Ankoku Kishi Monogatari ~Yuusha wo Taosu Tameni Maou ni Shoukansaremashita~ Chapter 151: The Freed Prisoner

◆Dark Knight; Kuroki

「The castle seems to have beco quite noisy, Fairy Tar-dono.」

Said Frutin as he looked at .

Since I didn't tell him my na, he ended up calling the fairy tar.

The undead started to make a ruckus once they discovered that the prisoners had escaped.

They might be in hot pursuit right now.

「It'll be for the best if we manage to escape but…」

I replied without looking at Frutin.

Frutin, Mardas and three other prisoners had escaped from the castle.

I asked them to act as decoys to buy ti to save Wendy and the others.

Naturally, I explained the real situation to them. They readily agreed to take on the role once I told them the truth.

They told that they ca to this land fully prepared to die anyway, thus they readily agreed to take such a role while leaving so damage to the undead.

I prayed for their safety from my heart.

In the end, no one but Zarxis knew of the real matter of these fat n.

Thus I really prayed for their safety from the bottom of my heart.

Before long, the noise had settled down.

It seems the number of undead in the castle had thinned down.

「Yes. Let's go, shall we?」

I nodded to him.

From the white hooded personnel, I knew that the vampires were currently absent from the castle.

Now was the best ti to move.

「Yeah. Frutin-dono…」

I replied while turning my back at Frutin.

We were currently masquerading as the white hoods.

Frutin and co were pretending to be those who were late in escaping.

In short, they were tied, buck naked. They might not be tied up in "V" letters anymore but, looking at naked n didn't make feel any better either.

That was the reason why I spoke to him while averting my gaze like this.

Tibel didn't say anything and just made a fed up look on her face.

Upon a closer look, she pinched her nose too. It seems she really hated those n.

I quietly apologized to Tibel in my heart.

Though there were other people with white hoods around us, they were under Tibel's control.

And we had confird that there was no undead around.

The other white hoods and us who didn't chase after the escaping prisoners stayed in the castle.

It was more logical for the undead to go after the escapees rather than the slow moving modified humans.

The white hoods that returned nodded to confirm the situation.

Yup, all the undead had left the castle.

Frutin wore his attire and ard himself.

The prisoners’ armant was kept by the white hoods.

He instantly exuded a sense of dignity once he wore his attire.

It was as if his previous embarrassing naked posture was a lie.

「Let's go, boss.」

Mardas spoke with a grin on his face.

He held an ax, naked.

Looking at his beast tattoo, it seems he was the berserker of Thors.

The berserkers never wore armor. Rather, they were proud of the fact that they fought without any protective equipnt.

It was as if they said that only cowards fight with armor.

So of them even fight buck naked.

Mardas and the other three seed to belong to that naked faction.

It seems Mardas and his comrades were caught together.

I saw the naked as*ses of three fat old n.

Though I respect their creed, I didn't want to see it myself if possible.

Alas, I couldn't tell them that.

I an, they were volunteering themselves as bait to buy so ti.

It seems they planned to sacrifice themselves, too.

Though I thanked them for that, this felt like so sort of punishnt ga for so reason.

Frutin led Mardas and co, and I also followed them.

The reason why Frutin was appointed as the leader was due to his ability to sense the undead.

We climbed a long staircase.

The n were climbing in front of . Alas, they seed to have a hard ti due to their weight.

Not to ntion that I ended up seeing sothing dangling between their legs.

Dammit, gim a break from this punishnt ga already…

The mont I retorted so in my mind, Frutin suddenly stopped in his place.

「What's the ma—?」

Frutin suddenly raised his index finger to his lips before I finished my sentence.

It was the hand signal for "Be quiet".

There was a door at the end of the staircase.

It seems we had arrived on the 1st floor.

Due to Frutin's hand signal, I realized that there were undead before us.

「Fairy Tar-dono, we will rampage here to lure the enemy. Use that chance to proceed ahead. Do you agree with , Mardas-dono?」

「Yeah, let's go. Ketsuno. Anaga. Moro.」[TN: Ketsu no Ana Ga Moro-> translate it yourself.]

Mardas and his comrades nodded together.

I got this feeling that I shouldn't combine those three nas.

「Yes.」

「Leave it to us.」

「Yeah, this is an opportunity for n like us.」

Spare from the last one please…

「I understand. Be careful…」

The n laughed when I said so. These were the faces of people prepared to face their death.

Those were the faces of true n.

Frutin enchanted Mardas and co's weapons.

It was light magic to allow them to fight ghosts with ethereal form.

「Here I co.」

「OOH!」

Frutin and co rushed at once with weapons in hand.

I looked at their last stand from the gap of the door.

「DIEDIEDIE! ALL THE KIN OF THE RULER OF DEATH SHALL DIE!! THIS IS THE HAMR OF JUSTICE!」

The tip of Frutin's bat-like mace shone.

As I thought, Frutin seems to be blessed by either an angel or god.

Frutin along with Mardas and co defeated one undead after another, the way they fought was befitting of veteran brave warriors.

Then I suddenly found stairs on the side.

The undead were coming out from that place.

A while later, no undead ca from that staircase anymore.

It seems all the undead had already been taken care of.

I guess they didn't need my assistance.

「Okay! Let's go Tibel!」

「Yes, Kuroki-sama! We can finally say goodbye to those oily huma~ns.」

Tibel replied happily.

Wow, she must've hated them so much.

I left the door, moving carefully along the wall toward the staircase.

I ended up being chased by specters along the way, alas Mardas took care of them for .

「Thanks.」

I thanked Mardas and ran forward.

I felt no enemy presence ahead of us.

Where are Wendy and the others I wonder?

According to the information from the white hoods, they seem to be kept on the upper floor.

I kept moving forward until I arrived at the place where the white hoods stood.

Wendy and co must've been kept inside the innermost room guarded by that man.

「Uhm, what's the matter?」

「Sleep.」

The white hood fell asleep imdiately once I used sleep magic on him.

And when I entered the room behind that man, I arrived in a spacious room.

The room had a high ceiling and its floor was covered with a beautiful carpet.

There was sothing like a birdcage hanging from the ceiling.

「Who are you?」

The white hoods inside the room looked in my direction at once.

There are three of them.

It was no big deal for us.

Tibel and I used magic at the sa ti and put them to sleep.

And then, when all of them fell asleep, a loud voice resounded from the birdcage.

「Tibel-chan! Kuroki-san!」

When I looked up, I saw Wendy calling out to us from the birdcage.

「Wait a minute, we're going to save you imdiately.」

I looked around the room and found a lever.

The birdcage started coming down when I moved the lever.

Once the birdcage landed on the floor, Wendy and the children looked at .

Their eyes were shining brightly as they looked at us.

The birdcage itself didn't seem to be that sturdy.

If that was the case, destroying it was a simple matter.

When I tore the lattice of the birdcage, Wendy and the children ran up to .

「Thank you Kuroki-san! And Tibel-chan too! Thank you for saving us!」

Wendy jumped at Tibel.

「H-Hey, let go off !」

Tibel tried her best to get away from Wendy.

The children ran up to Tibel.

「Cool! It's a real fairy!」

「Yeah! She's real!」

「Her wings are so beautiful! Hey, can I touch your wings?!」

「Big sis Wendy is telling the truth.」

The children were frolicking around Tibel imdiately. Tibel sure was popular.

And since glowing dust fell from her beautiful azure wings every ti she flapped there, it made her even more conspicuous.

She would attract attention very naturally just by appearing.

Tibel wasn't very happy about that though.

「Hey! Get away from little humans!」

Tibel flew backward to escape from the children.

The children looked rather dejected in seeing that.

Alas, they knew that they couldn't force Tibel since the latter hated it.

「It's not like I want to save you kids, boss wanted to save you!」

Said Tibel with a pouting look on her face.

Surely, Tibel didn't feel like she wanted to save Wendy.

She just goes along with my choices.

Alas, that seems to be a trivial matter for Wendy.

「But you still ca to save us. Thanks, Tibel-chan…」

Tibel started to cry as she thanked Tibel.

Even I couldn't help but be touched by her innocence.

What a beautiful scene. It felt as if the suffering of having to see the a*sses of those old n from before was a big fat lie.

「Well then, Wendy. Let's get out of here, shall we?」

「"Hiccup". Yes… Everyone, let's escape from this place! Lily, gather everyone.」

「Okay Wendy. Thank you, Old man.」

「O-… Old ma—」

I was quite shocked when the girl nad Lily called an old man.

Well, I might look like an old man for kids of her age though.

Alas, I didn't really care about it.

「Well then everyone, follow m—」

At that mont, I felt soone's presence approaching this room.

「Fairy Tar-dono! Are you alright?!」

The one who ca was Frutin and co. Mardas and his buddies were also coming with him.

It seems there weren't too many undead left here.

Maybe they followed after they defeated all the undead they could see.

But they ca at the right mont.

「You ca at the right mont, Frutin-dono. Please escort these children to escape from this place.」

Frutin laughed when I told him so.

「I see, they were the children who got kidnapped by the vampire huh. Leave it to . What about you, Mardas?」

「Count in.」

「Yeah, I love kids.」

「Hehehe, worry not. We will escort them to a safe place.」

「Yeah, leave it to uncle.」

Said the old n with refreshing smiles on their faces.

Still, I felt sothing bad would happen if kids and old n walked side by side.

If this was Japan, I would call the police for sure.

「Well then, let's go…」

The mont I said so. Tibel suddenly flapped her wings.

「Bad ne~ws! Strong presence is coming this way!」

And then, the next mont.

Sothing huge crashed into the room.

「KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!」

「What's the matter.」

The kids and the old n seed to be paralyzed in fear.

I looked at the new guest when the dust had settled down.

It was the bow of a sky ship.

「Fufufufu… It seems they arrived at the last mont. Bring those children to a safe place, they're innocent.」

Soone stood on the bow of the ship.

A chill ran down my spine as soon as I saw her.

It was a woman clad in a red dress.

Her pupils were bright red, and the left one was much bigger. One of her arms turned into a talon.

「Zaffrada…」

The daughter of the reaper, the Goddess of Plague and Decay, Zaffrada.

Dammit, I didn't make it in ti.

I felt cold sweat flowing down my back.

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