Miss Witch, please don't leave your fragrance everywhere

Chapter 43 She Didn’t Cry

　　When Brand returned home and opened the door, a little blonde girl holding a teddy bear rushed up to him.
　　"Dad, why hasn't Mom come back yet?"
　　"Eva, be good. Daddy will bring mom back. Just wait patiently for a while, okay?"

　　Brand squatted down and hugged Eva tightly, touching her head lovingly. Their second child was healthy, but the eldest son was not so lucky.
　　Brand first prepared a bedroom for Angelica and Abigail to rest, and then invited them to the restaurant. Brand took out the best pizza and cheese in his home and treated Angelica as well as possible. In his opinion, the magician from a foreign land was his last hope to save his wife.
　　Along the way, Abigail still couldn't understand what Brand said.

　　"Why was Aunt Kelly suspected of being the murderer even though she didn't cry? Does the law of the City of Justice have such a provision?"
　　"Yes, Abigail."
　　Angelica seemed to be accustomed to this.

　　"People have the impression that a mother who has just lost her son should be sad. If a mother who has just lost her son appears calm, she will be suspected. Am I right, Mr. Brand?"
　　Brand nodded sadly. Everything was just as Angelica said.
　　"My wife Kelly is a very strong person. She never cries because of the child's illness and always works hard to take care of him. I'm not afraid that you will think I'm useless. The night after I learned the bad news, I escaped to the bar and drank heavily, trying to numb myself with alcohol. Kelly dragged me back drunk. After I sobered up, she advised me that we still have a daughter and we can't fall like this. But Kelly's strength hurt her instead. I was still very sad when the evidence was publicly collected. Kelly has walked out of the shadows, and it has become an opportunity for people to accuse her."

　　Brand was very upset. He even felt that it was his own fault. If he had been stronger, would he not have pushed Kelly into the abyss?
　　"Because Kelly was so calm, the people watching began to doubt whether Kelly was really sad. What nonsense! We are the ones who are most sad about losing our son...!"
　　The reason people accused Kelly of being a suspect was simple.

　　During the public testimony, she did not show any sadness at all, which was inconsistent with people's inherent impression of a mother who had lost her child.
　　She should have covered her mouth and cried, and when she saw her son's belongings, she should have asked them to be taken away first and calmed down.
　　Kelly did not do so. She accepted the public evidence process with a calm attitude.

　　People were whispering, was she really the mother whose son had died in an accident? Did she know that her son would fall to his death?
　　"After collecting evidence, the judge told me that there was no problem, it was just an unfortunate accident. But the next day, the suspicion that Kelly was the murderer swept the entire city. The neighbors looked at us with strange expressions. They said that Kelly had a clear motive because our poor son had been sick in bed for more than ten years. They said that Kelly was tired of taking care of him day after day without expecting an end, so she killed him!"
　　What Brand didn't expect was that the judge had told him that their son's death was an accident and there was no doubt about it. However, after the theory of Kelly's murder spread rapidly, evidence against Kelly emerged like mushrooms after rain, and public opinion completely stood on the opposite side of Brand, and the newspapers in the city were full of criticisms of Kelly.
　　Under pressure from public opinion, the law enforcement officers had to take Kelly away. Brand found it unreasonable. The law enforcement officers comforted him, saying that if there was insufficient evidence, Kelly would be released. The City of Justice would not wrongly accuse any innocent person. Detaining Kelly was a stopgap measure to quell public grievances.

　　As a result, Kelly was found guilty not long after, and now she is just waiting for the final trial to determine her sentence.
　　Brand ran around trying to clear his wife's name. He believed that the untrue public opinion put invisible pressure on the judges. In the city of justice, there was an atmosphere of bringing criminals who almost committed perfect crimes to justice. No one paid attention to Brand. Brand couldn't find out who started the rumor, and all his efforts were in vain.
　　"I have a slightly offensive question. Your son must be suicidal, right?"

　　"Yes, Kelly and I have devoted all our love to our son, but we have not been able to cure him. The muscles in his legs cannot support him to get out of bed and walk, but his hands have some strength to eat by himself. He has asked me more than once if the environment at home would be better without him."
　　Brand and Kelly were either angry or sad. They told their son that he was the proof of their love and they would never give up. But the boy who lay in bed all day didn't think so. He # Nоvеlight # didn't go to school to receive education, but he was not stupid. He knew that his father would take out a large part of his monthly savings to treat his illness. The family could only live a tight life, and the investment in treatment was like a bottomless pit, with no sign of improvement.
　　"He told me that he wanted to move his bed next to the window so that he could enjoy the view when he was alone. My silly child! He had already thought that by doing this he could climb out of the window when no one was noticing."

　　Brand and Kelly's son chose to commit suicide. He climbed out of the window with his hands, which had some mobility, and resolutely chose to understand himself, ending his life. Maybe he was lucky at the last moment. He had a great chance of being saved after falling from the second floor. He hit his head on the ground and broke his neck and died on the spot.
　　This further intensified the suspicion. Brand was out at work and not at home, but Kelly was a housewife. She was at home at the time but did not notice the movement on the second floor. This became an important foothold for Kelly's murder theory: people firmly believed that Kelly had a motive and sufficient time to commit the crime.
　　“It’s basically what I expected.”

　　"Uh... Could it be that Miss Magician has had a similar experience before?"
　　Brand calmed down and suddenly realized that Angelica seemed to be indifferent to Kelly's experience. Angelica looked very young, and it was hard to imagine that she had such rich experience.
　　"It's good to have experience. You don't want to be a half-baked person to save your wife, do you?"

　　"That's right."
　　Angelica certainly has experience, and it's not her first time coming to the City of Justice. The transformation of the Kingdom of Leirber into a city of justice where law is supreme is the work of Angelica's old friend Richard.
　　"Let's go see the Chief Justice together tomorrow. I have a way to see the Chief Justice."