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The interrogation is going on step by step, and the situation is becoming more and more unfavorable to David. As Jack pushes forward step by step, the people also begin to turn against him in large numbers.

After Jack announced the key "evidence", the king visited David once in prison. At the end of the last interrogation, David lost control. His voice ranged from deep disappointment to angry shouts, and the only thing he repeated was one sentence: "I Serving the king, that is my only crime!" Until he was dragged out of the council hall by the guards, these words still echoed in the suffocating silence of the officials and the king.

The conversation between Silas and David focused on the secret that David was hiding. The king told David that this was his last chance to confess. David insisted on keeping it, and still hoped to use his sincerity to resolve this disaster: " That is the only guilt in my heart, but I did not betray this country! I am innocent. I swear, if I have... I will plead guilty, and your mercy will determine my life and death."

The king's only answer to his oath was: "I believe you will."

The news of the king's visit to the prison was delivered, and Jack drank silently at his desk for a long time.

He has no way of knowing the specific content of the conversation, but it is conceivable that even if David himself said that he chose Jack between the king and Jack, Jack knew that it was only personal, and David would always be loyal to the king.

When presenting evidence in court, I am afraid that no one feels more absurd and ridiculous than Jack.He was not as worried and angry as Michelle, and he was not as determined as David, but David didn't notice that the time shown on the so-called video of his negotiations with the empire was the night of the blackout.

Jack is the only one who knows where David really was that night.

Since the king took this task, Jack has no intention of completing it. He will not allow anyone to take David's life from him. When it is the king who wants to do this, he will kill the king.

The idea of ​​usurping the throne was not born on the first day. As early as the time when he was involved in the Prosperous Port riots that killed Brother David, Jack nodded and agreed to join the coup team of his uncle William Klaus, but at that time he was more Mostly out of resentment and grievance against his father's neglect and oppression, he didn't contribute to this grand plan until the king personally promised to make him his heir, and he didn't know what his uncle organized Such power.

Now he's throwing himself into it with unprecedented energy, burning himself with urgency.

This kind of positivity made him surprised to find out how much power Klaus had. Although Klaus often used an attitude of dismissing children and didn't tell Jack how specific and in-depth things were, at least Jack knew that he had which partners.

Like Bishop Samus.

This is really the second person on the surprise list in Jack's mind-the first is of course David.

Bishop Samus obviously cared about David. He wanted to rescue David and send him abroad after the coup d'état. But apparently Jack proposed a better plan. David would not be executed immediately after the trial. He should be imprisoned for a period of time. It was during this time that a coup d'etat was launched, and David would be rehabilitated after a successful one.

In the past, Jack might have been jealous of David's status in the eyes of others, but now this news will only completely cheer him up. Standing in front of the bishop as an accomplice for the first time, Jack's eyes are astonishingly bright: " God didn't think David deserved to die, did he?"

There was a little surprise on the bishop's dignified face, and then turned into a touch of relief. He raised his hand and pointed at Jack's heart: "You have already felt it."

This was perhaps the first time he believed the media bragging about Jack and David's friendship, both flattering and disparaging.

The bishop was more gentle: "Son, do you love him?"

At this moment, Jack didn’t think of the ear-to-eye contact and physical entanglement between him and David, maybe because he was standing in front of him and asking questions, maybe because he was so open-minded at the moment, Jack answered calmly and frankly: “I love him. "

This is different from him telling Joseph that those are true with full of desolation and regret, and different from the painful outburst in front of the queen admitting that he loved Joseph, it is the first time in his adult life that Jack speaks the truth so sincerely and calmly.Without any frivolity, sarcasm, anger, or sorrow.

The bishop folded his hands and said, "Silas made me have to, and you made me feel right to do it."

For the first time since that brief meeting with the Bishop, Jack stepped into the prison to see David after he was taken into custody.

With the downfall of the hero, Jack's prestige is also growing day by day. He makes the guards retreat outside the door and sits alone with David.

David's hopes are being cut off, and he was strangled by Jack himself. His situation is getting worse and worse. He looks haggard in just a few days, but his back is still straight. When he sees Jack, his eyes are full. There is still light.

Jack didn't say hello, and David tried to lighten the mood: "You owe me a choice."

Their date is always going back and forth between the two choices, and the next one will start when they are all used up. This is like a game between the two of them. When the last date ends abruptly, Jack does still owe David one more time.

Jack just looked at him without saying a word.

David was a little uneasy, and then he stopped talking, calmed down, and the two just looked at each other.

Then without warning, Jack got up and left.

In fact, Jack was a little wrong. Only he knew the specific whereabouts of David on the night of the blackout, but he was not the only one who knew that David could never be collaborating with the enemy that night.

Michelle, who studied the case repeatedly, also found a flaw in the evidence, and immediately went to see David, and just happened to meet Jack leaving outside the prison.

Jack passed her by as if he hadn't seen Michelle. Michelle couldn't help but stop, seeing Jack's back disappear at the end of the corridor.

After the memory of her childhood faded away, Michelle had the impression that the younger brother was always surrounded by bright lights, feasting and bustle, but since when, when she thought of Jack, she was always with David, and now she watched him go away alone, even if he was still there. There are guards following, and the back of the military uniform looks so lonely and deserted.

After being reminded by the sergeant, Michelle came back to her senses and entered the visiting room. Michelle sat down opposite David and asked impatiently, "Why did Jack tell him to accuse you?"

David shook his head: "No."

"Jack said he believed you?"

"No."

"Jack will testify for you?"

David was taken aback: "What?"

Michelle whispered eagerly, "Time on the video! It's Jack, right? Whoever was with you the night of the blackout, I know, I saw you back together, and he can prove the video is fake , you are innocent."

Only now did David know that there was still such a loophole, but he stopped him without hesitation: "No, no, don't do this, don't force Jack."

Michelle said anxiously: "You will be executed!"

David asked, "Why should you care, Michelle?"

Michelle couldn't answer this question, she could only say: "Because it's the right thing to do," she suddenly became a little confused, did she still love David?Even she herself was not sure of this, only her strong desire to save David was right, Michelle stood up suddenly, "Jack won't testify, I can, I was alone in the city that night."

David looked up at her in surprise: "Michelle, this is perjury."

Michelle whispered a little excitedly, "You're innocent, it's true."

David stared at her: "Don't do that, Michelle."

Jack didn't ask David to believe him, but David believed him.

Michelle and David looked at each other, and saw his persistence from David's silent eyes. After a while, she backed down.

If even David himself refused to fight for himself, what could she do?Michelle was devastated.

Before leaving, Michelle made up her mind and said, "I loved you."

David's surprise made Michelle complicated, and she asked, "If I...if I told you sooner, would you be mine?"

"I don't know," David said slowly. He looked at Michelle without admiration or avoidance. "I am now in Jack's hands, my heart, my body, and my life."

Despite being rejected by David, Michelle still wanted to do her best. It was already late at night when she returned to the palace. The king and Jack were both awake. From what I can see, Jack spends his time drinking in addition to business.

Michelle told the king that she knew a witness could prove David's whereabouts that day. When she said this, she couldn't help but look at Jack, hoping that Jack would suddenly stand up and say that the person was him, but Jack drank without expression. Liquor, looking at her like an animal struggling in a net.And Michelle, who so easily angered the king, declared to her bluntly: "Anyone who is with David is against me, and if you are on his side, God, I swear you will be counted."

Michelle realized for the first time, she was shocked and chilled: "You want David dead."

She forced herself not to look at Jack's expression, and Jack didn't say a word. The king and her father pointed at her with a meat knife: "He is guilty! I will remove him from this world by the roots. His name is also against the law."

Silas slapped the knife on the kitchen counter, and instead of looking at his once beloved daughter, Michelle turned to Jack, leaving a trembling question: "You give up David for someone like this."

She turned around and left, Jack gritted his teeth slightly and continued to drink.

Silas held such a strong grudge against David that he hadn't expected it, but it made no difference to what he was doing and what he was going to do, it just added to the book of Silas' sins in Jack's mind. Just a sum.

He used to think that it was difficult to keep calm, but later he found out that it was very simple, just being in pain all the time.

Any emotion thrown into pain will be calm, not to mention his pain is intensifying day by day.

The meeting with Bishop Samuel increased Jack's firmness and confidence, but believing that he would succeed did not relieve the pain. He watched David being slandered and abandoned by his loyal and loved ones-by building his own steps.

Every day Jack knows what he's doing, he can't tell himself it's a necessary experience and put David in lava, he could have dug David out of his heart and become a qualified Heir to the throne, but he would not let go, so every stab at David fell on himself as well.

Michelle was placed under house arrest by the queen because she insisted on testifying for David. On the second day of the trial, David was almost helpless and speechless. The king talked to him alone for the second time and told David clearly and clearly that he His existence threatened the king's authority, and the consequences were no different from David's treason and collusion with the enemy. He asked David to follow his oath, admit his guilt, and wait for the king's verdict.

After a long silence, David looked up to the king and said, "Continue the trial."

That was indeed the oath he swore that he would never harm his country.He was fed up with turmoil and bloodshed, so he did not hesitate to support the king's peace agreement to cede the territory, and he did not hesitate to sacrifice himself.

If he is now a source of unrest, he is willing to submit his life to the judgment of the king.For Jack's sake, he wanted it to end quickly.

David looked haggard in Jack's eyes, and Jack looked terrible in David's eyes.

During the trial, he tried his best to defend his innocence. What he confronted was not his lover but a prince and a judge. He was merciless and went all out every day. However, David knew that Jack's words were getting sharper and sharper. It was because he was suffering more and more every day.

It was just a way for Jack to quench his thirst with poison.

The king agreed, and the trial resumed. When the officials returned to their seats, the cameras of all parties were set up again, and the council hall was a little chaotic, David whispered to Jack who passed him: "Take care of yourself."

Jack stopped, but without looking at him, said softly, "I'm killing you."

David's gaze also looked elsewhere: "I know."

After a brief pause, Jack left and returned to the prosecutor's seat. No one noticed this scene except the king, and the king didn't care. In his eyes, the last hurdle to stop him from killing David was David himself. Now it opened.

But that almost shattered Jack's hard-earned defenses over the past few days, and then David's confession became the last straw that overwhelmed Jack. Jack was never good at enduring pain. This case overturned the majesty and credibility of the king, vented his pain unscrupulously, and forced Silas to order the arrest of Jack and David in a rage, shouting at the entire chamber: "All of you are traitors! "

David, who was dragged away from the other end of the corridor, has been struggling to look back at Jack's situation, while Jack's guards are striding forward. He knows that his safety is guaranteed, and the King's Guards have already been bought by Klaus. , At the same time, he also knew that he ruined his plan, but the anger surging in his chest made him not regret it at all.

Maybe his outburst was not for David, but for himself. What he realized at the end of the trial was exactly what he said to the king and the whole country: "David is better than every one of us. He is innocent and worthy of respect—" completely They should not have been subjected to such insults and persecution for even a second.

Jack just wondered how it took so long for him to understand.

The author has something to say: Jack’s outburst is very good, so I won’t write here to cheat the word count.Let's revisit the drama directly if you have the impression.