Type-Moon, a human love simulator.

Chapter 135 A good show

The dead people present had no way to defend themselves.

After all, this is God's court of judgment. The underworld can see a person's life as clearly as reading the lines on the palm of your hand. Even if he himself does not remember or has forgotten something deep in his mind, the judge of the underworld and Hades can see it clearly.

Therefore, Pluto and the Judge do not need anyone to refute their crimes. All crimes are present and there is solid evidence.

But when prisoners accept God's judgment, they are not helpless and can only wait for the verdict.

They can use their tongues to persuade Hades and the judge to reduce their sins, or simply gain the sympathy of God and be acquitted.

Well, it was the classical period after all, and in many cases, judgments were not made according to the provisions of the code, but according to the mood of God.

In the world of God, even death is not the end of everything. This vicious case cannot be judged by mortals, so it is naturally handed over to the gods to judge.

In most cases, Hades and the Queen of the Underworld would discuss whether to throw the person to Elysee to enjoy happiness, or to throw him into hell to feed Guigantes, or to suffer in the underworld and atone for his sins before going to Elysee, and they would soon come up with a plan.

But this case was different. Hades and Persephone argued for a long time but still could not come to a conclusion. Finally, the two gods decided to invite Suren, who was recognized by Greece as the most fair, moral, and selfless judge, to be the judge.

Hades believed that the husband in this case was the most innocent. Out of God's mercy, even if he had no merit, he could be allowed to enter Elysee to enjoy happiness. There was nothing to say about the wife and the adulterer. This kind of murder was too common. Instead of torturing them, they could be thrown directly into hell to feed Guigantes.

This is already a very light punishment in the underworld. There are countless tortures in Greece, such as Sisyphus, who repeats the same thing forever but can never complete it, and Tantalus, who can see sweet fruits and clear water but can never drink or eat them.

Compared to death, eternal punishment and torture are the true punishment that the gods inflict on mortals.

As for the daughter who killed her mother, she will be sent back to the earth to be hunted down by the goddess of vengeance. This crime of parricide falls within the jurisdiction of the goddess of vengeance.

But Persephone obviously had a different opinion. She believed that a wife killing her husband was definitely not just due to the wife's own reasons. If the husband had not been so busy doing his own things, had no love for his wife, and had not ignored his wife's needs for a long time, he would not have been killed.

Persephone thought that all three of them should be thrown into hell directly. As for the youngest daughter, she was the most innocent, so she could go to Elysee and receive the protection of the underworld and avoid the harassment of the goddess of vengeance.

The two gods held almost opposite opinions on the same thing. Hades advocated that the sin should be blamed on the adulterer and the wife, while Persephone advocated that the sin should be blamed on the husband and the wife.

After listening to the whole story, Suer Lun nodded and said, "First, daughter, what would you do if your father killed your mother?"

Under the judgment of power, no lie can escape. After hesitating for a moment, the daughter said with difficulty: "Then I might kill my father to avenge my mother."

"I support your doctrine of great revenge. Father and mother have equal weight. Killing one's own relatives is not a crime."

Suren rendered a not guilty verdict for his daughter. According to convention, innocent souls could enter Elysee, or return to the human world with special permission from the gods. There were no exceptions.

But after Suerlun rendered the not guilty verdict, she did not announce her fate, but looked at her husband.

"I respect everyone's right to self-defense, which is a person's most basic human right. As the first person to die in this case, do you want to defend yourself?"

After all, Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, insisted that he was guilty of abandoning his family for his career, and that he was the main criminal.

It is hard to say who Persephone was hinting at with this statement, but since the gods have made the accusation, humans can naturally defend themselves. If they do not defend themselves, it would be tantamount to tacitly agreeing with the accusation of the gods.

"I am just a free man who has just escaped from slavery. If I don't work hard with my skills and earn money, how can I satisfy the demands of my arrogant wife?"

The man gnashed his teeth and said, "I worked so hard that my family moved from Sparta to Athens. Emperor, perhaps only the King of Gold can understand my difficulties."

Suer Lun was in awe when he heard this: "It seems that you are indeed a person who tries your best to live a better life."

Moving from Sparta to Athens, how should I put it, is like starting from a small village in the Dutch countryside on hell difficulty, entering the magic capital through self-effort, and settling down and building a home.

Suren looked at the main culprit of the murder, the adulterer. The dead man was a muscular blacksmith, while the adulterer was just a skinny shepherd. If the man's wife had not attracted his attention, he would not have been able to succeed in his sneak attack.

"As the primary murderer, you can also defend your actions."

"...Emperor, I don't think this is my fault." The shepherd said with a wry smile, "She said that her husband had discovered our affair, and that he was making iron nets and bows and arrows, saying that he would catch us all and shoot us to death when he got the chance."

"I was so scared that I just wanted to leave Athens, but she kept persuading me. She also said that after killing her husband, I could take over the property he had worked so hard to save. If I abandoned her, she would go back to her husband and kill me together."

Suerlun said meaningfully: "Oh? Is that so? Although you did not lie, deceiving the Tribunal with a true lie does not mitigate your sin."

As he spoke, Suren looked at the third person, who was the center of all events. Both Hades and Queen of the Underworld believed that she was the wife of the main culprit.

"Although you are definitely guilty of murdering your husband and inciting blood relatives to kill each other, I still respect your most basic rights. I allow you to defend yourself for your evil deeds."

The wife shouted excitedly: "No, it's not like that, what they said is all false!"

Ha Jimei has a natural ability to love and is emotionally stable. His wife kept shouting at him but she didn't get to the point and was just talking in circles.

Yes, if she was smart enough, she would not have thought of such amazing wisdom, which would have allowed the whole family to reunite in the underworld.

"Please calm down." Suerlun's gentle voice soothed the stressed Hajime. After she calmed down, Suerlun said again: "I reiterate, I allow you to defend yourself. This is the second chance I give you, but you must remember, there will not be a third time."

Ha Jimei suddenly realized that the man sitting in front of her, whose figure and face she could not see, was not her husband who had silently endured it, nor was he her lover who would always indulge her, but the judge of the underworld, who could adjudicate disputes between the King of the Underworld and the Queen of the Underworld, the god who truly controlled her destiny.

Ha Jimei finally recognized the reality, cleared the water in her brain, thought for a moment, and said silently: "They are all trying to deceive the gods. My husband does not love me. He is a male ketone. He married me to have children. Even if I gave birth to a daughter, he would not touch me again."

"And the reason why he worked so hard to come to live in the city-state of Athens was because of the Athenian ethos, not because of us, as he said."

Athens, the undisputed pearl of old Greece, was the most powerful city-state.

Even though Sparta rose later and competed with Athens, the Athenian city-state was still one of the poles in the bipolar struggle for hegemony in Greece.

Unlike Sparta, where militarism prevailed and boys were born to be soldiers and women were born to give birth to strong children, Athens was famous for its literature and philosophy. Under this elegant philosophy, all philosophers could put on armor and go to the battlefield.

But these are not the most mainstream culture of the Athenian city-state. Athens was once most famous for its philosophical argument on whether homosexuality is nobler than heterosexuality.

The word "philosophy" was equated with male ketone in later generations, which was not without the credit of the Athenians.

One can imagine what the atmosphere was like in Athens at that time.

The wife had not finished speaking yet. She pointed at the shepherd and said, "And him? How could you just disappear like that? If you hadn't been whispering in my ear for years, telling me what would happen if your husband found out about us, and that if your husband died, the wealth he left behind would be enough for us to live on, etc...."

"Except for this time when you didn't take the initiative to propose killing, you have hinted to me countless times before, have you forgotten?" "Rashomon, what a Rashomon..." Suer Lun looked down at his daughter who bowed her head and said nothing, and asked: "As the fourth person who was watching, don't you have anything to say?"

"...Emperor, nothing can be hidden from you, the great Golden King, Surlun."

The daughter is a woman of great beauty. She has already seen that such a merciful judge is definitely not one of those cold gods or those bastard heroes. In the whole of Greece, there is only one person who is so kind and just.

As soon as these words came out, the people who were quarreling were stunned for a moment, and they all prostrated themselves in front of Suerlun, shouting loudly: "Emperor! I am willing to obey all the judgments of the great Golden King Suerlun."

Suer Lun did not comment and continued to ask his daughter: "So, you also want to use your wisdom to deceive me with a true lie?"

The daughter shed tears at this time. The dead do not have tear glands. Tears are the soul. If the tears dry up, the soul will dissipate.

She cried and said, "The shepherd once pursued my father, but my father only liked strong Greek scholars and philosophers and looked down on the thin shepherd, so he held a grudge and found my mother when he could."

"In order to avenge my father, he once tried to attack me, but I dodged him. Until my father died this time, if I didn't resist, I'm afraid he would have..."

"The fourth person's confession has appeared." Suer Lun looked at them and said, "But the four of you have four different mouths, speaking four different words. So far, no one has told the whole truth."

"...Monks are blind and stupid, but they can still be taught!" Suer Lun sighed, "Even so, I still think you are not hopeless."

"Human desires are like mountains, and human hatred is like an abyss, which has no end."

Suren finally ruled: "None of you four can go to the Elysee, and of course none of you have to go to hell."

"I have decided to establish reincarnation in the underworld. All dead souls can wash away all their sins and the memories of suffering in the underworld, and return to the earth as pure souls without thoughts and reincarnate as human beings."

Suerlun looked at his daughter and said, "You are a sinless person, so you can be the first to reincarnate."

Then he looked at the three of them and said, "You three will continue to live together, leading the same life as you did in your previous life, but you can only be reincarnated once you have forgiven each other."
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After the judgment, Hades found Surren and asked hesitantly, "Surren, after the establishment of this cycle of reincarnation, won't there be no dead in the underworld?"

"Why do you think so?" Suer Lun asked back, "Didn't you carefully read the reincarnation rules I made?"

"The guilty must atone for their sins before they can be reincarnated..." Suerlun said with a smile, "Are you still afraid that all the dead were innocent and pure in their lives?"

"Hades, you are a god, and it is difficult for you to understand humans, creatures full of desires and emotions. As long as human emotions have not disappeared, human desires will not stagnate."

"And along with desire comes unimaginable sin!"

Just like the Rashomon performed by the family of four, the daughter did not tell the truth. For example, she did not tell Suren that the lack of fatherly love made her have no feelings for her father at all. Even though she knew in advance that her mother decided to murder her father, she chose to remain silent.

She thought her father's death would bring happiness to her mother, but when her father died, she realized how much her father meant to her, and took out the poison she had prepared in advance. Otherwise, who would prepare poison in a family and not be discovered?
But even so, Suerlun still determined that she was not guilty, because she chose to remain silent because she hated her father at the time, and she chose to take revenge out of guilt and regret after her father's death, all of which were out of her true heart.

Humans are such complex creatures. They are neither black nor white, but a chaotic gray.

The gods do not understand the complexity of human beings, so they simply judge according to cold common sense and fail to adapt to local conditions.

"So that's how it is, Suren. You are the wisest among humans, and the gods often think that your wisdom is on par with Zeus."

Hades nodded in agreement and said, "Since even you said so, then I believe you. I am willing to support you in building the reincarnation of the dead in the underworld."

"What about the Elysian Garden?" At this time, Persephone suddenly said: "The innocent souls will be reincarnated, and the guilty souls will be sent to hard labor, so who will fill the Elysian Garden?"

"Persephone, it's okay." Hades shook his head: "As long as we can build a better underworld, it doesn't matter if we abandon Elysian Paradise."

"How can you just abandon it?" Persephone snorted in dissatisfaction. "Although I didn't agree with you building that great paradise at the beginning, Elysee is your hard work and has stood in the underworld for so many years. Now you just want to give it up?"

"It's all for the Underworld, Elysee doesn't matter!"

"That's not what I said..."

The Hades and the Queen of the Underworld started arguing again. Surren was too lazy to intervene in their fight. He thought for a moment and suggested, "Since this is the fruit of the Hades' hard work, I can't bear to destroy it. How about opening the Elysee?"

"open?"

Even the gods were unaware of such a novel concept. Hades, the god of the underworld, looked at Surren in confusion, waiting for his explanation.

"Yes, it is open." Suerlun nodded and said while thinking: "Open up the Elysee, so that it will no longer be a paradise for only a few people to enjoy."

"All the souls in the underworld can visit the Elysee, but we will no longer provide accommodation services."

"Hades, since your original intention in building Elysee was to make the dead happy, how can the happiness of a few people be considered true happiness?"

Compared to the Forbidden City, which is only inhabited by royal family members, the Forbidden City, which belongs to all the people, is more in line with the concept of making most people feel happy, right?

"This is great!" Persephone clapped her hands and cheered: "After seeing the beauty of Elysée, those dead people will experience the darkness and horror of Hades, and then they will cherish the world of life more and fear the world after death..."

"This is how the underworld should be. It's all Hades' fault. He messed everything up."

Hades was too lazy to pay attention to her. After thinking for a while, he also sighed: "As expected of the Golden King whose wisdom is comparable to Zeus, Suren, your suggestion is very correct. Your vision is far better than mine. Even though you have never ruled the underworld, you can still make such a far-sighted suggestion."

"Thank you for saying that."

Surren did not hold back, he accepted Hades' praise in its entirety.

In this classical Greek age of gods, modesty is not a good virtue. When someone praises you, you should respond positively instead of modestly saying that you are still far from being good enough.
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Surren is hunting.

Almost everything has been resolved, and Suerlun can also develop his own little hobby.

For example, handicrafts and hunting are activities that Suren loves. Whether it is horseback archery or chasing tigers on foot with a polished spear, it is a very interesting process.

Most hunters would use hunting dogs to assist in hunting, but Surlun grew up in the forest and was a hunter who was taught skills by the goddess of hunting herself. He was very familiar with the habits of many wild beasts and did not need any assistance at all.

At this moment, Suren saw a very beautiful sika deer, which was of high quality and almost comparable to Cynthia's animal form. He drew his huge bow that never missed a target, hesitated for a moment, then put it down and chose to chase on foot.

It would be a shame to shoot such a beautiful deer to death directly, so it’s better to chase it and catch it.

(End of this chapter)