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Chapter 18 Water Clock (Part 2)

In court, as soon as Calabis, with dark hair and dark eyes appeared, Cicero trembled with fear. The other party looked at him with a provocative look. They had fought against each other before, but Cicero failed.

Fortunately, Calabis appeared as a witness at this time, and Catulus, the judge who presided over the trial, spoke out: "Little Curio said that on the night of this incident, you and Claudi were together, ninety kilometers away from the city of Rome."

"Yes, Claudi and I have a good relationship. We were near the Ostia Harbour that night, and my servants and managers could testify." Karabis said in a stern manner.

"Did Claudi have time to return to Rome that night? For example, you can put on a light carriage and arrive at Rome in the middle of the night. I remember that the case happened at this moment." Catulus looked at the file and frowned. He hated a wandering young man or middle-aged man like Claudi and Caesar. His purpose was to punish one or the other.

Carabis said, it was impossible. Because we attended a grand banquet in Port Ostia, sixteen high-end prostitutes attended, because I heard that Claudi was about to run for the civil guards, who wouldn't want to please him? That night, Lord Claudi and four or five prostitutes took turns... Well, we were all present, including me, and all three knights can testify. Lord Claudi was indeed in Ostia at that time. He didn't even have time to go to the toilet and was very busy.

In the boo, Claudi, who was in the central defendant's seat, smiled and waved to the men and women listening, like the brightest star.

But Catulus didn't believe in the new alien knight and Curio's style at all. He turned his eyes to Cicero. The other party seemed to have great confidence and made a gesture to summon witnesses.

The first one to come in was Cicero's wife Renchat. She said in a shocking voice: "Hisser Bablius Claudi could not have been in Ostia that night. It was very simple. On the day of Goddess of Happiness, almost the whole evening, when my husband left home to avoid suspicion, my maid and I arranged in the house to prepare to entertain guests, he sat on the wall of the courtyard. He kept looking at me and seducing me."

"I did seduce her before, but I didn't that day!" Claudi shouted unjustly, ignoring the eyes of Curio and Carabis, but Renchat quickly showed evidence: a white rabbit with an exquisite nameplate of Claudi's name, not only Claudi's ring seal, but also several lines of stingy love poems on it.

In the uproar, Karabis spread his hands helplessly. He saw again that Pizhulukuras, who was in the auditorium, smiled, as happy as seeing Claudi drowning in the sea.

The witness who came on the stage was Caesar's mother, Oteria, who insisted that the intruder she saw that night was Claudi. "Dear lady, no one can prove that guy is me, and I am angry at the humiliation you have suffered in your family." Claudi was still dead, but when the court entourage unbuttoned the poor Claudi's short robes as Oteria pointed out, the red marks on his chest seemed to follow his pink and sexy curly tits, like two new moons, which made the people in the court give waves of exclamations.

"Young man, do you think a woman's breasts are so easy to wear?" said Caesar's mother contemptuously.

Then the entourage uncovered Claudi's short hair, and there were traces of forced wearing of jewelry on his earlobes.

At this time, Lukuras smiled so hard that he could hardly fit his mouth, while the "double-faced character" Karabis winked at Curio.

The understanding Curio hurriedly summoned his second witness, the stout Marco Anthony. When the judge Catulus asked the Night Dance King with disgust, he asked him what evidence he had to provide, Anthony's speech was even more earth-shaking: "The witnesses in the past were lying. In fact, Claudi had indeed put on a woman's breast before, and had worn an enamel or gold earrings and necklaces, and appeared in front of me."

"What the hell do you want to say is inconsistent." Catulus said even more disgusted. He was so nauseated that he was about to vomit.

"Dear judiciary, what I want to say is that Claudi did this to please me. I like him in women's clothes, so--I think Ms. Oteria may have misunderstood." After Anthony said that, the whole court was about to explode, but the guy was still secretly winking with Curio with each other with compassion.

Catulus was so angry that his face turned pale. He felt that the trial had almost become a farce of a romantic scandal. Over there, Tuna Lukulas covered his face and mouth with his robe so that others would not see him laughing and almost twitching.

At the critical moment, Cicero raised his hand again, his eyes approaching Calabis. He asked his entourage to take Claudi in the defendant's seat, as well as related people, including Calabis, into the small rooms on both sides of the colonnade of the court. Then he asked to see another witness, several top prostitutes in the Port of Ostia - this would take some time, and Catulus announced that he could temporarily wait for the witness to arrive.

It was almost evening when several prostitutes from Ostia entered the court without shame, and shook their eyes at the jury and the jury team and posed, "Does the testimony that Karabis said match the facts?"

The prostitutes nodded and said it was of course true. In fact, each of them had received five hundred dinars in perjury. Cicero smiled and said, "Chief Legal Officer, you and I should be glad that you and I have always been hiding everywhere because of fear of sin. Therefore, the youngest daughter of old Curio, Karabis with a hole in the left ear, and Anthony, whose stepfather had gone on to the gallows, had not had time to implement their shameful plan thoroughly. I had the sword to expose the lies, that is—" He waved his hand, and several young men in long robes stood in the middle of the court.

Over there, Karabis and his party, who were blocked by their entourage in the small room, stood or sat. After hearing Cicero's clear voice, Karabis said dejectedly, we can't win this lawsuit!

Claudi was also a little panicked. He hurriedly asked his adoptive father what to do. Karabis laughed again and said that we don’t have to let Cicero fall at a disadvantage in the lawsuit. We cannot win the lawsuit, but the result may still be our victory. Everyone was confused by Karabis’s words and thought it was just his arrogant words, so they sighed.
Chapter completed!
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