Alien Knights

The appearance of this box made Paul, who had been sluggish and dejected, the light in his eyes gradually brightened, and he jumped up from the ground as if he was beating chicken blood.

"Todd, do you recognize this box?"

Hearing Paul's question, Todd glanced at the box and said lightly, "I don't know."

Paul smiled happily: "You may not know it, but the things inside should be familiar to you!"

Opening the box, Paul dumped all the contents on the ground.

The people sitting in the front row looked carefully.

On the ground are gouache for women's make-up, belts for wrapping their breasts, neat and tidy skirts, and some accessories.

Looking at the pile of items that clearly belonged to women, people looked at each other, not sure why there was such a scene in the trial.

Paul revealed the mystery: "These are all found in the attic of the San Sidro Monastery."

Everyone was in an uproar, there was a woman in the monastery? !

An old monk stood up, glared at Paul and said loudly: "Could it be some misunderstanding? No woman has ever entered San Sidro's Monastery!"

Dozens of church knights and catechumens responsible for the search work of the Inquisition came to the stage at this time, claiming to swear in the name of the Heavenly Father that these things did indeed come from the attic of the monastery.

In this way, the huge scandal of women haunting the monastery is completely confirmed. However, people still don't know, what does all this have to do with Brother Todd's heresy trial?

Paul picked up a woman's underwear from the ground, and said to Todd with a smirk: "Master, don't you know it? Or, after blowing out the candles at night, you only pay attention to the body of the mistress and never look at her clothes?!"

Todd frowned, but said nothing.

Those who supported him in the audience were unhappy, and retorted loudly: "You are framing! How do you prove that this woman is related to Brother Todd?!"

"Oh, by the way, I was only interested in presenting physical evidence, but I forgot the personal evidence." Paul winked at the audience, and to everyone's surprise, three people in the friars stood up in unison, walked onto the podium, and stood beside Paul.

The old monks in the audience stared round their eyes, raised their trembling hands, and pointed at these monks in disbelief: "You!"

Paul glanced at the old monk, and said in a teasing tone: "You are also a servant of the heavenly father, why do you have to let yourself live in disgrace? Smart people will always seize the opportunity to choose."

A monk on the pulpit testified loudly: "I was in the library and once saw Todd walking with a woman wearing a monk's robe."

Another person followed up and said: "I also saw that Todd sneaked up to the attic at night, and then there was a heavy shaking sound from above..."

Boxes containing underwear, women wearing monk robes, secret rendezvous at night, violent shaking of the roof...

The sum of these plots is enough for the people present to imagine countless scenes.

Someone whistled at Todd, and someone else got up from the chair, twisted their waists, and made a lot of unsightly movements.

Shouts and laughter were endless, and people looked at the monks with an indescribable evil taste.

The monks' faces were flushed, and they kept silent, and some people covered their faces with their robes.

However, under such circumstances, Todd still didn't panic in the slightest. He stood there as if what everyone was talking about had nothing to do with him.

Paul took another step closer to Todd, and shouted loudly: "As a servant of the Heavenly Father, in the sanctuary, if you do such a mediocre thing, you will be sentenced to be burned at the stake! Todd, what defense do you have?!"

Todd lowered his face: "I didn't do anything illegal in the monastery."

Paul pressed harder and harder: "The witnesses and physical evidence are here, do you still want to quibble?! You say you are innocent, so do you have evidence?!"

Todd bit his lip and said nothing.

It is not an exaggeration to describe Paul's mood at this time with the four words "happy in the spring breeze".

He stood up straight, opened his arms towards the crowd, and shouted loudly: "I now declare that Todd has been ruled as..."

"Wait a minute!"

A crisp and loud voice sounded at the door of the hall.

The petite monk walked in the aisle under the eyes of everyone, stepped onto the pulpit, and raised his head to look at everyone.

"It's her, it's her!"

A monk who testified against Todd suddenly shouted at the woman in front of him.

Todd closed his eyes in pain.

Karin Foreman stood in front of everyone, her legs were trembling, but her voice was firm and fearless: "I am the woman who lives in the attic of the monastery library."

Paul was startled by this sudden scene, at first he didn't know what to do, and then he sneered: "You appeared just in time, it seems that the court needs to prepare two stakes!"

Karin, who had already fully understood the current situation, shook her head slightly to everyone in the audience: "I do ask Brother Todd to help me find a place to stay in the monastery."

With a triumphant smile, Paul was about to say something, but was so surprised by Karin's next sentence that he forgot to move.

"But he didn't know I was a woman."

After saying this, Karin quietly lifted the hood of the monk's robe.

Everyone saw that the woman's hair was only a few inches long, because she was still young, she looked like a handsome young man.

Todd looked at everything in front of him in surprise, and he immediately understood what Karin had done. In order to save him, the girl cut off her long hair just now, and stood up to take all the faults on herself.

If Karin's testimony is true, then the crime against Todd will be changed from blasphemy to negligence. At most, he can only be sentenced to a mild labor labor sentence, and can even be directly offset by a bail money.

This is definitely not the ending Paul wants to see.

Seeing the expressions of everyone in the audience, Paul jumped angrily: "Don't believe this woman's one-sided words! Todd, how could he not know that she is a woman! Hey, you guys!"

To the three monk witnesses who were still in a daze, Paul shouted: "You all saw this man and woman together, this woman must have had hair at that time!"

A monk scratched the back of his head: "When I saw this woman a few times, she was wearing a hood, so I couldn't see her hair."

Another said: "When I saw them, it was dark at night, and I couldn't see the specific details."

Paul stepped on the clothes on the ground and shouted angrily: "A bunch of useless guys!!!"

Queen Mary glanced at the calm woman, then at the defendant on the high platform, and had a rough judgment on all this in her heart. Putting the folding fan away in both hands, he said softly, "One or two?"

A woman pretending to be a monk is already a death sentence. In a sense, this girl is already a dead person. The key question is, will Todd admit that he knows the other person's gender?

If he admits, then both of them will die; if he doesn't admit, the woman will naturally be executed, and he will only be criticized for his reputation.

So, it's a "one or two" question.

However, Queen Mary already had the answer in her heart.

Men have always been selfish animals.

A father, for the country, can sacrifice his daughter.

Brother, for the sake of power, you can abandon your own sister.

A husband, for the sake of face, can humiliate his wife.

Man, that's all.

What Todd has to do now is to disregard any involvement and get out of the game safely; as for that infatuated girl, when her body was burnt by the flames and only ashes remained, who would remember that she bravely stood up to protect a man today?

The queen clenched the folding fan tightly in her hand.

"I don't think this believer is guilty..."

Todd's words seemed to smash a huge hornet's nest, the voices of the auditorium exploded, and everyone was in chaos. No one would have thought that Todd would choose to defend this woman pretending to be a monk at this time!

Seeing Huggins and his "acquaintances" who were about to move at the door, Todd shook his head slightly towards the front. Karin's weeping face made him clenched his fists. Although his face was calm, his chest was already full of anger, and his brain was also spinning rapidly.

Todd pointed to Karin and said, "This is a pious woman, a loyal believer."

The girl who once made the remarks of "painting the wall angrily", heard this sentence, looked around in doubt, and almost pointed at herself and asked the other party, "Are you talking about me?" 』

"She pretended to be a man and entered the monastery because her soul yearned for the Father, and her body longed for the Holy Spirit. She wanted to see the power and glory of the Lord, because the supreme love is more precious than her life!" Todd's words made Karin frowned deeply, and forgot to move.

Todd lowered his head, winked at the girl covertly, and signaled her to cooperate with him.

Karin suddenly realized that she quickly crossed her fingers and put them on her chest, as if praying.

Todd's voice became louder and louder: "But such a pious woman wants to study theology and the philosophy of saints, but she is repeatedly rejected! Why?! Because of her gender!"

The monk waved his hand to the south: "In the south of us, other countries that are also in the Western Diocese have established nuns and sisterhoods for those women who are dedicated to the holiness. However, the Church of the Silver Ring Kingdom has kept women out of the Holy Father's sanctuary for hundreds of years!"

"Heavenly Father taught us that all people are equal, but what have we servants done?! We regard listening to God's voice as a privilege!"

"So, she disguised herself and secretly lived in the monastery library, just to see the true face of the scriptures!"

Todd walked up to the monks, and bowed his head sincerely to the elderly monks: "I admit that it is wrong to bring her into the monastery without your permission. However, I think this belief in the Holy Way is extremely correct!"

Seeing that the church, monks, and other people expressed affirmation of Todd's statement, Father Paul shouted anxiously: "Everyone, don't believe such absurd claims! This couple must have committed inappropriate behavior! Um... that's right!"

Paul suddenly clapped his hands and shouted, "If the two of you are innocent, then this holy woman must be pure! Do you dare to find someone to test her?!"