They're not barely acknowledged, they're not acknowledged at all.
Even the lowest of the nobles get stipend that's as much as the MC get from his business, by doing nothing.
I'm having a hard time keeping track of the factions.
So the Liberals are the Revolutionaries?
And then there's the I guess Royalist (which is also called Liberals somehow), Nobility, and Conservative (I guess this one wants to preserve the status quo?) faction in government? And the new Mitsuba...
Right, he's not forced, he could just leave Harold to be executed.
I mean it's not a free get out of jail card. It's supposed to be the replacement of death penalty; they should have the same severity in the eyes of the kingdom.
The next would-be traitor would have no fear doing it if a random...
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He's forced to run a deadly trial if he wanted to save a national traitor to be a test subject. If it was safe then the Kingdom would just say to test on just any volunteers.
If we're going by the WN then the plot point actually has been foreshadowed in earlier chapter,
This manga already departed far from the WN, though, so who knows.