"Chuan Wenwu!"
Aultcray shouted furiously. He no longer called Chuan Wenwu the Shield Hero, addressing him by name instead.
"Even now, you still mean to deny your atrocities and pretend you're innocent! You even tried to turn the heroes against the Kingdom and threaten your king! The shield truly is evil by nature!"
Watching the king's wild, flailing "performance," Chuan Wenwu found him nothing but grating. This country's king had probably lost his mind.
"Fooling everyone else is one thing, but don't fool yourself too. You're using your status as king to slap whatever charges you please on a hero summoned here to save the world. You and I both know whether they're true. If you insist on playing dumb when you know perfectly well, then all I can do is compliment you on being a very competent king."
Chuan Wenwu casually took two steps forward, and the remaining guards immediately gathered in front of him as though facing a mortal enemy, blocking him from approaching and attacking the king.
"Are you saying your king has slandered you?!"
Aultcray glared at Chuan Wenwu, then swept a resentful gaze over the three heroes standing beside him. They should have been defending the honor of the Kingdom of Melromarc, not joining this Shield Demon in swaggering before him!
Chuan Wenwu scoffed. "Ha! If it isn't slander, are you telling me it's the truth?"
Heaven only knew how these geniuses had dreamed up such an absurd charge against him. Even accusing him of stealing a child's lollipop would have been more believable!
Colluding with magic beasts and slaughtering the people of Melromarc...
Never mind whether those magic beasts were intelligent enough to collude with anyone-would an upstanding young man like him murder innocent civilians? All this time in this world, he had only