Although I had no strength thanks to lack of food, I approached the window anyway since what he said was right. Mirbo stooped down, making me sit on his shoulders and lifting me up without difficulty. Despite not having breakfast, he didn't look tired. Not only that, his wound shouldn't have fully closed up yet . I'm speechless.

I looked out through the window.

"Huhuh it's quiet?"

Since the prison was an empty basement, the window was only high enough to reach the feet of the people on the street. But thanks to the street being slanted downwards, (if it had rained yesterday, then I really couldn't say the words "thanks") I could somewhat see the situation beyond the window. Outside of the castle rear was a backyard. Across the backyard to the rear were walls that weren't so high.

Looking at it closely, the place where Arnowalt and I had practiced with the sword wasn't far from here.

"Is no one there?"

"No one is passing by. I wonder how much time has gone since sunrise?"

"Maybe enough time to eat breakfast seven times over."

Hearing those words in my vulnerable state coerced my stomach into launching a surprise attack on my body.

Mirbo paused before asking again.

"Can you hear anything?"

"MmI don't hear anything."

Then again, this is strange. Around this period, there should be servants and maids, etc. that should be sufficient time for them to come and go.

The backyard was undesirably empty.

"Come back down."

I threw my body down onto the sheaf of straws. Aigoo, I'm so tired. Even though I was on the top, why do I feel so tired? Mirbo, with a calm expression, was in thought for a moment. Then, he suddenly dropped down onto the floor.

He had placed his ear onto the floor.

"I can't hear any footsteps at all."

Since I was lying down anyways, I directed my ear onto the floor as well. Despite having really sensitive hearing, I couldn't sense any sort of vibration.

Mirbo rose and sat down.

"I'm not sure what's wrong, but something must've happened."

It seemed so. But what could it be?

As a result, for about half an hour, thinking about that kind of food, and those types of food - it's not like I even know a lot of food types. I'm just glad that I had thought up all the types of food I knew within half an hour - but instead of appeasing the hunger, it encouraged my stomach to crave for more. Finally, Mirbo opened his mouth.

"It's blood."

"Huh?"

What are you saying suddenly, blood you say? To say that you want to drink bloodshouldn't be the casehmm, what could it be what were the types of food made by blood again

Ughhh, this isn't it?

"Battle? Ambush? War? Monster? Bandits?"

"It's something that we don't know exactly."

"Through what evidence?"

Mirbo, looking at me with an irritated look, uttered something absurd.

"What's the most employed position in a castle?"

"Well, there should be more servants than nobles I suppose."

"Right. There should be more servants walking around before nobles. Then, since we're in the castle, there should be more opportunities of them appearing than nobles."

"So?"

"Among the nobles and servants, there's those special people right? Not the ones that feed and dress you, but the servants that protect your life."

"Soldiers?"

He's making such a strange analogy, this old man.

"So which type of servants can you see the most in prison?"

"It would be soldiers, of course."

"Then, the fact that they're not here means?"

"They have a task to do I suppose."

After saying that, I felt a deadly premonition so I quickly shut my mouth up. It wasn't a difficult mystery. But then, I feel like it's going to be something impossible to think about. I don't want to lead to such a conclusion. Can't I just assume that today was the Lord's knighthood ceremony, or that they had left for a group picnic?

Mirbo added more.

"There should be only a few reasons why the soldiers would leave the castle unattended. And ."

And?

" Early in the morning, there were tumultuous footsteps ringing. Definitely, Although at that time, we didn't have a rough estimate of what that was, but I thought it was something very urgent.

Ohoh, my heart started to jump!

No matter how much the Lord was apathetic to the defense of the castle, the nobles' castle is indeed the nobles' castle, so they wouldn't leave the castle unprotected. Criminals like us NO, I'm not a criminal! anyways, the fact that the work force had all left without delivering breakfast was due to this. Or they could be currently concentrating on defending the outer castle walls no, then there's no way it would be this quiet.

And we don't have such a thing as outer walls for our castle.

"It's something huge."

Those were the last words Mirbo left me with. Afterwards, he was silent for quite some time.

What is it? What is it? What could it be? What could it be?

If everyone had left, who exactly is going to release us? At this rate, are we going to be treated like criminals without the opportunity for us to properly give an explanation? If an incident did happen, where could it have happened? Ember village shouldn't be this quiet, right? Then?

Oh, Habiyanak it can't be.

If something had happened, what could it be? It wasn't like we were some border frontier, or had a resentful relationship with another province either. If you exclude the monster from the day before yesterday, a pack of monsters that I haven't seen in my life was moving somewhere in a group, then it wouldn't have been so quiet yesterday without any sort of rumors. But, to see that all the soldiers had left their post must be something, a serious situation , a grave concern!

I mean, to say it precisely, due to the strange worries I had, my chest started to tighten, which started to make it hard to breathe.

I wonder what happened to my mother.

Mirbo, brace yourself if you've gotten this reasoning all wrong. As payment in worrying me this much, I'll firmly

As usual, there was no indication of a rat moving.

I had forgotten about my hunger.

Rattle, rattle.

I hear a strange sound.

Daeng! Daeng!

What's this sound?

AHHH AHHHHHHHK!

That's someshrilling scream!

Mirbo was already awake. He had quickly waved to me in the shadows.

"Over here."

Mirbo and I attached ourselves to the dark walls where there was no moonlight. My chest was thumping loudly. I was very nervous, especially having woken up after starving for the whole day.

"Shush!"

I know. However, without me realizing, I nearly made a sound as I quickly covered my mouth with my hands. The shadow in the moonlight, sseuk - it moved.

There was something outside the window.

Churrrrr- Rattle-

A hard item was scraping along the ground outside the iron grating of the window. The metallic object made a sound like it had just collided with something.

Let's be calm, be calm.

However, neither Mirbo nor I had anything that could be called a weapon. In this prison, there was nothing that you could usefully employ as a substitute for a weapon. There was nothing but straw.

Moving with half-bent knees, and the strange projection of the feet that couldn't be called shoes. But then, it was lowering its body? Is it trying to look inside?

Chuk - PUAHHHHK!

"Kkeeeeeeeeeeeu ."

I froze on the spot. A long metal object stabbed through the small openings of the window - it had pierced through the body of the figure that was standing outside the window.

Hoodoodook- A dark red liquid splashed into the prison.

"Eub."

TL Afterword

God that was so frightening and intense, whew those scenes were so good that it actually made me feel as if I was in some horror movie.

PR Afterword

Sai101: Dear Author.. Did you change the channel to a horror movie all of a sudden?

Translator: Calvis

Proofreader: Sai101, Kajin