Knight Asylum

Reid was sure that he arrived twenty minutes early, but Tezuka Umiyuki was already there, and judging by the way he was leisurely drinking tea, he had probably been there for quite a while. Xiao Xing was standing there holding a flower pot, smiling gently.

I don’t know if it was Red’s illusion, but although they were both gentle smiles, Xiao Xing’s smile to him was a little different from the smile she gave to Shouzuka Umiyuki.

Red shook his head, stepped forward and waved, "Tezuka, you're here. If you came earlier, please let me know."

"Me too……"

Tezuka Umi paused, glanced at Xiao Xing and suddenly realized something, then winked at Red, "Next time I'll be a few minutes late."

Xiao Xing blushed and lowered her head.

Red was not a wooden man with negative emotional intelligence. He naturally knew what Tezuka Umiyuki meant, so he did not deny it like a straight man. He put his hands on his hips and complained.

"It's good to know."

Xiao Xing was startled and looked up at Reid suddenly. There was a hint of surprise in her astonishment, but Xiao Xing quickly reacted and raised her hand to gently tuck her hair behind her ears.

"Sorry sorry-"

Tezuka Umiyuki knew what Xiao Xing was thinking at a glance. He sighed with some regret, then stood up slowly and straightened his clothes.

"Then let's set off."

After Xiaoxing locked the shop door, Red and others set out for Kitaoka Hide's family. As soon as they arrived at the door of Kitaoka Hide's family, Red saw an extremely incredible scene.

Kitaoka Hideichi, who is seen as no different from a useless person, is sorting garbage in front of his house.

"Who are you?" Red couldn't help but yell, "An alien insect?"

Of course, this is just a complaint. He can tell at a glance whether Hideichi Kitaoka is a human being or not.

"I'm Kitaoka Shuichi."

Kitaoka Hideichi twitched his lips and put the sorted garbage into the trash can. He glanced at Xiao Xing behind Reid, raised his eyebrows slightly, turned around and raised his hand to wave, "Come in."

While Kitaoka Hideichi went to open the door, Xiao Xing grabbed Reid's sleeve and whispered, "What's wrong with you?"

"Ah - in my memory, Lawyer Kitaoka is not that kind of person," Reid scratched his face and couldn't help but complain.

Kitaoka Hideichi has neither the ability of divination nor the Fire Card like Shinji Kido. Logically speaking, after losing Yura Goro, Kitaoka Hideichi should have just asked a nanny to clean the house, just like in the second timeline.

But now it looks like Hideichi Kitaoka is doing the cleaning himself.

It is a shocking fact that Hideichi Kitaoka cleans the house himself and does it quite well.

“People grow.”

Tezuka Umi smiled.

“That’s… true.”

Reid nodded and looked towards the floor-to-ceiling window on the other side with a look of suspicion. At this time, Kitaoka Hideichi had already stood at the floor-to-ceiling window and was hooking his finger in his direction in a very cocky manner.

It was indeed Hideichi Kitaoka himself.

After muttering a few more words to himself, Red followed Tezuka Umiyuki into Kitaoka Hide's house.

Kitaoka Hideichi's house is very clean and everything is in order, as if there is a very responsible person who cleans and tidies up every day with a noble mood. At this moment, Kitaoka Hideichi is sitting on a chair with a cocky expression that says, "That person definitely can't be me."

Red had a guess in his mind, but didn't say anything.

"I have visited the parents of those students over the past two days. Although the process was difficult, I have obtained signatures from 70% of the parents. Yesterday, I officially submitted a lawsuit to the Supreme Court in [S·L], and I can prepare to go into battle today."

"So soon?" Red blinked. "Shouldn't we normally wait a few days?"

"Normally, Seimeiin University can be delayed for nearly fifteen days," Kitaoka Hideichi raised his finger and bent it, "These fifteen days are enough for those parents to change their minds, so I said now is the best opportunity."

Tezuka Umiyuki held his chin in thought for a while, then raised his brows slightly, "Because of Miss Rosette's kidnapping, they need some cases to attract the attention of the citizens? To prevent any trouble from happening in the public trial in Montana later?"

"That's right——"

Kitaoka Hideichi leaned forward, crossed his fingers, and smiled rather sinisterly, "That is to say, there will be no private mediation. We will get the Supreme Court's ruling as a guarantee to make Seimeiin University fulfill its promise to pay for the medical expenses of those students and compensate each family."

Red leaned back slightly, because Kitaoka Hideichi's smile was so sinister and arrogant, as if he was setting a flag for failure, so he couldn't help but complain, "I say... this is based on the premise that you can win the lawsuit."

"Hey, hey, hey - I'm an invincible lawyer with a 100% winning rate. This is not just something the media makes up."

Hideichi Kitaoka complained loudly, but just as Reid was about to apologize, Hideichi Kitaoka lowered his chin and raised his eyebrows slightly.

"But, it's really hard to say about this lawsuit."

"Huh!? Are we going to lose?" Reid widened his eyes in disbelief.

"I say... the lawsuit itself is to turn black into white and white into black," Kitaoka Hideichi lowered his head, "If black is black and white is white, there is no need for lawyers."

"This……"

"I became famous by saying black is white and white is black."

Reid, who didn't expect Kitaoka Hideichi to use himself as an example so straightforwardly, couldn't hold back any longer.

"Your friends are really interesting," Xiao Xing, who was sitting next to Red, smiled after thinking for a while.

"Yes, yes..." Red scratched his face awkwardly.

"Okay - that's enough explaining, let's go."

Hideichi Kitaoka raised his hand, swept the documents on the table into his briefcase, and stood up. Just when Reid thought that Hideichi Kitaoka would ask him to help carry the bag, Hideichi Kitaoka picked up the bag quite naturally.

"Since there are four of us, just take my car."

After saying that, Hideichi Kitaoka brought Reid and others to the garage, opened the driver's seat, sat in, and Umiyuki Tezuka sat in the passenger seat.

Reid couldn't help but frown.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Xing lowered her voice.

"No, nothing. Come to think of it, I haven't been to the Supreme Court of [S.L] yet," Reid shook his head and said casually after closing the back door.

"Ah~ The Supreme Court of [S.L] is very interesting."

Kitaoka Hideichi fastened his seat belt and smiled meaningfully through the rearview mirror.

"What kind of society is [S·L]?"

"Uh - the harmony between humans and monsters...ah -"

"Yes, even in the Supreme Court, humans and weirdos coexist."

Chapter 355: Special Laws for Strange People

The original intention of making laws is to regulate social order and allow society to develop in a more stable and healthy direction. Of course, laws are not static. With the development of the times, the progress of society, and the improvement of overall quality, laws have become more stringent.

The emergence of monsters has caused huge waves in the existing legal system of mankind. Since it is a society where humans and monsters coexist, the law must naturally be reformed to take into account the existence of monsters.

In order to show that humans and monsters are equal, the best and most convincing way to make changes is to let monsters join the court to adjust and change the law.

At least, that's what the politicians who don't care about the matter think.

"How is he?"

"It's still the same as before."

Two guards stood in front of the cell door and stretched out their hands to open the peephole on the cell door. A ray of light shone into the dim and narrow space, moved forward along the smooth floor, and finally stopped at the feet of Montana, who was restrained in a chair by a straitjacket.

"Do you think someone will come to rescue him?"

"I don't know. I heard that the guy who can perform space transfer has not been caught yet."

"No way, why not just lock him up in Selvi Turiari?"

One of the guards complained involuntarily.

"Selvi Tulia only imprisoned those terrible monsters. This Montana... is still a human being after all."

"makes sense."

The visiting window was closed and the entire cell fell into darkness again.

Montana raised his head slightly, his mouth slowly curling into a smile.

……

Kitaoka Hideichi brought Reid and others to the Supreme Court of [S·L]. Many people had gathered in front of the court. When they saw Kitaoka Hideichi appear, they all walked over. Most of them were over 40 years old and exuded a sense of decadence.

Children are the future of a family. Students who are noticed and trained by Hideyuki Kagawa are mostly studious and talented, and are the typical "other people's children" in the eyes of parents.

For any family, it is an unimaginable blow to see their promising child in a coma due to an experimental accident.

Reid discovered that many of the parents who came over looked at Kitaoka Hideichi with resentment in their eyes.

If you think about it carefully, this is also normal. It was Hideichi Kitaoka who silenced these parents in the beginning, and it is also Hideichi Kitaoka who makes these parents speak now.

Kitaoka Hideichi smiled slightly and raised his hand, "Everyone, please go this way. People from Seimeiin University will be here soon."

No one responded to Kitaoka Hideichi, and all the parents turned around silently. Not everyone has the opportunity to visit the Supreme Court, but fortunately, this was not their first time here, so they knew how to get there.

"You're being hated," Red spat.

"Isn't this a matter of course?" Kitaoka Hideichi put his hands behind his back and rolled his eyes.

Red hesitated to speak, and finally reached out and patted Kitaoka Shuichi on the shoulder and sighed, "That's true—"

Kitaoka Hideichi let out an unhappy click of his tongue and strode over. Because Reid and the others were not witnesses to the experimental accident a few years ago, nor were they relatives of the victims, they took another route to the courtroom where the trial was held.

Hideichi Kitaoka was in position early and laid out his information. He was confident and a little narcissistic. Even Reid had to admit that Hideichi Kitaoka looked very reliable.

Soon, lawyers and related personnel from Qingmingyuan University appeared, and Red and Xiaoxing frowned at the same time.

The lawyer is a weirdo, and the person in charge of Qingmingyuan University is also a weirdo.

When the judge and the jury came out one after another, Red stood up subconsciously.

Weirdos, weirdos, weirdos. Except for the plaintiffs, everyone present is a weirdo.

Reid looked in the direction of Kitaoka Shuichi with a worried look on his face.

This unusual development gave him a very bad premonition, but Kitaoka Hideichi seemed to have expected this development a long time ago. He was not panicked at all. He even leaned back on the back of the chair, crossed his legs, and crossed his fingers, looking as if he was sure of victory.

Kitaoka Shuichi's confident look made Reid feel a lot more at ease.

If you think about it carefully, there is really nothing to worry about. There is no way you can lose this lawsuit. Even Kitaoka Hideichi did not win the lawsuit at the beginning. Instead, he made the parents who appealed withdraw their appeal by silencing them.

This time the lawsuit was a blitzkrieg. Seimeiin University had no chance to play some behind-the-scenes tricks as before and could only confront Kitaoka Hideichi head-on.

That's not a sure win.

But what happened next surprised Reid.

This was a blitzkrieg. As the initiator, Hideichi Kitaoka had prepared everything long ago, and Seimeiin University, as the defendant, had no time to prepare evidence at all. Moreover, the case itself gave Seimeiin University nothing to refute.

But after the battle, it cannot be said that Hideichi Kitaoka was completely defeated, but only that he had no chance of winning.

Did Hideichi Kitaoka let the game go?

No, even Reid, a rookie who can't even be a lawyer, could see that Kitaoka Hideichi was fighting very seriously. Moreover, Kitaoka's selling point was that he was an undefeated lawyer with a 100% winning rate. Kitaoka Hideichi had no reason to put his future at risk for this lawsuit.

The problem is in this court.

The judge frequently interrupted Kitaoka Hideichi's speech, and even when he asked normal questions, the judge would knock on the table to make Kitaoka uncomfortable. In contrast, even when the lawyer from Seimeiin University asked some rather excessive questions that attacked the other party's family, the judge rejected Kitaoka Hideichi's protests and allowed the other party to attack at will.

Of course, the most outrageous thing is that sometimes the judge will even personally question the testimony of the witness.

"Are you sure? Probably? That was an accident that happened a few years ago. Can you guarantee that your memory isn't distorted in the slightest?"

No matter which witness is asked this question by the judge, he will hesitate. Once he hesitates, the witness's testimony will be in vain. On the contrary, no matter what the witness from Seimeiin University says, the judge will not say a word. As long as Kitaoka Hideichi has any objection, the judge will bang the gavel to reject it.

"Adjournment—"

The judge lazily picked up the gavel and knocked it to announce the adjournment of the trial, then stood up and left yawning in a rather perfunctory manner, while the jury members also greeted the lawyer from Qingmingyuan University with laughter and chatter.

Even Red couldn't control his eyes twitching wildly.

He finally realized that they were all in the same group.

When most of the people in the court had left, the person in charge of Qingmeiyuan University, Yagyu, adjusted his tie, walked in front of Kitaoka Hideichi, leaned forward, and smiled brightly.

"Lawyer Kitaoka, are you shocked?"

"I was indeed shocked," Kitaoka Hideichi raised his eyebrows, picked up the documents and tapped the table lightly, "Since Seimeiin University has such convenient means, why did they make me run around so much?"

"Hahaha - who knows, maybe this is fair."

Yagyu opened his hands and laughed triumphantly.

Chapter 356: The seeds of doubt have been planted

"How is this fair!"