SSS-Rank Awakening: My Talent Multiplies Everything novel Chapter 255

Chapter 255: Jus Maleficii.

"I’d like to use my immunity on this case."

Ferris paused on the other end of the call.

"Uhmm, Mr. Kael, I don’t think you understand." Ferris chose his next words carefully. "Your immunity can’t apply to something like this. You didn’t just kill one person. You wiped out an entire Guild. We’re talking about hundreds of people."

As he spoke, Ferris couldn’t help but sigh internally.

He genuinely felt sorry for Kael.

The young man had only just become an S-rank Hunter. His future should have been brighter than most Hunters could ever hope for, yet this incident threatened to put a serious stain on his record before he had even gotten the chance to establish himself.

S-rank Hunters did possess certain privileges. Their status granted them a degree of immunity from some legal complications, allowing them to avoid punishment for actions that ordinary Hunters might have been prosecuted for. However, that immunity had limits.

This wasn’t a petty crime.

It wasn’t even a case involving a few murders.

This was a massacre involving hundreds of Hunters.

Ferris could only imagine the punishment Kael might receive if the Association decided to pursue the matter seriously. Even with his rank and connections, there were some lines that could not simply be ignored.

Kael listened quietly, then sighed.

"Guess I’ll have to play that card."

Ferris frowned.

"What card?"

Kael’s voice remained calm as he answered.

"I plead Jus Maleficii."

Ferris froze for several seconds upon hearing Kael’s words, then his voice finally came through again, noticeably more serious.

"What do you mean?"

"I plead Jus Maleficii," Kael repeated. "I managed to procure quite a lot of evidence regarding the Dark Viper Guild while dealing with them. That should do it, right?"

Ferris didn’t answer.

His mind had already begun turning over the implications.

Jus Maleficii.

A fancy term commonly translated as the Law of Wrongdoers, though the more accurate interpretation was closer to the Vigilante Law.

It was one of the oldest laws established by the Association.

Long before the current era, even before the Apocalypse and the Awakening changed the world, humanity had never been short of criminals. The arrival of the Apocalypse only made the situation worse. With Hunters gaining abilities far beyond ordinary humans, the consequences of criminal activity became increasingly severe.

But alongside the criminals were their victims.

People whose families had been destroyed.

People who had lost everything because of someone else’s actions.

People who carried hatred and anger toward those responsible, yet had no way to obtain the justice they believed they deserved.

Some of those victims were Hunters themselves.

And that created a problem.

A Hunter possessed the strength to hunt down the person who had wronged them, but the law prohibited them from doing so. At the same time, the authorities were often unable to provide the kind of justice those victims wanted.

As the frustration grew, many began turning their anger toward the very organization that was supposed to protect them.

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