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“Annie! Isn’t today’s lunch box too small?”

“What do you mean? It’s the same as usual. Instead of talking, I just eat.”

Despite the complaints of Lyle, the guard guarding the western wall gate of Roswell Village, Annie was handing out lunch boxes to other soldiers. Delivering lunch boxes to the guards was also one of Annie’s duties.

“Huh… That girl has grown up a lot. It seems like only yesterday when she was just a little girl…”

“Stop it, Lyle. Didn’t you see it before? Aisha pulverized the arms of the foolish adventurer who touched that girl. You too can turn into an asshole who can’t even masturbate if you mess with that girl.”

“Crazy… Is it real?”

Lyle trembled at his colleague’s words. To them, for whom their entire body was their entire possession, breaking both arms was the same as starving to death.

“Ha… Now I have to live on the edge of even a waitress… If you don’t have the ability, you should die, you damn thing!”

“Don’t complain. Still, we live with a small salary.”

Although it was definitely work time, the two people maintained a fairly lax attitude that could be called a state of alert. But since that was the way it always was, no one paid special attention to them. The only guard captain who could do that was off duty.

Was that why? It was Annie, not the guards, who first noticed an object approaching on the westernmost desert horizon.

“Huh? What is that…?”

“What is that?”

“Hey… Doesn’t it look like something is moving at the end?”

Annie pointed with her finger to the other side of the desolate land. She definitely seemed to see something like a human being there, but Lyle just waved her hand as if it was no big deal.

“Oh, sometimes I see things like that. It’s like a mirage. In reality, it’s nothing, so you can stop worrying about it.”

“..Speaking of that, haven’t monsters appeared in the vicinity recently?”

“Hey! That’s a really exceptional case…”

Lyle was yelling with an angry expression on his face, but Annie still looked at the place where Inyoung was visible with a suspicious expression.

“Annie, if you keep sitting here moping around, won’t Dalton say anything? You need to get back to work quickly.”

Dalton was the name of the owner of the inn where Annie worked. She was the one who picked up orphan Annie and took care of her until now, but she only did it to pamper her for free, and she did not treat Annie with any affection.

“Oh, it’s a big problem..! Then I’ll just leave. You guys, please work hard too.”

“Don’t call me uncle. I’m not married yet.”

“Even if you’re not married, when you get older, you’re an old man, right?”

“What!?”

“Hehe.”

When Lyle threw her hands up in frustration, Annie giggled and ran away. She then looked at the western horizon once more for the last time.

Annie couldn’t leave.

“No way…”

If her eyesight had been any worse, she would definitely have passed by.

Just a few days ago, the knights left after a day’s rest at the inn where she worked. Those people who used an orc slave.

The person walking on the desert was wearing the same clothes as those people.

“Mister! Over there..! Look over there!”

“Oh, what is it again!?”

“It’s not a miracle! She’s a real person!”

It was Randel, a battered knight, walking heavily with a broken sword as a cane.

…

Pyrrhia slowly opened her eyes.

She opened her eyes, but her vision was still dark. Since there was a furnace with some embers nearby, she was able to vaguely see the outline of the object.

She soon found herself in a small cave.

“Uh… Ugh..?”

She had been unconscious for so long that her throat was locked, and she inadvertently tried to cough, but she soon realized that her mouth was blocked by something. She couldn’t see it with her eyes, but judging by her feel, she seemed to be gagged with something that looked like a piece of cloth.

The reason why she took such action was obvious. It was because she was a wizard.

Covering her mouth prevents her from chanting. If she can’t chant, she can’t use magic.

“Ugh… “

Pyrrhia tried moving her body. Naturally, her body was also bound. However, she was not tied up to the point where she could not move at all. She was just left in the corner of the cave with her arms and legs tied with an old rope.

There were no orcs visible around. She checked her body just in case, but there was nothing particularly wrong with her body. While she was unconscious, she was scared or something, but luckily it doesn’t seem like she did anything. Her robe had been removed, and the clothes she was wearing underneath were quite frayed, but she was still dressed. Pyria let out a sigh of relief within her.

As her consciousness gradually became clearer, a thought occurred to her.

Maybe she can escape.

Pyrrhia quickly looked around her. If there was something sharp, she would reach for it and rub her straps to untie them.

‘!’

Was it luck? A stone beak that looked moderately sharp appeared in her Pyria’s field of vision. Moreover, it was quite close.

Pyrrhia crawled there without hesitation.

“Ugh..! Ugh..!”

Swoosh… Swoosh…

Pyria arrived next to her sharp stone beak and moved her arms her with all her her might her her her. Please..! Please cut it off..! Hurry before the orcs come back!

It felt like an eternity as I rubbed her thong against her her protruding her beak her her her.

Tap!

“!”

The binding was broken. Pyrrhia felt like she was about to cry.

But she couldn’t afford to cry. Her escape She had only just begun.

Pyrrhia quickly untied the remaining bonds with her free hand. Soon her legs were free, and the gag covering her mouth was removed.

She was released from her bondage.

“Ah… Ah…”

She lowered her voice as much as possible and checked the condition of her throat. Luckily her neck didn’t seem to be injured. Although she does not have a wand, she can use simple magic without it. Little by little, a spark of hope seemed to come to life in her heart.

‘Let’s look around first. There might be orcs somewhere.’

She moved little by little, pressing her body against the wall of her cave. The place where she was bound was the corner of the cave and the road was single. The diameter of the passage is about 5 meters. It’s not that narrow, but there isn’t a good place to hide. If the orcs are coming towards here from the other side, they will be stuck.

Pyrrhia thought of a few magics suitable for the current situation.

‘There is no problem with noise magic. But the other one is without a wand…’

Silence is not that difficult of a spell. But that alone is not enough. Pyrrhia thought of another magic.

Invisibility. It is literally a magic that makes the body transparent. There would be no magic more optimal than this in the current situation.

But at her level, she also had high-level magic that could only be used with the help of a staff.

‘There is no hope as it is anyway…!’

If she couldn’t escape from here, she would only become a seed for the orcs until she died, as Nerka said. She thought she was better off dead than that.

‘Randel… Give me strength…!’

“– —- ——- – –.”

Pyrrhia concentrated her consciousness more than ever and chanted.

“Invisibility.”

The magic was revealed. At least it seems like the chanting didn’t fail.

Pyrrhia checked her own body her her her her.

“..!”

Success.

Did you say that when a person is in a crisis, he or she shows strength that he or she cannot normally display?

That’s the case right now, Pyria thought.

“…”

Pyrrhia took her steps again.

…

Minwoo, who was temporarily separated from Aisha, took a short rest at an inn before touring the imperial town, the capital of the empire.

In fact, Minwoo couldn’t sleep properly yesterday because he had to deal with Aisha and Rine in a row. As a demon, there was no way he would get tired that easily, but Minwoo, who still couldn’t let go of the sensations similar to when he was a human, was unconsciously complaining of a need for sleep.

It was a bit ridiculous that an incubus, who was supposed to enter other people’s dreams as a dream demon, was sleeping, but anyway, Minwoo decided to get a good night’s sleep for the first time in a while.

“Wait a minute… But those succubus sisters… I said they were my henchmen… How do I call them?”

I think Jerome once said that he would take them there to properly greet them… But since they are dream demons, would they come to you if you called them in their dreams? Minwoo tilted his head.

“But they said the capital is under a strict barrier… No, if it’s just a dream… “

First of all, Minwoo heard that the capital of the empire, Imperial Town, was thoroughly fortified to prevent demons from invading. Because of this, it was impossible to call even Shio now. Before she came here, she gave her a warning and sent her back to the Demon Lord’s castle…

However, since a succubus is a being that travels between dreams, the situation may be a little different from Siorra.

“Damn… I don’t know, let’s just sleep.”

Minwoo slowly fell asleep.