CH 145

───Tattatta… !

「………. Are they gone… ?」

I hear footsteps running away from the room, and I look out of the wardrobe to check my surroundings. Right, left, one more time to be sure, right, left… Good. There’s no one here.

「………. Ho….」

I was quite relieved. Because the sound of footsteps running away just now were the sounds of a person of considerable size… And if it’s more than one person, well…

「Uuu… After all I can’t open it…」

No matter how many times I press the menu, it is unresponsive. It doesn’t make any sense. I wonder if it’s because of this horrible collar…? Or is it this one piece…? I don’t think so. Yes. Or maybe this is a place where you can’t open the menu… That’s all I can guess.

「… I don’t have time to worry about it here. The priority right now is to get out…」

From here I decided not to go through the exhaust. The reason for this is quite simple: the guards I saw earlier have started to look out for me. I’m sure they’ll find some way to search every inch of the exhaust. After all, there is magic in this world.

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───Hita… Hita…

「Ugh… It’s so cold…」

The floor was something like marble, which made my feet very cold as I was barefoot. Ah… It’s cold…

「───Come───on──」

「Well────or───a───this────」

「(Someone’s coming!)」

From the left side of the T-junction there is a faint sound of men’s voices. It could be the guards. If I stay here, I’m sure they’ll find me, so I go into a reasonable room.

──Gacha…

「「Ah…」」

And there he was, dressed like all the guards I’ve ever seen… The man who had kidnapped me.

「Enemy ───!!!」

「Sei!」

──Doka!!

「Gbehaa!?」

「Ah… I’ve done it…」

I stepped in and punched the guy in the face before he could call for reinforcements… Well, hitting him in the face was partly a personal grudge…

The man had fainted and there was silence in the room.

「… Let’s see if I can find something while I’m at it…」

I hadn’t noticed in my haste, but this room is a lot more luxurious than the others. And the fact that there is a man sleeping on the floor makes me think that this is a very important place.

「… I wish I had a key for this collar or something, if possible…」

「That’s not possible because I have it」

「!?」

As I was rummaging through the shelves, muttering to myself, I heard a reply. I turned around and saw the man who had been asleep earlier standing there with a big smile on his face.

「I don’t know how the hell you got out of there, but you can’t… What kind of a slave walks out?」

「…」

「You’ll have to go back to your cage. You took me by surprise last time, but not this time!」

──Shushu!! Shupapa!!

The man closes the distance and attacks with his fists… He’s pretty fast.

But I evade it in time, and when he attacks with a big swing, I take his hand and throw him over.

「Well… You’re not bad at all… Damn… I thought you were just a kid…」

「!?」

──Tatatatatatan!

I quickly move to the side. Then I saw six knives stuck in the same place where I had been… Wait, what? Could I use these knives too?

「Oi, no way! Stop! …just kidding?」

「Hm? Uguaaaaaa!!!!」

──Badjidjidjidjidjidji!!!

When I approached him to take the knife from the floor, he was in a panic, but when I took the knife, his panic turned into a smirk.

It hurts, it hurts, it hurts… !!

As soon as I held the knife, I felt a severe pain in my neck. I dropped the knife, of course, and my body could only twitch.

「It’s unfortunate. The collar is designed to emit electricity when you hold a weapon」

「Gu…… u…」

「Well. Let’s go back to the cage, shall we? This time to a cell───」

「───that’s enough!」

「Who!!」

The person I want to see the most is here.

「… Suzu……」