The Kingsguard Knights in golden cloaks maintained order, and under the storm banner, the deer and dragon, the Wolf Pack and freed slaves all cheered and jumped.
"I used to have a wife, didn't I?" The dwarf Tyrion stood rooted, crying and laughing, a disgrace a man should take to his grave.
Actually, Tyrion Lannister himself was a bigmouth; he had at least told Bronn and Varys about Tysha, and that whore Shae also knew some rumors. In this situation, Tyrion felt that his drunken memories might also leak information, and there was a large group of soldiers present when Tysha was humiliated.
Bronn froze in place; he had already confessed everything, but Gendry's truth was even more bloody: "Poor dwarf."
The Lords were confused, but hearing about Tyrion's Tysha, the prostitute, the little dwarf's wife, they roughly had an idea.
"Could such a thing really happen?" Duke Mace Tyrell scratched his ears and cheeks. "Tywin sent people to deal with his son's village girl 'wife'? Even if she was a farmer's daughter?"
Bronze Yohn clapped his large hands together. Tywin had even sought a marriage alliance with him for The Imp. Was it for this reason?
"He's capable of such a thing. Tywin's arrogance and stubbornness are known throughout the land," said Ser Selwyn Tarth, the Good Man. "Look at his subordinates, The Mountain and Amory. Look at his massacres in King's Landing and the Riverlands. Tywin never treats commoners as people."
"Tyrant!"
"The ruthless lion!"
"Lying Tywin." The Lords listened intently, and murmurs of discussion rose.
"Silence!" Duke Stannis Baratheon shouted, and all sounds ceased.
"She was never a prostitute?" Tyrion trembled, asking.
"Never. Tysha... Tysha was just Tysha, a farmer's daughter, whom you met on the road." Gendry looked at the curled-up dwarf, whose most fragile part of his heart was shattered. Sometimes not knowing the truth is a kind of luck. Before winter, let him shatter his illusions about Casterly Rock.
Tyrion heard a faint gasp, a "hissing" sound that pulled at the scar on his face. Tyrion dared not recall Tysha. Suddenly, he had forgotten her appearance. A little girl, she was just a little girl, no older than Sansa. "My wife," he hissed, "she married me."
"Jaime? My good brother?"
"He lied to you," Gendry said. "Tywin said it, and he repeated it."
Tyrion was stunned. "I hate them. No, no, Jaime also lied to me. He was still a Child, it was my father Tywin's command, he never wanted us to be out of his control."
Gendry looked at the poor man, "Your thoughts are correct. Tywin always looked down on commoners, believing that the girl was only after your money. She was a peasant, and you were a Lannister of Casterly Rock. If not for gold, she would never have come to you, so it was as good as being a prostitute, and so Jaime believed he wasn't lying, not truly lying, and... and Tywin thought you needed to be taught a good lesson. From then on, you would learn your lesson and be grateful to your brother."
"Grateful?" Tyrion could barely speak. "He gave her to the guards, an entire camp full of guards, and made me... watch the whole thing." Ah, not just watch, in the end I also... my wife... Perhaps the Kingslayer didn't realize Tywin was so ruthless, but these words were meaningless.
All the Lords, Knights, and noblemen now shifted from mere spectators to feeling a sense of pity. Deception, violence, and the public humiliation of a loved one—if one were to be mentally tormented in such a way, a normal person would surely personally strangle Tywin.
"Tyrion," Lord Yohn Royce, the master of laws, suddenly spoke. "This matter is typical of your father's style. In fact, he sought many marriage alliances for you among the Lords, including with me."
Everyone looked at Bronze Yohn again; he was also an insider.
"Then I should thank him?" Tyrion's eyes were red as he looked at Bronze Yohn.
"There's no need for that. You were merely a tool for him. Previously, Tywin planned for Jaime to marry Lysa Tully, but Aerys took Jaime into the Kingsguard before I could. Tywin proposed to Lord Hoster to use you as a substitute, but his response was that their Tully daughter wanted a whole man, not a Half-man. Tywin also proposed for you to Dorne, but it was taken as an insult. After that, Lord Tywin approached me, and I also refused him," Yohn said.
Tyene was also listening intently; they had also heard rumors of this.
"Lord Tywin also sought alliances in The Reach," Lord Mace interjected. "Lord Leyton Hightower, my old father-in-law."
"And Florent," Stannis raised his eyebrows. That was the woman Robert had defiled on his wedding bed, Edric's mother, but his father would rather give her to a knight of House Estermont under his command than to a dwarf.
"This is true." The Lords would not fabricate from all sides, so the truth was undeniable. Tyrion's heart slowly sank to the bottom. He understood his father's logic: treating children as tools for marriage alliances. He knew Tywin wanted to find a daughter of a Lord for him, and so he would unscrupulously crush his love and teach him a lesson.
The Lords commented, Tywin's parenting was truly terrible, and he himself was even worse. The children were all led astray.
"Jaime? And my dear older sister and my 'kind' old dad, I will get my revenge on them one day, I swear to the heavens! A Lannister always pays his debts. Perhaps, perhaps, I won't have the chance, but the gods' revenge is taking effect, the first step being that little Bastard Joffrey," Tyrion roared, staggering.
"If someone can take a message to Jaime for me, I'd be eternally grateful. His lover is a whore, and his son is a little Bastard," Tyrion pleaded.
"We will, but now it's about your own matter. Your treason as the usurper's Hand of the King." Bronze Yohn looked at Tyrion. Tywin was truly too arrogant, and he had a few difficult children to raise.
"whore! Bastard!"
"Gods above!"
"Kingslayer! Liar!" The Lords and Knights cried out together. This scandal was truly explosive, and there were also The Imp's tragic past events. Poor man.
"Now you can speak, can't you?" Stannis asked.
"I'll speak. I'll tell everything I know. Cersei is a whore. When the eunuch took her away, we had no idea. She hates me, believing that Joffrey was killed by the mob because of my incompetence," Tyrion roared. "Cersei is a rotten whore who lies without batting an eye. As far as I know, she slept with Lancel, Osney Kettleblack, and perhaps even wanted to sleep with Shavepate!"
"That's right, a plump noblewoman came to see Queen Regent Cersei, and then the Queen Regent hurried off and disappeared, in Maegors Holdfast," Countess Dadda came forward and said.
"It's Varys, that traitor," Stannis said.
"You knew the truth about Cersei's misrule and Joffrey's usurpation, yet you kept helping them maintain order. You are also an accomplice to treason," Gendry said.
"I am." Tyrion had no strength left. The whole world was in chaos; let them deal with it.
"Your plan to burn the Blackwater Rush with wildfire was good; it severely wounded the slave masters's son from Volantis."
"Thank you for the compliment. Now I wish to send my family into the fire."
"Beheading or the Wall?" Stannis asked.
"Do I have a choice?" Tyrion shook his head. "Let me go to the Wall. Let me see their retribution."
After apologizing, Tyrion returned to the crowd, his anger reminding him of his family. "Tywin, Jaime, Cersei, you are my kin, and so I refused to harm you. But you have gone so far, to a point where I can no longer tolerate it. I still don't know what to do now, but time will give me the answer. One day, when you think yourselves safe and happy, joy will turn to ashes in your mouths, and then, you will understand that the debt has been repaid."
"Next," Duke Stannis said. "Ser Balon Swann."
Balon stepped forward, "I had the honor of fighting alongside Tyrion on the bridge of a ship during the Battle of the Blackwater. Though he is not tall, he is very brave and admirable. However, today Tyrion has confessed his treason, and I am also willing to apologize for my foolishness and return to the embrace of the true King."
"What about the other Kingsguards?"
"The Hound ran off and can't be found, Boros is also gone. Perhaps they were sent to escort Cersei. Meryn died in the riot, one was drowned, and another had also died in a riot earlier. Oh, and there are the Kettleblack brothers, Mercenaries whom the Queen Regent relied on," Balon said. "Actually, my skill is better than Boros', but I am a knight of the Stormlands, and that day I was also outside commanding the assault troops, so I don't know how the false Queen Regent Cersei escaped."
"How did The Hound disappear?"
"The Hound feared fire and refused to fight anymore. Tyrion led the charge at the King's Gate, and The Hound probably fled under the cover of night, and he didn't return to escort Cersei."
"Very well." Stannis waved his hand. Balon passed through to another corner. He was a scion of the Swann Family, a great noble house of the Stormlands, and he was merely a Kingsguard, without so many messy affairs.
"I admit it. Kill me or flay me, whatever you wish, but can you get me a Maester?" Lancel Lannister then said, in pain. "It was I who followed Cersei's orders and added strong alcohol to the drinks, making King Robert drunk on the hunting day, which led to him being gored to death by a boar. It was also I who deliberately got Lord Eddard drunk the night before. As for my affair with Cersei, I admit I slept with that whore after the King died. Tyrion is right, she's a heartless whore. She told us to hold the line, but then she slipped away herself, and even called Joffrey away from the battlefield."
The commotion in the hall rose and fell; this information coming from an Attendant's mouth was even more explosive.
"Death sentence or the Wall!" Yohn asked him.
"I..." Lancel said in a low voice, still running a high fever. "My arm seems to have left me too; I feel like I'm ruined. Can I still go to the Wall like this?"
"Stay with me, cousin," Tyrion pleaded.
"Alright. Take men to treat Lancel's wounds. Don't let this poor wretch burn to death in the Black Cells; make the place a bit cleaner."
Most of the captive lords of the westerlands also dared not speak much, bowing their heads and kneeling to beg for mercy.
"Next!"
The Pyromancer of the Alchemists' Guild looked troubled, as did the surviving captains and officers of the royal warships. They also volunteered to serve the new King.
But the former Pyromancer Hallyn, the one most skilled in wildfire, had also disappeared.
"It seems these escapees brought their subordinates quite completely. Although Boros is incompetent, at least he won't be in as awkward a position as Balon," Gendry thought.
"Given the Lannister's notorious treason, Duke Tywin Lannister and his honor as warden of the west are stripped, as are his power over Casterly Rock and all feudal taxes. The honors and titles of his son Jaime Lannister, his daughter Cersei Lannister, and his brother Kevan Lannister are also stripped. If the lords of the westerlands stubbornly resist, they shall also be dealt with as traitors, stripped of their lands, castles, and all feudal taxes. If they deeply repent, then the King's grace is vast, and their family estates may yet be preserved." Lord Yohn Royce, the master of laws, first announced the initial handling. "Varys, the master of whisperers, sowed discord, aided the Lannister's treason, and committed high treason. His title is stripped, and he shall be put to death."
Then came the second decree: "Balon Greyjoy, who has rebelled multiple times in earlier years and defied royal decrees. Granted clemency by The late King Robert and leniency by Eddard, the Warden of the North, he did not repent of such grace, but instead turned kindness into enmity, plundering the North and harming the King's subjects. To punish Balon's great treason, his power over Pyke and all feudal taxes are stripped, and the powers of his brothers and children are all stripped. The power of the Lords of the Iron Islands is also entirely stripped. If the Ironborn captains collude with Balon and do not repent, on the day the city falls, they shall all be put to death."
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