Ichigo: Hold on. Why are you my lawyer? I don't even know you.
Stolas: A favour for Lucifer, darling. I'm Charlie's Hell-father, you see. And Lucifer cannot defend you him
Ichigo: wait, Lucifer’s prosecuting me?
Lucifer: ...Sorry, kid. I really am.
Lucifer: If it were up to me, I’d defend you. but as the King of Hell and one of Seven Deadly Sins…
Lucifer: I am bound by duty to pass judgement, and prosecute the offender. nothing personal.
Ichigo: …I can’t hold that against you, but thanks anyway.
Lucifer: Stolas is a excellent choice to defend you. He was self-taught in law as it’s part of his teachings as one of the Ars Goetia.
Ichigo: So my fate is literally in the hands of a demon… brilliant.
Stolas: I’ll bill you later once we win this case… if we win this case.
Ichigo: If?
Stolas: I’m not going to lie to you, but your chances of getting out free are slim to none.
Ichigo: Perfect, just perfect. as if things can’t get any worse!
Satan: This court is now in session. The accused, Ichigo Kurosaki, stands charged with the assassination of the Soul King.
Satan: And the Destruction of the Gates of Hell. are the defense and the prosecution ready?
Stolas: I am, your honour.
Lucifer: Yeah, I’m ready
Satan: Then let’s get this over with. I want this done by lunch time.
Stolas: The defence calls its first witness. Bring him in.
Ichigo: Is that Haschwalth? What happened to him?
Stolas: I think you know, Ichigo. He and the rest of the Wandenreich were sent to Jikoku after the war, and you saw the results firsthand.
Ichigo: I see, that is a fate I wouldn’t want on my worst enemies.
Stolas: Sadly, fate is seldom kind. and neither yours if you’re sent to Tartarus.
Ichigo: is it bad as it sounds?
Stolas: You’ll be wishing for oblivion
Stolas: Tartarus is the first and ancient installation of Hell, where the worse of the Sinners are sent to.
Stolas: We call them Doombringers, those whose sin are the near and attempted end of the mortal world.
Stolas: Endless torture, endless torment, endless woe. you’ll be begging for death.
Satan: State your name and former occupation, Sinner
Jugram Haschwalth: Jugram Haschwalth, Grandmaster of the Sternritter and Imperial Advisor of Emperor Yhwach
Satan: and where you there when the defendant committed the crime?
Jugram Haschwalth: I was
Satan: then start the testimony, and he quick about it!
Lucifer: Objection! you need to be patient, your honour, don’t forget where we had to dig him out from.
Satan: Fine! Just, get on with it.
Jugram Haschwalth: I was there when His Majesty drove his blade into the Soul King. I watched the light leave its body.
Jugram Haschwalth: The invasion went smoothly, he stole the Bankai from the soul reapers, breached the Seireitei walls. Established dominion on the Soul Society.
Jugram Haschwalth: And infiltrated the Soul Palace where we confronted the Royal Guards, who stood no change against my Emperor.
Jugram Haschwalth: Kurosaki was persistent, even after his previous defeat, he insists to stop my Emperor.
Jugram Haschwalth: But my Emperor anticipated this and led Kurosaki on, so he can do much damage on the Soul King so my Emperor can take his power.
Jugram Haschwalth: My Vandenreich was victorious, my Emperor merged the Soul Society and our realm together, and turned the Soul Palace into the Wahrwelt.
Jugram Haschwalth: All wouldn’t be possible without Ichigo Kurosaki’s help
Beelzebub: Oh damn. So the kid actually did it.
Asmodeus: Such a foolish boy, upsetting the balance and natural order. very naughty
Mammon: Kid’s screwed, no doubt about that.
Ichigo: I’m doomed, I know it. I’m bloody doomed.
Zangetsu: Should’ve fought back, King.
Ichigo: Fight the entirety of Hell? Like that’ll go well the last time.
Satan: Defense, you may cross-examine the witness.
Stolas: Now then, Mister Haschwalth. Let us discuss what truly happened in that palace.
Stolas: You say Ichigo swung at Yhwach. and had no intention of harming the Soul King. Is that correct?
Jugram Haschwalth: That is correct
Stolas: So Ichigo was a victim of circumstance, which your emperor exploited.
Jugram Haschwalth: Yes
Stolas: And how does he know Ichigo’s intentions in stopping him?
Jugram Haschwalth: the emperor is the son of the Soul King, he inherited some of his abilities, including foresight.
Stolas: then it’s preordained, which your emperor saw to manipulate, so it may happen.
Lucifer: Objection! with all due respect, Stolas, but what is your point in this?
Lucifer: it doesn’t matter that Ichigo was tricked into doing the crime, the fact is, he did it.
Lucifer: unintentional or not, the fact is clear that he killed the Soul King, resulted in a spiritual imbalance of the realms.
Satan: Objection sustained, get to the point, Stolas
Stolas: the point is, no matter if Ichigo is responsible or not, the events would’ve been the same.
Stolas: the Quincy Emperor Yhwach would’ve killed the Soul King regardless, making Ichigo taking the blame redundant.
Stolas: So I ask you this, did you know that Ichigo will take full blame of this?
Stolas: Knowing exactly well that the defendant will be prosecuted and probably be condemned to eternal damnation into Tatarus?
Jugram Haschwalth: …yes
Jugram Haschwalth: it was my Emperor’s final act for revenge for the preordained demise by Kurosaki’s blade which he envisioned
Stolas: the defense rests.
