The witness looked at Ishar. Although observing someone with sharp eyes could be challenging, he managed to finish it without incident.
“Yes, that’s correct. Silver hair, ocean-colored eyes—without a doubt, it’s him. The one who struck the deceased Nauri with a stone.”
“Then, do you remember the brooch he was wearing on his body?”
“Yes.”
The witness confidently answered the judge’s question.
“It was a diamond brooch in the shape of a lily. How could I forget the one that shone brightly, attached to the left chest of his elegant attire?” Even recalling it made him shiver, as if his teeth were chattering.
“I’ve never once forgotten the events of that day. I still vividly remember Lord Fairy Nauri falling with blood spilled. Even after killing Nauri, I remember Ishar’s disdainful gaze, as he spat on her. I won’t forget until I die…”
“What about the monocle?”
While the witness tried to hold back tears and steal a moment, Ishar asked.
“You remember me so vividly, wouldn’t you recall which side I wore the monocle on that day?”
“……”
The witness quickly wiped away tears. With an absent-minded look, he asked.
“The monocle… right?”
“Yes.”
Ishar tilted his head, questioning.
“You can’t possibly forget, can you?”
“Well… It’s just that it was so sudden…”
The witness extended his sentence, gazing around. Then…
His eyes lit up!
It seemed like he remembered. Perhaps it was a sudden recollection or a hint from someone.
“It’s the right side.”
The witness forcefully pointed to his right.
“The right side. No doubt about it.”
“……”
Taking advantage of Ishar’s silence, the judge spoke.
“Even in my memory, you always wore the monocle on the right side. Isn’t that right?”
That was true.
Since childhood, Ishar had myopia only in his right eye. Therefore, he consistently wore the monocle.
“Yes.”
Ishar admitted cleanly.
“I always wore the monocle on the right side. Otherwise, due to the tendency to look only with the good eye, I often suffered from migraines.”
“Well, then there’s nothing more to say.”
The judge raised the wooden hammer. The desire to finish quickly was evident.
“With this, your defense…”
“But that’s when I wore glasses.”
The hammer paused in the air again.
“Whether it was on the right or left, wearing glasses or not, what does that matter?”
“……”
A stillness pervaded the square, where over a thousand people had gathered. Even the judge remained motionless.
“I didn’t wear a monocle that day.”
Ishar spoke with a clear voice. Then, he abruptly turned toward the crowd.
“Isn’t that right, Lady Fairy Jacques?”
His gaze was like an arrow, piercing a specific spot in the crowd.
There stood a lady glaring fiercely, Claude Fairy’s mother, who had thrown a stone at Ishar, accusing him of being a murderer—a demon in the guise of a noble.
She chewed her lips thoughtfully, staring at Ishar. But she couldn’t say it wasn’t true.
The lady had a good memory.
On the day of the incident, she had praised Ishar for looking much better without glasses, urging him to continue without them.
Ishar turned back to the judge.
“With this, the credibility of the evidence has not weakened, has it?”
The judge seemed noticeably uncomfortable. He glared at the witness with sharp eyes.
Bowed heads, pallid faces, and anxious, wandering eyes—all these revealed to everyone that they were false witnesses.
“Take them away.”
In response to the judge’s command, the captain of the guards moved. Watching him drag the two witnesses down from the platform, Ishar unconsciously smiled.
“Don’t relax just yet. You’ve merely brushed off a speck of dust from the stigma of being a murderer.”
The judge spoke with a fierce glare.
“Do we have evidence that you had a monocle in the pocket of your evening dress and didn’t wear it when you came out? It’s about proving that you didn’t enhance your vision for a more accurate murder.”
“……”
The audience began to stir again. Lady Fairy Jacques’s eyes flashed with malice.
“And, above all, we have one more piece of evidence.”
The judge took the brooch out of the wooden box and raised it high again.
“How do you explain this?”
The setting sun began to cast an even more intense light on the brooch. The diamonds shimmered more brightly and richly than before.
In the midst of the once again silenced square, the judge spoke triumphantly.
“A witness may lie, but evidence cannot. This was undoubtedly clutched in the hands of the deceased, clear evidence that you are the murderer. If you have anything to say about this as well, go ahead.”
Ishar spoke up.
“That is…”
“I’ll speak for you.”
A heavily authoritative voice cut off Ishar’s words. All eyes turned to the source of the sound.
And even without the intervention of the guards, people automatically began to step aside.
No one dared to block the path before the emperor.
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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