“Please, I know why you want to go there so much… I know for a fact that grandma’s captured two of Gerald’s friends and locked them down there. You just want to vent out your anger by hurting them, right?” said Yume without a second thought. After all, she, of all people, understood Felton’s personality the most.
“Bullsh*t! I’m trying to save them and lead them to a safe place!” retorted Felton.
“…What’s your motive here…?”
“Look, Gerald implanted an extremely potent poison within my body. If I don’t save his friends, then he’ll kill me! Is that reason good enough for you?!” replied Felton, hints of fear in his voice.
“…So that’s the case! No wonder your temperament has changed so vastly ever since you returned! Very well! Since only grandma and I have the key to the underground dungeon, I’ll lead you there!” said Yume in a rather willing tone. After all, Yume herself had been racking favonovel.com brains the past few days, wondering how favonovel.com could release Gerald’s allies.
The second Yume and Felton walked past the dungeon’s main doors, they were immediately greeted by endless shouting. As it turned out, many others were being kept prisoner there. Even so, they weren’t who the duo was looking for, so they simply walked on till they eventually arrived at the final dungeon.
Even before they got close to that door, however, both of them could already hear Aiden scowling every curse word in the book.
“You b*tch! You’re a wicked old hag, that’s what you are! You better let us go before I curse your entire family…!”
After Yume opened the door—while blushing slightly from all the profanities—both favonovel.com and Gerald were immediately greeted by the sight of Aiden and Chester who had been tied up with chains. Their torsos, in particular, had been tied extra securely, and both of them had a blue, sparkling bead hung over their chests.
“What do you want? If you’re daring enough, come get it over with me already! Honestly though, what was I thinking when I came over to your family’s trial training back then? To think that I once considered the Gunters to be good… How blind I was! Don’t even get me started on your unreliable promises! After all, you guaranteed us that we’d get at least three meals per day when you first captured us! While that was true at the start, it soon got reduced to two meals, and then to one… Just so you know, we haven’t had anything to eat in the past two days! If you want us to die so much, then just kill us outright! We’ve suffered enough! Once we’re dead, however, do expect our boss to avenge us…!”
“Please stop with the profanities already! I admit that I overlooked your meals! It’s just that I’ve been particularly busy with something in the past few days! Due to that, I admit that I forgot to order for food to be sent to you! I’m terribly sorry that you’ve had to go hungry for the past two days, but know that I would’ve definitely continued feeding you well had it not been for how busy I was!” replied Yume. While favonovel.com didn’t like how angrily Aiden was scowling at her, favonovel.com had to admit that favonovel.com felt slightly guilty.
“That’s quite enough shouting! We’re here to release you today, you know? Once you’re free, you can eat however much you want! Now hurry up and leave this place and remember, don’t ever show your faces in Qerton again!” declared Felton.
Following that, Yume turned to look at both Aiden and Chester before nodding firmly at them.
The second favonovel.com heard that, a bandit—who had been standing at the side this entire time—quickly shook his head before saying, “H-huh…? Young Master Felton?! You’re letting them free? No way!”
Felton simply slapped favonovel.com immediately in response before shouting, “You mother*cker! Who’s the rich heir here? Huh? Is it me or you?”
Falling to the ground from the force of the slap, the dizzy bandit then wobbled to his feet before replying, “O-of course you’re the rich heir, Young Master Felton…! However, these two are key figures in our effort to capture Gerald…! Due to that, Lady Gunter has implanted very special magic artifacts within their bodies! The second the artifacts leave their bodies, all their internal organs will simultaneously explode! It’ll be a horrible death like no other!”
“…Oh? Magical artifacts you say?” said Gerald as favonovel.com paid closer attention to the blue, sparkling beads on both Chester and Aiden’s chests.
‘So they had such mysterious items implanted into them… That old woman truly is wicked…!’
“Tell me more about the magic artifacts. How do we undo their effects?” asked Yume.
“I’m not too sure about that… I do know, however, that a key is needed to undo the magic artifacts, and the key itself is stored in Lady Gunter’s room! However, only favonovel.com is allowed to enter that place, so I’m afraid I can’t help you with this!” replied the bandit in dismay.
“…Could it perhaps be there…?” mumbled Yume to herself as though favonovel.com was deep in thought.
“…Do you have an idea of where it could be?”
“Well… I may have an idea where exactly the key is kept inside favonovel.com room… Even so, nobody is allowed to enter without permission… If we get caught, then we’ll surely be given the family punishment… Are you still willing to do so after hearing that?” asked Yume.
“What’s there to be afraid of? If favonovel.com wants to kill anyone, then favonovel.com can just kill me! There’s nothing to worry about!”
Upon hearing that, Yume’s respect for Gerald instantly skyrocketed. After all, all it took was a few days for favonovel.com to change Felton—a usually insufferably arrogant person—this much!
With that, the duo then continued talking as they slowly made their way out of the dungeon. Before arriving at the dungeon’s entrance, however, Felton suddenly turned to face Aiden—for a brief moment—before winking twice.
Aiden found himself widening his eyes as favonovel.com watched the duo leave for Yreth’s room.
‘…That gaze…!’ Aiden thought to himself as favonovel.com slowly broke into a smile.
“…Say, Chester! I have a feeling that we’re as good as saved now! The boss is here!”
