Chapter 88
**Tzalmon Point of View**
"I can't believe..."
"This cannot get anymore ridiculous. These fools are so daring."
"Should we just end them for good? It's been a while since I killed and my hands are itching."
"Quite, you all." I commanded, gritting my teeth at the utter humiliation I am facing right now.
As calm as I seem to be right now from outside, my heart and mind is blowing in murderous rage. My eyes rolled and took another glance at the place and could not help but my hands forming into tight fists.
Being imprisoned behind the iron bars is not the best of the experience I ever experienced nor would I ever want to.
Holding the long iron bars standing in front of me tightly, my eyes blazed with open fury when one of the people who were responsible for our current predicament was coming our way.
"Do you accept the charges claimed against you?" The officer stood in front of the prison we were locked in and asked with a serious expression.
"Are you asking if we do or commanding us to accept it? Officer, you need to investigate it properly before you tag us as criminals." Before any of my subordinates, mainly hotheaded Gyles, make the situation worse, I stepped in and calmly spoke.
The officer frown deepened and a glare of disapproval was caught on his face. "You do not need to teach me how to do my job. It was after complete investigation that I am here. You four assaulted a person until he was left with only a breath away from death. And what place did you choose to do the crime, a public place like a city bus station? Either you are new to doing crime or you are too arrogant that you don't care about the law."
"Keep your tone down. Do you know who you are speaking to?" Gyles burst out with intense rage.
"Gyles!" I warned but he cared not for my command as he went on dig the grave deeper.
"I apologize, Majesty but this mere mortal is preposterous. You are the King, the emperor, the deity who rules over the souls and spirits of this entirety and you, a mere mortal, a nobody, dared to not only imprison him but also has the nerve to speak to His Majesty in that tone! Are you not afraid of retribution?"
The officer stilled for several minutes and just looked at Gyles as if he was sure he went crazy before he snickered and glanced at the four of us while took note of something in the notepad he has in his hands. After writing something, he gave us an overall once before leaving.
"Is he blind?"
"I say, he is more like doing this intentionally." Eelk and Azar went on commenting angrily on the impudent officer.
"I told you not to talk about our identities here, Gyles. You clearly know with no substantial power here and no matter how powerful we are back in the kingdom, we are not but an ordinary mortal here. We already experienced firsthand when I revealed my true identity before. It was clear that we need to keep ourselves under cover and behave like a normal mortal until we find my wife and son." I reprimanded.
Kneading my forehead with my fingers, I tried to suppress the pressure the situation presented to me.
"The dandy man was the one who started insulting us first and yet we are here locked up instead. So what if I beat him to death? He is nothing more than a mortal who is vulgar and foolish." Gyles mumbled, waves of anger and disappointment rolling out of him.
The mere mention of that vulgar man made me want rip him apart. Eelk and Gyles found a suitable place to start the academy and this morning, we were to go there and see it ourselves before confirming it.
We were standing in the bus stop to take a city bus to the place which was apparently six station away from our current street when a totally vulgar man came up to the bus stop.
First he went up to the two middle aged female passengers waiting for the bus and teased them with vulgar stares and words. After having his fun for few minutes, he then came to us and looked at me like he saw a fresh piece of meat.
"Waah -" He whistled giving me a stinking crude stare. "What a fine piece we have here. Hey man, want to follow me back to my place?" The one who came to seek his own death was a forty something man who was dressed clean enough but his actions proved to be completely opposite.
"If you want to live a life worse than death, then why not." I spoke coldly, pinning him with kingly domination that came naturally to me all the while giving my subordinates a look telling them not to be hasty in taking action.
"Ho ho, what a hot fiery boy here. Just the taste I prefer." The foolish man raised his hand and was able to touch me when Gyles had enough of it and beat him to almost death.
This is the first time, I, as a man, was sexually harassed by another man.
Such humiliating and degrading experience, I've never faced before.
Even before the crowd surrounded us completely, the law maintaining officers called police came and determined themselves that we are the culprits and the vulgar man was victim. Without any further interrogation, they took us to the prison.
"Is he even the law abiding officer? Why is he so useless?" Azar grumbled, bringing me out of my thoughts.
"Shameless, he is." Eelk followed with his own comment.
Two days after we spent in prison, we were taken to the place where our crime will be judged. There were two judges sitting on the top of the platform, one man and one woman, both are in sixties at least.
We calmly sat on the back benches of the court room while the cases that were scheduled before ours was being heard. After two case sections, it was time to present our case.
The prosecutor presented the mute CCTV footage of the scene that happened in the bus station and proceeded to read the case sheet that was filed by the officer himself. Hearing and seeing everything, the judge called us to question us.
"Do accept the charges of attempting to murder a person in a public place?" The male judge asked.
"No." I said firmly without even blinking in remorse.
"There was evidence of Mr. Gyles here beating Mr. Shepherd; this is a serious crime, Mr. Ebernus." The judge continued.
"And did the officer who arrested us investigated about the situation clearly?" I questioned the judge. I was already on the verge of killing the use officer who did only half the job.
"The evidence of the crime provided was a video without any sound. If the responsible officer were to ask around what exactly happened you would've gotten a completely different story to hear. I am so disappointed with the country's law system. Not only was the officer irresponsible, lazy and vicious, the people who took up the case later too did not bother getting the clear picture of what happened. On what basis are you people sitting there to judge us?" Although Azar spoke in a calm and polite manner, his words are anything but polite.
"What kind of officer we have here. Not only he did not present the whole but he also made the culprit into a victim and victim into a culprit. Do the law abiders still have conscience?" Gyles was completely and barely rude to the point even judges felt like they were slapped on their faces.
"Sir, my friends and my boss here may sound a little rude but that was the voice of injustice. I hope you, as the judge look into what really happened and provide us with justice." Eelk concluded with his ever sensible and polite mannered tone.
Both the judges just looked on at us before they ordered the prosecutor to get a clear picture of the case and the hearing shall be moved to two days later. The irresponsible officer was also given a warning that if what we said turned out to be true then there would be consequences to bear.
"Are we staying here for the next two days? Majesty, why don't we use the art of mind control and get out of here? We could still use mind control thankfully, can we not?"
"No, we can control the man but not the technology. Those small boxes that records everything, cannot be manipulated by mind control and in the end it would get us in another trouble. Let's just wait for the next hearing in the court and see what happens."
The next couple of days in the prison were better because the one who was in charge changed. The food and the treatment was better too.
However, a prison is a prison and the insult still stands.
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