1.00 PM, Main Meeting hall, KNIGHTS Organization.
The hall had a similar setup to a court but with the judging panel set on a large thin dice. Three chairs were placed in front of it, a meter away from it. And there were seats set up on different heights like in a seminar classroom. On either side of the jury arrangement, there were two panels of seats with the Claimant and the Respondent boards.
Unlike the normal disciplinary committees, KNIGHTS had a very different way of dealing with their workers. Since this was an organization that worked directly under the King's finance, any critical matter was always dealt with by His Majesty's jury panel set to work only for KNIGHTS internal problems. So, in this political battle, Andrew's juniors had an upper hand, and he wanted Kyra to use it very well.
People soon filled in the room, taking the best spots to overview this conference. It was a very intriguing gathering as it involved SCD branch people, workers that were highly respected in their organization.
Soon, Andrew with his whole team entered through the two large doors and later took the Respondent side seats. After a minute, the Director of the SCD, along with the other chiefs of his branch walked in and everyone got to bow to him. As they took the Claimant Side seats, Venessa rechecked everything and sighed with a smile. Those old morons gonna regret calling for appealing for DC, she thought with a smirk!
A few minutes later, three dignitaries wearing white customized outfits entered the hall, followed by a set of bouncers. Everyone stood up and bowed to these well-crowned people as they walked towards the dice. The panel consisted of a woman, old yet domineering, and two hot men, smart yet cunning. They all had brooches that symbolized they were His Majesty's crew, and most of them started clicking their pictures in excitement.
"Hope you go easy on us, today!" Joked Lady Agatha, the leader through the mic sitting in the middle, and everyone laughed.
At her gesture, they took their seats as her assistant passed them the tabs. Though they had already read about the entire complaint and the printed appeals of SCD Chiefs, they still briefed through the file once again.
"So, shall we start?" She asked and her two juniors nodded.
Glancing at the Claimant and the Respondent team, she smiled before announcing, "I request to summon the Law Infractors!"
And at her demand, the large doors opened and two ladies walked inside. Kyra and Anna were wearing their KNIGHTS uniform. It was fancy, yet formal with black pants matching up a white high collared shirt. Over the shirt, a black blazer with golden star-shaped buttons made them look clean. But, what most people looked for in KNIGHTS were the badges.
While Kyra had nothing on her lapels, nor over the left part of her chest, Anna had an eagle-shaped badge over her badge patch, and also a star on her left lapel. It mainly symbolized that Kyra was still a rookie, and Anna was a Grade-2 senior who had completed an eagle-leveled mission successfully. And that was a big showoff as eagle badges couldn't be touched easily.
They walked inside, holding their hats in their left arms, and stood in front of the dice. Bowing to the juries, Anna then bowed to the Director and other Chiefs but Kyra just took her seat.
Lady Agatha creased her brows, as Kyra seemed arrogant, but ignoring her rude gesture, she further enquired, "I see only two Infractors," Turning towards Andrew's side, she asked, "Where is the third one?"
The frog inside Andrew immediately hid deeper inside his coat, as Andrew got up to submit his report.
"He is under medical care, your honor." Passing the medical report to her assistant, he walked back and took his seat.
The three juries looked at the reports and sighed with a nod. So, there was a weak human worker involved as well, they thought before proceeding with the main topic.
"Alright, since his condition is weak, we will question the remaining two." The man sitting on the left of Lady Agatha declared, much to the little frog's relief. Kevin sighed, slumping inside that coat as juries asked the compliant to take the lead.
And much to their displeasure, Chief Hans of the Alpha team stood up to read their petition.
"In the past two days, KNIGHTS has witnessed nights worse than nightmares. With a culprit who could eat souls, possessed unusual mystic powers, and connect with being's minds, our whole SCD branch had suffered a lot to put under the bars. And during the same course, though we did manage to catch it"
"Sorry, your dignitaries," Kyra cut him off by raising her hand, and when the juries frowned, she added, "There's a little correction."
Smiling at Chief Hans, she spoke aloud, "It isn't 'WE', but 'US', I mean we three," Pointing at Anna, and the empty chair beside her, Kyra added, "We three, and with a few virtuous cops help, managed to catch it!"
Lady Agatha smirked hearing her statement, as the girl was drawing a line between them and her higher-ups. They were the petitioners against her, and she clearly made sure he understood they were opponents in this room, though they belonged to the same branch. And Venessa badly wanted to laugh but pursed her lips as Chief Hans looked flustered.
And when the juries looked at Chief Hans for clarification, he cleared his throat, " Yes! It's because of them, our dear juniors," Smiling at Kyra, he continued, "who have been naive and taken disastrous steps to catch the culprit."
Turning to the juries, he continued, "Though they had caught the culprit, they had broken so many rules and risked hundreds of lives. And, to avoid youngsters of our organization from getting inspired by them, and trying something more dangerous, we seek your help to tame these troublemakers. Punish them for their deeds, and let them learn from it."
He finished almost forcing Kyra to scoff out loud. He was pure evil, with the way he had elaborated everything, people would only blame and see them through his words.
Another Chief got up and detailed to everyone, the number of laws the Infractors had broken. There were 7 on Anna's and Kevin's back, 12 for Kyra as she had sneaked inside the cell without permission.
Kyra sighed, glad that her transformation spell mishap hadn't been brought up under these complaints. She looked at Andrew and smiled, grateful that he had covered it up very well.
"Ms. Yang is indeed a troublemaker!" Lady Agatha commented with a chuckle, making Kyra shiver in fear. Why did it sound like she was angry about it? Kyra thought, as the old lady stared at her, her eyes glowing in something red and she guessed her race!
"Alright, we would now like to hear the respondant side!"
And at her command, Anna got up and bowed to them first, later nodding to Venessa, she expressed, "We know we have been immature with our actions, and we are ready to accept the punishment. But before that," Gesturing at the big screen behind that that almost covered the entire wall, Anna added, "we request you to look at what we have been through, how hard we have strived to catch the culprit before you make a final decision."
"Huh, they are trying to seek smypathy now! Haha!" One of the Chiefs on the director's side scoffed, while everyone concentrated on the screen as the lights were dimmed off. Most of them were actually here to hear about the mission, the way just a bunch of three agents managed to catch such a strong, extremely dangerous creature.
Anna smiled sitting beside Kyra, who had suggested about this recording during their secret mission. She had made them wear some recording pins that night, and they were glad that could collage everything that they did into one beautiful video.
It started off with Kyra getting her black magic process, followed by Kevin going into a trance. A small discription was provided what a Memory Trance meant and how they were trying to travel through it to catch the culprit. The video then followed Kevin entering the trance, and since they couldn't track anything inside the trance, it was moved to the part how Kyra formed a portal and helped Kevin come out.
The Video ended with the creature being dragged out by the defenders branch of KNIGHTS, as nothing was caught on any cameras about the grim reaper and her exit with the soul.
"Did you manage to save the soul?" Lady Agatha couldn't help but ask, turning around to face them.
"We did with the help of a grim reaper." Anna answered with a smile, and later added with a sigh, "But unfortunately, we don't remeber the reaper's face, nor anything in that process was captured on our cameras."
Nodding, the juries smiled, one responding to their video, "Though this video proved your intentions, and your strongwill to save someone, we cannot avoid this proof that you actually broke many laws."
"Yes, but let me also add you guys have made us proud." Another Jury was quick to cover up his mate as Lady Agatha just smiled, letting them do her work.
"So, is there anything else? Or can we proceed with our final call?"
"If you may permit, your honor," Anna got up and requested again, "I want to have a few words with my director of our branch!"
"Come on, you have no right to question as an Infractor." Came a comment from the Claimant's side and everyone quickly nodded. Law Infractors were like culpirts according to KNIGHTS rules, and they needed to just accept and move on!
But, Kyra had decided to break that tradition for them!
"And what if," Getting up Kyra stared at the commenter, "it provides you a reason for our reckless secret mission! Like come on, we had such a great plan and you would have surely agreed to it. But we still were forced to go on a hideout mission, why is that?"
And her question made everyone curious. Yes, she was right! So that meant the claimants were hiding something big!
And now everyone's attention was on the director of SCD branch!