Even with the damning evidence presented against them, the Gui clan members under indictment still tried to deny the charges as they tried to shift the blame on other families claiming their innocence in the matter.
They said it was the other families framing them for those deeds because they were jealous that the Gui family was the only one among the six founding families to have still maintained its growth even after their founder had passed on while the rest of the families were struggling to stay afloat.
But with the amount of damning evidence presented against them such as the visual recordings, documents of which some even had soul-binding seals to them, along with the testimonies of the assassins of the Underground Ferrymen, their excuses carried no water and the only thing it managed to do was add on to their troubles for lying to the court.