Chapter 7 / 416- Prison

=== Loop 4 - Schild Welt Arc ===

TLNOTE:

Motoyasu have same habit like Naofumi by giving nickname. Frankly speaking, Naofumi is tame compared to Motoyasu. I will give reference from main story at the end of chapter whenever he give bizarre nickname.

I shift my gaze and look down while falling. Now I'm sliding in this branching hole and keep going down.

Quickly I stab my spear on the wall to stop myself from falling farther.

"This is what people call a pitfall trap." (Motoyasu)

Those ignorant bastard For one brief instant, the idea to slaughter every single live in the country crossed my mind.

The problem would be if I lost my temper and start using skills recklessly. It's highly possible that dear father, Ren or Itsuki get involved and accidentally killed.

Now I'm confused about what I should do.

It's hard to use Portal Spear inside the castle.

Even if it's possible to use it immediately after summoned, I must do it outside the castle To begin with, I didn't set a destination point after being summoned again.

Dammit, I can't remember well Portal Spear's full usage and limitation.

If I use portal here I will arrive at the nearest village.

Returning to castle from the nearest village will consume more time so that's not an option.

Bigger problem, I never tested it and things could go really wrong.

I will experiment with it later, knowing its usage and limitations is necessary for the future.

To escape this pinch

"There's only one option, climb it." (Motoyasu)

I use the spear as a pick substitute and start climbing this sliding hole.

It's a little dark so I use magic to illuminate my sight.

Now I got new problem I don't know my exact location and if I fall farther down I will end up in a maze. This is a very complicated situation.

All of sudden I hear a shrill from the stabbed wall.

Probably there's a cave behind this wall, It might be easier to go back to the surface that way.

I point my spear at the wall.

Meteor Spear

The spear pierces the wall and makes an exploding sound, dust fills the air.

It worked good and paved the way for me. Not wasting any time I jump to the newly opened hole.

"This place is" (Motoyasu)

Complete darkness.

I feel my surroundings, looks like this place is a prison.

So Melromarc's palace has an underground prison as well.

that exploding sound was very loud yet no guards come to check it.

Apparently this place is in the deepest parts of the castle prison.

I get out to a passageway by cutting the wall.

Hmm This place is quite tattered here and there Water dripping everywhere and small mouse-like monster running all over the place.

I hear faint sound of water streaming when taking the left pathway.

Melromarc's sewerage is connected to the river outside the castle, isn't it?

Then I should take the right pathway if I want go back to the castle.

Which means I must take the right pathway.

I see a lot of prisoners as I walk in this passageway.

There are people who wear nice dresses, normal people, and of course I see shabby people as well.

"Oi. I never seen you here, are you Melromarc's soldier?" (Prisoner)

I look at the cell where that voice came from.

Before I heard that voice, I walked without giving particular attention to the prisoner's pleas.

Not that voice, that voice is an exception and I can't ignore it.

That's obvious, I'm not hearing pig's bark or man's voice. I hear a woman's voice.

Inside the cell is a woman with both hands cuffed and hanged from ceiling Then she forced herself to stand up.

Her feet shackled, what a cruel treatment.

"What are you looking at?" (Woman Prisoner)

Strawberry blonde and good looking face.

Feels like I've seen her before.

Aaah!

She is esteemed sister's friend and Ren's sparing partner pig Or so I think.

Esteemed sister's friend, abominable Fiancee's bodyguard, Woman Knight That's how dear father called her.

I see, there's no way I will hear pig's bark from her.

Good friend of Firo-tan's esteemed sister must have a marvelous heart.

Calling a good person like a pig is rude.

Why is she detained here?

"I've never seen you before Who are you?" (Woman Knight)

"That's my line. What were you doing to get you imprisoned?" (Motoyasu)

"Me? I punished this country's knights who hunted demi-humans My action back then made the country revoking my knighthood." (Woman Knight)

"Oh" (Motoyasu)

"I'd be good if I was still alive by the Queen's return Well, just my wishful thinking." (Woman Knight)

Looks like she is waiting for the Queen to return.

Queen Her name was useful in previous loops.

Use her name in threat and everything will go well in this Melromarc.

"Now tell me, who are you?" (Woman Knight)

A little bit of explanation won't do any harm.

Because she is esteemed sister's friend and Fiancee's bodyguard, Woman Knight.

Not a pig.

"I'll make it short. Today Melromarc summoned the Divine Heroes, I'm the Spear Hero." (Motoyasu)

"What!? Why is Spear Hero-dono in this place!?" (Woman Knight)

She shakes the chains and bends her body forward after hear my explanation.

"Tell me why you're here!" (Woman Knight)

"Just like I said, today Melromarc summoned the Four Divine Heroes." (Motoyasu)

"Summoned Why are the summoned heroes in this place? How many people have they summoned!?" (Woman Knight)

"They summoned all of us.They threw me into a pitfall trap and somehow I ended up here." (Motoyasu)

"They threw a Divine Hero into a pitfall? Why did they do that!? What's wrong with this country!?" (Woman Knight)

It'll be easier for me if I have answers to your questions.

But I can think of some reason why they threw me here.

Most plausible explanation is they think my existence will be dangerous to this country.

It's not an understatement if I said entire Melromarc sees me as an enemy.

"Maybe this is unbelievable but I came from the future. This country's princess a.k.a Red pig will accuse dear fath Shield Hero of raping her in the future. The king and the other heroes will dishonor him, that's the story." (Motoyasu)

"" (Woman Knight)

Oh my? Why did she fall silent?

I know, I know, I'm not a believable man.

"That's very possible This is King and princess you are talking about. Favoring other heroes to gain their trust and laughing at Shield Hero's suffering. I know they can do worse than that." (Woman Knight)

Her pale face became even paler.

It makes me happy to see someone who trusts me.

"Demi-human country won't keep silent with their treatment to Shield Hero. My father spend his life building a relationship with demi-human country and now his live's lost in vain." (Woman Knight)

"In my future, every single person in this country knew Shield Hero's great effort of crushing Three Heroes Church. Melromarc treats dear father much better than before after the Queen came back." (Motoyasu)

"That kind of future Best outcome after everything this country did to Shield Hero and that outcome isn't impossible Stop it, seems like finally I lost my mind. Believing insane things like that truly happened Everything is just my imagination." (Woman Knight)

I understand it well, now she makes me her imagination friend.

Confined in this place for a long time might make some people going insane.

"After I told them of the future they threw me into the pitfall. I want to go back to dear father's side as fast as I can." (Motoyasu)

Yep, I'm worried for his safety.

Best thing I want is he taking dinner in leisure right now, but that possibility is near zero.

" If that's all you want to know, we will meet again in the near future." (Motoyasu)

According to the future I know, she will live through this.

Firo-tan's evaluation of me will raise remarkably if I help esteemed sister's good friend.

However, if I don't save dear father's life now, I won't meet Firo-tan.

"Wait!" (Woman Knight)

"Need anything else?" (Motoyasu)

"If if you are not my illusion, take me out from here! I must protect that place, my father's his last will, I will fulfill it. I will be punished for prison break for sure. If that's all it takes to know the truth I will accept any punishment!" (Woman Knight)

"My pleasure!" (Motoyasu)

I don't know if she can be useful to me, but she is esteemed sister's good friend.

She asks for my help, this Motoyasu will always help people who show devotion to dear father.

"Who's there!" (Castle Jailer)

A soldier with a lantern in his hand showed up out of nowhere.

Right, there's no way an exploding sound will go unnoticed.

"You are Spe" (Castle Jailer)

Air Strike Javelin

I was going easy when threw the spear, you know.

The reason I didn't kill him isn't to just let him pass out to wake up later, I will end up destroying everything and it will be troublesome to walk in rubble.

"Guha!?" (Castle Jailer)

Ignoring the fainted soldier, my spear returns to my hand.

All chains are broken in a single swing, now nothing can keep her in this place.

"Now come, we have no time." (Motoyasu)

"That strength No doubt this is legendary hero's power, I'm not hallucinating." (Woman Knight)

After removing her chains she takes the sword from the fainted soldier's waist.

"This way! I will lead the way." (Woman Knight)

"I leave it to you." (Motoyasu)

We run through the prison's passage with her in front of me leading the way.

"Oh yeah, I haven't introduce myself. My name is" (Woman Knight)

"Eclair right?" (Motoyasu)

Firo-tan always calls her that.

I won't make any mistake, her name is Eclair.

"Wrong! It's Eclaire. Eclaire Seaetto! Spear Hero-dono, what's your name?" (Eclair)

"My name is Motoyasu, Motoyasu Kitamura." (Motoyasu)

"So it's Kitamura-dono I will confirm Kitamura-dono's story by my own eyes!" (Eclair)

"No problem." (Motoyasu)

Like that, we begin our first objective. Prisonbreak.