"No way... I didn't hear that wrong, did I!"
"What did Lady Hydro Archon just say?!!"
"She's betting so much to vouch for them, could this Lyney really not be the culprit?!"
...
The crowd below was discussing animatedly, a little unsure for a moment.
Neuvillette and Clorinde were also shocked, both subconsciously turning their heads to look at Furina, only to find her with her hands on her hips and her head slightly raised, looking extremely confident.
Did she grasp some key evidence?
Neuvillette lowered his head and thought for a moment, only feeling a mess in his head, unable to figure it out.
Lyney and Lynette on the defendant's bench exchanged a deep look, then looked at Lumine and Paimon and asked, "Why does Lady Hydro Archon trust us so much?"
"Because we all know you're not the culprit," Paimon chuckled.
Callas on the plaintiff's bench was stunned, and the witness Vaughn was the same.
The development of the situation had exceeded their expectations.
They were originally just carrying out a task issued from above to pin all the responsibility on Lyney, this Fatui, and divert all attention.
But they didn't expect that not only was the thief girl not dissolved, but the Hydro Archon actually trusted Lyney so much!
[Why did you say so much?]
"Huh? Didn't you say Lyney and Lynette were fine?"
[They are fine, but we don't know what kind of methods the other side has prepared, and we don't have any evidence to bring them down yet.]
"Oh, that's all, you scared me, I thought there was something wrong with them." Furina breathed a sigh of relief, patting her chest nervously, "It's okay, with you here, justice will punish them sooner or later!"
[Uh...]
Actually, Momoshiki really wanted to tell her that Lyney and Lynette were Fatui, but it was clearly not appropriate now.
First, he couldn't make up a reason for how he knew about the Fatui, something that no one usually talked about, and second, it was easy for Furina to lose her composure at a critical moment.
The words had already been spoken, but the siblings were really in the villain camp. In this Fontaine that loved drama, wouldn't this kind of plot directly explode the whole place?
The crowd below was still chattering, not knowing what to say, Neuvillette knocked on the table.
"Silence!!"
With an order, the audience was instantly silent.
"Now, let the suspect Herschel make a statement!"
This Herschel was the name of the thief girl, but to be precise, it should be a pseudonym.
Everyone's eyes turned towards Herschel.
She was wearing handcuffs, her expression nervous and regretful, and several serious-looking guards stood behind her.
"Ms. Herschel, please tell us what happened during the magic show, and the truth about the Primordial Sea magic experiment!" Neuvillette said with an unquestionable tone.
This trial was for two cases together, after all, these two cases were also tied together, starting with the simplest one first, and finding all the answers in turn.
"I..."
Herschel's eyes flickered a little, thinking for a moment, and then said pleadingly, "Let's make it clear first, you promised me that as long as I honestly testify, my sentence can be reduced..."
Neuvillette nodded, his tone softened a little, "Please rest assured, as long as what you say is true, this trial will give you a lenient sentence according to the merits of upholding justice."
"Okay... then I'll say..." Herschel nodded with a sigh of relief, then organized her thoughts in her mind, and sighed, "I'm sorry, Cowell was killed by me..."
As soon as these words came out, the crowd below gasped.
Although Furina had directly stated the whole process of everything at the scene of the crime, a murderer standing in front of them like this still opened the eyes of some Fontaine people who hadn't seen the world.
Momoshiki wasn't surprised by this.
Not to mention the people of Fontaine, even in the real world, not many people had seen a murderer in person, it was normal to feel curious and shocked.
Not paying attention to the expressions of everyone present, Herschel lowered her head and said to herself, as if she had resigned herself to fate.
"My name isn't Herschel, my name is Lillian, and my hometown is Mondstadt."
The sudden revelation of her identity made Neuvillette and Clorinde feel a little surprised, and even Furina was the same.
A Melusine next to her lowered her head and recorded, these identities could be used as key evidence, after all, only the people of Fontaine would be dissolved.
"I heard that Lyney's magic show was very good, but I missed the ticket purchase time, so I stole a ticket, that's what I do, stealing things is commonplace, easy peasy, I've never been caught..."
"As a result, I was targeted when I was stealing things in Romaritime Harbor some time ago, and I barely managed to escape, one of the people who caught me at that time was Lyney."
Tsk tsk tsk...
Momoshiki shook his head with some emotion, looking at Lillian like he was looking at an idiot.
Knowing that her identity had been exposed, she still went to see someone's magic show like nothing had happened, he didn't know if she was a pure idiot or too confident in her abilities, she didn't even know she was being targeted as an experimental subject.
"I said why you looked a little familiar, so you were the thief at that time!" Paimon exclaimed in surprise, then crossed her arms and said, "I remember Lyney praised your skills at that time."
"Yeah, it's me."
Lillian's head was buried even lower, wishing she could drill into the bottom of the table.
"I originally thought that matter was over, but I didn't expect that the selection device would choose me again when I was watching the magic show."
"He also said something about Fortress of Meropide, isn't that a prison? I was so scared, I thought I had been targeted by him, so I pretended to cooperate with the performance, and took the opportunity to escape in the tunnel."
"As a result, I didn't expect to be splashed with a basin of water for no reason, and then someone jumped into the tunnel to catch me, I didn't want to surrender, so I knocked him out and stuffed him into the box."
"I had nowhere to run, so I could only change my clothes and hide in the box where the costumes were kept, but I didn't expect to be seen through by Lady Hydro Archon at a glance."
Saying this, Lillian's voice was a little choked, and then she couldn't help but cry, saying with a sob, "But I swear... I never thought of hurting anyone, absolutely never..."
"I didn't expect the water tank to fall... Wuwu... If I had known, I would never... never have stuffed him into the box... I only steal money... I don't kill..."
After speaking, Lillian lay on the table and cried loudly, the guards next to her handed over tissues and comforted her emotions.
It was normal for her emotions to collapse, after all, she was originally just an ordinary thief, only wanting to steal some money to live comfortably, who would have thought that she would inexplicably become the murderer who killed others?
If she had known, she wouldn't have followed her curiosity to watch the magic show...
"So that's how it is."
Lyney and the others on the defendant's bench looked at each other.
Although they had expected it, the details still surprised everyone.
Why was she splashed with a basin of water? And why did someone jump into the tunnel to catch her?
Lyney and Lynette didn't know these things at all, but it was obvious that it was a frame-up, as for whether it would succeed, it would depend on whether anyone believed it.
Lumine clearly understood this, lowering her head and thinking for a moment, then looking in Furina's direction.
Feeling Lumine's gaze, Furina also looked down from the high place, instantly understanding, and said in her heart, "Momoshiki, Lumine looked over, it should be your turn to appear."
[Yeah, next I will use genjutsu to guide those people to say loopholes, relying on you and your group to grasp the language loopholes.]
"Okay."
Furina nodded, secretly making an OK gesture to Lumine and the others, earning a grateful smile.
Neuvillette noticed the group's small movements, but chose to remain silent, only knocking on the table and saying, "Now that the murderer Lillian has confessed, then next is the case about the Primordial Sea experiment."
"For this heinous case, we will definitely find out the truth! Give all the victims an explanation!"
These words could also be considered as comforting the audience.
After all, many of the audience present were pitiful people whose families were broken because of the series of missing girls cases.
They heard that this case was going to be tried, so they came, just to seek justice and the truth.
"It's finally this part!"
Furina put her hands on her hips, her gaze fixed on Callas and Vaughn, wishing she could poke holes in the two, making the two feel hairy in their hearts.
"Then! First, the plaintiff will explain the reason, and then the defendant will make a rebuttal! Do you have any objections?" Neuvillette explained the process.
"No." Lyney and Callas shook their heads together.
Seeing that the two had no objections, Neuvillette knocked his cane, indicating that the trial began.
"The reason I'm suing Mr. Lyney is very simple," Callas spoke first, "The trial just now has also shown that Mr. Lyney, without knowing Lillian's identity, treated her as a Fontaine person and selected her as an experimental subject, but he didn't expect her to be from Mondstadt, and wouldn't be dissolved."
As he was speaking, a red light flashed slightly in Callas's pupils, and he blinked blankly.
???
Neuvillette, who was organizing the case in his mind while listening to the explanation, was stunned for a moment, vaguely noticing a hint of something wrong, looking at Callas, and then looking at Furina, seeming to understand something.
Oh well, she can do whatever she wants.
Although he didn't know what Furina had done, with her personality, it was absolutely impossible to do anything that violated justice, otherwise she wouldn't be the Hydro Archon.
The affirmation from the Zhuge Liang!
Lumine and Paimon and Navia below the stage keenly captured that red light, and were all delighted in their hearts.
Success!!
Callas paused slightly, and then continued, "Even the selection device has a problem. His magic assistant Cowell tampered with the selection device in advance. If you check carefully, you will find that no matter what, it will point to Lillian's former position."
"Isn't this premeditated?!"
The witness Vaughn next to him nodded in agreement, "That's right, my evidence is very simple, I checked out Primordial Sea Water in Mr. Lyney's luggage, this is enough to prove that he is doing heinous experiments!"
Listening to the two idiots' statements, a big question mark rose on Lyney's forehead.
Dude, we were originally at odds, how did you suddenly become full of loopholes?
How did you, an outsider, accurately know that Cowell was the magic assistant in charge of the selection device? And how did you know the result after the selection device was tampered with?
If I remember correctly, these things should have been collected as clues and evidence long ago, and ordinary people can't access them at all.
And you're just an audience member, why are you so clear about these things? Is there a mole in the guards, or is all of this a complete frame-up from the beginning?!
Lyney's words could be said to have stabbed the key point straight, sealing off all retreats.
"This..."
Callas was stunned, only then realizing that he had said such idiotic words, his eyes full of disbelief.
Vaughn next to him was obviously not very smart, and didn't notice any abnormality, only thinking that a loophole had been found, and was still racking his brains to think of rebuttal words.
"Tsk... good for nothing!"
In a corner of the audience seats that was difficult to notice, Marcel held a miniature remote control in his hand, his expression a little gnashing his teeth.
Waste! Waste!!
Marcel cursed inwardly a few times, knowing that this frame-up was going to fail, and began to consider whether to kill them now.
He had installed a miniature Primordial Sea bomb in the stomachs of these two, just to prevent things from being exposed.
Little did he know that his every move was being observed by Momoshiki 360 degrees without dead angles.
It was just that Momoshiki didn't make any moves, and didn't intend to save people, just silently waiting for the dissolving time.
Momoshiki had his own considerations. In addition to not wanting the plot to go beyond his control, he also didn't intend to let the drug trafficking group live.
As for the subsequent exposure of Lyney and Lynette's identities, and then making Lumine almost turn against them on the spot, it was natural to start now, after all, he had to leave enough time for reconciliation and mutual trust, so as to perfectly promote the subsequent plot.
After all, Fontaine's causality and fate were too disgusting. Where Lumine was, there would be changes, and the places where Lumine wasn't would be destroyed according to the usual fate.
Vacher's prophecy doomed Fontaine to a narrow escape from death, and this escape could be said to be extremely difficult, a slight mistake would lead to familiar people or plots collapsing and perishing for various reasons.
For example, going out to collect a Divine Tree fruit, and coming back to find Navia gone, the reason being that Paimon didn't subconsciously drink her cup of Fonta that had been spiked with Primordial Sea Water.
Another example was going to the train for two days, and coming back to find Freminet Lyney and Lynette dead, the reason being that their identities had just been exposed, and they hadn't had time to reconcile with Lumine, leading Duke Wriothesley to think they were enemies, and disregard their lives, letting them live and die in the Primordial Sea.
Anyway, Wriothesley had secretly killed a lot of Fatui long ago.
Who could reason with this kind of fate binding force?
Before evolving the ability to change causality and fate, he must grasp all the trends in his hands.
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