Lord Of The Eastern Castle

The Mastermind

Commoners gathered around Ryan's mansion and the crowd roared from the outside. Hundreds of people surrounded the gates of the mansion out of morbid curiosity. It wasn't an angry mob. The guards had arrested the Patriarch of the Rihgurd. People were curious about what was happening inside the mansion, why he was arrested and what would the conclusion be.

Ryan stood in front of the patriarch of the Rihgurd family, right next to him, was his son, half-awake and half-asleep. Both of them had their hands tied on their backs with a rope, while they knelt on the floor. Two knights stood right behind the both of them in case of an emergency. The patriarch did not like the state they were in, he had no idea of what was happening and how a normal party had turned into him and his son getting arrested.

"Do you have anything to say, Patriarch?"

Ryan said with a cold tone. There were no emotions behind those words. He gave the patriarch an empty stare waiting for his reply.

"I have no idea why I have been tied down here. I was so busy and you just suddenly kidnapped me-"

Ryan cut him off.

"Silence."

The patriarch immediately shut his mouth. The patriarch was not scared, he was more pissed since he could not make out what was happening. An empty silence fell throughout the room.

An awkward silence usually makes people reveal things, let's see how much of it will be revealed by him.

Ryan kept his silence, while he kept staring at the patriarch. Expecting him to break the silence. He tried to build pressure on the patriarch and make him reveal anything. The patriarch, extremely nervous tried to get his thoughts together. After a while of rummaging through his thoughts, he had calmed himself down just enough to speak.

"Why have I been arrested by your knights, your majesty?"

Ryan still maintained his blank stare.

"Do you not have anything to say?"

"No, your Maj-"

He was cut off by a knock on the door.

"You may enter."

There entered the son of Mines, Walf Mines with 5 other people holding piles of papers, all being evidence of the wrongs the Mines had done in the past.

"Do your job Son of the Patriarch of Mines' family. I give you all the authority to be the one to speak."

"Thank you, your majesty. I will not allow myself to disappoint your approval."

He started listing out all the wrongdoings he had done in the past, starting from rape to all the crimes he had done throughout his time as a noble, these included tax evasion and the improper use of slaves. He even listed out all the people involved in his crimes.

"This is all I have to say, Your Majesty."

He said as he took a step back.

"Is there anything you'd like to say, patriarch?"

The patriarch was at a loss for words. He had nothing to say. All his crimes had been exposed and he was like that of a vulnerable rabbit now, surrounded by 2 apex predators. He could see that even though both Ryan and Walf Mines had a blank expression, both of them were smiling deep down.

"For all the crimes you have performed throughout your life, I will now be ordering an execution right now at the hands of people. Your son will be sentenced to life imprisonment."

"No, Your Majesty. I'm sorry, I'll make sure such a thing does not happen again."

The patriarch cried, while his son lay unconscious.