Held captive.
Dirk’s Point of View
During my match with the Warrior Pope, I felt Rosarin’s presence in the distance. It was hard to imagine her disappearing during my match. Our enemy must have come prepared.
We exchanged blows for a while. The Warrior Pope was quite skilled, but at best he was at the level of the old Fizz. To tell the truth, I was quite relaxed. I continued flicking his sword away at the right timings.
“Capture the intruder!”
“... What is the meaning of this?”
The armed priests surrounding me had somewhat vacant eyes. The one who ordered my capture was the Knowledge Pope. The Technique Pope and the Magic Pope also had vacant looks in their eyes. No, the Magic Pope seemed to be still conscious.
“You intruder! A Godless tramp!”
“... I have followed the proper procedures. Together with my wife. I am not an intruder. Isn't that right? Warrior Pope. You also told me that you wanted to have a handshake with my wife… with a Hero.”
“Handshake…… wi, with, Hero……… guuh.”
"Do not listen to him, Warrior Pope! This man is our enemy!"
“Warrior Pope, we have crossed our swords. My heart is not clouded. You would understand, wouldn't you?"
“A…yeah… Hero… Di, rk-dono……”
The Warrior Pope responded while suffering.
(Master, if you give me magic power, I can disarm that thing. Do you want to release that magic?)
My ring… Rosie asked.
(Not right now. Can you stealthily cancel it later?)
I asked in my mind, not out loud.
(I think… I can.)
(I will leave it to you, then.)
(Yep! Leave it all to me!)
Rosie was happy to be able to be of help, or perhaps she was just having fun. I felt at ease even though it was a scene like this.
Except for the Pope, everyone's eyes were vacant, and it was quite scary. At any rate, I didn't know how Rosarin was going to react, so I decided to be quiet and let myself be arrested obediently.
I was put in a dungeon, and while I thought that everywhere smelled of blood and mold… I took a little nap. I was awakened by the frantic voice of a young man coming from the cell across the hall.
“Let me out! Let me out of here! Yuki! Yuki! Give Yuki back!!”
“Shut up!”
“Guh!? Cough! Yuki! Yuki!!”
The young man kept calling out desperately for Yuki, his voice almost dying. It was a cry of such sadness that it was almost painful for me to listen to it. I could smell blood, he must have been hit and bled.
“Stop shouting! Shut up!”
The prison guard continued violently beating the young man. The smell of blood became thicker. I poured magic power into my ring.
(Rosie, distract the jailer.)
(Roger!)
Rosie changed into the form of a little boy and rattled the lock outside the cell.
“Y, you bastard, who are you!?”
Rosie giggled and then,
“I resent you…… how dare you… hate you…”
He said hatefully and disappeared... or rather, turned into a ring again. My ring is black, so it must have looked like it disappeared in the dimly lit prison.
“It disappeared?”
“... What was that?”
“............ Hiiiaaaaaaah!?”
Apparently, he was a jailer who was not good with ghosts. He ran away at once. Did I do something a little bad? Oh well. It was one-sided violence anyway. But to make him leave instead of just distracting him… you are great, I patted the ring.
The young man also seemed to have seen Rosie and was stunned. I tossed the young man a spare communication charm and gestured for him to put it to his ear. The young man placed it honestly in his ear.
I asked Rosie to de-brainwash the Popes, and then I decided to talk to the young man.
“Nice to meet you. Is this Yuki-san you mentioned, Yuki Sahara-san?”
“You know of Yuki!?”
“Keep your voice low, please. It will be troublesome if the jailer comes back. I handed that thingy to you because of that.”
“...... Sorry.”
“As to your earlier question, I don't know them directly. But I was told they are a friend of my wife's, and I let myself get captured to rescue them.”
“Really!?”
“Yes. My wife will definitely rescue Yuki-san, no matter how insane and absurd the means… you see? That’s why, I rather feel sorry for the enemy.”
“...... What kind of wife is that?”
“She's pretty, beautiful, smart, a good cook, witty, strong, easy to get lonely, and—”I get it, you are head over heels for her!"
I ended up talking about Rosarin. However, if I get serious, I could stay up all night talking about her. I didn’t say enough, but I have no choice.
“And so, you are—”Dirk-dono!”
The Warrior Pope came running. No, looking closely, the other two Popes were there too.
“””We apologize!!”””
They got down on their knees beautifully.
“Err…”
Anyway, I was about to ask for more details when I heard a destructive sound. Then I felt Rosarin tremendous anger, which I guess resonated as Rosie returned to onto my finger. I wonder if she can be stopped like this… I guess they did something that made Rosarin furious.
“Alrighty.”
At any rate, I bent the cage so that I could get through. By strengthening my body, I can easily destroy a normal cage like this.
“”””Huh?””””
Everyone was aghast. I also destroyed the young man’s cage. The young man was badly injured and smelly, so I sprinkled him with a high-grade potion that Rosarin had given me and had Rosie purify him. I can't use magic by myself yet, but Rosie has a connection with Rosarin, so Rosie can use magic as long as he has a steady supply of magic power.
“Let’s go save Yuki-san. If we don't hurry, my wife will destroy Saintya."
“Just what is going on with your wife!?”
“Dirk-dono! What do you mean by destroying Saintya!?”
“What is the Hero planning on doing!?”
“Anyway, it will be too late if we don’t hurry up. Let’s go.”
“Gyaaaaah!?”
I lifted the young man and ran as fast as I could.
“Wait for us, please!”
“Just what is Hero intending!?”
The Popes were chasing after us, but there's no way they could catch up………
“”...............””
When I went out from the basement, I found the view was very nice. Huh? Where's the roof that was here earlier?
“...... The hell is this!?”
“... It seems we are late.”
My lovely wife works so fast… I was slightly escaping from reality. But I have no idea what they did to make this happen in such a short time.
I looked up at the godlike thing shining in the sky and decided to look for Rosarin for now.
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