While the world abused Sage Kole for wasting a golden opportunity, she found herself being entirely unperturbed.
One of the reasons that she isolated herself in reclusive solitude bar her servants was precisely because she detested the tendency of the world to pressure her away from discharging her duties.
As a high Martial Judge, she was accustomed to dealing with particularly powerful Master criminals. Such powerful Martial Artists always had powerful parties invested in the outcomes of the trials.
She would always find her balance stuffed with credited transfers from multiple parties before each trial.
They were nothing more than blatant bribes.
However in the case of Rui, even she had been surprised when she had received hundreds of billions of gold coins in total from countless parties across the entirety of the Panama Continent.