Volume 15 - CH 3

「Hey, wake up.」

「Ugh?」

He kicked me roughly in the ass, and I woke up, not knowing why.

My cheeks are cold, but I must have been lying on the stone floor.

My head is pounding.

What the hell was that?

「When you eat your food, make sure you leave it out in front of you. If you don't, you won't get another meal.」

The man who kicked me said.

In front of me is a piece of bread and a bowl of soup with no ingredients.

And on the other side of that is an iron bar.

「Tsk, a prison, huh...」

I remembered why I had come here.

The last thing I remember is drinking ale in a tavern with Leia. ......

「Yeah, I guess I drank too much in general. ......」

I have [mental resistance] and [poison resistance], so a little sleeping potion won't do this to me.

I even have [Anti-Sickness] for alcohol.

However, if I use [Anti-Sickness Lv5] all the time, I can't even feel tipsy when I drink.

That's why I adjust the level when I drink to feel good, but this time I was a bit careless.

Leia had promised to let me fuck her after closing time, so I drank too much to pass the time.　

I quickly restored my skill level and sobered up. There are many skills whose levels cannot be adjusted, but this one can be adjusted without spending skill points.

That's how it's done.

「Now, the time is ...... the next morning. I guess it's time for me to get picked up.」

Since I had the [time] skill, I was able to figure out the exact date and time right away.

I'm sure that Serina is going to fold her arms and give me a lecture, but I should at least be mature enough to listen to her.

Anyway, that Leia, she sent me to jail. The next time I see her, I'm going to rape her.

「Hey, I'm taking it down.」

The guard comes over, looks at the untouched food, and says,

「Yeah, take it down.」

I don't feel like eating the bad bread and soup.

I sat back down in my cell and waited for the time to pass.

Well, I guess they won't be here soon.

The people at the castle are lax in their bureaucracy. They won't give us permission to see me until morning anyway.

Serina and the others negotiate, get the soldiers to grab the gold coin, and somehow, well, it's about an hour.

「Should I go to sleep?」

I fell asleep against the wall.

Two hours have passed.

「It's late. ...... What are they doing?」

I was getting frustrated, as expected.

If the clan leader was caught in jail, it would be a big deal for the clan.

Besides, I didn't do anything wrong, let alone commit a crime.What I did was a touch.It was a little careless, but that's all.

After another three hours had passed, I felt the need to think calmly.

Serina is likely to leave me in prison on purpose to put punishment on me... but the other members should persuade her to do just a lecture.

If that's the case――

「They doesn't know that I'm being held here?」

That would be the natural conclusion.

It's possible that they're having a hard time processing my release, but the soldiers here seem to have low morals, and I'm sure they can be bought off quickly.

Wait.

By the way, due to Leia's mental skills, Lily and the others forgot about the rampage of the villains in the tavern.

So it's possible that Leia ordered them to forget about me too after she got me drunk.

「So that's what happened. ......」

But if Lily and the others went back to the inn without me, one of the rest of the team would have noticed the change immediately.

「That's not good.」

Then, Serina must have noticed right away and came to that tavern. In the course of yesterday, that is.

Since no one but me has raised the level of mental resistance, I should assume that Leia had beaten me and had sealed my memories from my friends one after another.

Since they don't know that she has a skill that can seal their memories, they must not be on guard.

Since it's Alec anyway, he must be picking up sign girls.

Since it was Alec anyway, he must be hitting on the sign girls――or so they would think.

「Good grief...」

It looks like I'm going to have to get out of here on my own.

I look at my body, but my armor and sword have been removed. The only equipment I have is my under armor.

Well, in this world, there is a useful thing called [Item Storage].

With this skill, I can retrieve gold coins at any time. Well, as long as I'm not using it.

I was a little worried about what would happen if I had no gold coins, but my item storage was filled with bags of gold coins.

Well, a couple of coins should be enough.

「Oi, guard.」

「What is it? You're not in a position to call me out, you know?」

「I know. I'll give you this.」

I'll throw the guard a gold coin.

「O-ohhh, you know what I'm talking about.」

「Unlock the door.」

「...... You don't know the going rate here, do you? You don't think you'd be able to break out of here if I was a guard, you know?」

「I guess so. By the way, where's my armor and sword?」

「Well, they're in the vault over there. I'm not sure if they're still there, though, since they've been spotted by everyone for their karma.」

Public servants who don't take their jobs seriously are really bad.

「Yeah, well, I'll take your position into consideration then.」

「Oh!」

The guard grinned and held out his hand from behind the bars, but I stood behind him with [Instantaneous Movement] and knocked him unconscious with my hand knife.

This way, when the guards find him, they'll know he didn't help me break out of jail, and they won't be so hard on him. It was a kind gesture.

I'll make sure to take my gold coins out of the guard's hands.

「Oi, you're amazing, aren't you? Is that magic?」

A prisoner in the next cell called out to me.

「Well, something like that.」

「Let me out, too. You'll thank me.」

「I'm sorry, but you're on your own.」

I can't just let a prisoner go free when I don't know what he's guilty of.

「Damn it, please, or I'm gonna make some noise.」

「Go ahead, make some noise.」

I went through the locked doorway with [Instantaneous Movement].

I just realized that I can do all the crimes I want, can't I?

But I've been bounced off walls in dungeons, and I'm sure there are prisons that have countermeasures against skills and magic, so I guess I shouldn't get too carried away.

「So this is the vault.」

I used [auto-mapping] to locate it and entered the room, but I couldn't find my sword and armor because it was all crap.

It seems that someone had immediately stolen them. Damn it.

I need to get them back before they get sold at auction. Especially that dark dragon scale armor, it's a valuable item that will never be found again.

I found a soldier's gear in another room, equipped it, and walked out of the basement of the castle, pretending to be a soldier.

「Well, first things first.」

I would have liked to look for the equipment right away, but it would be faster if my friends remembered me and then we could split up.

I decided to search from the inn where my friends were staying.