Seirei no Moribito

Underground World ④

The only way to get to the underground prison is to use the spiral stairs.

Lin and the others, first out of a small space by multiplying the confusion, continued to climb long stairs up the pipe while the harnoin carrying the child stopped by creating occasional "magic” stone walls.

"As always, this staircase is long..."

"Ho... the way out, doesn't it exist?

"Unfortunately. Like some of you, it was demolished somehow because you wouldn't allow anyone to escape because of information leaks from the rebels, I'm sure."

While coughing up the severe chest pain caused by the impossible exercise of “spirituality," Lynn knocked on the wall to see if there were any cavities, but the path was blocked, as Harnoyn said,

"... to the tunnel, do we have to go up"

I lift my right leg and climb the stairs one step at a time so that I can pull the spiritual influence or move it.

The child, who could not even move his body properly, went down early and now stares at the side with an expression of regret even though it appears on the back of the harnoine.

"... up there, are the other knights... are you there?

"Well, that's true... to be honest, I'm pretty sure you're here."

To that word, he returns with a serious look.

"... there is no doubt that Sister Charles was there, rather than that there could be quite a few knights waiting upstairs..."

Harnoyn whines about what should also be said as a second difficulty to escape from the place where the Knights of the Kings are based.

"Sister Charles is a knight belonging to the“ 1st Division ”, which can be called the Knights Commander's Private Soldier. If you've reported my betrayal, you're waiting for the" 1st Division "... or the“ 5th Division "to which I belonged. If it's the former, you have little hope, and if it's the latter, if Captain Schneidel isn't even here... or"

"... you knew the danger of a conspiracy being known, and you didn't take any measures to do so?

"... To be honest, I knew there was only one path left to ruin. But I had to."

It's not a problem that I can't do, I just have to do it.

There, the agony of Harnoyn is hidden from view,

"... If there was hope, Cain and the others would be there to cover the shooting... The truth is, Cain and the others would have been there together. If it hadn't been for that, I'd have lived a little easier."

He sighs in a big sigh, clasps his shoulder, and stops his leg.

Phosphorus was also attached and stopped his leg,

"... if you climb around the next two weeks, it's already the exit. Whatever is waiting for them, they don't know that Eileen can fight... because I create a gap, upset them with a pre-emptive attack and make a breakthrough. There's a chance that they'll get away with it... but if only you'd run away from the knights first, Mr. Cain and the others would find it on their own, wouldn't they?

"... that's quite a manoeuvre."

"Well, I've fought Eileen in that raid, but that's the least I can do to stay in the" 5th Division "... as I said first, I'm not good with swords, I am"

Pull out the sheath you were raising on your hips and hand it to Lynn for each sword.

"Eileen was good at swordsmanship... but you wouldn't change against swordsmanship, than I have"

"... don't you remember how to fight?

"I want you to do something about it because it stained your body."

As the words of Harnoyn make sense, Lynn adjusted her position by placing her sword on her left hip,

"You can go straight from the basement door to the front entrance. The back entrance is on the west side... but I wouldn't recommend that way, so try to escape through the front entrance somehow, Irene?

"... if it works,"

Finally, we work out one street of operations, and the two quietly go up the rest of the stairs.

Phosphorus hides in the shadow of a rusty iron door, and Harnoin opens the door first to alert him.

making a deafening noise. The door was opened,

"Capture former Ensign Harnoin Goldie!!"

A knight attacked the commander in unison, confirming Harnoin's appearance.

"In the end, I'm going to be the wingman of the poor lottery!

In contrast, Harnoyn responded in no hurry by pulling out the dagger he had hidden in his nostrils,

"... of the countless brilliances that swallow everything, of the silence that glorifies infinitely." Splashwall ""

As we had shown, Harnoyn was powerless one enemy after another by avoiding the generated water currents to cover phosphorus by "spiritual art,"

"Far from reason to keep secrets and wishes and admonish everything." Chain Experide "!

"An overflowing splash of water." Aqua Free Season ""

Harnoyn's "sorcery” chains enemies, and Lynn's “spirituality” relentlessly icing them.

But the other commander also realized there was a third party besides Harnoyn.

"Dance to the devil, dark supper." Raysandark ""

"Eh... the stars lead me to a light point, a bounce-blown meteor!" Photon "!!"

On a black dot that flew in from the rear, Harnoyn, who knew exactly who the operator was, hastily chanted the opposite “sorcery," and the light condensed from hand to point hit him in front of him, bouncing and flying.

Blast, fierce brightness and wind.

Lynn slipped away from the influence by covering one ear with her right hand,

"- No way, you didn't think I was hiding a trump card like this, Harnoin"

To that voice I had heard, Lynn realized that she had hit someone who didn't like the hunch of Harnoyn.

"... Lt. Col. Albert Schneidel..."

It's a strong man to be captain of the 5th Division, combined with the power of the 1st Division.

"... the captain didn't have time for me to greet him himself... but the captains didn't have time for that?"

I couldn't have the usual floating grin on the boulder, and Harnoyne slapped lightly, even with a cramped and indescribable face.

"Harnoyn. How the hell did you drag Eileen out onto the surface?

"... ha. Sister Charles and the captain will only work so well."

Give a signal not to come out to Lynn with a hand pointing at his back, he put the child down and hugged him, who remained carrying him on his back,

"If I could live, I'd be tortured... thank you for making me realize the idea, Captain."

"... only, are you willing to talk"

"Let him confess, torture him, drag it all out of information. I knew I'd torture him and kill him. Even though I was still a young man, I worked under the captain, so I know that's about it.... If you're about to reach such an unsaved end, let me scratch your feet and keep my mouth shut, Captain."

"You know there's no way you can escape, but you won't stop fighting?

"It doesn't change the end of the day ~... so isn't it human to do what you want?

Schneidel sighed heavily at the appearance of holding another dagger in her left hand and standing guarded,

"... Colonel Charlina is pathetic. I didn't know you would be betrayed by a brother you believed in and executed with your own hands in the phrase..."

Jesus Christ. He pulled out his sword quietly,

"- Reverse the currents, the severance of the judgment that drinks up chaos." Mailstrom "!!"

In anticipation of the timing, Lynn jumped out of the shadow of the door to unleash "spirituality”.

The vortex filled the room, involving everything, both knights and objects placed in the water stream that gradually overflowed and became massive from the sky.

"Dance to the devil, dark supper." Raysandark ""

Schneidel secured his breath by concentrating his attack on one point,

"Resurrected again, in the narrows of the underworld." Zero Shaft ""

A sphere condensed with darkness attacked the harnoin.

smashing through the wall. Harnoyne was blown away,

"An overflowing splash of water." Aqua Free Season "!

Lynn didn't miss that slight moment of stiffness.

Born as violent pressure strikes, the ice swallows Schneidel's right leg to inhibit movement, and Lynn quickly hits him with the sword he pulls out with his right hand.

It tears the left shoulder wide open and pulls the blood muscle,

"Dance to the devil, dark supper." Raysandark ""

"An overflowing splash of water." Aqua Free Season "!

Two “techniques” clashed.

Swallow the surroundings into darkness, absolute zero degrees of ice freezes the water flow, creating a situation where no one can move.

In it, Lynn slipped out by putting a sword against the wall,

"... can you do what you want?"

Lin ran off to the front entrance, diving through the gap where Harnoyn had been born.

The unpopular back road that had been turned into a storehouse, where the knights who saw Lynn and tried to pull out his sword were slashed away in a pre-emptive attack, letting him out of breath but where Lynn got his first rest, bent several corners from Central Avenue.

I don't know what happened to the blown harnoin afterwards. And the presence of the child you were supposed to hold.

But what's important to Lynn now is to keep her from being found by the knights anyway, and Lynn chose a way to get into the city well first as a time buyer for that.

I took a short break, then walked out, and early, I got the strangely brand-new clothes that had been thrown away and changed from the bloody clothes to it, and in the creek that was beside me, I returned and washed all the blood away. The broken sword also flowed into the river, wearing the hat I had gotten with my clothes deep in my eyes and hiding my face,

"... you forgot to ask about them..."

I realize that Harnoyn doesn't even know the least about the person she entrusted to Lynn, and I unwittingly pound my tongue.

Now, you can't tell if you're an enemy or an ally, and in the worst case, you could be sent back to an underground prison.

Lynn sighed at the sweetness of the outlook that it would be intolerable to be pushed into that dark hell more than once out into the outside world,

"... I'm sorry, but I'm not going to honor a promise I don't remember"

At the end of the day, I realized that I was out there, but Lynn had a masochistic grin and started thinking about how to escape both chasers.