The 5 Elemental Lord
Arguing
The next day, in an imperial meeting room.
“I ask for noble justice, your grandson Prince Fang Zeno has killed my son without cause.” Said the king of the peacock feather city by crouching before Hanzi Ares with a pleading face.
Emperor Hanzi frowned. “Not the killer of your son named Zen? Why did you throw that mistake at Fang Zeno?” He said in a very high voice. He was almost angry when he heard the city king blame Zeno instead.
“It seems that you already know the news, but I apologize, that my own subordinates who said that Zen is Prince Zeno.” Reply to the king of the city.
“Comeon call Fang Zeno to the meeting room.” Emperor Hanzi's orders to the subordinates who were beside him.
“Good noble.”
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Early in the morning so cold, Zeno had awoken, this time preparing himself to continue on his way to the lightning country. The two swords, namely the two soul swords, as well as the katana given by Fang Yoshi long ago, had each been inserted into a shell.
Two swords, he put behind his back with a cross state. With the sleeve as the container, making Zeno so cool, even Lyana who was helping Zeno also felt amazed.
“While I wish you could stay here longer.” Lyana.
“What's the reason?” Zeno asked curiously.
“I have no friends here, I mean friends who are still close relatives like in the nuclear family. In the nuclear family, I was an only child. Unlike you, you have two brothers namely Tan and Yuna.” Said Lyana with such a pouting face.
“Do you want to come?” Zeno.
“Really?” Lyana who previously had a face so bad, was now so happy when Zeno invited her. After all, he was not too at home when constantly being in the royal surroundings.
“No, I was just kidding. That's very dangerous, because if you come along, I can't take full care of you.” Zeno said with a scratch on his own head.
Lyana was so annoyed, she again put on a face so bad with wrinkles on her forehead, then she turned around and went to step away leaving Zeno.
Sometimes he looked back at Zeno with a gaze so terrible, that it made Zeno just shake his head.
However, just as she was about to walk out the door, there was suddenly a soldier who wanted to enter Zeno's room as well, making Lyana immediately stop her steps to get out, because he wanted to know what the soldier meant.
“Greetings, forgive servant princess Lyana.” Said the soldier by lowering his face.
“Greetings dear prince Zeno, forgive me for interrupting. You ordered the emperor to face him.” He bowed his head before Zeno.
“What's the matter soldier?” Zeno frowned.
“Hamba also does not understand, but it seems like this has something to do with the city king Bulu Peacock.” Answer the soldier.
“King of Bulu Peacock?” Inner Zeno. “Did the damn king not accept that his son died?” Cross it by moving his feet out.
“Grandfather, what did you call me?” He said as he walked into the meeting room, but his gaze was only focused on one of the people in front of his grandfather.
The hateful gaze, and the sense of revenge clearly visible from the eyes of the city king who was fixed on Zeno, made Zeno slightly raise the tip of his lips because he only realized that the person he was staring at was the king of the city.
“Do you really kill the son of the king of this city?” Ask the Hanzi emperor.
Zeno turned back to the king of the city, saying, “So the king of the city slandered me. On what evidence would you accuse me of doing that?”
The city lord was silent for a moment, but he was not too foolish to plan a plan to make Zeno a scapegoat. He then called his son's subordinates who had witnessed firsthand that the son of the city king had been killed intentionally.
“Greetings, emperor Hanzi.”
“Greetings, prince Fang Zeno.”
Instead of panicking, Zeno actually smiled widely when the subordinates of the city king's children interfered in this matter. Because when Zeno was blamed with strong enough evidence, Zeno could throw the blame to the subordinates, because the sword used to kill the subordinates of the city's king's children was the subordinate's sword itself.
“Indeed, I as a witness saw for myself that prince Zeno who had killed the son of the king of the city without cause.” Said the subordinate.
Previously, the city lord had forced his son's subordinates to cover up the true facts. Or he will be given a threat that his family will not survive, so the subordinate is forced to cover up the truth.
“Uncle, is your sword still covered in blood? Was not the son of the king of the city killed by your sword? I have been a witness myself. In fact, princess Lyana also found out that your sword contained blood spots?” Said Zeno who was still smiling cunningly.
“Does that mean your own subordinates who have killed your son, king of the city?” Ask Emperor Hanzi.
The king of the city could not answer, he just turned his head towards his pale bottom, his forehead filled with sweat and his heart pounding so fast.
“But I saw for myself, O prince, that you drew my sword and killed the son of the king of the city, I witnessed it.” Said the subordinate son of the city king stammeringly.
“Isn't that a lie if the person testifying is a suspect himself. For example, I declare that I testify that your sword is covered in blood, but this is reinforced by the testimony of princess Lyana who saw for herself that your sword also contained bloodstains. Can it be called a lie?” Zeno said so firmly.
The subordinate of the city king's son was speechless anymore, he had been caught up by his city king's decision to blame Fang Zeno. But who would have thought, the subordinate has now become a suspect in the case of killing the city king's son.
But he was not so accepting when he had become a scapegoat, but on the other hand, when he said that the true fact was that Fang Zeno killed the son of the city king with cause, his family is not safe there. So the subordinate had experienced such a difficult event in his life.
“No, I'm sorry prince, I've been lying. It is true that you yourself killed the son of the king of the city, but that is why and not as I said. The son of the city king had made a grave mistake by doing a bad thing to the prince Fang Zeno, who had done something bad to him, the son of the city king has even said a no-no to the prince's mother so that the prince himself does not hesitate to kill her.” Said the subordinate with a sobbing cry.