The duchess is talking to the king (or emperor...? meh, whatever). The king doesn't understand why is she adopting Leslie so he called her to talk about it. The king seems to be in the duchess side, and he doesn't want to open the trial because he doesn't want Salvatore's reputation to be bad. But then the duchess tells him about how the entire Sperado was abusing Leslie both mentally and physically, and the king finally agrees to open the trial. ( ´ ▽ ` )

I used google translate for this so these might not be entirely accurate. ^_^;

First: The Queen plans to use Speardo to gain Leslie. She honestly doesn't really care about him and plans to dump him once he is useless to her, but as long as he gets Leslie back she can convince him to hand Leslie over to her so she can directly take control of her. From what little I could tell it seems like she has a need of Leslie's darkness magic for her own schemes, possibly revenge, but I'm not 10% sure on that one.

Second: The rest of Speardo family is literally falling apart at the seams. That idiot father hasn't really noticed or seem to care (since he's so focused on his own goals), but his wife is insanely close to a nervous breakdown. She DOES NOT Leslie to come home because she's absolutely scared of her and yet her husband is doing everything he can to bring her back. Also, the sister Eli is apparently having a rough time herself since she's being mocked by the other noble ladies her age because of what happened with the Duchess and her father. Additionally, her prince fiancé is literally not paying any attention to her. So in her mind, she sees Leslie's coming home as her downfall from grace as the favorite daughter so she REALLY DOES NOT want Leslie to come back either. You can also kind of see it in their faces when the family is heading to the trials. The dad looks lost in his "supposed" coming victory while the mother and daughter are absolutely terrified and furious to be going at all.

Third: The Duchess has been busy and actually found out a really juicy piece of info. Apparently, that idiot Speardo dad didn't officially baptize Leslie so religiously speaking she doesn't exist or is a bastard because her birth was never officially acknowledged by the church. So the Speardo daddy honestly doesn't have any real legal claim to Leslie. I'm also not really sure on this last bit, but I think the Duchess found someone who knew about the fire house and sacrificed children. The poor guy seems horrified when he learns the real truth from the Duchess and promises to do whatever he can to help her case in adopting Leslie.

Anyways, I hope this helps you guys in the meantime. The raws I've found only go up to the point where everyone, including Leslie, are all heading towards where the "noble trial" is being held. So that's all I've got for right now. Also, please remember that I used google translate on this so I'm sorry if any of this doesn't match up to what the scans group translates. XD