Raphael cautiously got up from his chair and waved his hand. "Your highness, please calm down first. This is merely..."
That's right. This proceeding was merely a 'formality', nothing more. These fine folks didn't even have the required authority to punish me in the first place.
Sure, I might be guilty of causing chaos in the imperial palace, but that directly led to the Imperial Family successfully driving out the Vampires from the Empire to some degree – these were the creatures that proved to be a thorn on their side for the past several hundreds of years or so.
On top of that, let's not forget my achievement of undoing the curse inflicted upon the First Imperial Prince and restoring him back to full health, too.
In all honesty, even I knew that the plan here was to have my achievements acknowledged and hand out suitable rewards as soon as this sham trial came to an end.