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A couple of weeks later...

Things had started to calm down a bit... but at the cost of numerous public executions. In just two weeks, more than a hundred people related to those conundrum fools were executed, despite the protests from the citizens. 

Jonathan's answer to the protests was similar to that of a dictator and not a monarch. The protesters were beaten up like mad dogs till they 'willing' went into 'correction centres', where they were tortured endlessly by the royal guards till then either died or swore allegiance to Jonathan's tyrannical rule.

Even the nobles who dared stood up against Jonathan were silenced either through wealth or... mysterious accidents in which their family members ended up dead or paralysed. The public's view of the king drastically changed, yet none of them dared to open their mouths anymore.