yesterday you refrained from killing him? The woman, whom you love, shows the seeds of rebellion before your eyes. You keep thinking about killing him before he talks too much but you let him scream, asking him to be human. Narendra's wife is human. Right enough. That's why from now on they should not call their husband Young Master, but rather 'Slave'."

Brak!

The debate was stalled because the Main Leader hit the table very hard. But then the man looked at Askala who had only been smiling.

"What do you suggest, Askala?"

"Regulation change" replied Askala with eyes fixed on Arkas. "But it looks like Arkas won't agree because it means Elios can sue his Narendra name again."

"I will sue him if the rules are changed" Elios said. "And that very second I will ask for a duel for the claim of inheritance."

Askala, who gave no advice but actually poured oil on the fire, turned to Eris. Back the woman wanted to add to the size of the fire.

"If you refuse to change the rules, Eris, then Roxanne can't be your wife. And if you support the amended rule, you must kill Elios to stop him. And Arkas would disagree. After all, Arkas would also not agree to return Elios' name."

Askala laughed loudly enjoying them circling in the matter. Want to not want Askala addicted. The woman turned again in the other direction, this time it was Roxanne.

"Say something, Roxanne. What say?"

"That's very true."

The Main Leader exhaled a rough breath. "Shameful. You three let women laugh at the way you guys solve problems?" the man said to the three men down there.

Elios replied, "I intended to kill the woman so that she would stop commenting, Uncle. Because actually he can't do anything either."

"I'm just a woman" replied Roxanne who knew what Elios meant. "What do you expect of me, hm? Should I take out a knife and threaten you to obey me to get your problems done?"

"My wife, now you're good at answering. Is it because a blind man loves you so you think the world is protecting you?"

"I'm counting on my demons." Roxanne rubbed Sanya's head. "He protected me."

"Many? Yours? You pretended not to know that he came to me for treason from you, right?"

"Is that the same as Sanya siding with you?"

Sanya yawned wide, lying on Roxanne's shoulder. "Wake Sanya up when it's all done."

"I support the rule change" said Arkas, who stopped small talk just now.

"I support Roxanne to be Eris—'s wife if she wants—and returns Elios' name as Narendra."

Eris and Elios both turned in disbelief. If there was one in this room that should have been the most resistant to the rule change, it was Arkas.

He did not want it not because he was stubborn over the rules or coarse, but because he hated Elios setting foot on Narendra again. And that guy just said he agreed?

Arkas, who was holding back the trembling in his hands, looked at the Prime Leader full of earnestness.

"I call Eris stubborn but so am I. And I gave up on that. Our generation made a lot of mistakes, Dad, I want to fix them."

This family will be destroyed if Arkas just keeps putting his hate first. He could not forgive Elios but Roxanne, Sanya and Eris did not need to be victims of it.

Let's stop this drama. They should not be circling around just because of an overly stubborn stance.

"I refuse." Elios stopped that supposedly moving scene. "I don't need Narendra's name if I can kill Roxanne."

"Even if I take Diane?" reply Arkas. "I can still decide the last death in our generation is your death, that way you lose Diane. Are you all right, Little Sister?"

The trial was over that very second because Elios bit his tongue.

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