My Parents Sued My Corpse

But instead of Clara’s response, the judge was met with Mdm. Langley’s tearful plea. “This poor girl can’t even speak anymore. Please, I beg you all, let her rest in peace. She died such a horrible death. I’m sure there was a reason behind what she did.”

The Spencer family, however, did not listen at all. My parents even spat on my coffin.

“Dead or not, she’s guilty. She knows she’s going to lose, so she’s too scared to speak.”

“Clara, if you get up right now and agree to donate your kidney to Jade, I’ll forget about the past and forgive you.”

Yara got upset when she heard that. Her voice rose sharply as she snapped, “Why should we forgive her? If we do, how is she ever going to make up for all the pain Jade has suffered?”

“Listen, Clara. I will never forgive you, not in this lifetime! Even if you’re really dead, I won’t forgive you!”

Sometimes, I really could not understand them.

What unforgivable crime had I committed to make the Spencer family hate me this much?

Later, I learned that my only crime was that I did not know how to act pitiful.

All the memories shown by the extractor were staged by Jade herself.

The Spencer family saw only one side of the story. They never bothered to find out the truth and pinned all the blame on me without question.

“Clara Spencer, do you wish to make an appeal?”

“Clara Spencer, do you wish to make an appeal?” asked the judge a second time when I did not answer.

When the judge asked me for the third time and received only silence, he announced in a cold, solemn voice, “Based on the evidence extracted from the memories, the Spencer family has won the case. Clara Spencer, you are hereby found guilty of cruelty and inhumanity. You will be punished by having your kidney removed.”

His verdict echoed clearly through the courtroom.

The Spencer family’s faces all lit up with joy.

Above my corpse, a person with a blade appeared.

Just as the blade was about to pierce my abdomen open, my mom’s voice rang out.

“Wait! Judge, this person doesn’t have proper medical knowledge. I’m worried it’ll damage the kidney. May I perform the procedure myself?”

My heart skipped a beat.

Mdm. Langley, sitting beside me at the defendant’s table, slid to the floor in shock. She rushed to my coffin and cried so hard that her vision blurred with tears.

“Please, please don’t do this! This girl is already dead. You’re her mom. At least let her rest in peace with her body untouched!”

But my mom ignored her completely. Instead, she kicked Mdm. Langley away.

“Get out of here, you old hag! Don’t get in the way. This kidney is for Jade.”

Then, suppressing the excitement gleaming in her eyes, my mom took the blade and carefully sliced my abdomen open.

Instantly, foul, darkened blood that had been rotting in my body overnight gushed out.

With a loud clang, the blade slipped from her trembling hands and fell to the floor. Her body began to shake uncontrollably.