Chapter 86: The Storm That Judges Evil
"To date, House Hartman had existed in Dragon Eye Domain for over five hundred years. Outsiders only knew of House Hartman's five centuries of glory, but what had we, the people of this territory, received? Had any of you ever thought about it? I knew that some of you here were more or less clearheaded, but even more of you refused to wake up. So let me give you the answer!"
"Under the damn exorbitant taxes imposed by the Golden Rose Kingdom, we watched our loved ones starve to death before our eyes. Under the so-called glory fabricated by Myka Hartman, we became his slaves. Beneath the feet of those lackeys serving Myka Hartman, we lost the dignity of being human, kneeling and crawling at their feet, begging them for a little extra mercy."
"Ever since our ancestors followed House Hartman to Dragon Eye Domain more than five hundred years ago, it had always been this way. In fact, if not for the arrival of the Imperial Army, I feared that our children, and our children's children, would have continued suffering like this because of House Hartman and the kingdom's damned decrees!"
"This was the final outcome we could expect as the people of this territory, as commoners of the kingdom, wasn't it?!"
Bang!
Siegfried slammed his fist heavily onto the solid wooden table before him. He then looked furiously at the crowd below, whose expressions had unconsciously turned solemn and serious, and swept out his right hand as he shouted:
"So tell me, could you accept this outcome?"
The tavern fell silent. But soon, a young man dressed like a laborer abruptly stood up and gathered his courage to answer:
"...No!"
His action seemed to trigger a chain reaction. The hesitation on