Chapter 182

Chapter 182

Evade the Hero and Flee! 182 #21. The Stories of Others (1)>

Proofread

#1 Their circumstance: A certain Elfs circumstance

How long are we supposed to be in here?

I dont know.

Currently, we were stuck inside a way-too brilliantly decorated room. So gorgeous was the dcor that I was beginning to feel rather out of place.

Just where did it start to go wrong, though? No, before all that, why were Hill and I even confined to this room in the first place?

I asked Hill. What about the Orders response?

Our opponent this time is a poor match, unfortunately.

Thats true.

Hill was a saint from one of the religious orders, and I was an Elf performing the duty of a High Elf an existence that could be referred to as the anchor of the Elf race.

Anyone daring to confine us like this would naturally subject themselves to an incredible level of diplomatic pressure. Only a lunatic would deal with such pressure head-on.

And as bad luck would have it, Hill and I got kidnapped by one such lunatic capable of utterly ignoring all those diplomatic pressure. No, wait, she was actually capable of kidnapping us and then exerting pressure on the other party.

Please excuse me.

A maid knocked on the door, silently slipped inside, then quickly cleaned the room.

It had already been over a month. And during that time, Hill and I did nothing but just lounge around and receive treatment fit for nobility.

Just how long are we supposed to stay like this, I wonder

The room was so gorgeous that it made us very uncomfortable. Being stuck in such a room meant that there was not a whole lot we could do besides sigh every now and then.

Sir hero suddenly told us we needed to run away, so we tried to flee from the Neidon Kingdom through a small hole in the royal castle wall.

But when we emerged on the other side, what waited for us were the princess of the Neidon Kingdom, Vera, and countless soldiers accompanying her!

Their sudden appearance knocked our senses out cold, resulting in our unceremonious capture. By the time we regained some of our wits, Sir hero was about to get captured himself.

Right at that critical moment, a lone woman appeared out of nowhere, and, as if to make a mockery out of all those countless soldiers, she escaped from the cordon with us two and Sir hero in tow. It didnt end there, though, as she left us here and took Sir hero somewhere else afterwards.

Aaaand thats how we got imprisoned within the Karuan Empire.

Well, Im still unsure about whether to call this an imprisonment or not

I agree. Its too vague.

It certainly was an imprisonment of sorts imprisonment where we were forbidden from leaving the city. In other words, we were allowed to do whatever we pleased within the city limits.

We could go on a stroll. We could also contact people at the Order of Nature. Didnt matter what we did, the ones monitoring us didnt try to stop or hinder us.

The Neidon Kingdom did something roughly similar, but they werent as open about it as the Karuan Empire.

Including the maid that took care of cleaning the room and bringing our meals and snacks, wed always have around six people proclaiming to be our escorts tailing us whenever we went outside.

They had the common decency of not following us into the toilet or the bath, but Those locations didnt have any windows, to begin with, making it impossible for us to slip away unnoticed anyway.

Should I say, as expected of the empire? Even resorting to magic tools operated only through magic stones for ventilation purposes!

I had a sneaking suspicion that the upkeep cost for this building alone would be higher than my home villages living cost for one month.

Our issue with this situation was Did this building boast perfect security worthy of such cost?

Hill, are you confident in sticking close to me if I try to force my way out of this place?

Nope, not at all. But please be honest, are you confident in breaking through without anyones help?

Not really?

Every single soldier guarding us nearby was stronger than me. Even if I didnt possess the combat ability ranked in the highest echelons of the Elvish society, I was still evaluated to be one of the higher-rated combatants. Yet we were monitored by individuals that even I found very challenging to beat. And there were at least six of them, to boot.Gét latest novel chapters on nov(e)lbj/n(.)c/om

Judging from their lackadaisical behaviour so far, there mustve been quite a lot of hidden agents around us.

Hill sighed. We need to escape first so that Sir hero can also make his escape

Nope. The way I see it, even if we managed to slip away from this place, Sir hero will not be so successful in his attempts.

All the agents here told me that they were still trainees not yet fit for active duty. People so strong that even Id have trouble winning against were merely trainees? Although difficult to believe, their revelation was unfortunately pretty close to being the truth.

Their leader seemed to be acquainted with Sir hero. Her name was Mirua, and she seemed like Sir heros classmate. But the chasm between my skills and that, uh, kids skills seemed unbridgeable to my eyes.

If the difference between us was around two, maybe three times, then Id have figured out at least a small part of her true capability. But as I was now, I couldnt discern even the smallest fragment of this kid named Miruas true strength.

I wonder, if we brushed past each other in the street, would I have ever thought that this kid was an incredible warrior? Maybe Id have seen her as just a regular girl found practically everywhere. Probably?

The thing was, every agent I saw in passing while being led into this place looked like Mirua the Kids underling, so there was that

So, this was why people keep harping on and on about empire this and empire that.

Most of the time, your skills were honed through experience. Starting from the obvious one, like how many actual battles youve been through, to how many times youve been swinging that sword around every day

Experiences that your body and soul memorised.

Experience was the only method available for unremarkable, normal people to utterly humiliate geniuses. And it was also one of the reasons why other races were stronger than humans.

Humans, on average, couldnt live past one hundred years. But both Elves and dwarves could live up to three hundred years, five hundred if they were the long-living kind. Such a gap in lifespan was a wall no human could overcome.

Yet that wall had crumbled down oh-so easily.

Could you be a holy man from the demon race?

No, thats not it.

Your friends right. Im a human, see?

Hill replied before the intruder could. Did that mean Hill knew who this man was?

Hill began explaining. A god from another world Among the ranks of summoners, someone managed to summon a god from another world.

A deity-level summoner, you say?

Although the god was from another world, it was still a god. And someone capable of summoning such a being?

Rather obviously, such a summoning was absolutely impossible to pull off if you didnt have the aptitude and excellent talent for it.

Deity-level summoners were divided into three phases, and the first phase involved the summoner borrowing a portion of the gods powers. The second phase was about borrowing the gods weapon, and the third phase was either summoning the god itself to this world or having the god take possession of your actual physical body.

However, this man didnt seem to be in any of the three phases. The aura he emitted seemed like itd be the third phase, but the content was a human, not a god.

I didnt know how this was possible, but that person was undoubtedly a human being. A human that happened to emit an unmistakably sacred aura.

Well Originally, we wouldnt have a reason to meet like this, but Now that were here, I should at least introduce myself, eh? The man lowered his head slightly as a greeting while looking like he had no choice in the matter. Im Rissen, team leader of the Kidnap Ast Squad, 4th division.

Im sorry?

Kidnap what squad??

For a moment there, I thought I misheard what this man was saying.

What did he say the name of the imperial princesss exclusive unit was, again? You know, the one called the strongest in the strongest nation on the continent?

Its the Kidnap Squad???

Is it really the Kidnap Squad?

Yup, it sure is.

He definitely said something very weird just now. But we had nothing to retort with when he looked at us as if we were the weird ones here.

This was weird. Very, very weird!

What, do you find something is weird?

W-well, that is

The silent pressure began crushing down on me. This This is like, you dont want me to reply that it is bloody weird, isnt it?!

N-nothing is weird here

I barely managed to squeak out a reply through my trembling lips, prompting the man to grin in satisfaction.

But then, he said something else. You know, I did find that a bit weird, though.

Im sorry?

Your daydreaming just now. You said that Her Highness was in love with someone, didnt you?

A-ah, that

I had a slip of the tongue just then, didnt I?

No matter what people labelled her with, she was still an Imperial Princess of the strongest nation on the continent, a symbol of victory in the last great war. Just what madness drove me to say such a blasphemous thing towards someone like that??

Maybe I really did lose my mind just now?

It was a slip of the tongue on my part. Forgive me.

The wisest course of action after making a mistake was to apologise as soon as possible.

Out of all the human nations, the empire maintained the friendliest relationship with the Elves. I simply couldnt afford to destroy that relationship with my slip of the tongue.

Thankfully, the man named Rissen readily accepted my apology. Indeed, you had a slip-up. Thats all. I mean, if it was only merely a hero, then none of us would be working our asses off like this, you know.

Why did his comeback deviate in a rather weird direction, again?!

Do you have annnny idea how much we invested in capturing the professor from our former academy?! How dare you compare him to some measly little hero!

T-this pressure that forbade me from replying at all!

By the way, I still cant understand what youre saying!!!

W-wait Could it be that your aim is not our hero, but Sir Sage no, I mean Sir heros teacher?

Unlike me that failed to understand this mans muttering, Hill seemed to have figured something out by now.

Correct. Your heros teacher is indeed our target. And Her Highnesss target, too.

Hill continued on with his questions. I must ask you this for clarification, but Its concerning the scenario my colleague here, Selena the Elf, came up with. Was she right all along?

H-Hill!?

Hill had crossed the line there. What he said just now could become even more problematic than how I tried to romantically tie up the hero and the Imperial Princess!

Ng, youre correct again.

Too bad for me, or fortunately for us, my expectation was wide off the mark.

And from that day on, I got to experience something rather mystical where all my expectations needed to be thrown out the window.