Beast King's Crippled Mate-Chapter 266: Execution

However, her statement was followed by a dead silence from the Beast King. The bunny thought that he needed persuasion to finally deliver judgment.

However, she didn’t want to tell him about how she had seen Swan in her Saintess form as it might cause them to worship her even more.

She knew all the soldiers were already worshipping Swan as if she were their true Beast Queen and Goddess. If they knew that Swan could produce holy power, then they would definitely side with Swan no matter what.

"Your Majesty! I saw that Swan was using her dark magic to take Long Xiurong out of her prison cell! I truly saw them! Or else, there is no other way for Long Xiurong to escape, right? It’s all Swan’s dark magic!" Alice continued her accusation, wishing that the Beast King would finally believe her. "I am the only witness, Your Majesty. You must trust me!"

Gale took a deep breath and delivered his judgment, "Bring her to the city square."

The guards moved fast. They quickly seized her and Alice struggled as hard as she could.

"W-WHAT IS THIS?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! YOUR MAJESTY, I AM TELLING THE TRUTH!" Alice yelled as she struggled to break free. "I WOULD NEVER LIE TO YOU, YOUR MAJESTY!"

"Enough of your nonsense," Gale shut her down. "How dare you insult my wife like this. My wife spent the night sleeping in her bed. She had a nightmare because she was in pain, the cold weather made her leg ache!"

"S-she is using her dark magic, Your Majesty! She’s not actually crippled—!"

"ENOUGH! GET HER OUT!" Gale’s voice thundered again in the throne room. He had a few questions about his wife, but accusing her of suddenly appearing in the dungeon to save both Rock and Long Xiurong was just uncalled for. It was truly an insult because Gale witnessed with his own eyes how Swan was in so much pain to the point of having a nightmare last night.

The guards were already pissed by this chatty bunny, who kept on accusing their beloved Queen on top of creating this whole mess in the first place, so they couldn’t wait to execute her as well.

"LET ME GO! I SAID LET ME GO! I AM TELLING THE TRUTH!!" Alice tried to crawl her way back to the Beast King, but the guards already dragged her by her leg. She was yelling nonstop, wishing that the Beast King would believe her and let her go.

But even after she lost her voice, the Beast King didn’t move an inch from his mighty throne, nor did he say a thing to stop the guards from dragging her.

She finally lost her hope when she was finally dragged out of the throne room. She stopped yelling, but her eyes were still on the throne room’s door, wishing that the Beast King that she worshipped would come to save her.

Unfortunately, that never happened, and she had been truly abandoned by the Beast King.

*

Gale clenched the armrest as he was still trying to calm himself down. He was so angry at that bunny that he wanted to kill her swiftly with his own hands.

But then, if he killed her like that, there’d be no public execution today, and the idea of this public execution was to make sure everyone knew to never betray the Beast King and/or insult the Beast Queen.

Swan often told him that she got upset whenever someone dared to trick him just like those pearl merchants before. She was also angry if someone dared to mock him because she also wanted to protect his honor.

’I guess, I am no different. I get so angry thinking that someone dares to insult my wife. She’s suffering in our room, and yet, someone still accuses her of the things she didn’t do...’

Gale was trying to hold himself back from visiting Swan again. However, thinking about Swan who had a nightmare last night, and probably refused to eat breakfast right now, made him too anxious.

’Should I go check on her again?’ Gale asked himself. But in the end, he endured the gnawing feeling in his heart and told himself, ’No, not now. I’ll visit her at night when she’s already asleep. She still needs to understand the severity of what she has done to me.’

**

Alice was dragged into the city square, where many beastmen were already gathering because they were curious about who would be executed next after Lady Jade.

They were confused when they saw a bunny beastman wearing a maid dress being dragged by her legs like a sack of bad potatoes. She was lifted and tossed to the small stage made out of wood, where an executioner was ready with his extremely sharp axe to chop her head.

Alice didn’t react at first, not even when her head was put on the chopping block. But then, she saw the crowd gathering in front of her, watching in horror as she was about to get executed.

She also saw Lady Jade’s decaying head on a stake right across the city square. Her heart suddenly felt stuffy, because this wasn’t the end she expected.

She did everything because she wanted to protect the Beast King. She also wanted to protect everyone from that crippled bitch Swan who seemed to have strange power to draw everyone to rally on her side.

Alice was the only sane one in this absurdly insane situation.

’But in the end, I get abandoned by my own God, the Beast King...’ Alice lamented. ’And so what if that cripple is a Saintess? She still didn’t save me when I asked her. She’s THE Saintess! She needs to listen to all of my pleas and save me no matter what, because everyone is supposed to have salvation, right?’

’If you refuse to give me salvation, then I will make sure everyone in this city square how much of a sly bitch you are!’

Alice took a deep breath and yelled as loud as she could;

"QUEEN SWAN IS A WITCH!"