Chapter 453 – Finding the Maid’s Silver Star (4)

Using my plant magic, ice magic, and a temporary ladder made with the help of Sihee, I climbed the outer wall of the mansion and climbed upstairs.

Since I couldn’t use the elevator, this was the only way to enter the upper floors of this mansion, and the black butler’s uniform was good for hiding in the dark winter evening scenery.

“Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Seongcheol. Now, inside the open window on the fifth floor…”

“No, I will go up one floor.”

“Yes… ?”

“There is no time. Please shoot the next arrow upstairs quickly.”

There was no other reason why I continued climbing the outer wall to the sixth floor instead of entering through the fifth floor window.

It was because the red arrow pointing to the location of the silver star was still pointing upwards even though they had reached one more floor from the 4th floor.

Once inside the 5th floor, there might not be a way to find an entrance to the upper floor, but judging from my prediction, there was a high possibility that the route to this upper floor would also require the use of an elevator.

Rather than wasting time with such a clumsy search, it’s better to climb the outer wall and climb as far as you can now.

“… All right.”

Fortunately, Shihee also understood my intentions and followed the stem of the vine plant upstairs to fire an arrow.

I grabbed the simple ladder she had made and climbed up one more flight of stairs.

The 6th floor corridor of the Geumhyang Group’s residence, which I entered by climbing the outer wall in that way for about 10 minutes.

Cold sweat was pouring down my back like rain, perhaps because of the pressure to move quietly and the fear of climbing 20 meters into the air.

In order not to leave a trace, I immediately reversed the vine stem and retrieved it along with Sihee’s arrow.

‘I can put the arrows in the subspace pocket.’

It didn’t matter as long as the plant and ice fragments were spread with their original magic power, and only Sihee’s arrows, which had clear evidence, were kept in the subspace pouch.

I left it open for no reason, and I was able to identify not only my method of entry, but also the identity of the intruder who broke into the mansion.

Of course, at the point of rescuing Eun-byeol, the other side would probably have to suspect Si-hee, but there was no need to leave solid evidence.

In the meantime, time had passed since I first entered the mansion, about 40 minutes.

He also meant that there was not much time left before continuing the remaining operations.

‘At most 10 or 20 minutes… Even taking into account the escape time, it’s very tight in many ways.’

Everything had to be done as quickly as possible. Even in order to hide and run away on a midwinter evening when the sun has gone down.

Fortunately, as soon as I entered the 6th floor, the direction of the red arrow pointing upward changed to the horizontal direction, so now all that was left was to search the 6th floor of the mansion and find the silver star.

As for the escape, I had a plan of my own.

“Seongcheol, have you arrived?”

“Yes. Ama Nari seems to be on the 6th floor. We will find it as soon as possible and escape right away, so Si-hee, please wait at the meeting place.”

“… All right. Please take good care of me.”

After cutting off all contact with Sihee, I immediately followed the direction of the arrow to search the 6th floor mansion.

Something. The inside of the stairs on the 6th floor seemed strangely gloomy for a conglomerate house.

‘I think I can figure out what purpose it was used for.’

Seeing that almost all of the door locks were opened from the outside, it was clear that this entire space was a set of stairs for the purpose of confining someone.

I couldn’t check up to the 5th floor because I didn’t have time, but it’s probably the same as here, or a place where entry is prohibited in a different sense.

-Click.

I took two or three pictures of this hallway in case I could use it for something else later.

Of course, the top priority was rescuing Eunbyul, so I couldn’t waste too much time on this.

While following the red arrow pointing to her location, she hurriedly crossed the hallway.

Among several iron doors, only one made of reinforced plastic was found.

In addition to that, a red arrow indicating the location of the silver star was also leading inward.

‘… This is it.’

-Smart.

A door presumably built to guard against someone who can handle metal.

First of all, I knocked on the door made of reinforced plastic a couple of times so that the Eunbyeol inside the door would not be alert.

Immediately inside, I felt the presence of something as if something was moving hastily.

Well, it seems to have come to the right place.

“It’s me, Eunbyeol.”

“…”

“It’s me, Seongcheol Kim. If you are inside, answer me.”

“… Seongcheol Kim?”

“I’ll go in now.”

After opening the plastic door, which was made in an easy-to-open way from the outside, I leaned a spear in the pocket of the subspace to fix the open state.

I immediately found a dark-haired maid lying in the room behind the door.

“I finally found it.”

“Hey, Seongcheol Kim… ?”

The appearance of Eunbyeol at a glance was quite pitiful in many ways.

His hands and feet were bound so tightly that some of the ropes were digging into his flesh and putting pressure on him.

There was a lot of fatigue and tears in the eyes that anyone could see.

In addition to that, the disheveled hair, the haggard face, and the maid uniform that seemed to be tattered after being dragged here and there.

She had a feeling that she had a rough idea of ​​what she must have been through.

“Are you really, really Kim Seongcheol?”

“Although it’s been quite a while since I last saw you, isn’t it already enough to forget your face?”

“Oh, no… Ki, I can’t believe that Kim Seong-chul is here…”

After conversing with her for a while with her light jokes on purpose to lighten her mood, I took another spear from her pocket and brought it to her.

“Come closer. I need to get out of here quickly. If you can’t escape while Do Ye-hee buys you time, it will be annoying in many ways.”

“Do Ye-hee… Yes?”

Ignoring Eunbyeol’s questioning reaction with a puzzled look on her face, she used the blade at the end of the spear to cut off Eunbyeol’s rope.

The ropes around her arms and legs had come undone, and she had barely regained freedom of her limbs.

Although there are still red rope marks on her wrists and feet.

“There are many things I want to ask, but for now, I’ll think about getting out of here.”

“Go, thank you, you…”

“Thank you later. Other things are more urgent now.”

“Okay… Eup, haha… !”

Eun-byeol loses her balance and leans over while trying to get up to follow me to escape.

Perhaps she had been in an uncomfortable position with her limbs bound for a long time, causing muscle spasms.

I caught her by chance and hugged her as she was without any hesitation.

In many ways, time was running out to wait for Eunbyeol’s muscle spasms to subside.

“Eh, Ki, Seongcheol Kim?!”

“I don’t have time, so I’ll just move like this.”

“Ah, I see…”

As the situation is, I have no choice but to move in the arms of the prince in my arms.

Together with Eunbyul, who wrapped her arms around my neck, I quickly escaped from what appeared to be a ‘silence dedicated to Eunbyeol’.

I made a bold escape using the window I used when I entered the 6th floor.

“Hold on tight, Mr. Eunbyul.”

“… All right.”

I pushed her body out the window on the 6th floor boldly, holding Eun-byeol as I wrapped her arms around her even more strongly with my body.

As the weight to be supported has increased to the weight of two people, it is not possible to go down using the same method as before.

Although Eunbyeol weighs much less than I do.

Fortunately, going down was much easier than going up.

It didn’t have to support all the weight, just increasing the friction didn’t have much trouble going down.

I made an ivy plant on one wall and adjusted the acceleration so that I could fall as slowly as possible. Don’t forget to fix it with cold magic so that it sticks to the wall a little better.

With the right amount of dirt and time, I could have made a more stable rope, but unfortunately I don’t have either.

– Pz, that is, tutuk, tuk.

As the plant magic created in real time at my fingertips repeated making and breaking, the bodies of Eunbyeol and I gradually fell downstairs.

When I reached the height of about 2 stories, I kicked the wall and jumped while holding Eunbyul’s body.

“… !!”

Eunbyeol looked as if she was surprised by my sudden sudden action, but she couldn’t move while explaining the process one by one.

Having jumped from such a precarious height, my body jumped over the high fence of Geumhyang Singa.

After landing on the floor with a numb shock, I was able to join Sihee’s black sedan that was waiting in advance.

“You did a great job, Mr. Seongcheol.”

“… Lord, master?”

Seeing Si-hee approaching after seeing Eun-byeol and I, Eun-byeol muttered in disbelief.

Sihee met her eyes and showed her faint smile.

“Nari suffered a lot too. I’m sorry for coming so late.”

“Oh, no… I thought I would never see you two again…”

Eun-byeol is so moved by Si-hee’s calm consolation that she can’t forget her words.

There was a certain degree of wanting to see this atmosphere for a long time, but somehow, the first thing to do was to hurry and get out of this place.

“I don’t particularly want to disturb the reunion of the two of you, but it’s better to get away from this area for now. Do Ye-hee, no, I will send a signal to Do Ye-hee that the operation is over.”

“Ah yes…”

“Yes, that would be nice.”

After putting the maid Eunbyeol on the back seat of the sedan like that.

As soon as I sat down in the back seat, I also sent two blank text messages to Do Ye-hee’s number.

It means that since the operation is over, let’s rejoin at the right time.

“Oh, I’m driving…”

“What do you say you drive with that body? It’s okay, so I’m going to lie down in the back seat.”

“…”

“I’m sorry to Seongcheol, who has suffered so far, but can I ask Eunbyul to heal her wounds?”

“I was going to do that anyway.”

If it wasn’t for that, there would be no reason to ride together in the back seat.

I didn’t worry too much about Do Ye-hee, who said there was another means of transportation prepared in advance. She seemed to be able to handle any situation on her own in the first place.

When coming down, the sedan carrying the three members whose members had changed went straight to Seoul.

First of all, it seems that I somehow succeeded with this.