Heavenly Castle

The tight voice of soldiers running around the castle echoes the hard sound of metal hitting each other.

"There you are!?

"First floor, back there!

"They're stupid! You headed yourself to the end of the line!

The castle had become a mayhem like poking a hive, turning it into a place of chaos with runaway civilians, maids and other non-combatants, as well as soldiers and magicians heading to the scene.

"The stairs to the dungeon are narrow! Front row, with shields and spears, proceed in two rows!

When a commander-like middle-aged man instructs him to do so aloud, the steps of the soldiers, who were messy, are quickly dominated. Led by soldiers and several magicians filling the passage on the ground floor, the man raised his sword of escape over his head.

"Come on, we're trapped! Step down the stairs one by one!

[Dizen]

We proceeded through a dusty, mouldy underground passage with plenty of water and air, and came to the front of the last cage.

But only one worn out man must have been exhausted as far as torture was concerned. The man wrapped a cut of cloth painted and blackened on his blood around his body and slept like he was dead. He's been caught pretty long to see his blurry silver hair and mustaches.

"Apparently, it's off. Next we head to the ladies' hall."

And Aifa ignored the tragic scene without a scratch. There are so many things I want to say, but now I am more myself than that.

"You can hear the footsteps coming down the stairs, Lord Aifa. Perhaps you're going to rush into a place full of soldiers."

To this situation, which is clearly absolutely deadly, I asked that unexpectedly in a weird salute.

"No, let's avoid the soldiers and move"

"How!? This is the end of the line!

Describing the situation with a finger pointing at the barn, Aifa squeaks her nose and points up.

"You can make it. This dungeon is robust, but I'm not assuming I'll do anything"

"What?"

Such a raw reply came out of my mouth unexpectedly from Aifa's dialogue. Don't you remember how many steps I went down when I went down the stairs?

This thick ceiling will not be easily destroyed.

As I was pointing my skeptical gaze at Aifa with that in mind, I heard Yuri from next door.

"Well, is this a little better"

Turning around, Yuri was reaching for the man in the barn and found the countless wounds that should have been on the man's exposed skin disappearing.

"Hey, what are you doing, Yuri..."

Why did you use it to heal the wounds of a dying man in a cage when you were going to use the technique by running around the castle?

However, it is a healing technique even more so if it is to break down and liberate the chamber.

"... can you use healing magic? That's unusual."

Eifa was also surprised by the boulder, she frowned and groaned so.

Then Yuri nods "yes" and looks back at this one.

"It looked painful, so I followed"

To Yuri smiling, I dropped my shoulder and opened my mouth.

"Really? That would make that person happy. Then it's time to go. Lord Aifa has managed to escape the basement."

That's what I say. I look sideways at Aifa. But Aifa looked up without even noticing my gaze or anything.

"First, dirt"

The moment Aifa shrugged, the ground swayed into small pieces with a grunting sound.

And the dungeon ceiling moved. Part of the stone falls on the floor of the aisle one after another like a creature. I frowned at the sight.

"Isn't it faster for soldiers to come?

When he asks so dissatisfied, Aifa answers the sighing mix.

"Do it all at once and it will collapse. So collapse every part and instantly cement the upper soil with sorcery. Repeat this and drill the hole. Extra stones and dirt are used to block passages. It's not that easy to get here."

Aifa dropping dosadosa, stones and dirt as she says. Surely, just ahead of the aisle, a wall can be made up in an instant.

"Oh, hey, I see... sorry about that"

Convinced and apologizing, I now heard a short scream in the rear.

"Get me out of here..."

It's a heavy voice that echoes from the bottom of the earth. When I turned around, my hands out of the barn grabbed Yuri's neck. Yuri is opening and closing her eyes with a surprised face.

"Hey, hey, hey! Yuri said he healed your wound, but that's not it!?

Unexpectedly such a dialogue came out with its mouth poked. Then the man in the chamber squeaks his back teeth with a deep wrinkle between his eyebrows.

"I know exactly what I'm doing... but I don't have time for this. Come on, get me out of here. If you let me out, I will never let you get hurt..."

I heard a voice of profound remorse with readiness, and instantly understood that this was impossible to persuade.

"Wow, okay! I get it! Wait a minute!

Immediately screams like that, squealing small in his mouth to activate the earthwork ceremony. Destroying thick iron barns was tough, so it brittled some ground and ceiling.

"Come on!"

Kick the iron stick, which is a lattice, out of temper. Then the iron rod changed its angle subtly.

"Ok, I kicked it about five times later and it broke..."

"This is faster"

As I was desperately trying to kick the barn down, Aifa whined a word from behind and flew one of the ceiling stones over here.

A block of stone made a noise and passed beside his face, bouncing off the iron stick into the back of the chamber.

Two plaids were instantly lost, and the barn was unable to play its part. Sure is fast, but.

"It was dangerous! I thought that one would die!

Looking back as I complained, I looked at this one with my eyes like Aifa looked at something boring and turned to the ceiling again.

What an angry elf.

"... finally, can you get out"

And, with those words in his mouth, a man came out of the barn with his hand hanging on Yuri's neck.

"Um, I'd like you to let me go..."

Softly Yuri growls so, but the man quietly shakes his neck to the left and right.

"Are you all magicians? I'm sorry, but I can't let you go until I'm outside."

To the man who told me so, I couldn't bear to question him.

"No, I won't stick you out to soldiers in this situation. We'll get caught first then, right? By and large, who are you?

When asked who he was, the man pulls his bearded jaw and exhales deeply and deeply to answer.

"... I am Schwartz Blau, son of Kanihis Blau. Formerly, he was the first to inherit the throne, but now he's been stripped of it."

To the words, I rounded my eyes.

"... the First Prince? No, Crown Prince, is it? Why are you in such a dungeon..."

To my question Schwartz whispers with a bitter worm-biting face, and Aifa opens her mouth instead.

"... the person is indeed the Crown Prince himself. Until a year ago, he led an army as a general, but was stripped of his inheritance because he was judged to be in danger of insurrection."

Schwartz barked in angry shapes at Aifa, who said that as if it didn't matter.

"It's not rebellion or anything! I just questioned your father's way! It has become too much of a leap forward in expanding the territory for the majority of the newly acquired territory to be managed! You'll be slashed from the inside of your armor while you keep pointing the blade tip outside! There is no future for the Empire unless we govern every corner of the enlarged territory and fully control it so that the Lord with power does not defy it! That's why I need time!

Schwartz waved a hot valve to the fierce where such power remained in his lean, thin body. But Aifa doesn't even look to me.

"The future of this country has nothing to do with me."

Schwartz stared sharply at Aifa, who had truncated him.

I saw those two and then Yuri. I guess I'm not grabbing it with strong force. Yuri was listening with a troubled face.

"... you've helped a troublesome person, Master Yuri"

Growling so, Yuri returned a bitter laugh.