Hunter x Hunter: Tonight, Germain joins the hunt

Chapter 472: Palliston will cause the trial to fall into an endless cycle of torture
Tuk Tuk——

The sound of the gavel striking rhythmically on its base echoed throughout the courtroom, and the noisy crowd quickly quieted down.

No one wants to be charged with contempt of court, and no one wants to challenge the authority of the judge.

Someone had done this before, and was eventually dealt with ruthlessly and impartially by "the Ugly Ox" Micaiah Storm.

"Silence." Michaiustom, sitting behind the long table, announced, "The court is in session."

German sat in the audience, calmly observing and listening to everything around him, appearing quite low-key.

Mizar Ishtom, still wearing the black and white cow-striped costume, had a person sitting on each side.

One is Shutaina, the Commissioner of the International Ferry Permit Office, and the other is Oit, the eighth princess of the Kakin Empire.

They soon noticed Germann sitting in the gallery and nodded to him with a smile, and Germann nodded in return.

At the Hunter Association's grand celebration banquet last night, Xiutaina and Princess Oit were the first to come over to thank their savior.

After a night of chaos, they thanked Germain. When they wanted to talk to Germain further, Netero told them that he had left the coastal fortress to carry out a secret mission.

Xiutaina and Princess Oit were very disappointed and puzzled at the time. They didn't know what the secret mission of Germain and his group could be, and why they had to set off so soon, without even a chance to communicate.

After seeing the captives they brought back, the two suddenly realized that they were going to capture members of Bi Yangde's exploration team.

Shortly after Michel Storm opened the court, Pariston, handcuffed, was the first to be escorted behind the iron bars of the dock.

As he passed by Germann, Pariston winked at him with a relaxed expression.

Pariston was not afraid of interrogation, death penalty and imprisonment, nor was he afraid of moral condemnation. He didn't care what the final outcome of the trial would be.

The only regret in his heart was that he had been plotting and scheming for so many years, but in the end he was captured and brought back in less than a month in the Dark Continent without any results.

In other words, all his previous plans and ideas were in vain and went down the drain.

However, this does not mean that Pariston will just surrender in the courtroom.

He will do everything he can to make things difficult, to quibble, to lie, to elicit sympathy from the jury members.

Pariston's purpose was not to escape guilt, but to make the trial more difficult and make Micaiah Storm and others suffer.

In order to achieve this effect, he would even deliberately put himself in an unfavorable situation and then survive from the brink of death.

Micah Istrom knew the nature of Palliston very well, and he also knew how much trouble Palliston would bring next.

As a judge, he will do his best to control the situation and prevent the pace from falling completely into the hands of this cunning and sophistry man.

Less than a quarter of an hour into the trial, German stood up from the gallery and left quietly, without listening to the verbal battle in the courtroom.

The trial would take a long time, and Germain had no interest in listening to it.

Besides, President Netero, Michai Storm and others had already informed Germain of the approximate possible trial results.

The New World is currently short of manpower, and people like Pariston, Xiyou, and Muhlu are more likely to be fully utilized by the Hunter Association rather than being sentenced to death.

This is not without precedent.

This is roughly the case with Leiza in Greed Island and the prisoner examiner in Trap Tower.

It's just that Leiza regards guarding the Greed Island as his lifelong career, while the prisoner examiner of the Trap Tower aims to reduce the sentence and regain freedom as much as possible.

Pariston, Xiyou, Muhlu and others, whether they like it or not, have to serve the two major strongholds of the Coast Fortress and the BW1 wreckage.

When German walked out of the solemn courtroom, he saw Jin standing against the wall in the corridor outside.

"Hi." Jin raised his hand towards German as a greeting.

His back left the wall and he walked towards Germain. "Aren't you going to see the trial of your former colleague?" Germain pointed his thumb at the door of the courtroom behind him.

"Forget it. This kind of trial is extremely boring. That guy Palliston will definitely prolong the entire cycle and make everyone involved feel uncomfortable."

Jin had roughly predicted everything that would happen.

"Indeed." German nodded. He had only listened for a while and didn't want to listen anymore.

Pariston was extremely shameless and insincere, but everyone had to listen to his lies.

Jin scratched his spiky head tied up with a headband:
"I don't want to be part of Pallister's game... If I was in the gallery, he would probably drag me into it without hesitation."

"How?" asked Germain.

"Blatant lies," King replied.

"He would say things that we all knew were false but we were forced to verify for procedural reasons."

"For example, he would say that I was also an undercover agent and informant hidden in the Hunter Association by Yang De, so I spared no effort to investigate the affairs of the Dark Continent."

Germain thought for a moment and said, "Indeed, this is Palliston's style. But even if you are not here, he can still involve you, right?"

"Yes, it's not just me. President Netero, the twelve members, professional hunters, and assistant hunters... He will try to pull as many people into this vortex as possible to play with them."

"But, at least now, I don't want to see him."

The golden eye rolled around, and he looked German up and down again, and said, "But I don't think he would bother to come to you."

"Why?" German looked at Jin, "I can be suspicious too, right?"

Jin pointed at German's chest and said, "You can read Palliston's thoughts. In this way, all his calculations in his heart become a clown in front of you. He is just having fun, not stupid."

German usually doesn't read other people's minds out of respect.

However, facing Pariston, he would definitely not have any concerns in this regard, and would not even have any resistance at all.

"You are waiting for me here on purpose, right?" Germain asked, "What do you want from me?"

Jin pointed down the aisle and then walked forward.

Germain followed with understanding.

The two soon came to a secluded corner.

"During the four months since you left the New World, Piyou and I have not been idle. We have conducted a long investigation into the temple of the God of Grudges."

"Anything discovered?"

"Indeed, there are many. Although the ruins were hastily built overnight, they still contain quite a lot of details about the 'God of Vengeance'."

Jin further explained: "The murals, the patterns on the stone pillars, the structures of the palaces and the caves all testify to His former status."

"Besides that, you probably also noticed those cubic stone pillars outside the ruins, right?"

"Yes, it's just as you thought. The cubic stone pillars of the ancient maze are made of the same material and style as this one. This proves that the ancient maze is indeed one of the masterpieces of the God of Gu."

Jin concluded: "One of the purposes of the existence of relics is to prove the real history that once existed."

"The ancient labyrinth and the temple corroborate each other, and we can be sure of the authenticity, reliability, and accuracy of what my ancestor, Dong Fulishi, said."

"The future of the world, the end of time, is in danger. We really have to do something. Germain, you are right to insist."

(End of this chapter)