Escape Plan

Rei was sent into the jail. He could only lamenting his fate.

<Host, I just leave you for a while, and you are already captured?>

<Yes, what a luck, right?>

<But you are quite fortunate for not being directly tortured right here and there. Look, your limbs are still intact.>

<Thank you for the comforting words.>

Rei roamed around the small jail in the dark and thinking ways to escape. He sure it was midnight already.

"You are reckless." a whisper sounded in front of the bars.

"I know." Rei turned his body and walked towards the bars. There he saw a silhouette of a man, taller than him, stood with straight posture.

"So, what is the plan?" Rei asked while folding his hands with a proud gesture.

"I'll try to deceive the guards, then you try to escape."

The silhouette stick out his white hand and inserted a small bag between the bars.

"Use this."

Rei nonchalantly accepted the bag.

"When you heard the whistle, opened the bars with the key inside the bag and ran."

"Okay, I understood."

The silhouette still lingered in front of Rei.

"You will be alright."

with that, Rei was left alone in the small jail. He took a look to the other inmates that were sleeping soundly.

'They must be drugged. Poor things.'

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"Boss, where were you?"

His subordinates greeted him as soon as he appeared in the old mansion.

"Just taking a walk."

He then lifted his head and looked at a certain windows with the lights on.

"How is the prince?"

"He is well behave. He finished his meals and is currently sleeping."

"Good."

Rei looked at three of his subordinates that were standing outside the mansion door.

"Patrol the surrounding. Make sure no one tried to approach this place."

"Noted, boss."

Then off the three guards went to watch the surrounding. Rei looked at their retreated backs then entered the mansion.

This two level mansion was slightly smaller then the one within the kingdom before. The first level is filled with the previous owner paints. The mother was gorgeous, compatible with the handsome father. While the young boy looked playful. His hand tracing the big paints that was hung above the stairs.

He smiled.

Then he was startled with a loud scream and a bang.

He turned around only to see dozens of the royal guards stood straight in front of the door. Swords at hand and body equipped with armors.

"Surrender yourself!" The head guard with the burly posture walked to the front.

Rei looked at them with cold eyes.

"Can't you all entered the mansion in a gentlemanly way? Look at the broken doors? That one needs quite a sum of money to get repaired!"

Rei frown with a scowl on his forehead.

"Do not say nonsense! Who cares about the door? Now, when you will be tortured in the jail until your death!" The head guard answered furiously.

Rei burst out laughing.

"I don't think so" Rei answered slyly.

The head guard lost patience and signaled the troops to walk forward.

"You want to get the prince, right? How about I let you have him, but in exchange, you leave this place in peace?"

"No one asked for your opinion. We are not here to trade off, but to capture you!"

"How unfortunate." Rei chuckled.

"Can't you see that I've installed some bombs near the door?"

"What bombs?" The head guard looked at him incredulously.

Rei got something out of his small bag and showed something shaped cylinder with small thread at the head.

"This kind of bomb."

<Host, what is it?>

<Just some modern deceiving tools>

<A firecracker?>

<Then you learn your study>

Rei took a small torch near the painting and lighted the cracker.

"Back off, or you'll all be hurt"

The guards still have a blank expression.

"Ck. I've warned you." Rei clicked his tongue in annoyance.

Rei then throwed the lighted hand-made firecracker in the middle of the room. The firecracker exploded. The explosion sound shocked the guards that they hurriedly run away from the door. A white smoke filled the hall.

Seeing the guards divided attention, Rei quickly ran away towards the second level of the mansion. He opened the room in which the prince was held hostage, then locked the door.

"Hello, my dear friend."

Rei greeted the awaken prince.

The prince looked unhappy.

"Sorry to disturb your sleeping beauty, but we got to go now."

He then forcefully pulled the prince out of the bed, and in time when the guards smashed the room doors, the prince was standing in front of them with Rei's sword on his neck.

"Well.. well.. seems like another door needs to be fixed."

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