I Will Be The New Me
CHAPTER 54 TREASON AND RETALIATION OF QUINN

"uh? oh, my God, that's awful!"

"It looks so painful."

"What a pity on Lady Penelope..."

"Yes, he lives with great suffering. Plus his father has committed another major crime that harmed the kingdom."

"I can't see that..."

Quinn saw the reaction of the audience different, they seemed more easily pity Penelope than when she spoke. "Pfft, I'm sorry I'm gonna make you change your mind. Just wait for my turn," Quinn's mind was impatient, her pleasure was at the top.

Quinn helped Penelope justify the position of her dress, "I try every day to survive under the pressure she was under. The viscount had the heart to kill a servant who intended to protect me from his rampage. Even though he knew she was dying, he still vented all his anger until our servant lost his life. I was so afraid to report because there was no guarantee I could stay alive afterwards."

"Not only that, I often saw this new awkwardness that I realized after Quinn exposed the heinous crimes that my Father committed. Dad used to come home covered in blood, after telling Butler our house in the morning that he was going to the orphanage that was built by the three great noble families.

He also often did not go home for two days, but if observed more closely, Dad never had a business partner invited to the house like Uncle Savero.

As I mentioned earlier, Father has a secret room where he keeps a lot of letters about the care of the orphanage done for 'charity activities' by Father and two other nobles. The room will only open if Dad opens it with the family head ring he has."

"Urgh basic is not self-knowing! an ungodly child like you should have thrown it away long ago!" Vincent is very angry at the moment. She tried to open her heart to appreciate Penelope's presence in her life and help Penelope to get the Queen's position, but now her daughter stands on the witness stand to incriminate her sentence.

"Suspect, please calm down. You're not allowed to interrupt witnesses."

"I've brought statements from all the servants who work in our house that they also get violence like me that not all the scars disappear. Some people who no longer work at home have also come to testify." Penelope went to the Judge's table to deliver the letter she had collected and returned to the witness stand.

Penelope cried in the midst of her explanation, "Dad never once carried out his role as a Father. I felt that I was unlucky, but Uncle Savero's family really gave me the courage to imagine a better future. They were very kind and thought I was like my own biological family, that's why I used to stay at Uncle's house to be free from his tantrums."

Some of the nobles seemed to pity what Penelope had said. Plus the heavy injuries that a woman shouldn't get so much imprint on Penelope's back.

"Pity, he's been so great at staying this long in a house that feels like hell."

"Did his father have no sense? such an independent child is still being hurt."

"You are still strangers to violence. Don't react like that."

Killian was eager to silence the mouths of those who gossiped every second behind his seat, disturbed and unable to focus on hearing the trial.

In addition, Killian also felt very useless because all this time did not know the pain Penelope felt.

Quinn again drew closer to the pulpit where she was supposed to be standing, she stared at the bench of the audience. "You have heard everything clearly what the witness said. By looking at the side where my family looks more affectionate to him, Penelope developed envy in my heart and wanted to take my position both in my family and in my environment and friends so she repeatedly tried to get rid of me."

Savero, Killian, even Penelope herself instantly widened her eyes in shock. They can't believe Quinn would say that.

"What does that mean?"

"Did that really happen?"

"Maybe he made up a story."

"They both look familiar, really."

Raiden smiled widely up there, from here on out he was looking forward to the commotion that Quinn would make. The next news will be very exciting.

"Q-Quinn, what are you saying? why do I need to get rid of you? you're like a real family to me." Penelope was clear, she seemed to attract the sympathy of many people who were indeed from the beginning more supportive of Penelope.

Killian was about to defend, but he didn't want to act rashly, Shuvillian's surname would be smeared if he took the wrong move. "Take it easy, Killian. You know your brother always had a reason to dare to say something even if it would be opposed by others," Savero held his son's shoulder back from defending if he had no evidence.

"Dad..." Killian doesn't know when Savero will be so trusting of Quinn.

"Rumors cannot be underestimated, any news will certainly be easily carried by the wind until evenly distributed throughout the Ethereum land. You may still remember the train attack that happened to me to make the Grand Duke intervene to secure the area around the border."

Quinn held up a paper bearing the insignia of a Guild in which the contents of the purchase of services, signatures and stamp of approval between the two parties were already printed clearly there. "When everyone even thought it was banditry, Penelope sent a group of hit men to eliminate me and make it look like bandits."

Killian gaped in disbelief, as did the unexpected Savero. "I've already given the original to the Chief Justice to check its authenticity."

The Chief Justice said, "Yes, we've checked and the results are genuine."

Goddamnit! how did he get that? did Rupert betray me?! Quinn, you betrayed me too!

"Q-Quinn, where might I commit such immoral acts. You think I could do it? you see for yourself, I've never gotten used to the violence my father has done, so I might have hurt my own cousin" Penelope said with tearful eyes.

Quinn grinned faintly, she deliberately ignored Penelope's remark and continued to make her argument. "But maybe you don't believe me. The next morning when I see me, instead of asking me the news he asked me how I could escape the bandit attack as if he was disappointed to see his cousin survived."

"Not only that, he came to visit with a flower that had been laced with poison after knowing that I had escaped from his messengers."

"No! that's not true, Your Honor Judge! I didn't do such a heinous and cunning thing, I never thought of killing Quinn. I have trouble facing problems at home. What evidence do you have until you dare to accuse me?" asked Penelope not to take it.

"Of course I have proof. Otherwise, I wouldn't dare to bring this case to trial." Quinn held up a small bottle of poison powder that Penelope had left at the flower shop.

Penelope rounded her eyes in shock, "how could it be in her hands?!" inner panic.

"Penelope, you probably don't know why I have this bottle. You're careless because you didn't exterminate him and left him in the store instead. Wh why? you want to be on your guard if you kill me so you can blame the shopkeeper?"

Penelope felt intimidated by the gazes of the nobles present, they would be happy to get new gossip materials.

Someone stood up from the spectator seat while raising a hand. There's a guy Penelope still remembers his face. "I dare testify, Your Honor, Judge. I saw Lady Marchetti put it when she had chosen what flowers she would buy. I was originally about to dispose of the bottle, but I handed it to Lady Quinn because I thought she needed to know, I didn't dare to just throw it away because it was dangerous."

She is the flower shop girl Quinn asked Raiden to be invited as one of the watchers. "It's good to be friends with ordinary people. I'm not like you just looking for face" whispered Quinn softly near Penelope.

"?!"

Killian stiffened in place. All the evidence was clear, but his heart was still looking for a reason to deny the truth. The young man looked down with trembling eyes, "why should he do that?" that's a question that keeps spinning in his head.

"Geez, why does Lady Penelope have to do that?"

"It's possible that he's acting out of danger by Lady Quinn."

"What Lady Quinn said made a lot of sense. No man is holy-hearted, we all know that."

Quinn raised his voice "You nobles in attendance, perhaps the events on the eve of His Highness the Crown Prince's birthday party are still freshly remembered. How a group of trained people attacked me and claimed to be the Knights of the palace, but apparently they were the Viscount's envoys and his daughter.

When the Prince and Grand Duke examined the bodies of the Knights, they had the Marchetti family emblem, including Penelope's hairpin there. Too bad none of those messengers survived, but you understand what I mean? they've met there before.

During this time Penelope made use of her closeness to His Highness the Crown Prince in order for the treasure-crazed Viscount to help her take the position of Crown Princess. Because Penelope knew, I was close friends with the Crown Prince and it blocked his path.

This cousin of mine, for the sake of getting rid of me, he also made use of the Word of God that his father feared for personal purposes, that is to get rid of me without needing to dirty his own hands so that our Viscount gets a punishment he will be free from any charges."

This is why Quinn placed the emblem of the Vincent family on the bodies of the Knights envoys of Raiden who were sent to kill him. Not to protect Raiden from charges, Quinn wants to destroy Vincent and Penelope at once. Everyone wouldn't care what happened, they would immediately believe it once Quinn showed evidence.

"Huh?!" everyone was surprised by Quinn's claim to be the complete opposite of the image of Penelope van Marchetti in the eyes of both the elite and the public.

"I certainly wouldn't indiscriminately accuse. The Grand Duke gave the evidence they got from the scene."

Quinn held up a plastic clip containing Penelope's emblem and hairpin that had bloodstains that belonged to the Knight. "This is one of the strongest pieces of evidence found there. While I was fighting life and death, Penelope continued to target the Prince. He even wants to be the Crown Prince's dance partner in his birthday party."

Penelope and Vincent are both surprised not to play. Quinn's statement is widening. The father and son had no idea about the Knights attacking him. "What do you mean talk like that?! I don't know anything about that! Your Majesty, he has lied and falsified the evidence!" sentak Vincent wrathful.

Penelope glared in disbelief as Quinn continued to attack her "That's you yourself asking me to dance with the Prince!"

"Oh really? when did I say that?"

Penelope looked up at Raiden's chair, hoping that Raiden would help her because the young man knew the truth. Quinn is the one who cornered her to become Raiden's dance partner.

Up there Raiden just smiled without sin, instead he looked back at Penelope casually, "why are you looking at me like that? I can't help you. I'm not interfering."

Deg

His heart stopped pumping oxygen. Her chest hurts. For a moment Penelope felt the time around her stopped. The girl fell limp because her legs were no longer able to accumulate her own weight. His face was staring at the trial floor. It seems that he was shocked to see Raiden's uncaring response and unwilling to try to tell the truth to the public.

"Yes, I saw the Crown Prince dancing with Lady Penelope."

"Yes, I guess the Crown Prince himself asked for it."

"I didn't know he was two-faced."

"It is true, people say, the fruit fell not far from the tree. The Viscount Gen really declined to him."

"disgusting. How could he possibly handle that to his own family members?"

Quinn stared intently at Penelope who was sitting on the floor. "Penelope had long tried to get rid of me in a subtle way by distancing myself from my sister and my father.

When I was a kid, I, Killian, and he played in the pool... Penelope joked by pushing me, but she slipped and ended up dropping a very small Killian into the pool. Killian may not remember, but he almost died from drinking too much water.

I tried to get the waiter's help because I couldn't swim, but Penelope went inside and saved Killian from there. What he told my father was very different, he said I was the one who pushed Killian into the pool.

Always was. When Penelope's reckless actions nearly took Killian's life, I was always made a scapegoat until Dad and even Killian themselves misunderstood and kept their distance from me. They both thought I was a careless and extremely unreliable child.

But it seems this way took too long to make him think of killing me without using his own hands."

Quinn slowly recalled her childhood and the reason Killian hated her so much even now. What he said this time was not a trick or a fabrication, it was true.

Killian covered her mouth with a palm, she was too shocked to hear it all. Of course Killian didn't remember much because he was still too small. However, after Quinn spoke, the flashbacks of the past ran like film paper in his mind.

"I never did that! you lied! you betrayed me!" Penelope suddenly gripped both of Quinn's arms. He glared furiously at feeling played with. "Your Highness the Judge! Quinn has made me drink poison! he poisoned me to take all of Dad's files!"

"Please speak calmly, Lady Penelope" the Chief Justice warned. "Doctor, please check the blood."

"Okay, Your Honor, Judge."

Penelope smirked happily. He has not received the antidote to the poison that Quinn promised to give him when he has successfully retrieved all of Vincent's secret business files.

Minutes after pausing the trial to wait for the results of Penelope's blood sample, the judge began to announce the results. Everyone was tense waiting for the results of the blood check, because Quinn seemed confident and not afraid at all even though Penelope talked about poisoning her "From the examination of the palace doctor, he said, we will announce that Lady Penelope is in good health. There was no reaction in his blood which meant that he was not poisoned at all."

"W-what?! that's not possible! obviously I was spewing blood!"

"But we've checked it three times and the results remain the same."

Quinn grinned triumphantly. Remember when Quinn visited Penelope who had just been whipped? it happened the next day after the night of Raiden's birthday party. Quinn gave a bottle of drinking water that Quinn called holy water obtained from the temple, it was ordinary water that Quinn had already put in the antidote to the poison and Penelope was clearly unaware of it.

"Lady Penelope, you gave a false accusation to Lady Shuvillian. We'll also count the penalties for that."

Doc! Doc!

"The judge's verdict will be announced after the recess period."

Penelope is then joined to the suspect's seat along with her father whom she betrayed in order to save herself. He is in the same place as Vincent.

"Feel what I've felt before, Penelope. I look forward to a 'happy' ending for you."

Quinn smiled so relieved. I think he never felt this happy.

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"The final verdict of this special hearing will be delivered. They neglect their duty as nobles to guard the people and make use of the painful history of the kingdom for their own benefit is a very fatal crime. The suspect also showed an attitude of guilt that further hurt the hearts of the people. Therefore, in order to uphold the discipline in history, the suspect will be sentenced to the harshest penalty."

Everyone was so looking forward to what kind of punishment would be given to the suspects.

"Everyone involved in this case will be put to death and his family will be exterminated. The punishment will be pronounced today before sundown."

The palace soldiers came and tied the bodies of the defendants before moving to the place of execution where there was already a pole that the blade of the slab glistened sharply. And this special session that was held closed by holding a sacred ritual, they hoped to try to purify the history of the palace in the future.

"Death!"

"Basic fucker!"

"disgusting devil!"

"God will not forgive your sins!"

the cheers filled with insults and insults rose up into the sky. People flocked to watch their beheading to be more satisfied to see the end of people who had long committed vile acts.

They even still tried to hit even though the palace guards tried to split the sea of humans to make way. Penelope looked towards Killian who was reluctant to look at her at all, "Killian... Killian, please look at me one last time."

"I don't regret ever loving you, brother. Good bye."

Killian passed away just like that, he left the execution ground. Although only a split second, Penelope could see Killian's eyes reddened. The young man was sad but he couldn't do anything and Penelope knew it.

The one who goes first is Benedetti. His neck was fitted right in the pole basin. The executioner had been holding the rope.

Raiden witnesses the sentencing along with Quinn and Savero.

"Y-Your Majesty, please forgive me. Were it not for us, the sympathy of the people would not be what it is today. All for the sake of society! I didn't make any mistakes! I'm just—"

Sriiings

The head was immediately separated from his body. Ten seconds ago he was still talking, but now he was nothing more than a bunch of useless trash.

Quinn was frankly horrified to see up close the beheading, but so remembering the painful past for her made Quinn have to see her uncle and cousin one last time.

Once all was cut off, it was Penelope's turn under the knife. The girl seemed resigned even though her heart still felt an overwhelming anger at Quinn.

Quinn touched Raiden's arm using his finger, "may I talk to him for a second?" ask Quinn.

Raiden smiled gently at him "of course I can."

Quinn immediately went on stage and crouched down right in front of Penelope. "You came to mock me. Are you satisfied to see me like this? you fucking traitor!" maki Penelope.

"Your words are outrageous. I came here to save you..." Penelope gasped in surprise, she immediately turned her face to look at Quinn "Really. You saw it for yourself, didn't you? Raiden was very kind to me. He helped me in this trial several times. If I begged him to spare your life, he would have granted it. Actually I don't really want you to die either, I'm just heartbroken to know you keep trying to kill me."

Quinn smiled sweetly, "therefore, if now you apologize to me sincerely, I will save you from this pole."

Penelope was panting, she was reluctant to go low for a traitor like Quinn. If he survives this time, there are plenty of opportunities he can use to avenge betraying Quinn and killing her. "I'm sorry! please forgive me! I'm sorry for everything! please give one more chance to—"

"Pff! ahhhaha!" Quinn laughed so happily as if mocking Penelope, "you're finally apologizing too. But it can't change the past. You used to put me here by capitalizing on fabricating the truth, and now it's time for you to feel it. By the way, my offer to save you was just a lie."

Quinn stroked the top of Penelope's head. All this time he was patient to be able to give punishment in accordance with what Penelope did to him. Now Penelope will also die on charges that are more or less Quin partially engineered.

"Execute execution quickly."

"Okay, Your Majesty!"

Quinn got off the stage feeling very happy.

Penelope shouted angrily "Quinn, where are you going? come back! how dare you play with my life?! you cruel girl! fucking demon!"

Quinn looked back and looked at her cousin flatly "I take that as a compliment, Penelope. You made me choose this path."

Sriing

Penelope's head rolled until it fell right into the container where each suspect was put to death this afternoon. The girl's eyes were still wide open.

Quinn gasped "gagging. Did he hear my last words? ah, stupid time. I'm tired, I'd better get some rest."

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Author Note:

Now understand why the author made the first muters and ga directly make Quinn revenge 😌 . Yup! the author wants to set up a trial and end Penelope in the same way.

This is the beauty of being patient yes ges yes wkwkwk

Thank you to all those who have been patiently waiting for author🥺

See you in the next chapter! but can't promise when it's up again:")