Nobles already had immunity for most crimes. The immunity spoken of here was authority over serious crimes.
If one asked for a jewel mine, they would give a mine. Though limited in area, one could become a lord of a local province. They could build a townhouse in the capital, or even ensure a lifetime monopoly on supplying something to the royal family.
Even if it were a proposal of marriage to Carson, he had to accept it.
Carson leaned back comfortably and crossed his legs. Even then, Ines did not take her eyes off his face for a moment.
“What crime are you going to commit in the future?”
When Ines did not respond, he stretched out his long arm and pointed at the document, indicating that she should look again.
“It’s best to read it carefully and decide. You don’t have to answer right away, you can discuss it with your family and tell me later.”
But she did not even make a gesture to read the document.
Some wanted the reward for saving the royal family to be received by their next generation. It was the glory of a house, and the decision had to be made cautiously, possibly to be gained in a lifetime.
“I don’t need anything else. Immunity will do.”
But the young woman in front of him was not swayed at all.
Carson was basically indifferent to others. He treated everyone with courtesy, but if they crossed the line a little, he cut them off mercilessly. So, it would have been right for him not to ask what she wanted if it were the original him. But Carson could not stand not asking.
“Can you tell me why?”
She took a moment to reach for the tea cup, perhaps to buy time. Carson could not take his eyes off the slowly moving Ines for a moment.
With a clink, she put down the tea cup and opened her mouth.
“I might… kill someone.”
Carson had never made the mistake of revealing his inner thoughts to anyone in his life. But he could not stop himself from bursting into laughter.
The woman was all in pink.
Her tiny, rising nostrils, her flushed cheeks, her nervous, clasped fingernails, her lips that she kept biting in irritation, even between her eyebrows and eyes, everything was pink.
And she could kill someone?
“Who exactly are you going to kill?”
“I’m not announcing that I’m going to kill someone. But human affairs are unpredictable, aren’t they?”
Carson blinked slowly after staring into Ines’s eyes for a moment.
“Let’s do that. As Your Grace says, human affairs are unpredictable.”
Ines nodded without a reply.
“But the immunity isn’t about completely forgiving the crime.”
“I know.”
Killing a person could result in various punishments depending on the nature of the crime. So, having received immunity didn’t mean one could completely escape all punishment.
“You just mustn’t go to Romfield.”
“Romfield?”
Carson raised his brows at the word he was hearing for the first time.
“Ah, Romfield.”
He then recalled the gray building he had seen on his way to Lesonia. Though he had seen it from a distance, its ominous appearance made it impossible not to ask about its purpose.
“It’s quite infamous, isn’t it?”
“Yes, it’s not a place where people can endure… or so I’ve heard.”
“Is that so?”
“You will certainly be able to write it down in a document as it’s a compensation guaranteed by the empire, right?”
Her determination seemed too strong just to prepare for an uncertain future. And her eyes held complete confidence that he would grant her request.
As if it were a predetermined sequence. Like a person making a reasonable request to a longknown friend. Or like a foolish believer blindly clinging to a god for an answer.
“If I were to commit such a great sin as killing a person, please document that I will not be sent to Romfield and that no harm will come to my family.”
“Of course.”
There was no reason not to comply because her request was specific. Besides, the practice of holding the entire family accountable for the sins of one family member had long been abolished.
Of course, she couldn’t completely escape social censure and the accompanying moral responsibility. So this woman was asking to protect her family in all these aspects as well. A royal promise was that heavy.
Carson immediately ordered Noah to prepare the documents as Ines wanted.
“Um, My Lord.”
While waiting for the documents to be prepared, Ines cautiously called to Carson. When he raised his eyebrows, signaling her to speak, she carefully brought up her words.
“There is one more favor I would like to ask. This is a request I make not in relation to the compensation I will receive, but simply as a citizen of Landhill. You may refuse, so please consider it lightly.”
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
