After the judge brought the gavel down and called for order, extra officers rushed in and finally forced Melvin, who had been thrashing and howling like a mad animal in the defendant's chair, back into his seat.Things calmed down in the courtroom after the mess, but it was still really tense, like right before a storm would break.Every gaze locked onto the "living dead" who should never have appeared here at all.At that moment, with the judge's permission, Richard slowly rose from the gallery and walked forward, step by step. His arrival was like a powerful magnetic field that made the noisy courtroom fall silent in an instant.He looked first, eyes cold, at Melvin, who had been pressed back into his seat, dazed, still muttering "Impossible" under his breath. The corner of his mouth lifted in a razor-sharp, icy sneer.Then he turned to the judge and the jury. In a voice so calm it was almost frightening, he told the truth that stunned everyone in the room, including his own all
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