Dante's trial was held in the great hall of the Court.The Fire clan's elders, envoys from the Wind clan, and representatives of the Northern Merchant Guild all attended.The Court produced the mine accounts, the smuggling evidence, the records of the patrol funds, and the ledger Sophia had left behind.Sophia had been guarding herself against Dante for some time.Her ledger contained purchase records for moonberry toxin, the very poison that had killed me in my last life.Those records also bore Dante's signature.I stood in the witness box, my hands trembling slightly.In my last life, no one had investigated after my death. Everyone had assumed that uncontrolled wind currents had killed me.Now the truth had finally been laid bare before everyone.Dante stood chained in the defendant's dock, still watching me."Evelyn, we had happy times too," he said. "Do you really not remember any of them?"Of course I remembered.I remembered him picking up the wind chime I had dropped when we f
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