What the hell was this mess, why are the incompetent court mages even given a say here? This was a coup headed by the knights and backed by the holly nation and a neighboring nation. They would be the ones passing trial on him. The head of the holly nation also received a oracle telling her of the betrayal to the goddess. They have the assassins who was supposed to kill him. The testimony of a pope and a sage of the hero party should not be getting mocked, hell the court mages openly mocking and calling the sage incompetent is a insult to the goddess who backed them and the hero party that saved the world and could warrant them being executed on its own. The other nations should be also focusing on him posing his son as the hero. Yet they are hosting a circus and letting him say whatever he wants he just lost a coup, his people hate him. He wouldn't be given a friendly trail like this.