The Chronicle Of Jawata (Compilation Trial Edition)
35. Convicted (2)
His Majesty Raghapati was very surprised to see his beloved daughter holding something most dangerous.
”Where did you get that poison again?” His majesty Raghapati was trying to reach out to his daughter. But Alingga was increasingly evasive, away from the reach of the people.
”If it must be so .. then I will not hesitate to do it again!” his hand trembled while holding like a stick the size of a single inch with buds at the end.
”You threatened me to kill myself?!” His majesty Raghapati went up in black to see his daughter take the action.
In a tense situation, Shin's adviser who had been accompanying Raghapati had begun to raise his voice.
“Good daughter, I apologize .. but this is an adult affair .. The princess is not yet entitled to know and meddle in this affair,” advisor Shin interrupted again even though his face looked panicked. Not just him, everyone present sensed that.
“Where are the adults when I need medicine to heal. Where the adults when His Majesty Raghapati ordered down to the Red Bay to pick up a Magic Flower, only a magical flower but no one could afford, no adult could. Where were the adults then, sir? You as an adult can only talk behind old and brittle teeth!” really, the advisor to Paduka Raghapati was made clumsy because the words and the gaze of the Princess seemed to throw her pride into a very foul combination. What will the world say, if there is a king's adviser submissive by a 10-year-old daughter.
“Alingga my daughter ...,” Paduka Raghapati wants to calm the Princess who is already angry and almost determined to act to endanger her life.
“Dad, they only know how to desire to get rid of those best fathers. Don't you realize Dad's gonna do that? Since it was possible, most of them wanted father to throw away the two disciples who had been meritorious to this country just because of the trivial matter exaggerated!”
“Relax, Alingga ..” said Paduka Raghapati managed to reach out to her daughter. Princess Alingga leaned back in the arms of His Majesty.
“Princess, please you better understand this case .. this is not just a child's defensiveness to the palace rules, because this rule is not only from his own Majesty, but has been the law of Tanapura since long ago ... that anyone who commits a violation of the customs of the honorable Tanapura ancestors of the Paduka Family. The country strongly condemns such presumptuous and courageous people,“ this time the Geneva Chair who voted.
“Oh .. so if I enter the palace library with my friends, then I should be punished and cursed as well, so?“
“Princess ...,” Chairman overwhelmed by having to respond let alone.
“I and Razel once entered the Kitab Palace during the celebration of the beginning of the year, after begging me... secretly ... secretly and without a special pendant!” threatening Princess Alingga cuts Geneva Chief's sentence . He revealed a shocking secret, like a boomerang blaspheming the Chairman.
Like being struck by lightning, all the hall turned to look at the Geneva Chief questioningly. Though he was the one who complained the case of two defendants until the trial took place. Their mistakes are no different from those expressed by Princess Alingga in public.
“What?!“ The head of Geneva was wailing in all directions, not believing what Princess Alingga had just said had concerned the name of her son, Razel.
“If according to the rules, then ... today also he should be presented here and judged like them!“ The princess pointed towards the two defendants.
“I can prove that what I say is true, the ungrateful Chairman of Geneva .. A complainant like Tuan is deliberately exaggerating this matter in order for Taja and Raojhin to step away from Tanapura Military School, isn't it? I can already read your head!” Again Princess Alingga managed to humiliate him while the trial was still direct. And the Chairman of Geneva was increasingly excited to respond to the whispers of the many people around him
Princess Alingga did not care about the situation at the time, her attention returning to Her Majesty Raghapati, her father.
“Dad ... punish me for ever entering the palace library because without this pendant I can do nothing like the others, do not you consider all the people of Tanapura equal? and I am part of the people of this country, Ayahanda ..” said the gentle princess among the boisterous atmosphere. Moments later, Lord Raghapati let all the commotion go until he gestured to a nearby Standby Chief of Guards.
“Quiet. Everyone please be quiet ...!“ exclaimed the guard at the order of Lord Raghapati to control the court atmosphere from the commotion.
“Because this trial can not continue according to the usual rules, and because there are objections from certain parties that incriminate especially my own daughter … The Geneva chief who was less careful to make a complaint .. Also because I was the one who ignored my oath, whereas I also had to act justly for my people, had to prosecute these two defendants. Today I will make an exception for both defendants. So this is my decision …."
All quiet and pounding.
“I give the option to Taja so that he himself chooses the punishment for him and for Raojhin ..” said Paduka Raghapati has not yet finished giving a decision.
The Princess feels her father's decision has not been satisfactory, she wants the two defendants to be free from any punishment, “Taja and Raojhin are innocent, Father! Why should he remain punished? what they did was not a violation. Free him, Dad!“
“Enough! Don't argue with me anymore!“ His majesty Raghapati quickly silenced her daughter not to speak anymore and snatched the poisonous wand from her hand.
“The princess is free to enter the library anytime she wants, along with anyone .. because she belongs to my family or descendants, so there is no humiliation because of that."
“Tell me. .. Father is unable to decide," whispered Princess Alingga approaching her father's ear, but she pretended not to hear.
“There can give me a better opinion on the fate of these two defendants?” continue with Raghapati while stretching his arms wide throughout the audience.
No one dared to, not even the trusted Advisor like Shin. Afraid if you have to face and talk to the Princess. Except for one, someone who had been around since the trial began, from the full uniform he wore it was certain that he was a captain, long shoulder-length hair, brownish black, staring intently and coldly at the king, accompanied by heavy footsteps with metal shoes, looked very confident. As he stepped up, everything he went through looked down respectfully.
Then his steps came to a halt right near the two accused Soldier Candidate disciples.
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