All Chapters of ANOMALY: I HAVE COUNTLESS SYSTEMs: Chapter 111
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Chapter 111: Leo the lawyer
"By the way, where are the tax records?""In the city.""The merchants' warehouse ledgers?""In the city.""A copy of the king's letter?"The great general paused for a moment. "In the city."Leo closed his eyes and held them shut for a second."What about witnesses? People who saw what was happening on the streets during that period, relatives of those who died, soldiers who were present during the distribution of the goods?""In the city.""Anyone who knows which merchants' men were injured during the intervention?""In the city."Leo opened his eyes and looked at his father.The great general knew what that look meant, but nothing changed in his expression."When is the trial?""Three days from now."Leo turned and looked out the window. The road was long, dust rising behind them, and the silhouette of the capital wasn't even visible on the horizon yet.Three days. Reaching the capital would take a full day in total, and they were only halfway there. If they turned back now, two da
Chapter 112: King's behaviour
Yeter, çeviriyorum.As Leo steadied himself on the horse's back, he became aware of what kind of symbol of power the animal beneath him actually was.This was one of Crimson Sand City's purebred horses, thick-necked and deliberate in its stride, pressing each hoof into the ground as if staking a claim to it. The mane was a deep brown that looked almost black in the sunlight.For a moment, Leo's mind drifted to the idea of buying a horse farm in the real world and bringing together different breeds from around the world. He and Hana could learn to ride together.Thinking of Hana, he realized he missed her, even though it hadn't been that long. After spending months on end with her, spending money and enjoying himself in a way that had started to feel genuinely paternal, the absence had more weight than he expected.He decided that when he came out of the simulation, he would spend at least a day getting closer to the original characters who had already arrived at the university, and if
Chapter 113: One night at palace
Leo turned to the great general and spoke in a low voice."The king hasn't come near us once."The great general lowered his cup slowly. "He's doing the right thing.""Why?""The nobles are already tense. If the king is seen with us, it will look like he's taking sides. Before the trial concludes, this is the correct approach."Leo said nothing, but he filed away his father's absolute confidence in the king.Then he closed his eyes and opened the system summary.[Day one: Soldiers assigned by the Dark Army made contact with the city's head clerk. Copies of the tax records were completed by midnight. Accessing the merchants' warehouse ledgers took longer. Two merchants resisted providing documents. The resistance was broken, and the documents were obtained.][Day two: The witness list was finalized. Fourteen people who lost family members during the famine, eight soldiers who were personally present during the distribution of goods, and five independent witnesses who observed the armed
Chapter 114: Judgment I
I must be getting old.The thought passed through the great general's mind and left a mark as it went. The mark was small, but it was there.Then the great general looked away."Alright."He walked to the curtain, stopped, and spoke without turning around."Go to your room."Leo had planned to skip time once he lay down, but the moment he stretched out on the bed a profound exhaustion wrapped itself around his body. Apparently the repeated use of the time skip function had left him sleep-deprived without his noticing.After thinking about it briefly, he decided to simply sleep until morning.In the early hours, the palace corridors were quiet.As Leo walked beside the great general, he could hear their footsteps against the stone floor, steady and measured. The great general didn't speak. Leo didn't speak either. Everything that needed to be said had already been said.The corridors narrowed, then widened, then narrowed again. The interior of the palace was a kind of labyrinth, but th
Chapter 115: Judgment II
"Don't forget where you are, fool boy. No such system exists in this kingdom. The person being tried speaks on their own behalf or does not speak, that is their choice. You have no legal standing in this hall." He paused. "Leave."The judge had not yet drawn his next breath after finishing his sentence when the king raised his hand again."Enough."The judge closed his mouth. Faster this time.The king turned to Leo. He was looking down from the platform, but there was no arrogance of elevation in his gaze, only distance."Why do you want to bring this system into my kingdom?"Leo took a second to think.He could present legal theory. He could speak about the impartiality of justice, about the injustices that ignorance creates. But in this hall, in front of these people, an abstract argument would hang in the air and reach nothing.Something concrete was needed."I'll give a hypothetical example, my lord," Leo said. "Not a real story, but the kind that could happen."The king gave a s
Chapter 116: Judgment III
"And when did the merchants bring these goods to market? We look at the same records." He opened another page. "The majority of the goods were put up for sale after they had begun to spoil. Which means the merchants hoarded the goods, hoarded them while people were starving, and sold them when the supplies were on the verge of rotting. Is that trade? Article 5 of Trade Law recognizes stockpiling as legal. That is correct. But Article 11 of the same law grants the state the right to intervene, because people lost their lives during this period of inaction."Leo paused."Before you is a second bundle of documents. This bundle contains the records of those who died in various districts of the city during the famine period. Their names, the dates, the causes of death. Starvation and diseases brought on by starvation." His voice didn't change, continuing in the same flat register. "Article 3 prohibits seizure without compensation. Article 11 grants the state the right to intervene in the f
Chapter 117: Judgment IV
"The great general prevented a large intervention with a small one. This was not a civilian commercial dispute. It was the ground for a potential internal uprising. Article 12 was written precisely for this situation. Not an overreach of authority, but the correct use of it."Leo finished speaking and sat down again.This time the silence lasted longer.The man on the merchants' side who had been wiping his forehead was now looking at the neighboring city records on the table. The man beside him said something to him, and he turned his head and didn't answer.One of the nobles coughed. Another noble looked at him.The judge looked at his papers. Then at Leo. Then at his papers again.He picked up his pen but didn't write.The judge stared at his papers for a moment, then straightened."Criminal Law Article 19: Injuries caused by state officials in the course of duty are subject to investigation and may require compensation. Soldiers under the great general's command injured more than
Chapter 118: Judgment V
"First district. Fourteen deaths. Cause: starvation and starvation-related illness. Second district. Twenty-two deaths. Same cause. Third district." He paused and looked up from the page. "I can continue reading, but I have no wish to take up the court's time unnecessarily. The total figure is written on the last page of this bundle."The scribes leaned forward almost simultaneously. One of them flipped quickly through the pages until he reached the last one. He stopped there. He looked at the person sitting beside him without saying anything."Article 5 recognizes stockpiling as legal. But Trade Law Article 11 is clear: if the inaction of a citizen endangers the lives of other citizens, the state intervenes. Stockpiling is legal. Allowing people to die while you wait for your goods to rot activates Article 11." Leo paused. "The great general acted within the scope of Article 11. Article 5 does not prevent this. The two articles do not conflict. They address entirely different situati
Chapter 119: final
The judge raised an eyebrow."When did the nobles who brought this case first approach the judge?"Silence."And when did the judge accept this case? According to my research, the party requesting the trial was not the king but a council formed by the nobles."Something passed across the judge's face, very quickly, but it passed.Leo turned to face the hall."The great general distributed the goods to the public. The following day the nobles approached the judge. The judge accepted the case that same day." He paused. "How long does it normally take to review a case file, evaluate the charges, and set a hearing date?"Nobody answered."If this case was accepted within a single day, then either the file was accepted without review, or it had been prepared in advance." Leo looked at the judge. "Either possibility raises serious questions about this court's impartiality."He sat down.The hall went completely silent.The judge didn't speak. The nobles didn't speak. The merchants didn't sp
Chapter 120: Marrige
[You are 13 years old. The trial concluded in the great general's favor. The judge dismissed every charge and the great general was acquitted. But the real impact came not from the outcome of the trial but from the trial itself. Everyone who walked out of that hall was telling the same story: a twelve-year-old child had dismantled the kingdom's most experienced judge charge by charge, document by document, statute by statute, without his voice trembling once. And these words of praise were not coming from commoners. They were coming directly from the nobles. You had been so extraordinary that even your enemies couldn't stop themselves from speaking well of you.][Your story spread first through the streets of the capital, then reached the cities along the caravan routes, then descended to the villages. With each retelling something changed, in some versions your age shrank, in others the number of charges grew, but the essence remained the same. Those who know the law win. Those who d