"Your Honor, do you think I shouldn't leave so easily?" Keen raised his head to look at Adam, "Then how does Your Honor propose we handle my injury to your people?"
"What I propose..." Adam once more stood slowly from behind the judge's bench, his movements deliberate and steady. As he rose, he saw his mentor—the Supreme Judge donned in four golden stripes—appear at the entrance from the judge's chamber, saying nothing, doing nothing, merely watching him with a quiet resolve, holding a book—The Shalin Security Law.
In that instant, Adam understood, he understood what his mentor had been implying before:
As a Shalin Judge, as part of the Shalin legal system, he must uphold his principles, while individuals like Leonard and Keen would deliberately challenge him to tempt him to break those principles. In doing so, they aim to undermine the foundation of Shalin law, and destabilize the entire Shalin.
