Rook, who is still in the cell, is visited by the Head of the Center while bringing a lawyer to defend Rook's case, they also talk about the court process later and tell Rook about what he should answer in court and ask Rook to prepare mentally.
When it was time, the trial began with the presiding judge as the final judge of Rook's fate entering the room along with the other judges, after reading the notes given by the committee and tapping the hammer to start the trial.
Rook was then taken out by the guards and brought to the defendant's seat, then after Rook sat down the Chief Judge began to read Rook's personal data and after reading it he felt that there was something odd about Rook's personal data, but he didn't heed it because Rook himself was still a minor. So the oddity of Rook's personal data won't affect his decision later.
After the presiding judge asked a few questions, the presiding judge immediately invited Perry's prosecutor to read his indictment and Perry opened his mouth.
"Ladies and gentlemen, like you here, defendant Rook is a viral runner-up Looter for defeating an S+ Rank Looter. After that incident, he continued his career as a Looter by Raid Dungeons Rare and Epic levels each of four Twelve times. Then lastly he and Carlos, who is an SS rank, have managed to defeat the Dragon Knights we suspect are Legendary-level monsters."
"In yesterday's Raid, the defendant was also seen live that he had violated his code of ethics as a Healer which incidentally is a support class and strangely enough he easily fought Dragon Knights even without the help of an SS Rank."
"Then why can he easily do it, whereas according to the data we know he was a Rank F Looter!!!!. Of course even though he was able to defeat an S + Rank, of course he logically couldn't directly face a Dragon Knight. This is where people's suspicions are starting to grow."
"Then the big suspicion was finally revealed after the Dragon Knight incident yesterday, many of the witnesses who watched live on Cam-Tube saw an oddity in the fight. Where the witnesses stated that the HP of the Dragon Knight .... decreased by itself ... . for a few minutes."
"Not only that, the witnesses stated that the defendant's HP Dragon Knight decreased by itself.... while... the defendant at that time..... was not in a position to attack."
"Surely from these statements we can logically conclude that there was only one type of skill that he used at that time..... that was to use the most forbidden skill as well as the most illegal one..... Draining Skill!!!!."
Then everyone in the room was shocked to hear that word and whispered voices started and many people started glaring at Rook including the Chief Justice. Then after Perry uttered his indictment, Rook's lawyer interrupted and began to present his defense.
"Ladies and gentlemen, judging by the entire prosecution case, all the claims are built on the premise that my client can drain as he pleases, as if he could do it without any restrictions."
"I have to remind the judges that draining is a very special skill and very rarely found by anyone who has G – Force, and also the judges certainly don't forget that Draining Skill can only be used with some preparations such as..."
"A long and safe distance from the enemy, which of course if we look at yesterday's Raid footage it can be seen that my client only dodged according to digital calculations about 3 feet or you could say about 1.2 meters before he was attacked again." While playing Rook's fight video yesterday.
"While we all know that the minimum distance required to perform a draining skill is 5 meters!! then the accusation that my client is a drainer is also invalidated because considering that draining skills can only be used at a safe distance... fight."
"Even a great drainer like the late Dj Dragon, it's officially known that he can only drain from 6 meters away!!! That's all thank you." added the lawyer, giving people more confidence in his words, and he ended it.
However, Perry as a true prosecutor, of course, began to add to the demands by showing evidence of all Rook's recordings and he also slowed down a scene where there was evidence that Rook was a drainer.
"I appreciate your skilltonomy lessons, Mr. lawyer, but if you look at this recording we clearly see that the HP of the Dragon Knight decreases by itself and at that time after the defendant avoided the attack he did not attack immediately but instead blocked it. How can you explain everything, defendant, do you want to lie again?" he asked Rook directly, which of course was immediately interrupted by the lawyer.
"Mr. Prosecutor!!! You shouldn't have asked the accused like that in court!!! that is a moral violation!!!!" interrupted the lawyer professionally.
The presiding judge immediately gave the two of them the signal to stop then he seemed to agree with Prosecutor Perry's idea and he gave Rook time to speak.
"How is the defendant, do you want to say something now?"
"(Stands up and talks) Yes there seems to be a good explanation for that unnaturally reduced HP!!"
"When Carlos and I fought yesterday, Carlos told me that the monster's base skill is "Shadow Shroud" which is the prey of its base skill "Blazing Star" and as far as I know predatory skills can cause a bleed effect on the prey's skills." Answer Rook explained.
"Then why did Carlos have a hard time hurting him in the beginning, even though he has predatory skills?" asked the confirming judge.
"The judge (pause) ... you know that at the beginning of the fight, the boss is wearing armor!!"
Hearing that Perry was surprised, because he seemed to have missed this one thing. Indeed he didn't watch everything, he only focused on the evidence about the draining skill and the evidence of slander that he had made with the normalists before.
"Oh yes!!! according to Carlos' interview yesterday, the boss is wearing armor from Black Matter, isn't it?" he answered while rubbing his chin and smiling.
Perry who saw the presiding judge's behavior began to panic and he immediately asked for an interruption because of course as a slander he felt Rook was lying and he immediately opened all the files containing false evidence for Rook, but ..... the file was not found by him .
He was also confused by this, then the lawyer who asked for an interruption because he felt that Perry's prosecutor had not spoken and he opened his mouth while at least ridiculing Perry's prosecutor with his explanation.
"Hhmrm.... based on my client's own statement, the abnormally reduced HP is the effect of predatory skills not draining."
"Then I also feel strange about the prosecutor's demands that rely on digital evidence, you know that Drone Cameras, no matter how sophisticated the frequency, can be disturbed at any time and at that time there is a storm, it's also natural for us to believe that there is a possibility if the Drone Camera with code BL4Z2 – B11 or what we know as Blazz-B experienced a connection problem at that time. "
"One more thing, (while showing the screen containing all of Rook's skill sets) for prosecutor Perry who is suing using digital evidence, do you think this is very ethical to do? Besides, how do you know that my client is a drainer, if you've never done that before? see all the skills?" asked the lawyer, slightly challenging.
"Interrupt!!!! .... Then lawyer, can you show all the skills possessed by the defendant?" he said, feeling that there was an opportunity. (Even though he's already starting to sweat).
"Hmm .... of course" he answered while bringing up all of Rook's skill data which had actually been tampered with by the "Hack & Break" team yesterday.
Prosecutor Perry also began to look for errors in the court's official data against Rook, but unfortunately he has not found any errors. He started to sweat because he really couldn't find a gap. He began to openly look for skills that he could think of as Draining skills, but unfortunately he couldn't find them.
"So how did Mr. Prosecutor, have you found any suspicious skill?" asked the lawyer with a smile.
Prosecutor Perry was silent for a thousand words, and everyone who saw the trial live or live on Cam-Tube started commenting.
All of these people were actually surprised because this prosecutor was the most difficult prosecutor for professional lawyers to fight, besides that he also often imprisoned innocent people because he was always used by various parties in matters of prosecuting professionals and was eventually conquered by a lawyer in a court.
"Good lawyer, he can't sue now" thought Rook to himself.
After the Presiding Judge saw the data, he discussed for a while, then he stood up and stated.
"From the various data presented, we the judges have decided, that ..... Brother Rook is found not guilty of all charges!!!" While making that statement, the Chief Judge tapped his hammer three times.
Everyone on Cam-Tube started screaming with joy, because even though this Prosecutor has a lot of followers, not a few people also hate him, especially Looters and rich people who really don't like the way he plays.
(That evening, after the trial was over.)
Perry who was in his house was angry because his plan didn't work, then his computer turned on because the members of Normalism and their chairman wanted to start a meeting. Not long after, the sound of someone mocking was heard.
"Damn you today Perry, defeated by a lawyer yesterday afternoon .... hehehe !!!!" shouted a member named Kybur.
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EXTRA:
Added Lore:
Draining Skill: a skill that is used to absorb the opponent's HP and MP and this skill is strictly prohibited by the government considering its famous use is Dracule Jack Dragon.
Predatory skills: a term for skills that can easily overpower other skills.
Skilltonomy: a term for the medical study of skills.