Awakened: SSS Ranked Soul king-Chapter 41: Complicated

"Slavery?" The Blacksteel lord frowned pressing against his chair firmly.

Murder, and Slavery were both serious crimes in the shelter, the fomer of course was much more serious in the grand scheme of things, but the latter was much more personal to the lord.

This was simply because he himself had a history with being a slave. He had very firm rules against it unlike other shelters. This of course didn’t really sit well with a lot of nobles, but he took it very seriously.

"Yes lordship" Guilliman spoke hatred theming in his words. In as much as he put himself in that situation, being under the whim of another man was still something that didn’t sit welll with him.

"This is serious, who is the accused?" The Lords face became grim, he looked at guilliman with an unbreaking gaze.

"Artus BlackBerry and the entire Blackberry family as a whole" Guillimans words sounded heavy and it, in fact weighed on the hearts of everyone here.

Higher up in the shelter, Slavery was a thing of the past, there were no such things as a slave thanks to the Blacksteel lord. However, the same couldn’t be said for the unregulated slums.

It was too common an occurrence there even.

"I see" the lords grim gaze landed on Vincent, this was starting to make sense now.

"Put forward your case young man, I want to know both sides of the story thank you very much" sneering at Vincent, the Blacksteel lord turned to Guilliman and asked him to speak.

"Yes lord ship…but where do I start?" Guilliman smirked entertaining the idea of leaving the part where his so called ’family’ had sold him to the blackberry family under pretenses. However, seeing how the whole family had testified against him, he didn’t see the need.

So he narrated how he was put in the hands of the blackberry family by his own parents, how they tricked him and sold him for a few pennies to the ruthless hole that was the meat grinder of the blackberry family.

"What a disgusting bunch"

"Wait that guy works in our workshop, I didn’t know he was such an evil person"

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those in the crowd quickly switched from feeling pity for these family members who had seemingly been dragged into this by their muderer of a son. To feeling extreme anger and disgust.

What kind of a family would sell their own into slavery for a few bucks? That was beyond disgusting. No wonder the kid snapped.

"Seeing people disappear everynight, we started to understand that this was much more than it seemed, until it was our turn, the last batch of slaves" Guilliman turned to the slave girl.

Vincent hadn’t even bothered to dress her nicely, he had probably even forgotten that slavery was a crime in this shelter since they were allowed to partake in it so freely in the slums.

Who would have thought that a slum rat would have an audience with the Blacksteel lord?

"We were walked into Clawwood forest in chains and used as bait for a sacred wind direwolf and I have the claw marks to prove it" Guilliman raised his shirt presenting large claw marks on the side of his underbelly. Although they were slowly fading way, they were still very much visible.

"So that’s why" Hamdel smirked back in the crowd, Guilliman had on several occasions asked him not to heal that particular wound, so all this while he was expecting to use it as some sort of leverage?

"Ahhh, I can see it very clearly kid, put it away" The blacksteel lord shook his head and turned to the slave girl standing beside Vincent.

"Tell me little girl, were you slaves?" The lord asked as if telling her that whatever she said would be law, and the blackberry family couldn’t do anything about it.

He understood the kind of pressure she was under so he sort to relieve it by putting all the power back in her hands.

"Of course it’s not lordship, we the blackberry family have taken care of the 3rd outpost for a long time, there’s no way we could…" Vincent tried to defend cutting the young girl off…

"If you say another word, I’ll throw your father in the dungeons" unfortunately, the blacksteel lord was not trying to hear all of that. He was more interested in the little girl.

She looked like she had been tortured for days and was probably a slave for much longer, the indignation of such a situation was definitely building up, clearly shown in how she had resisted the black berry torture.

Three cut off fingers, excuriating

Just like that, the entire case hinged on the words of this slave girl.

Quickly stealing a glance at Guilliman she couldn’t help but sigh, if only she was as brave as him. He was probably an extremely strong slayer now to be in such a competition, and where was she? Still a slave with a slaves mentality.

’I came back because I believed death by the hands of creature was worst that slavery, I was wrong. I will never be a slave ever again even if it means I die today’

Turning away, she looked directly at the Blacksteel lord and nodded seriously causing the crowd to gasp. The black berry family was indulging in slavery?!! What gall!!

"Ahhh well that complicates things" the blackberry lord looked over to an old man just beyond his main chair and sneered, this wasn’t the first time this had happened to this family.

They were repeateded offenders, he could see why they were slowly losing control of that outpost of theirs,

incompetence!!

"Well, the law is straightforward, a slave is allowed to resist their enslaver, this is not limited to taking their lives. The death of Artus BlackBerry was justified" the Blacksteel lord ruled without bias.

Even though the black berry family was one of his top families, he would not surport them over Justice in this context.

Most especially after hearing that man’s voice.

"Lordship there’s another matter" Vincent gritted his teeth and spoke, this was extremely shameful, the lord had even threaten to throw his father in Jail like a mere criminal, how would he live this down?

"What do you want now, kid?" The Blacksteel lord seemed tired, he wanted to get back to the competition, this was too much of a distraction.

"A dispute lordship, the blackberry family put in a lot of effort into killing the wind Direwolf, even losing our young master, he just snuck in and took the kill, we want the sacred echo he got from that kill. It is ours by providence"