Chapter 59: Trial

 "Your Majesty!" Barristan signaled with his eyes.

Daenerys probably understood what Barristan meant. The Great Lord had been punished, and he wanted her to show his merciful side.

After thinking for a while, she said, "I allow you to take his body away for burial. You can go down now."

"Yes, thank you, Your Majesty!" Hearing that Daenerys agreed to his request, Hizdahr hurriedly stood up, bowed to express his gratitude, and left the meeting room.

Drogon stood on the shoulder of the Dragon Queen and returned to his residence. He silently counted the days and it was time for Tyrion to stand trial. He wondered if he would have been forced to face a duel to decide his life or death if Shae hadn't betrayed him in anger.

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In King's Landing, Tyrion was lifted out of the dungeon with shackles on his hands. The hall was already full of King's Landing nobles. The chief judge, his father Tywin, sat on the Iron Throne. The deputy judges on both sides were Mace, the Duke of Highgarden and Little Rose's father, and Oberyn, Prince of Dorne.

Tywin announced the start of the trial, and the first to take the stage to testify was Meryn, the new Kingsguard, who had always been Joffrey's loyal guard.

"During the time I was guarding King Joffrey, I saw Tyrion beating His Majesty more than once. Once was when King Robert went to Winterfell, and once was in King's Landing. King Joffrey did not blame him because he was his uncle. I didn't expect that Tyrion would murder His Majesty in the end." Malin recounted the fact that Tyrion slapped Joffrey several times with grief and indignation on his face.

"Have you any defense for what Ser Meryn says?" Tywin asked Tyrion from his perch atop the Iron Throne.

"I did that out of love and care for him as an elder. My dear sister failed to educate him well, so I had to educate him on her behalf. I think my dear father, Lord Tywin, must have done something similar, otherwise Joffrey would not have become a good king loved by everyone." Tyrion glanced at Cersei, but Cersei turned her head away and didn't want to look at him.

Knowing that his son was always sharp-tongued, Tywin was too lazy to respond to him.

Then Cersei came on stage and stated that Tyrion had never liked Joffrey and that beating him was definitely not out of love and education, but just to vent his anger.

Tyrion did not respond to his sister Cersei's accusations.

"Lord Tyrion deeply sympathizes with former Hand Eddard, and is very caring towards Lady Sansa." Varys didn't mind adding fuel to the fire when he testified.

Tyrion glared at Varys, wondering why he would say such unfavorable words to him.

Varys just raised an eyebrow at him and said nothing.

"Varys, don't you remember that I was the one who saved King's Landing from Stannis?" Tyrion said unwillingly.

"Of course I remember, but that doesn't stop me from telling the truth."

Tyrion hated telling the truth the most. What these witnesses said was all true, and the evidence they provided was all against him. Joffrey broke his contract and killed Eddard, but he sympathized with him. He opposed Joffrey several times in King's Landing because of his daughter Sansa, and finally married Sansa.

Tyrion knew that they were instigated by his sister Cersei and his father Tywin to testify, and that the two of them were intending to kill him.

While Tyrion was thinking, Grand Maester and Royal Master Pycelle walked to the witness stand tremblingly. The heavy maester's necklace around his neck made it difficult for him to lift his head.

Drogon would have sneered if he had seen this scene. There was no sign of old age on Pycelle's bed.

Pycelle took out a piece of paper from his sleeve with shaking hands and said tremblingly: "After examination, I found that King Joffrey died of poison. It was a very rare poison that strangled him."

Hearing the word Strangler, Prince Oberyn of Dorne leaned forward and frowned.

"It seems that Prince Oberyn knows this poison?" Cersei raised her eyes and asked when she noticed that Oberyn was abnormal.

When they heard Cersei's question, everyone's eyes turned to Oberyn.

"What do you mean? I am indeed good at using poison. Do you think I was the one who poisoned Joffrey?" Oberyn glanced at Cersei, leaning back in his chair and not caring at all.

"Of course I don't suspect you of doing it, I just want to hear your opinion on this poison." Cersei said casually.

"I'm not too sure about the composition of this poison, so let's continue to listen to the Grand Maester's analysis!" Oberyn was obviously unwilling to say more.

After hearing what Oberyn said, everyone turned their attention to Pycelle.

"The Strangler is a mixture of several highly toxic drugs. Afterwards, I checked the medicine storehouse and found that several herbs and liquid medicines had been stolen."

"Ser Meryn found the body of King Joffrey's jester Dontos in a remote area of ​​the docks, and found this on his body." As he spoke, Pycelle took out the crystal necklace that Sansa once wore.

"This was the necklace that Tyrion's wife Sansa wore, and after King Joffrey's death, someone discovered that Dontos had taken Sansa away disguised as a servant."

"I found poison containing the ingredients of the strangler in the broken necklace." Pycelle announced the results of the investigation, which shocked everyone.

There was a cry of surprise in the judgment hall, and everyone was whispering about Sansa, who was almost stripped of all her clothes by Joffrey in public in the hall. Unexpectedly, it was she who poisoned Joffrey in the end.

Tyrion stared blankly at the light blue necklace in Pycelle's hand. When he first saw the necklace, he asked Sansa who gave her the necklace.

She did not hide the fact that Dontos gave her the precious necklace left by his ancestors in return for saving her life, and asked her to wear it with her. Tyrion did not expect that the poison was hidden in the necklace.

Although he still didn't believe that Sansa was the mastermind behind poisoning Joffrey, and that she was just an insider or was being used, it now confirmed that he, her husband, was an accomplice.

"You thought that because you are a Lannister your father would not kill you, so you dared to stay. But my son's death could not be in vain. He was the King of the Seven Kingdoms. You murdered not only your nephew, but also the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms. This is a capital crime, and no one can excuse you." After Cersei finished speaking, she glanced at her father Tywin, and then looked at Tyrion with resentment.

Tywin looked at his daughter, the queen mother, meaningfully but said nothing.

Jaime became a little anxious when he heard what his sister Cersei said. Before the trial, he saw that he could not persuade Cersei to give up the death sentence for Tyrion, so he turned to his father Tywin for help.

Tywin relented towards Tyrion, but the prerequisite was that Jaime must agree to take off the white robes of the Kingsguard, inherit the title of Duke of Casterly Rock, and marry the daughter of a great noble to continue the Lannister family line.

Tywin promised him to let the little devil go, and after he admitted to the crime of murdering Joffrey and asked for forgiveness, Tywin announced that Tyrion would be exiled to the Wall to be a night watchman, so that he could survive.

When Jaime told Tyrion about the deal, Tyrion remained noncommittal. He didn't believe his father would keep his promise and let him go, especially since he had a sister, Cersei, who hated him to the core.

She hated his birth because it killed her mother, and she hated him for finding ways to tease her since she was a child and for adding ingredients to her bowl of soup.

She hated him for being against her since childhood, beating her son, and murdering him.